The Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires

by Martha Tucker

The Mayors Wife Wore Sapphires reveals the secret life of 36-year-old Indigo Tate. From all outward appearances, she is educated, ambitious, and drop-dead gorgeous, but she is also stuck in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977485218
• ISBN13: 9780977485215
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Urban Classic Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.8"

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The Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires

The Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires by Martha Tucker Indigo Tate to quote Martin Luther King, has a dream. A passion that came into being the same moment she changed her name from Betty to Indigo. She would leave the ghetto behind and re-root herself in Beverly Hills. She plans, not making a move without her consuming desire in the back of her mind. Her beauty, charm and brains get her to the right places at the right time. Luck smiles on her when she meets, falls in love and marries charismatic Melville Tate who she recognizes as a man on his way up the stairs of politics. And it doesn't hurt that he's handsome and makes her knees quiver. Their life together is good. Indigo is ecstatic with her husband's rise to Mayor of Compton, California, but in her mind that is just one more step, to getting herself, her man and her children closer to Washington DC. But fate can be cruel. Mel Tate is assassinated and Indigo is devastated, almost beyond the ability to honor her husband's last words." See it through--Indi." Climbing from a well of pain, she surfaces to some cold hard realities concerning her and her children's survival. Facts come to her, facts that don't support the account she is given about her husband's death. The more questions she asks, the less clear things become. Indigo decides there is only one way to get her answers, run for Mayor herself, but there are people who do not want things to come from the dark into the light, and they will stop at nothing to keep them buried. I enjoyed The Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires. It took me into worlds I knew little about. This story of intrigue, danger and betrayal also educates. I recommend it highly. Barbara M. Hodges Author of The Blue Flame The Emerald Dagger The Silver Angel

Five Perfectly Cut Sapphires for a Five Sapphire Book

The Mayor Wore Sapphires By Martha Tucker Reviewed by Fran Lewis The nucleus of a cell is fragile and needs to be protected from harm. Like the yoke of an egg before the egg is cracked, the outer shell stays strong and protects the inner yoke from harm. Life has many fragile and delicate moments that need protection as people do. Changes in our lives often bring resistance to the fragile outer shell of that egg or stretches that cell and its nucleus, so the shape and form no longer remains the same. But, when the changes that are needed to make that nucleus stronger and that shell harder to protect and create something better, we often need to go to great lengths to make sure it happens. Visions are more than what psychic sees when they give you a reading or tell the police or a government agency what they see in their minds in order to help solve a crime. Visions are often the long rage goals that you might have for a city's growth, your own life to more ahead or for an entire community to flourish. It takes a person who believes in the extraordinary and does not sit back and settle for the usual to have strong visions, strong convictions and carry them out. Mel Tate was such a man. On September 9, 1981, Melvin Tate, the Californian Mayor of Compton was struck down by a bullet not only meant to kill him but his goals, values and ideals for his community. Black communities such as his were riddled with drive by shootings, drug wars, and little or no opportunity for jobs or expansion of their economy and little or no help to educate teens and young adults about life in general. Martha Tucker brings these issues and more to light in her groundbreaking first novel, The Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires. When you take your visions and you stretch them to make that nucleus of that cell wider and the yoke of that egg stronger, you sometimes find a lot of resistance as did Indigo Tate did in this novel that makes a real statement about changing society and the way people think about each other and how we achieve our goals. Although the time period might be the 80's the message that the author is driving home is still prevalent and even more vital today. Our schools need to be improved, drugs need to be a thing of the past in our cities and states, corruption in government needs to be eliminated and guns need to be off the streets and not readily available. As our new President stated before he was elected, now is the time for change and it will take all of us to make sure that happens. Mel Tate was a man with a vision for the people of Compton, California. He believed in change and he was a unique politician and wanted to create a special training program called World Hub for the people of his city. When he found out that millions of dollars that were appropriated for this project was missing, his goal to become his state's Congressman were shattered. Deciding not to run and see his dream through, he tells his wife, that living their life outside of

A gripping political novel

The Mayor's Wife wore Sapphires is a very strong and compelling novel. It was build on a very sophisticated writing flow that was filled with drama and suspense. It held my interest throughout the novel and I loved it. It was very well written and ended beautifully. I would gladly recomend it to others.

Mystery With a Twist

I'm an avid reader of murder mysteries and was excited to start reading The Mayor's Wife a book I heard of while doing the book networking circuit. Normally by mid-page I can tell who the murderer is, but the ending left me shocked. This book had so many interesting twists and turns with each character rich in drama and intrigue, I definitely didn't want it to end. I found myself wanting to know more about Indigo and the other color characters. So if a part-two doesn't come out soon, I will be very disappointed!

MARTHA TUCKER HAS WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A HOUSEHOLD NAME IN AMERICA! A BRILLIANT WORK!

DISILGOLD SOUL BOOK REVIEW: The Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires by Martha Tucker-----Martha Tucker's newly well-crafted novel, The Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires, is a spine-tingling murder mystery mixed with explosive high- energy, suspense- filled drama and engaging dialogue. Tucker masterfully intertwines a plot around the assassination of Compton Californian Mayor, Melvin Ray Tate, and the story carries through with precision. She allows readers to get a behind-the-scene look at the life of a mayor from lush congressional parties commanding $2000 per plate to fancy meetings between town officials. His wife, Indigo Tate, is sassy, beautiful and in search of fulfilling her dreams for a better life despite a law that forbid her husband to live outside the borders of Compton as the Mayor. She holds a big title as Mrs. Mayor, but the harsh underworld of Compton backfires with vehemence as more than 2 million dollars is found missing from a World Hub Project and drug warlords are running amuck prior to her husband's mysterious killing. Indigo is determined to find out who shot and killed her husband and stole her dreams. She suspects Councilman Kahn as a possible suspect and others. After all, he was interested in her husbands seat in office. She is encouraged by Congressman Frank to run for Mayor herself to replace her husband's seat, a bold and daring move. Will she win the sympathy vote from the public? Her intentions become entangled with more sub-plots until she is faced with the true murderer of her late husband Is it Councilman Kahn or someone readers least suspect? Tucker has created a work fit for a movie script. You gain a sense that she took extra care to write a completed novel with thorough beginning, medial and ending development. She is a well researched writer, exudes excellent pacing, has believable characters, and uses extraneous language well enough to draw the eye of the intelligent reader. The intricate layers of this work shows evidence of a seasoned writer with a gift of storytelling. She utilizes Indigo as a modern day heroess who is determined to stop at nothing to avenge her husband's death to the very last moment. Prepare to be taken away by "The Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires." I recommend Tucker's book for readers who love engaging plots with real substance along the lines of Karen E. Quinones Miller and Donna Hill. An extraordinary and fulfilling work has arrived. *****5 STARS! THE DLNA YOUNITY REVIEWERS Reviewed by Heather Covington, Editor-in-Chief of Disilgold Soul Literary Review