Ugly Flower, Beautiful Dream
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Belina Johnson, aka Honey Bee, is an 18 year old beautiful quadroon Gibson girl in the era of the roaring twenties. After rebelling against her reformist mother and leaving home to live with her flapper best friend, Marjorie Fay, she is drawn into the glitzy underground world of 1920's Chicago. At a local speakeasy she meets dangerous and compelling Johnny Gambino, a consigliere of the Capone family. Her life is thrown into array as she is caught between her growing feelings for him, the challenges of her being a colored flapper, and the dangerous world that is devouring them whole.
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