Fiction

"Be young tonight, if you must. For tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow you will grow old, and the night will no longer be your lover."The powers of the pantheon have faded. The gods live amongst the mortals, grasping for what little of their divinity...

"Reapers, vampires, and... zombies?" Helena Pierce is recovering from the shock of her life... er, death. While she's trying to cope with her world getting turned on end once again, her best friend Grace comes to her with disturbing news: Boude, Grace's...

Roots are usually kept underground, out of sight, out of mind, like the necessities of the Underground Railroad kind. Black folks have been digging deep down in those roots for years. They have been pulling up from the roots in their hair to the cotton...

Grappling with his son's death, the painter David explores his grief through art and writing, etching out the rippled landscape of his loss. Over twenty years after his son's death, nearly blind and unable to paint, David turns to writing to examine the...

Take an amazing ride with nine amazing authors as they add a funky twist to the Dieselpunk genre. The Dieselfunk! anthology fills a void common in most speculative fiction genres, providing a much needed voice from an African/African Diaspora perspective...

In February 1835, the cold New Orleans streets are alight with masked Mardi Gras revelers as the American Theater's impresario, Lorenzo Belaggio, brings a magnificent yet controversial operatic version of Othello to town. But it's pitch-black in the...

From the #1 Essence bestselling author of Sheisty and Still Sheisty, Dice is the explosive novel of a man who might just lose his greatest love after playing the wrong game. Wasuan Wells has two loves--one is his beautiful girl of two years, Enychi...

Wasuan Wells has two loves--one is his beautiful girl of two years, Enychi Carter, and the other is his love for dice. Rollin' dice is an everyday hustle for Wasuan, and he's one of the best the hood has ever seen. No one can defeat him. That is, until...

After the phenomenal success of their first novel, Dirty Money, Ashley and JaQuavis are back with their spellbinding sophomore novel, Diary of a Street Diva. Come with them as they take you into the world of Remy Morgan, the wife of Cease, a young...

Never judge a book by its cover. . . Xavier Preston is tall, dark, and handsome, and the problem is that he knows it. He's a bestselling author who is accustomed to adoring female fans, both young and old, flirting with him, throwing themselves...

Yo. Crown Princess Myrindi of Talvayne here. This is the story of my life so far. It's an inspirational, uplifting tale that won't leave a dry eye in the house. The film adaptation's going to bring home seven Academy Awards and inspire at least twice as...

From # 1 Essence best-selling Crime Novelist K'Wan comes a tale of forbidden love, high stakes murder and the robbery gone bad that set it all in motion, Diamonds and Pearl. They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for Pearl...

In this hidden gemstone of a book, DiAmonds N' The Rough is a collection of short stories served straight out the bottle with no chaser. A school-age girl is forced to take a human life to save her own. A Gangster girl so deep rooted in the streets of...

Diamond State Mafia is a moniker coined by the FBI to represent Delaware's first known organized crime racket. Highly lucrative plus equally ruthless and its members are rumored to be in the hundreds. Their territory is the entire state of Delaware, from...

A planned heist for four lifelong friend reveals disloyalty and lies, putting their ride or die friendship to the test ... For as long as Bobbi, Lucci, Diamond, and Kay Kay have been in each other's lives, they have always had one another's backs...

In the beginning, everything seems to be going smoothly for the self-proclaimed Diamond Mafia, but when lies are exposed, disloyalty is discovered, and trust goes out the window, these four women are faced with the task of forgiving one another and...