Fiction

" I couldn't care less what anybody thinks of me. They don't pay my bills. And there's nothing wrong with using what your mama gave you to get exactly what you want . . ." Celess knew she had to stop living the fast life and settle down, maybe even start...

The Youngest-in-Charge is a story that includes loyalty, trust, and value vs. murder, money, and sex-with lust, envy, and betrayal on the sidelines. Who wins in these mean streets that millions call the game. It's a million ways to get money and selling...

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearThe Tusk That Did the Damage is an utterly contemporary story about an ancient and majestic elephant, and his dangerous connection to the land and the people around him. Orphaned by poachers as a calf and...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ERNEST J. GAINES AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE"With this splendid debut, Steven Wright announces his arrival as a major new voice in the world of political thrillers. I enjoyed it immensely." --John GrishamA blistering and thrilling...

Urban youth gangs are typically viewed as no more than training grounds for thugs and felons. This breakthrough anthology presents a far different picture, revealing present and former gang members' and street activists' artistic impulses, emotional...

Meet Reggie Saunders--a successful businessman living the dream with a fancy sports car, tailored clothes, expensive jewelry, and a penthouse office suite atop one of the largest buildings in suburban Washington, D.C. But for everything he has, there's...

She wants to know the truth, but some secrets might be better left alone... Kate Thayer has a good life as a veterinarian, running the family horse farm-until she uncovers an act of unimaginable treachery by those she trusted most and learns that...

Most people know where they belong. As an outcast, even among misfits, I'm not that lucky. It's fine. I don't need them. These walls I've built keep me safe. Until they don't anymore. With the rebellion under way, I have enough on my hands gaining my...

While making their way north, Moses and Beulah Davis had walked for weeks before stumbling upon a cabin by the lake. They decided to stop just long enough to bathe and wash away their past. The water was pure, clean, pristine, and serene. That night as...

Denise has always been the apple of her father's eye. She keeps her head down, she works hard, and she studies harder. She is taught at an early age that you perpetually give your best. Denise is a young lady who lives an ordinary, dull life. One day,...

Unis was the child that everyone loved. "That boy is so cute," "Where did he get all that wavy hair from?" "You must have some Indian in your blood," said all the women at the church. Unis was gifted and could sing like he was on an album by the time he...

Joe grew up in an infested project in the urban, ghetto of Bronx, New York with a prostituted crack-head mother and a father he never knew. He had to grow up fast, facing the fact of what people thought about what a thug is, and the fact of his mother...

When we look at the world today, we see that black people seem to be last or minorities in everything. Moreover, blacks are having more problem with the law, the police, being killed by police, more than any other races of people. There are other races...

In this riveting and emotionally powerful historical drama, an ex-FBI agent plunges into the darkest shadows of 1930s Europe, where everything he loves is on the line . . . International consultant Prescott Sweet's mission is to bring justice to...

Nalini Singh returns to the world of the Guild Hunters for the most highly anticipated novel of the beloved series--a love story so epic it's been half a millennia in the making... Illium and Aodhan. Aodhan and Illium. For centuries they've been...