Fiction

"A somber, disturbing mystery fused with a scathing look at the fashion industry. Mangin writes in a confident, razor-edged style." - KirkusCondom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways.A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of...

It's New Year's Eve 2008, and best friends Magnolia Butler, Rebe Richardson, and Darla Clark, all born in 1969, are about to turn the dreaded 4-0 in January 2009. Magnolia, a New Year's Day baby, is childless, and always a bridesmaid, never a bride...

Queensland, Australia, 1936Sister Claire McAuliffe has been called from Dungarvan, County Waterford, to do God's work in Jumaaroo, Queensland. Along with four other sisters she is charged with setting up a Catholic school for the education of the gold...

All her life, Winnie passed for white, using it to her advantage, and climbing the social ladder. When her child is born black, she asks Jolene to raise him. "If you can't ask your sister, who can you ask?" New book from Award winning author Michael...

In the spirit of Blackgentlemen.com come five sensual novellas about the excitement--and danger--of meeting someone online. Welcome to Sistergirls.com, where men can meet the women of their dreams. Making a selection is just a beginning--these ladies...

Here is New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey's debut novel, a celebration of Black sisterhood hailed by Essence as one of the "50 Most Impactful Black Books Of The Last 50 Years".Valerie, Inda, and Chiquita are three women looking for...

Nalo Hopkinson--winner of the John W. Campbell Award, the Sunburst Award, and the World Fantasy award (among others), and lauded as one of our "most inventive and brilliant writers" (New York Post)--returns with a new work exploring the relationship...

Contemporary Adult FictionInspirationalMen and women of the cloth struggle with love, lust and faithillicit affairs, spiritual crises, and liesmisadventures

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.