Chocolate Lemons and Peppermint Tears: The Bittersweet Life of Xena tells the poignant, funny, sexy, in your face, and very relatable tale of Xena Quay Vaughn, an attractive, successful, slightly neurotic, never been married black woman in her mid-thirties, who struggles desperately with getting over a married man who keeps popping up in her life, even after she moves (back) to Los Angeles to get over him; her perceived weight problem; a disastrous second encounter with the married man; being celibate for almost two years; finally meeting and falling in love with the one; and another, even more catastrophic encounter with the married man and her lover.