Fiction

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

Joylynn M. Jossel's The Root of All Evil is a sexy, drama-filled, roller coaster of a ride about a woman's pursuit of the perfect man to provide all her needs. THE ALMIGHTY $. SOME PEOPLE PRAY FOR IT.SOME PEOPLE PRAY TO IT. Thirty-four-year-old Klarke...

A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood.1930s, Hogan's Alley--a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver's East End. Junie...

"Ellison sought no less than to create a Book of Blackness, a literary composition of the tradition at its most sublime and fundamental. --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., TIMEFrom the renowned author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph...

"An utterly absorbing and dazzling novel about the stories we tell to stay alive and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves." --Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times Bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina LeeA young mother finds refuge and friendship...

A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives--set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage,...

A hauntingly powerful and emotionally charged novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging.Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret.Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland,...

Momma Bear follows the heartbreaking struggle, risks and results of raising minority youth in urban America. Dirt-poor, struggling, and the teenage mother of two small boys, Glenda James fled her rural, South Carolinian roots in a desperate attempt to...

Love is a game of chance in this romantic suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author and American politician and activist Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name, Selena Montgomery. Dr. Raleigh Foster, an operative for a top-secret...

A razor-sharp debut novel of three best friends navigating love, sex, faith, and the one night that changes it all.It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles,...

The Lavender and Montgomery families have ties that go back many generations...back to the time of slavery! Filled with lies, family secrets, sexual exploits, witchcraft, the atrocities of slavery, and bloodline curses, this story follows the life of a...