Except on Sunday — Regena Bryant

Except on Sunday is a contemporary women's fiction novel. The setting for the story is among the members of the Baptist Methodist Assembly (BMA). The BMA is a fictional denomination established by three progressive African American doctors in the 1940s. Assembly members call themselves 'a particular people for a peculiar time'. And times are certainly peculiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century. With the back drop of?social change, Assembly members grapple with classism, sexism, envy, pride, strife, lust and love.

After Dr. Cassandra Brownley meets the denomination's favorite son she is ushered into the inner world of the BMA leadership. As the friendship grows, Finus Gates reveals to her many of his closely held personal secrets. Ultimately, it may be Cassandra's secret that destroys their friendship. The novel follows the couple as they work to establish a private high school and navigate through the complex task of simply falling in love.