Literature & Fiction
The Forbidden is about irresistible temptation, delicious obsession, and organized crime in New Orleans’ dangerous French Quarter. Mob boss, Napoleon Bentley is obsessed after having a one-night stand with the girlfriend of a recently hired underling. He knows he should end it, but he can’t stop thinking about her. Now murdering her boyfriend is on the table. Johnnie wants Napoleon, too. The boyfriend learns of the dalliance and vengefully accepts a very dangerous, but steamy hot offer from Marla, the mob boss’s gorgeous white wife. Marla is sick of her husband’s cheating. Bedding the young, virile, and spectacularly built hunk would be the sweet payback she had longed for. Meanwhile, The Chicago Mob knows everything. They already have plans to takeover while Napoleon is preoccupied with forbidden romantic ambition. They’ve dispatched a couple of goons to send Napoleon and his lethal Negro partner to the morgue.
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Keith Lee Johnson is a United States Air Force veteran, the author of 14 novels, and the former editor of Insight Magazine. He served his country in Texas, Mississippi, Nevada, California, Turkey, and various other places in his four years of active service. He has written in several genres including, suspense/thrillers, drama, historical fiction, and contemporary fiction. His most successful novels are the Little Black Girl Lost stories, seven to date.
The journey to publication was an arduous one and began at Robert S. Rogers High School during the Fall semester when his Composition teacher ridiculed him in front of his peers for a poorly written paper. Humiliated, he dropped the class, and no longer pursued education. Two decades later, he entered Owens Community College as it was more cost effective. Upon graduation, he planned to attend a fully accredited local university to get a degree in psychology as he never intended to be an author. That, too, was interrupted by a literature professor who challenged his ability to write a credible story early in the Fall semester. Unlike his high school experience, he accepted the challenge, picked up a pen that very day, and has been writing ever since.
His failed past turned into fierce determination. He worked fulltime and was a fulltime student. He went on to graduate with honors and became the commencement speaker for the December graduating class. He lives in Toledo, Ohio.
