General Fiction

Tali Saunders had one goal: to leave Union City and never look back. Going off to college with her sister Shandea was a perfect way to escape becoming a product of the street. She never imagined on her last night in Union City that she would meet...

Laced with intrigue, scandal, and dirty office politics. --The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers on Never Enough With its share of powerful women, Washington, D.C., is no longer just a boys' club. But when it comes to mixing the personal with the political, three...

"Readers will be clamoring for more from Rhonda Bowen." --Tiffany L. Warren, Essence(R) bestselling authorJJ Isaacs' dream of becoming an R&B star has come true, and it's all thanks to Rayshawn, her amazing producer--and secret lover. But as JJ enters...

I'm Liv Cartwright, nerd, D&D fan, and newly minted Spirit Element.The Death King might have got his wish and convinced me to work for him, but the rest of his Court is on the brink of staging a mutiny. With an old enemy back and the Order under new...

IT'S HER GAME...Here's my deal--I'm not knocking myself out to find Mr. Right anymore. As far as this thirty-something sistah is concerned, it's now about reciprocity, not romance. A brother doesn't have to whisper promises he won't keep or make me any...

A gripping page-turner from the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy Music professor Bern Hendricks discovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time--his music may have been stolen from a Black Jazz...

From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken and not taken. What does it mean to take action? To bear witness? What does it cost? In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of...

Fletcher Dukes and Altovise Benson reunite after decades apart--and a mountain of secrets--in this debut exploring the repercussions of a single choice and how an enduring talisman challenges and holds a family together. On a routine trip to the Piggly...

Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence * Longlisted for the Story Prize Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Chicago Review...

Read this standalone novel from New York Times bestselling author of the Reverend Curtis Black series, Kimberla Lawson Roby. Paige Donahue has always lived in her sister Camille's shadow. As children, Camille had the grades, the friends, and their...

"A seductive, sweltering debut" (Rachel Lynn Solomon) filled with romance, artistic ambitions and political scandal, when a betrayed political trophy wife falls for a much younger man and reconsiders her idea of life and love. On the night of her...

CORDUROY MANSIONS - Book 2 In the Corduroy Mansions series of novels, set in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood, we meet a cast of charming eccentrics, including perhaps the world's most clever terrier, who make their home in a handsome, though slightly...

An intriguing story about half-brothers who reunite in the legal justice system--one as a prosecuting attorney and the other on Death Row--and a race against time for the young prosecutor to save his older brother's life. At the age of one, James is...

The undisputed queen of hip-hop fiction, #1 Essence bestselling author Nikki Turner unwraps a talented new collection of writers with raw urban stories to jingle your bells this season. Christmas in the Hood presents fresh talent alongside shining stars...

Seventeen-year-old Madeline Richardson's lifelong dream of attending Juilliard is about to come true--or is it? A life-changing discovery threatens to put her classical concert pianist career on hold, and her father's demand have her unsure of her future...