Fiction

A cursed statue . . . A haunted house . . . A seemingly supernatural death . . . The unexpected arrival of a friend from his past plunges musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January into an old, unsolved case in this historical mystery set in...

Hustle: To obtain by forceful action or persuasion. Meet the ladies of Pretty Hustlaz, Inc., a high-class escort service that caters to the most elite and powerful men of Charlotte, North Carolina. From politicians to sports stars, all desire to be...

A whirlwind romance develops, and falling for each other is uncontrollable for both Dakari and Baylee. But how long will it last when the skeletons of the past start to tumble out of the closets they thought they sealed? Find out if Dakari and Baylee can...

Shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction - Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - Shortlisted for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Debut Author   A Washington Post Noteworthy Book for September - A Good Morning...

She's a preacher's daughter, a runaway bride and now the (not quite) qualified nanny for a sexy tattoo artist with a beautiful daughter--and a dirty mouth. What's a bad boy to do with a woman like her? Everything... Aaliyah Montgomery isn't just...

From the author of Strawberry Mansion comes the tale of Begonia Brown. Raised in the unforgiving streets of North Philadelphia, Begonia is undoubtedly a product of her environment: young, ruthless, and criminally minded. Begonia's carefree world has been...

From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a brilliant, short novel about four black men in Paris wrongfully convicted of raping and murdering a white woman In spare, dispassionate prose with all the austerity of a deposition, A Case of...

WINNER BEST ANTHOLOGY, WORLD FANTASY AWARDS "You are bound to be wonderstruck."--Lightspeed Magazine "A must-read."--Locus Magazine "Highly recommended."--The British Fantasy Society The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), edited by the...

Critically acclaimed, for readers of Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Jennifer Egan's The Candy House, a moving and darkly funny novel about an attempt to found an underground Utopia. An abandoned restaurant on a hill off the highway in Western...

From New York Times bestselling author Nikki Turner comes the long awaited sequel to Glamorous Life Calliope learned at a very early age that if she wanted to survive in this world then she needed to stand on her own. When she and her younger brother are...

In beautifully vivid journal entries, Black poet Mardou Fox chronicles her 1950s and '60s experiences with the Beat Generation--and her adventures in the mysterious, otherworldly realm "over the fence." Characters based on star Beat authors like Allen...

In this knockout standalone crime novel from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a white cop's murderous outburst leads to a pulse-pounding chase to silence a witness A few days after Christmas, a white cop in New York is as drunk as...

Revisit the critically acclaimed sophomore novel of Crisis editor Jessie Redmon Fauset, Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (1928).After the death of their parents, the Murray family consists of just two people--Virginia, the younger darker-skinned...

From an all-star cast of creative talents comes a volatile, genre-defying homage to hip-hop icon Ol' Dirty Bastard that reimagines New York City's Five Boroughs through the eyes of the maverick MC and Wu-Tang Clan co-founder. In a fractured New York...

After exploring the arts and spoken word worlds of her native Chicago and the US East Coast, award-winning journalist, poet, and dreamer Clara Rose Thornton visited Germany for what was supposed to be three idyllic months of writing and rest. What...