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Hotlanta #2
If Only You Knew
Designer clothes. Gorgeous boys. Family secrets. Major drama. The Duke twins and their fabulous Atlanta lives are back...proving why they don't call it Hotlanta for nothing!
Twins Sydney and Lauren Duke are the privileged princesses of the Atlanta social scene. But an unsolved murder mystery keeps drawing them back to the wrong side of town. There, wild child Lauren has to risk everything to protect the boy who's stolen her heart. And prim-and-proper Sydney discovers details about their family's past that no one-least of all the girls' fiercely guarded mother-wants to face. When the twins realize what they're up against, can they deal with the dark, dangerous truth
Twins Sydney and Lauren Duke are the privileged princesses of the Atlanta social scene. But an unsolved murder mystery keeps drawing them back to the wrong side of town. There, wild child Lauren has to risk everything to protect the boy who's stolen her heart. And prim-and-proper Sydney discovers details about their family's past that no one-least of all the girls' fiercely guarded mother-wants to face. When the twins realize what they're up against, can they deal with the dark, dangerous truth
254 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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About the author
Denene Millner
37books274followersDenene Millner is a six-time New York Times best-selling author, Emmy Award-nominated TV show host and award-winning journalist and book publisher who has written more than 30 books, among them: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, co-written with Steve Harvey; Around the Way Girl, a memoir with actress Taraji P. Henson; the Fresh Princess picture books, with Will Smith; and, The Vow, the novel on which the hit Lifetime movie, “With This Ring,� was based. The writer and editor is also the editorial director and publisher of Denene Millner Books, an award-winning imprint that publishes stories featuring Black children and families, by Black authors and illustrators. The DMB list includes two Caldecott Honor books, a Kirkus Prize for Children’s Literature, two Society for Illustrator honors, a Southern Book Award, an instant New York Times bestseller and three NAACP nominations. Denene also co-hosts the nationally syndicated PBS show, A Seat at the Table, and is the host of “Speakeasy with Denene,� a podcast exploring Black culture. Denene’s upcoming novel, One Blood, a multi-generational epic about motherhood, adoption and race, is slated to be published in eight countries when it debuts in 2023. A MacDowell fellow, Denene lives in Atlanta with her two daughters and their goldendoodle, Franklin.
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April 17, 2009
This book is really good. It's about these twins not getting along and they want to know why there mother are keeping them away from their biological father. Then they are having problems at school the reason why they aren't getting along and between the two of them they are keeping secrets that are going to keep getting worse and causing trouble.
July 18, 2012
The Twins are back and delving deep into the mysteries that they've uncovered in the West End. do they know everything about Altimus or do they? they now have to protect those who are associated with them from the dark past of their mother and stepfather. Sydney grows closer to her Biological father and Lauren learns about a mystery family member who has a lot to do with her life and identity.
January 4, 2012
Now Im on to the second book! These girls dress better than me and Im on almost a decade older;)
November 28, 2023
Favorite Quote: “Love don’t have shit to do with survival.”~Keisha
We are back in Hotlanta with Lauren and Sydney on the rails of their father Dice coming back into their lives as he has been accused of murder and so has Lauren’s boyfriend. If that isn’t enough their mother is now married to their biological father’s Best Man. Can things be anymore drama filled?
I love the friendship that Sydney has with her best friends Cameron and Rhea, it seems very authentic.
I don’t like how it took a while to get the story going again. We were still world building but we had already built the world in the first book of the series. The way the last book ended I was hoping we would jump right into the frying pan but we were sizzling for a while.
Their mother, Keisha, is a nasty piece of work and everything wrong with people who shouldn’t have children.
Lauren is extremely immature and it bothers me so much, her boyfriend is literally fighting for his life and she can only think of trivial things and I get that she is 17, so it makes sense but people like her are to be encountered from afar.
The cliffhanger was PERFECT!
We are back in Hotlanta with Lauren and Sydney on the rails of their father Dice coming back into their lives as he has been accused of murder and so has Lauren’s boyfriend. If that isn’t enough their mother is now married to their biological father’s Best Man. Can things be anymore drama filled?
I love the friendship that Sydney has with her best friends Cameron and Rhea, it seems very authentic.
I don’t like how it took a while to get the story going again. We were still world building but we had already built the world in the first book of the series. The way the last book ended I was hoping we would jump right into the frying pan but we were sizzling for a while.
Their mother, Keisha, is a nasty piece of work and everything wrong with people who shouldn’t have children.
Lauren is extremely immature and it bothers me so much, her boyfriend is literally fighting for his life and she can only think of trivial things and I get that she is 17, so it makes sense but people like her are to be encountered from afar.
The cliffhanger was PERFECT!
October 21, 2008
i laughed in this book because they have serious issues. (it just goes to show you that not all rich people with dirty money know how to clean up the mess- kids lol)
July 27, 2010
the book was geat.....it kept me on my toes wondering what happens nxt.....[[[ i kinda peeked forward a couple of time:] lol... but all in all this book was amazing...
August 27, 2011
Better than the first. Side characters are fleshed out more, and the bad guys are really scary. Like, Lauren/Sydney are in real trouble. Can't wait to see how it all shakes out.
September 26, 2011
well i feel slow because this was a three series book and i read the last one first, the third one second, and this one (2nd one) last -___-
its a really interesting book though :)
its a really interesting book though :)
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August 10, 2010Lauren and Sydney go back and forth in fights, which is hilarious
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