Fiction

In this feisty new culinary cozy mystery from Agatha and Edgar Award-nominated author Valerie Burns, social media influencer Maddy Montgomery is adjusting to her new life after moving to small-town Michigan to run a bakery and take care of a gigantic...

The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within in this entrancing fantasy from the Grand Master Award-winning author Nalo Hopkinson. Veycosi, in training as a griot (an historian and musician), hopes to...

From the author of Sisters in Arms comes the incredible, untold story of Effa Manley, a black businesswoman in the male dominated baseball industry, and, currently, the only woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.1930s, New York CityAn ambitious...

"In the Shark Week of second-chance romances, Chandra Blumberg will have readers hungrily scavenging for every morsel of bait as she tempts with sultry tension and magnetic longing." --Taj McCoy, award-winning author of Zora Books Her Happy Ever...

A Nigerian Catcher in the Rye, Uchenna Awoke's masterful debut breaks the silence about a hidden and dangerous contemporary caste system Fifteen-year-old Dimkpa dreams of the day his father will be made village head. He will return to school and maybe...

He will come for them, one by one...Five shocking murders Twenty-five years ago, DCI Harry Rhimes arrested Andrew Streeter for the brutal murders of five young people. Streeter's "kill list" of victims was found in his home, and he was convicted of all...

Bestselling author Roy Glenn returns with When It's Over, his latest Mike Black novel that delivers shocking urban suspense. NYPD Detectives Kirk and Dawkins were pursuing Chet French, aka Big Frenchie, a small-time armed robber who did some time for...

"...A powerful roller coaster of emotions that still makes time to probe themes of discrimination and entitlement. Readers will be hooked." Publishers Weekly A Coming of Age Shapeshifter Story For centuries, humans descended on shifters' lands, killing...

"Been along time since a book made me feel so much!! I was on a roller coaster of happiness, excitement, heart break and joy!" Amazon Review THE SHARP POINT OF HER RESILIENCE For Mafdet, the territorial expansion by humans onto shifter land, the spread...

Beverly, Charmaine, and Evelyn -- three sisters living in the same Maryland town outside Washington, D.C., each wishing her life were just a little different. Beverly is twenty-nine and single. She's a successful magazine editor who would love to be in...

A "wise, funny, irresistible" (Shelf Awareness) debut novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties, and Brazilian butt lifts, from the author of the internationally bestselling story collection Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad. In Nigerian families,...

One night of passion and possibly one more chance at love... Determined, motivated, goal-driven, and eternally single, Dr. Taylor James is an accomplished university administrator in San Francisco determined to get his campus successfully through an...

Being the oldest of identical triplets, Autumn Spaulding craved her individuality and independence. Right after graduation, she enlisted in the Marines for five years. She gained the identity she desperately needed but came home to tragedy. Here she is,...

Love has its own agenda in this twisty supernatural thriller steeped in the backdrop of the 1800s where a tortured slave is bitten by a vampire and gains supernatural abilities that sets him on a path of death and destruction as he searches to rescue his...

In H. B. Akumiah's lively and charming debut, three young women discover the unbelievable: they're witches, and their newfound magic may be the key to saving the world ...The Witch Sphere is in turmoil. In the years since a stunning betrayal sent shock...

Nyah Monroe has a secret.Double bassist for the philharmonic by day, by night she's Queen Roe--an underground DJ with a growing following. Nyah works tirelessly to keep her worlds separate, her names straight and her outfits square, but doing it all...