Life in the Flavor of Bourbon Vanilla

When seasoned travel writer, Grant Markham, and his young, black intern, Ashanti Moore, are assigned to travel to Charleston, S.C., to cover the annual Spoleto Festival, they arrive several days early to prepare, and are swiftly caught-up in the daily lives of a diverse group of Lowcountry locals. In addition to an attorney who assumes multiple hats, his jazz-singer girlfriend, a celebrity drag-queen and her white lover, who works on cars, yet holds a psychology doctorate, and an enigmatic employee who works for the attorney, as well as performing in shows at The Singularity, a local gay club, they also meet a woman planning to erect a Gullah Museum on her Sea Island property, as well as her felon-turned-businessman son, with whom Ms. Moore becomes romantically involved. Lessons in diversity, trust, and understanding others' help the group bond to protect their attorney friend from a vengeful US attorney and his scheming paralegal seeking to indict the attorney on dubious allegations.

Robin St. Taw was born and raised in New York City. His early travels found him living in England for several years, where he traveled around Europe as far as, ＂no money＂ would take him before returning to the U.S. St. Taw’s first novel, ’Incident at Latitude 25 North’, was nominated for the Shark Research Foundation’s ’Peter Benchley Shark Conservation Award’, in 2007. His follow-up collection of stories, ’Other Voices in the Rooms; Stories in Two Suites’, began St. Taw’s evolutionary writing process, where he began to focus on the complexities, humor, and shared experiences of human relationships. Following an educational hiatus, Robin St. Taw has returned to writing, his passion, where diversity forms a central theme, and LGBT characters are both central and pivotal. St. Taw has worked in the health care industry, as well as a product development scientist, and educator. He holds five college and university degrees, including a post-graduate degree in brain research. He is also a paralegal. He has been a beach-bum surfer, is an avid gardener, and a self-proclaimed, ＂pretty good＂ chef. Robin St. Taw currently lives in America, and is actively writing his new intriguing novel.