Fiction

Short fiction about the female experience from the New York Times best-selling author of The Color Purple, "one of the best American writers of today" (Washington Post).Here are stories of women traveling with the weight of broken dreams, with kids in...

When Kate's dearest childhood friend returns to warn her of danger, she's not happy to see him. After all, Cor isn't really a monster-slaying master swordsman from another world. He's a hallucination. Kate spent years in a mental ward for believing...

Two newly single, Black, queer, and socially aware men have packed up to start again--in love, career, and life--in the West Hollywood neighborhood of LA.Zaire James, on the cusp of 30, has decided marriage isn't all it's cracked up to be. Despite...

When Justine Crandall walks in on her husband of six years with another woman, she flees their home, declaring he'll never see her again. And her wish almost comes true when his car careens off a cliff in his pursuit of her. Hours later she finds herself...

"In and Out" is a gripping story that follows the journey of two African American stick-up men who seek to escape poverty and the related realities of life on the depleted, mean streets of New Jersey's inner city. What they find is that what's done in...

Janole was recently reunited with Wallace, her husband of 25 years, who disappeared amid a mysterious scandal leaving Janole devastated. Only after being reunited did Janole learn the disturbing truth about Wallace's disappearance. Janole is eager to...

Mariea's dreams are no longer deferred. Mariea has come a long way away from the physical, verbal, and mental abuses that she had gone through. She had gotten to a place where she can now tell others since no one had to consider caring about her...

From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes the delightful sequel to Prudence. Rue and the crew of the Spotted Custard return from India with revelations that shake the foundations of England's scientific community. Queen Victoria is not...

The national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them from one of America's most gifted writers...

In the third book of the Nebula Award-nominated Arcadia Project series, which New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire called "exciting, inventive, and brilliantly plotted," Millie Roper has to pull off two impossible heists--with the fate of the...

"Why couldn't she get me?" "Magic doesn't work on you. You're impervious . . ." Meaghan Keele faces menopause with no husband, no kids, and a job she hates. At her brother's request, Meaghan moves from Arizona to Pennsylvania to help care for their dying...

Self-published in 1899 and sold door-to-door by the author, this classic African-American novel--a gripping exploration of oppression, miscegenation, exploitation, and black empowerment--was a major bestseller in its day. The dramatic story of a...

When four college friends formed the Brown Sugarettes Mastermind Group, they had very different goals--but matched each other in ambition. Yet ten years later they can't help wondering what happened to the hopeful, confident, driven women they used to...

From the pages of the Immortal book series, it's Eve."...if your next question is, what could that possibly make me, if I'm not an angel or a god? The answer is the same as what I said before: many have considered me a god, and probably a few have...

In a sizzling new Argeneau novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands, a gorgeous mortal encounters his greatest temptation...For almost two centuries, Ildaria Garcia has been on the run, a trouble magnet with a knack for taking down bad...

In a sizzling new Argeneau novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands, a gorgeous mortal encounters his greatest temptation...For almost two centuries, Ildaria Garcia has been on the run, a trouble magnet with a knack for taking down bad...