Fiction

The history of Mississippi prompts a young African American mother to leave that state and seek a better life out west. In 1939, while traveling by train from California to Oregon, she encounters a Japanese photographer whose photos are used to plan the...

The history of Mississippi prompts a young African American mother to leave that state and seek a better life out west. In 1939, while traveling by train from California to Oregon, she encounters a Japanese photographer whose photos are used to plan the...

Twenty-four-year-old Aisha Carlisle is the owner of A-Carlisle Studio of Dance and Choreography. Aisha's life is surrounded by great friends, a doting father, and a dashing bachelor, Chandler Larson, dangling on her arm and in her heart. Aisha is rooted...

From the bestselling author of The Personal Librarian​ comes a story of a mother whose sins of her past may have finally caught up with her--and her daughter. Have the sins of the mother come upon the daughter?Jasmine Larson Bush is finally living...

An erotic and suspenseful tale about a young woman navigating the criminal underworld despite her own moral conflicts. She ran away from home as a teen to escape her overprotective and heavily religious family, but now Trenda Fuqua finds herself seduced...

An Essence bestseller from the author of Sins, Secrets & Success. Candice, Amber, and Toi are three young black women who have risen above life on the streets. Successful entrepreneurs, they are at the top of their game, but they will soon find that...

TEAM JASMINE or TEAM RACHEL? Bestselling and award-winning novelists Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate Billingsley bring their favorite heroines together in a novel that will delight their legions of fans. Jasmine Larson Bush and Rachel...

Deborah Anne Peterson knows that her amazing singing voice is a gift from God and fully realizes that when He gives you a gift He means for you to use it.

A steamy, erotic tale from New York Times bestselling author, Mary B. Morrison, writing under the pseudonym HoneyB, about three men who marry for all the wrong reasons. Herschel Henderson said, I do, to gain access to his wife's money, Lexington Lewis...

Alfonso Rutherford Berry III--son of a city councilman, grandson of the state's first African American legislator--believes that history has ordained for him but one life, and it ain't his first love: dancing. But after a series of tragedies, starting...

Simone. depicts an inspiring story about a young veteran of the U.S. Navy and her life with a new fiancé, family, and friends. These happenings bring about a smorgasbord of sex, drama, love, fear, pain, happiness, humor, and scandals. The experiences of...

Take a peek inside her world and you may become a little jealous! Who wouldn't with a life such as Simone Anah Green's? A one-of-a-kind ebony beauty with a gripping but astonishing military career as a Navy Corpsman behind her and a vivid career as a...

From the New York Times Bestselling Author of An American Marriage "A love story . . . Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy . . . Jones's skill for wry understatement never wavers." --O: The Oprah Magazine "Silver Sparrow will break your heart before...

A Peace which must be defended. A vow which must be broken.It is the final decade of the ninth century. The Peace between Wessex and the Danes long-settled in the Danelaw erodes. A new onslaught of Danes attacks Angle-land, trying once and for all to...

SoCalGov Stalker Kai Gracen always knew Death walked in his shadow. Enough people told him that, including his human mentor, Dempsey. Problem was, the old man never told him what to do when Death eventually caught up. Where Tanic, his elfin father and...

A sweeping debut novel that explores the intimate struggle for independence and success of a young descendant of Indian indentured laborers in Mauritius, a small multiracial island in the Indian Ocean. The beauty of Busjeet's splendid, often breathtaking...