You've read the fascinating story. Now, hear the music the novel's characters hear.

1. “Paradise” (Sade)

2. “I Want Her” (Keith Sweat)

3. “Hold On” (En Vogue)

4. “Poison” – Clean version (BBD)

5. “U Can’t Touch This” (MC Hammer)

6. “The Pleasure Principle” (Janet Jackson)

7. “Jezebel” (Sade)

SEE THE ENDNOTES

in each book of the novel

to see how these songs

function in the story

or how the author

used them for inspiration.

1. “When Sunny Gets Blue” (Sarah Vaughan)

2. “Control” (Janet Jackson)

3. “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” (Sarah Vaughan)

4. “Separate Ways” (Sarah Vaughan)

5. “Air on the G String” – J.S. Bach (Voices of Music)

6. “Tenderly” (Sarah Vaughan)

7. “Broken-hearted Melody” (Sarah Vaughan)

8. “Ain’t Misbehavin’ “ (Sarah Vaughan)

9. “Paradise” Phil Collins

10. “Breezin’ ” (George Benson)

11. “The Thinker” (George Benson) – Post-dates the novel’s 1990 setting, but the author knows that Darrel Nelson’s quartet learns, in the future, how to play it.

12. “Just the Two of Us” (Grover Washington, Bill Withers)

13. “So Amazing” (Luther Vandross)

14. “Rise” (Herb Alpert)

15. “You Needed Me” (Anne Murray)