Fiction

A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era. At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who...

Harold and Lucille Hargrave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their eight-year-old son, Jacob, died tragically in 1966. In their old age they've settled comfortably into life without him.... Until one day Jacob mysteriously...

New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison delivers a scandalous story of two women, a sizzling wager, and the fallout that's turned lives upside down. Now, with the only man they've ever wanted at stake, who will go one step too far to claim him?

Dopeman: Memoirs of a Snitch is a complex tale about the life and times of one the biggest drug traffickers the Midwest has ever seen.The FBI has launched an intricate plot to take down one of the most prolific drug organizations in the summer of 2009,...

One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit...

"Nursing wealthy businessman Chicago DuBois back to health was the least Loretta Lovelace figured she could do. After all, it was her bet that set off Loretta's stalker--and put Madison's husband at death's door. And with Madison out of the country,...

Life is close to perfect for the Reverend Curtis Black and his wife, Charlotte--except their son Matthew and his girlfriend, Racquel, are about to become parents at the tender age of eighteen. Even though Curtis and Charlotte wish Matthew could focus on...

In this second, bloody installment in the Animal saga, secrets are revealed, sides are chosen, and bodies are dropped--it's on! The man ordered to take Animal from the world turns out to be the man who brought him into it. Animal finds himself torn...

In this comic road novel, roles are reversed, race gets reviewed, and a legendary Delta bluesman takes one last ride."A master storyteller, Tom Williams enters the living history of Delta Blues and emerges with his own thrilling tall tale, alive with...

Eric Pete is an "Essence" bestselling novelist. He has also written short stories for the erotic anthologies "After Hours" and "Twilight Moods," He lives in Houston, Texas, with his family. His website is ericpete.com.

In 1946, a young female attorney from New York City attempts the impossible: attaining justice for a black man in the Deep South. Regina Robichard works for Thurgood Marshall, who receives an unusual letter asking the NAACP to investigate the murder of a...

"Nursing wealthy businessman Chicago DuBois back to health was the least Loretta Lovelace figured she could do. After all, it was her bet that set off Loretta's stalker--and put Madison's husband at death's door. And with Madison out of the country,...

In the new novel by the bestselling author of "The Ex Files," a couple struggles to find their way amidst bribery, betrayal, and the ultimate temptation.What would you do for five million dollars? Adam and Evia Langston have lived in their own little...

Another compelling novel by Murray, a surefire hit about three women struggling to bridge the dangerous gap between appearance and reality. Secrets, scandal, and sin abound in the private lives of popular evangelic gospel group Destiny's Divas in this...

A powerful collection of novellas by four leading African-American women writers, each tackling the terror of domestic violence. In Other People's Skin, Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, along with writers Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper,...

In the long-awaited, spectacular sequel to "The Upper Room," Maureen Montgomery still can't believe she was able to break away from her dominating Mama Ruby. But she will need to draw on more strength than she ever thought she had to make a future that...