Kijana Martin

Of Faith and Marriage Kijana Martin

"I only slept with him once. A mistake. And then an accident. When I met him, he was the breath of freshness that cured the air that had gone stale inside me." Gloria Miles, wife of respected Baptist minister, Reverend "Rev" Miles, is the first lady of their church who bakes Sock-It-To-Me Cakes for her husband once a week, ensures that the house is kept well and the language used in it, kept clean. A teacher and loving mother of one, she is intimately playful and flirtatious with her husband as any wife in a healthy and happy marriage would be. Theirs is the perfect union; a sanctified one from which others should pattern their own. But things aren't always what they seem. After seven years of marriage, a space had grown between Gloria and Rev and neither of them knew what was pulling them so far apart. In a mutual agreement to separate, they briefly went their own way. Just when they find their way back to each other, their marriage is threatened once again; Gloria is keeping secrets from Rev. She considers reproductive choices without his knowledge, and in her anguish to reveal her truths, she opens the door to even more revelations that could mean the end of their marriage forever.