Fiction

The end of my marriage was the beginning of my happily ever after.What happens when you hear your husband putting dents in your mattress with another woman?Leave and never look back!Easier said than done when you're a stay-at-home mom, share two kids...

In this highly anticipated sequel and finale, Blake Karrington once again takes you into the world of Ronnie King and Sloan Devaxx. For Sloan, life couldn't be more perfect. She has the man of her dreams and is beginning the career that she has always...

A deluxe edition of James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel with a new introduction and a stunning package.   Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and...

Denver's newest detective. A garden's deadly secrets.On a lovely June night in 1924, amateur detective Annalee Spain is mingling bravely at a high-class political fundraiser in the lush backyard garden of famed political fixer Cooper Coates, one of the...

A deluxe edition of James Baldwin's haunting coming-of-age story, with a new introduction by Roxane Gay and a stunning package.   Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his...

Blood is thicker than water! Every grimy hustler will utter those words when they are out on the block, chasing the bag. But when Flash's back is against the wall and he's being pressured by homicide detectives, all sense of loyalty goes out the...

The lovers are on opposing teams, and when their worlds collide, the truth will be unveiled in an unpredictable ending. The port of Miami brings in millions of dollars worth of cocaine every year, and the Cartel controls eighty percent of it. The Diamond...

A stunning edition of James Baldwin's timeless novel, with a new introduction by bestselling novelist Brit Bennett   From one of our greatest writers, James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk is a profoundly moving novel about love in the face...

"I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin's prose. It liberated me as a writer."--Toni Morrison   This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's 100th-year anniversary, probing the shortcomings of the American protest novel and the harmful...

"[A] sharp, charming and passionate debut." --New York Times Book Review A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Elle, USA Today, Bustle, Ebony, Harper's Bazaar, PopSugar, New York Post, The Skimm, and The Millions.A Best Book of 2023 by Marie Claire,...

WHEN STAYING ON TOP IS THE ONLY OPTION! Join Essence(R) -bestselling authors Ms. Michel Moore and T.C. Littles, along with Novelist Blacc Topp, as they each give you heart-racing, gritty tales of what being On a Mission on the block...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel--set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of...

BLOOD IS SUPPOSED TO BE THICKER THAN WATER. But he made my blood spill like water. So I crossed waters to leave blood behind, hoping I wouldn't leave a trail for him to follow and find me. Still, when I am enjoying the fruits of freedom most, that is...