Hold on to your seat, shes baaaaaaaaack!

"Apple Tree", Jessica Tilles' third novel is selling like hot cakes! The gut wrenching, coming of age story of Jalisha, her prostitute mother Camille and Jalishas little sister Corine will have you turning pages faster than you can read them.

Upper Marlboro, MD (PRWEB) July 10, 2004 -- Jessica Tilles, best-selling author of Anything Goes and In My Sisters Corner is back with her highly anticipated third novel Apple Tree (Xpress Yourself Publishing, ISBN: 0-972290-2-5). The gut wrenching, coming of age story of Jalisha, her prostitute mother Camille and Jalishas little sister Corine will have you turning pages faster than you can read them. Jalisha had always followed Camilles list of rules to the letter until she broke one in front of Camilles customer. From that day on her innocence became a thing of the past. Eight year old Corine loves and admires her sister dearly and will do anything for her, even if it means taking a life. Self absorbed Camille, however, loves her tricks more than she loves her daughters.

Does a rotten seed always guarantee bad fruit? With a mother like Camille you would expect to have bad produce. But not necessarily in the case of Jalisha and Corine. Follow how the girls overcome obstacles, learn the meaning of love, find peace and forgiveness no matter how high the price tag. Because even though the apple does not fall far from the tree, sometimes that tree is on a hill, and the apple can roll away.

. . . destined to yield high fruitage -- powerful work, from a powerful writer." -- Michelle McGriff, author of For Loves Sake

. . . a compelling new writer with style and pizzazz." -- Gary Johnson, Founder and CEO of Black Men In American.com

Xpress Yourself Publishing released Jessica Tilles highly anticipated Apple Tree on June 15, 2004. Apple Tree is available in bookstores, at Amazon.com and for your personally autographed copy, visit JessicaTilles.com.

Jessica Tilles is the best selling author of Anything Goes (Xpress Yourself Publishing, ISBN: 0-9722990-0-9) and In My Sisters Corner (Xpress Yourself Publishing, ISBN: 0-9722990-1-7). Jessica has been featured in Memphis ViP magazine, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS), on Black Men In America.com eZine and Booking Matters Magazine. She is the proud recipient of the 2003 Memphis Black Writer's Conference "Rising Star" Award and the 2003 Jackson Mississippi Readers Club's Contribution to African American Literature Award. Her novels have appeared on several best sellers listings and remains on the Karibu Books (Hyattsville, MD) Best Sellers List. She is currently working on her fourth release, The Sweet Taste of Revenge, the anxiously awaited sequel to Anything Goes.