Fiction

Former boxing champion Dante "Blood and Guts" Lattanza is being featured in Personality magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive" issue, and reporter Christiana Artis has the scoop. There's just one hitch: she'll have to fly to her elusive subject's home in Canada...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award - One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year - Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize "A triumph."--New York MagazineFrom one of the most celebrated new voices in American literature, a...

From Candice Dow comes a sexy, soul searching novel about love lost, new beginnings, and the big 3-0. . . As a successful legal consultant, Devin Patterson's professional life is good. But his personal life is another story. Devin let his true love slip...

Pat G'Orge-Walker delivers a wickedly funny, uplifting novel of love and betrayal. . .good karma and bad karma. . .sin and redemption. . .Reverend Grayson Young and his wife Chyna have the perfect marriage. Perfect, that is, if you believe Reverend Young...

"Reminiscent of Waiting to Exhale," (Booklist), Diva Diaries secured Janine A. Morris' reputation as one of today's most exciting novelists. In She's No Angel she delivers a moving, unforgettable story about the consequences of not honoring the 'honesty...

From the author of the smash hit Diva Diaries comes this unforgettable story of a woman who is ready to trade her long-term hopes for some short-term pleasure Jordan Moore is in the middle of a breakdown. Thirty-four years old and newly single, she has...

When Mya LeVeaux discovers that her ex-boyfriend is engaged--not to mention that her own father, Bishop Franklyn LeVeaux, is performing the marriage ceremony--there's only one thing to relieve her pain: shopping (nothing like a new pair of shoes to heal...

Being black, the right kind of black, was difficult. It was like being in a cult--a secret society with rules as fluid as waves. . . In the six years that Angela Wright has been with her fiancéKeith Redfield, her life has settled neatly into place...

Meet Cassandra Slick--a private investigator who knows that few pleasures in life can compare to a dry martini, a sexy blonde, and serving sweet justice on New Jersey's meanest streets. . . While other little girls dreamed of growing up to be...

Financial genius Laura Caldwell seems to have it all--beauty, brains, wealth, and love with her courageous husband, detective James Carter. But between nature's wrath and criminals who just won't give up, will these newlyweds ever have peace in their...

In this electric collection, Mary Slechta brings magical realism and U.S. history to bear on the community of Mulberry Street-- an African-American neighborhood with a disputed past. Is this enclave the result of white flight, a tenuous foothold for...

Essence(R)bestselling author Victor McGlothin delivers a stirring novel about a player who's down on his luck only to receive help from the most unlikely source--the very women whose hearts he broke. . . The year is 1947, and Ms. Etta's Fast House is...

Paradise When It Sizzles. . . Boston schoolteacher Amelia Wilson has always played it safe. But after a tough breakup from her boyfriend, she's ready to have some fun and take a few risks. So when friends hook Amelia up online with Drew Anderson, she...

One Moment. . . Hope Williams doesn't know what happened--the dream life she worked so hard to get suddenly feels like a trap. Her successful husband wants her to be wife-and-mother 24/7, her solid career is becoming a rut, and none of her friends get...

From the author of MAKE ME HOT comes a steamy tale of a popular heart surgeon and his four women, told in their own voices. They call him Dr. Feelgood. . . One woman would never be enough to satisfy noted cardiologist Dr. Makkai Worthy, better known by...

A bold new adaptation of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem about Warrior King Sinuhe that captures the essence of civilization and the complexities of immigration, from the Booker Prize-winning author. Forced to flee Egypt, Sinuhe is captured as a...