Bernadette Y. Connor
Bernadette Y. Connor is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born at home in a one-room apartment in North Philadelphia; the fourth of five children. To help her family financially, she sang rhythm and blues in many of the local nightclubs until she graduated from Dobbins Vocational Area High School in 1969 and was hired as a secretary by Sun Oil Company.
Bernadette’s first love was music, but she found herself writing poetry. Some of her earliest writings were published in SCLC monthly magazine. Both singing and writing had to take a back burner to caring for her family, butmidnight often found her doodling. A divorced mother of three, Bernadette saw that all of her children graduated from college.
Bernadette found her niche’ at AT&T as a communications technician. With the merger came a lay-off and she saw as an opportunity to begin a new career, but that was put on hold by a series of medical problems and finally the devastation of the brutal murder of her eldest son on Christmas Eve of 1991. Her zest for life, travel and adventure were nearly extinguished. However, Bernadette’s thoughts slowly returned to writing.
The literary fire was stoked by reacquainting herself with her earlier poems. Bernadette embarked on yet another adventure. She wrote a simple love story called “Finally” that opened the gate to an avalanche of works . . . 13 novels and 7 screenplays. Bernadette’s published debut novel, “Damaged!”, the first psychological thriller ever written and published by an African American garnered her a spot in “Who’s Who In America 2004”. Publishers Weekly dubbed her the “genre-crossing writer” and she loves the distinction.
SELF-PUBLISHED NOVELS
Damaged!
The Parcel Express Murders
Inherited
Pearl and Angela
Sasha’s New Beginning
The Latest
He’s Mine!
Bernadette’s first love was music, but she found herself writing poetry. Some of her earliest writings were published in SCLC monthly magazine. Both singing and writing had to take a back burner to caring for her family, butmidnight often found her doodling. A divorced mother of three, Bernadette saw that all of her children graduated from college.
Bernadette found her niche’ at AT&T as a communications technician. With the merger came a lay-off and she saw as an opportunity to begin a new career, but that was put on hold by a series of medical problems and finally the devastation of the brutal murder of her eldest son on Christmas Eve of 1991. Her zest for life, travel and adventure were nearly extinguished. However, Bernadette’s thoughts slowly returned to writing.
The literary fire was stoked by reacquainting herself with her earlier poems. Bernadette embarked on yet another adventure. She wrote a simple love story called “Finally” that opened the gate to an avalanche of works . . . 13 novels and 7 screenplays. Bernadette’s published debut novel, “Damaged!”, the first psychological thriller ever written and published by an African American garnered her a spot in “Who’s Who In America 2004”. Publishers Weekly dubbed her the “genre-crossing writer” and she loves the distinction.
SELF-PUBLISHED NOVELS
Damaged!
The Parcel Express Murders
Inherited
Pearl and Angela
Sasha’s New Beginning
The Latest
He’s Mine!
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He's Mine
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Romantic Thriller
Tall, dark and incredibly handsome, Miles Alexander is admired by his friends and colleagues, loved and adored by every woman in town, including his family. He is an attorney from a wealthy family, and an incurable romantic who has dated every attractive woman in town. Miles’s world is comfortable and carefree until Patrice Mays whisks past him in the lobby of his office building and his appreciation of a beautiful woman eclipsed. With just the two of them on the elevator, Miles inspects her from head-to-toe and cannot believe his eyes, she is perfection. Patrice Mays is new in town and Miles is the first person to penetrate her determination to be on time for her first day at Tymes, McNeil and Lowell Law Offices. The gorgeous floral arrangement and warm welcome note Miles had delivered impresses her. The recollection of his handsome, well dressed physique made her smile. However, Patrice is focused on her career, Miles is focused on Patrice. Miles makes his infatuation with Patrice well known immediately, and the information is not well received by all. Patrice is confronted at the end of her second day by an irate Miles romantic reject and receives a mind-boggling note in her inter-office mail that simply says, “He’s Mine!” Sample He's Mine! 
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Pearl and Angela
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Romantic Literature
"Pearl and Angela" is a suspense-filled story that profoundly chronicles the emotional damages of hatred and cruelty and the miraculous healing power of love. The characters come to life, providing on-the-edge-of-your-seat entertainment and intrigue wrapped in a timeless love story. Pearl Little grew up an only child in a typical late 1940s Midwestern town in the shadow of a maniac, Barry "Pop" Little. Pop had ranted his expectations all of Pearl's life, and after his death, his words haunted her. A trip to the Fair with a young man Pearl had fallen in love with and his best friend, without Pop's permission, tragically altered their lives. Angela Bowman was tossed from a car and left on the side of the road in town and Pearl happened upon her. Pearl brought Angela home and the two women's lives flourished, clashed, and healed. Angela had been sold at the age of six to a brothel owner in a nearby town. To escape her past, Angela craved the one thing she thought would set her free . . . money. Money to run, to live the high life, to be free of anything she found confining. "Pearl and Angela" came together and each supplied the other's needs. They developed a comfortable existence and then the unimaginable happened. Sample Pearl and Angela 
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Sasha's New Beginning
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Romance
On the surface, Sasha and Terrence Bain are the American dream. She is beautiful, intelligent, graceful, a wonderful homemaker and mother of three incredibly witty children. He is a successful banker and illegitimate son of a long line of successful bankers. Financially, they want for nothing. All Sasha wants is to make Terrence happy. All Terrence wants is to make Terrence happy too. Their life together is both wonderful and challenging. Sasha's torment at not being able to be the woman who makes Terrence's eyes light up each time he walks in the door is obvious. His unfaithfulness is also obvious, and Terrence has lived a charmed life with his dedicated wife and adoring children. Sasha's life takes on a new glow when she receives lavender orchids from a secret admirer. When an unexpected tragedy strikes the Bain family, Sasha's joy withers like the petals on her beloved orchids, and she wonders if her secret admirer had been Terrence all along. Sasha's journey through love, betrayal, loss, and rebirth is an all too familiar one with an ending that will take your breath away. Sample Sasha's New Beginning 
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Inherited
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Derrick Dawes is a cafe au lait Adonis who lives comfortably and enjoys bachelorhood. When Derrick receives a call informing him that his wife has left the hospital it begins as an obvious mistaken identity that turns into a nightmare. His security and peace of mind are shattered by the reality that there are newborn twins with his name listed as father. DNA will free him, if the babies are not his, in three months without the mother's DNA contribution. If he signs anything, he is acknowledging paternity. If he leaves the hospital without them, he will be charged with abandonment.
Derrick Dawes as Daddy is a comedy of errors until he meets their nurse and angers an old girlfriend who makes his life a living hell. Through it all, Derrick searches for the mother of the twins. Sample Inherited 
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Damaged!
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Psychological Thriller
Adrena Reynolds, born to a teenage mother has spent her first few years of life with a loving grandmother. She is stripped away and used as a pawn for drug money. Uneducated, Adrena languishes in an abusive environment that culminates in a sadistic rape at the age of ten. The system drops the most hideous of all results of the drug culture into the lap of a young, beautiful psychiatrist who reaches a severely damaged child the only way she can, with love. Vivian Matthews programs Adrena, and like a sponge the child absorbs and imitates her mentor. Vivian introduces her to a world Adrena could never have envisioned. Vivian shares more than education, money, possessions and time with Adrena; she shares her family, which offers a wonderful backdrop to the suspense of Adrena’s psychosis. Harnessing her insecurities, anger, and violence is a monumental task that Vivian hopes she has equipped Adrena with. However, Adrena is damaged in ways that can’t be reached. What Vivian has actually done is provided Adrena with a mask. She’s cunning, cool and lovable; and she kills without detection. These two women share this story and the reflections are amazing! It is a psychological look into the lives of African American women that has never been explored. It brings “The Color Purple” into the new millennium with a bang! Sample Damaged! 
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The Parcel Express Murders
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Romantic Murder Mystery
Detectives Hall Hawkins and Edward Clark of the 30th Precinct Homicide Division are assigned the daunting task of solving the brutal murders of the handsome, Exquisite Wheels owner, David Bass, and his beautiful date, Kay Spencer. The case is every homicide detective's nightmare: A double murder with only one clue . . . corpses riddled with bullets from a .45. As Hawkins and Clark pursue this cunning, cold-blooded killer, they uncover one sordid detail after another about the lives of the wealthy and worldly victims, shedding no light on the case. A string of unsolved murders following on the heels of the Bass and Spencer case deepens the mystery. Det. Hawkins' stunning family friend, psychiatrist Samoa Tate, is introduced to the sophisticated and charming Det. Clark and finds herself embroiled in a love triangle that she alone knows all about and a murder mystery of which she is completely unaware. Sample The Parcel Express Murders 
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