Buying Time (45 page)

A special thank you to the book club of book clubs, Black Expressions Book Club. Thank you Editor-in-Chief Carol Mackey for selecting my third novel,
Murder on the Down Low
,as an Editor’s Pick. Finally, to Ruth Bridges of Literary Sisters, I love your wonderful retreats. Can’t wait to come back!

A super special thanks to my talented team: publicist extraordinaire Ella Curry, President of EDC Creations Media, book cover designer Keith Saunders of Marion Designs, book layout designer Kimberly Martin of Self-Pub.net, graphic designers Lisa Zachery of Papered Wonders and Trenton Chappell, website designer Ikenna Igwe of Team Future Design Works, Bill Ralph and Shelly Ottoman at Malloy, Inc., and Susan Sewall, Cynthia Murphy and the rest of the team at the Independent Publishers Group. Thanks for the great job you all do.

To my fans, thanks for reading my books and sending me all those encouraging email messages. Stay tuned . . . there’s much more to come!

1. Do you think viatical settlements are appropriate investments?
   
2. What role, if any, did Angela’s family dynamics play in her choices in men?
   
3. What leads some people to strive to attain power regardless of the cost?
   
4. Are men who marry gold-digging women like Deidra  sucked in solely by physical attraction or something more?
   
5. Do you believe there is a perception that professional women are less likely to become victims of domestic violence than other women?
   
6. Why do you think Claire chose not to report Erickson to the police?
   
7. Did you agree/disagree with Jada’s advice that Angela should have a baby without a husband?
   
8. If you were writing a sequel to
   Buying Time
   , what would happen with the relationship between Angela and Dre?
   
9. Which character in
   Buying Time
   did you like the most?
   
10. What did you like/dislike about
    Buying Time?
    

P
amela Samuels Young is a practicing attorney and bestselling author of the legal thrillers,
Every Reasonable Doubt,
In Firm Pursuit,
Murder on the Down Low,
and
Buying Time.

In addition to writing legal thrillers and working as an in-house attorney for a major corporation, Pamela is the fiction writing expert for BizyMoms.com and is on the Board of Directors of the Southern California Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. The former journalist and Compton native is a graduate of USC, Northwestern University and UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. She is married and lives in the Los Angela area.

To schedule Pamela for a speaking engagement or book club meeting, visit her website at www.pamelasamuelsyoung.com.