If this world were mine: a novel (1st ed.)

Four friends, all graduates of Hampton Institute, keep a collective journal they call If This World Were Mine, and share their personal diaries each month at a gathering filled with humor, gossip, and affirmation.

The four group members are as different as the seasons, yet they all share a love of one another.

Yolanda, a media consultant, keeps it going on with a no-nonsense attitude and independence that are balanced by the theatrics of Riley, a former marketing executive whose marriage has reduced her to a kept woman with kids.

Computer engineer Dwight's anger at the world is offset by the compassion of Leland, a gay psychiatrist whose clients make him question why God ever invented sex.But after five years, the once-strong bonds of friendship are weakening, and the group must handle challenges of work, lost love, and a stranger in their midst.

As the group members confront their true feelings toward each other, resentments and long-held secrets surface, and the stability of the group begins to disintegrate.

Is their past friendship strong enough to survive the future?