Fiction

Now in a new redesigned edition, featuring an updated introduction from the author and songs! Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross--a man who had sold his soul to live forever, and intended...

From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner comes Sparkle, the official novelization of the highly anticipated Motown-inspired film starring Whitney Houston in her final movie role--opening in theaters nationwide this August...

"It's dark, it's beautifully twisted and I'm happy to have had a chance to read it." - Madison Drake, Copy Editor, Content Editor, Proofreader & Beta Reader "This is a really a strong story, it stuck with me for days after reading!" - Ryan McDonough,...

This is unlike any other story you have ever heard before. From the come up in the beginning to the mind-blowing ordeal that's revealed at the end. Follow me as I paint the picture of one of the greatest and youngest street pharmacist of our generation...

In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O'Connor, Bill Cheng's Southern Cross the Dog is an epic literary debut in which the bonds between three childhood friends are upended by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. In its aftermath, one young...

From a highly-praised author whose fiction blurs the lines between lesbian and straight communities by speaking with intimate familiarity about loving and living as African American women comes a fast-paced story which explores the relationships and...

Willow is at a crossroads. After caring for her father during his final days, she comes home to her flat in London wondering what's next. Whether it's traveling to some exotic location or starting her career in fashion, the only thing she is certain of...

Meet the Evens family: three generations living together in a desolate neighborhood in Chicago's crime-ridden Southside.Life has not turned out the way Dorothy Evens, the head of the clan, dreamed it would. Now she returns home from a dead-end job every...

Five-year-old Sousanna lives in a small but love-filled home in Pirgos, Greece. For her, life is a family that dotes on her, play at being a rich and heroic American, a community that watches out for her. Though often cold and always hungry, she's too...

Five-year-old Sousanna is often cold and always hungry, but she's happy living in post-WWII Greece with her kind and loving family. Then one day a stranger approaches Sousanna's father with a startling proposition, made bearable only by the assurance...

Solstice Soulless Smith is a demon wrapped in human skin, who only has love for one person: his manipulative big brother, Theory. By chance, Soulless, Theory, and the rest of the old crew bump into Calico, who recently got released from prison after...

Twelve stories about the African experience of slavery in America, by the National Book Award-winning novelist. Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted...

Daniel Bennet has become a cultural phenomenon after penning an international best-selling novel based on his ordeal trying to bring a powerful criminal to justice. He has everything he could ever want: a beautiful wife, son, and wealth beyond his...

Three years ago, while volunteering in South Sudan, Chicago native Daniel Bennett came face to face with evil personified when African warlord Kronte and his men brutally murdered his daughter, Victoria. The sole survivor of the massacre, Dr. Bennett...

The sole survivor of a brutal massacre, Dr. Bennett returned home broken and tormented by guilt and memories of an unforgivable crime allowed to go unpunished. Then the beautiful and mysterious United Nations crisis counselor Ayana Burundi walks into his...