Fiction

They were just kids when Claudette McPhearson took them all in. Eight of them all together, all different races and ethnicities, but she loves them as her own. One woman has taught them how to love, trust, and respect one another. Claudette is their...

The House Behind the Cedars, which many consider Charles Chesnutt's finest novel, tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white...

The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it's worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, and...

In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, "Skin Trade," to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has made her column so popular, this provocative collection of...

A repackaged edition of the groundbreaking classic novel of the Black experience in America, with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. First published anonymously in 1912, this novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double...

Tainted is a three-part series tale full of juicy drama, lust, and revenge. Driven by the need to avenge the rape of her nine-year-old sister at the hands of drug lords, Monica Deitrich has spent a decade training for a career in law enforcement. When...

Urban Books bestseller La Jill Hunt joins Monica Walters to bring readers humorous, romantic stories of beautiful full-figured women navigating their sometimes complicated love lives. Kiss and Tell by La Jill Hunt: Joli McNeil always wanted to become a...

The Black women in these tales are women we all know. The mothers, wives, business owners, creatives, and more, that we see in everyday life. They perform the impossible and hold all ends together.Sometimes, they're an open book, their stories written in...

The international bestselling novel, sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected "wind" phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami--now in...

The next book in the vampire fantasy series by USA Today and international bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair. Isolde, newly coronated queen, has finally found a king worthy of her in the vampire Adrian. But their love for each other has cost Isolde...

A body has washed ashore Along with her past.   There was no quiet homecoming for Nikki King. Not with a body discovered on her lakefront property and Terrence Sutton's unexpected arrival. The police detective is convinced his sister's disappearance...

Childhood friends become forbidden lovers in this sexy start to the Six Gems series from Yahrah St. John. Their fiery affair fulfills her fantasies... And puts everything at risk. When travel blogger Wynter Barrington's wealthy, disapproving family cuts...

Londyn Lewis was a B-list movie actress, waiting on a breakthrough role that would propel her to superstardom, but it always seemed to elude her. When she meets Sterling Pierce, a partner in a prestigious Venture Capital Firm, she trades in her dreams of...

"A dark and riveting page-turner with an intelligent twist." --Nadine Matheson, author of The Jigsaw ManSOMEONE HAD TO MAKE HIM PAY. SOMEONE HAD TO TAKE HER DOWN.Brandi Maxwell is living the dream as an intern at prestigious New York fashion house Simon...

A spoiled rich girl falls for one of the most notorious thugs in Detroit. Will she give up everything, including the successful future her parents had planned for her? Raised in one of the few well-to-do areas left in metro Detroit, Morgan was spoiled by...

Determined to win the one she thinks is for her, Paige finds herself making one foolish decision after another. These decisions become detrimental to her and the life she's worked so hard to maintain. Will she be able to pull herself out of Kyra's web,...