Fiction

He built an empire from his infamous Dirty South crew's street riches. He's an unstoppable force in the music business. But when an even more powerful rival guns for his kingdom, can anyone survive to rule? The Crescent Crew's success is about to become...

Six steamy tales of deceit in the sheets that delve into the scandalous world of infidelity, where there is no end to sexual imagination and forbidden lust. Every cheater has a hidden desire. Some love it dirty. Others love it hot. From one-night stands...

Dirty Game is the blazing new novel from the #1 Essence bestselling author and undisputed king of urban lit, Shannon Holmes. Kenny Ken-Ken Greene left his days as a hustler behind him when his wife was killed during a scam gone bad, leaving him with a...

Following the phenomenal success of Essence bestsellers Dirty Red and Still Dirty, Vickie M. Stringer takes readers on another bumpy ride in Dirtier Than Ever with Red, Bacon, and Q--the crazy love-hate triangle who makes the series a favorite among...

Could he be the one foretold? Faith and doubt wrestle to save the world. Could his doubt stand in the way of his nation's unity? His doubt may prove the undoing of his world. When you wrestle with destiny, who wins? In a struggle with doubt could...

Your mission: To unite a nation divided by a forest of lies.. When privilege becomes an unbearable burden. When you must discard your privilege to bring peace. What is a life of privilege worth if there's no peace? One journey to save the world. One...

A hero's journey starts with a single step--but what if that step rested on a broken foundation?When all you know about your world crumbles into ashes.When truth rests on a broken foundation.When what you believe to be true lies on a broken foundation.A...

"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...