Fiction

Women called him the perfect storm because he could sweet-talk any woman into his bed, and regularly did so. Firefighter Storm Westmoreland used lovemaking the way other men used a long, hot shower--to blow off steam. Until a torrid weekend with a...

Rhythm is a college student in DC who learns of Moses King, the man who started the Disciples, the largest street gang in Chicago. She reads his court case, and the inconsistencies in his trial transcripts lead her to write him, asking him if he really...

Queen of hip hop fiction Nikki Turner follows her gritty, emotionally charged novel The Glamorous Life with this new tale from the hood featuring a beautiful down-on-her-luck sister who can out-hustle the best of them as she rises from the ghetto to...

Cassie Palmer can see the future, talk to ghosts, and travel through time--but nothing's prepared her for this. Ever since being stuck with the job of pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural world, Cassie Palmer has been playing catch up. Catch up to...

Life for Treacherous Freeman and Baby Love has been one nightmare after the next. After their escape from a Virginia mental institution and series of crimes, murder and armed robbery are added to their resumes as they try to evade the law. Their actions...

Seventeen-year-old Keisha is the beautiful, sheltered daughter of an activist pastor with a checkered past. Handsome, ambitious Jamal-a street-savvy crack dealer-is the son of North Philly's most notorious drug kingpin. A history of violence and betrayal...

Set in Niagara in the early 2000's, this novel is a raw confrontation of sexuality and addiction in a modern coming-of-age narrative.High school is over, an ex-girlfriend is pregnant, and Troy Brinkman is spiralling out of control. On moving out of his...

Includes Native Son, now an HBO original movie by Rashid Johnson, with a screenplay by Suzan-Lori Parks and starring Ashton Sanders. Native Son exploded on the American literary scene in 1940. The story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man living in the...

Gina Wright escapes a hellacious life by doing the unthinkable-selling the use of her womb to the highest bidder among rich, childless couples from more affluent areas of Chicago. She even accommodates their "special" requests ranging from participating...

I'm one of the old ones. I've lived many lives, done many things. I've been called sorceress, witch, and far worse. Mortals have hung me, burned me, staked me out, and left me to die. What a pack of fools. I'm immortal, and their petty attempts were...

The daughter of one of the South's most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father that puts her at odds with both her faith and her family in this debut novel. "Spellbinding...Revival Season should be read alongside Alice...

The daughter of one of the South's most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father that puts her at odds with both her faith and her family in this "tender and wise" (Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth) debut novel.Every...

Jack Grenard and the demon Anya are on the run, searching for a cure for her curse while staying one step ahead of those who want them dead. The mystery leads them around the globe, each clue revealing more about the history of the original demons and...

Jack Grenard and the demon Anya are on the run, searching for a cure for her curse while staying one step ahead of those who want them dead. The mystery leads them around the globe, each clue revealing more about the history of the original demons and...

Hugo winner Jim C. Hines's hilarious and clever Magic ex Libris series, where books come alive and libriomancer Isaac Vainio combats magical threats that spring from the page "Superior worldbuilding." --Charlaine Harris - "Really, really clever."...

Something that seems too good to be true often is just that . . . Lauren Wallace's life in Charlotte, North Carolina, had been nothing but rough. Her mother was an addict, and she never knew the identity of her father. At the age of seven, she was thrown...