Fiction

Forced to flee Detroit, ruthless and rotten Kenya and her identical twin, London, have dodged the bullets of a vicious hired hit man and endured the pain of a brutal rape. Now, due to mistaken identity, the girls must deal with Storm's strange...

Kindrah has secretly been in love with her best friend, Amari, for a long time, even though both of them are involved with other people. Until now, she has kept her feelings a secret, but when she finds out that Amari is going to be a father with a...

Identical twins Kenya and London return in the highly addictive Essence bestselling Say U Promise series, and now things have gone from bad to worse for the tragically troubled sisters. They are caught in the middle of a deadly drug war that was started...

New York Times bestselling author Franics Ray continues the popular erotic romance Grayson Friends series with It Had to be You. Most musicians would do anything to work with the hot, young record producer known as Rolling Deep. R.D. can pick and choose...

New York Times bestselling author Francis Ray turns up the heat in All That I Desire, a sizzling Grayson Friends novel about a woman's life, liberty...and pursuit of passion. LOVE IS NEVER PICTURE-PERFECT. Nothing can stop a woman like Skylar Dupree once...

The next installment in the Grayson Friends series from New York Times bestselling author Francis Ray!Naomi Reese is a divorced mother with a small daughter named Kayla, a new life in Santa Fe, and, finally, some distance from her abusive ex-husband. All...

Bestselling author Francis Ray will have fans cheering for the Grayson family's friends--when two perfectly matched opponents go one-on-one in A Dangerous Kiss. Sexy, single sports consultant Payton "Sin" Sinclair has tackled the world's most valuable...

In a society where the system is broken and designed to favor a set of people at the expense of the rest, only the strong survive. I am Coumba, and this is my breakthrough story as a Black immigrant living in America.

Precious Cummings is back but this time her own daughter is causing mayhem. Aaliyah Mills Carter was born into street royalty. Her mother, Precious, hustled her way from a project chick to a hood legend. Then she has two fathers, Xavier Mills, who is a...

Between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, generations of African Americans struggled for dreams they would never be allowed to achieve, no matter their ability. That they persevered in the face of attitudes from white society, ranging from...

There isn't a more odd pairing than Lynn Cummings, a women's right activist who is swooned by a charming and handsome southern Baptist preacher, Pastor Dana Stewart. Lynn's heart goes pitter patter for this man and the feeling is mutual, but the...

Hold You Down is an edgy novel from rising star Tracy Brown about the perils of love and the ties that bind... New York City. Late 1980s to early 1990s. Mercy and Lenox Howard have always only had each other. Growing up on the mean streets of Harlem with...

Octavia E. Butler's final novel is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she...

This highly imaginative and inventive collection of poems by fifty-two African poets writing from thirty countries across the continent, offers powerful poems that do not flinch from exploring experiences, hopes, aspirations that are deeply personal yet...

Thot Chronicles 3: Isis' Final Reign is an urban fiction story about a successful business woman, mother of two, Isis Carrington, who is out to settle the score once and for all. But before she can do that, she has to tie up some loose ends. With...

With so much at stake, turning back to what I'd known for twenty to twenty-five years was probably a given, especially after never fully getting a chance to actually see what my true potential was. Then after giving this fucked-up state twelve long years...