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    International consultant, trainer, and CaribVoiceRadio host Dr. Anita Davis-DeFoe has penned a new novel called Tropical Escapes that has already started a buzz,  The gender and youth development expert, and social entrepreneur, is best known for her transformational motivational book, A Woman's Guide to Soulful Living: Seven Keys to Life and Work Success; as well as a rites of passage curriculum for girls, titled Soulful One: For Girls As They Journey to Womanhood. 

    A freelance writer for publications like Caribbean Voice Newspaper, Sisterhood Agenda (New Jersey); Caribbean Life (Trinidad), Mahogany Butterfly (New Jersey) and She Caribbean (St. Lucia), Davis-DeFoe takes the reader on an exhilarating ride laced with romance, politics and intrigue.

     Hitting bookshelves in June, readers journey with protagonist, Zetta O' Neal, an extremely successful woman, who is caught up between her painful past and prospects for the future. Set in a fictitious island called Hibiscus, Davis-DeFoe weaves a tale filled with humor, culture, social commentary and love. What happens when new beginnings, the promise of love, backroom politics, gripping intrigue and calculated deception mingle under a sweltering sun, certainly a recipe for a Tropical Escape.

  Afia Press Vice-President, Donald Pottinger commented,

" We are excited about the release of Dr. DeFoe's new book, and we are certain it is going to be a best seller. The story line, the lively characters, and Anita's sense of humor and imagination are going to make this book popular with readers and book clubs everywhere."

     When asked about the book, Davis-Defoe shared, " Tropical Escapes is a blend of inspirational healing, a glimpse at cultural nuances, politics, but most of all it is a humorous look at this journey we call life and the places this journey takes us."