General Fiction

When their mother goes missing from her nursing home, three estranged siblings must fulfill the requests left in her will before they can find closure--or receive their inheritance. Mattie Benson feels trapped in Grand Oak Acres Nursing Home. Abandoned...

From the author of the prize-winning The Rainy Season--a "sophisticated and suspenseful" (The New York Times Book Review) novel of love, fear, divided loyalties, ruined friendships, and personal sacrifice--against a backdrop of war in the Holy Land. One...

When a guilt-ridden client has an unexpected change of heart, the Mack team's careful preparation for his grand jury testimony is blown to smithereens. Now, Charlie and Gil must pull out all the stops to defend him from his new enemies and the...

When a young woman seeking fame and fortune falls into a con artist's trap, she learns what Hollywood is really all about...and what really matters most. Skye Taylor is a naïve, attractive nineteen-year-old, who wants to get as far away from her small...

In classic street grit of profane tales, disloyalties, and vendettas, are four novellas featuring cold-hearted women who get ahead in America's grimiest underworld. Twisted Loyalty by Kai Tandra is a professional cleaner hired by the lords of the city's...

What happens when a real life book club decides to write their own novel? The result is a fresh, fun story about a group of women who have more in common than just the books they read. Fourth Sunday written by B.W. Read (aka "Because We Read") is the...

A glimpse into the secret and unique lives of the women behind NFL coaches--game day takes on a whole new meaning as these lonely women turn up the heat off the field. During football season, when NFL coaches gear up for war on the gridiron, their wives...

From Hollywood's hottest nightclubs to the boardrooms behind the scenes, the trendiest restaurants to the bedrooms of the biggest stars--it's all here in a steamy murder mystery from the celebrity journalist who knows the entertainment world better than...

The second in Essence bestselling author Yolonda Tonette Sanders's Protective Detective series featuring Troy Evans, this suspenseful novel shows the devastation domestic violence can cause and how sometimes, mistakes of the past cannot be undone. For...

Romance, suspense and murder are at the center of this sequel to the popular Blackberry Days of Summer and An Elderberry Fall that highlight African American life in the 1920s. Nothing seems to change for Carrie Parker. Even as she attempts to move on,...

Would you risk your marriage to get out of debt? Naomi and DeShaun seem to have the perfect life, but when money runs low, they have to face the hard truth: Nothing lasts forever. DeShaun and Naomi think they have it all: a wonderful marriage, steady...

Candace is a single mom with a good job, a promising future, and a plan to get herself and her son out of the hood. But can she still make it happen when she gets involved with a young charmer chasing street dreams? Even with a good job, Candace is...

Bryan, a Black, divorced father of two, had finally achieved the career success he had always dreamed of as the new vice president for a large multi-national energy company. Unfortunately, his teenage son, an aspiring drag queen, does not fit into his...

BRYAN is well-liked but feels he must hide his real life to get ahead. His white transgender girlfriend, NADIA, doesn't gel with his coworker's homophobia and his mother's transphobia and wish for an educated Black daughter-in-law. Bryan's internalized...

Justine Holmes is a widow, former activist, and funeral thief, mourning her husband's death during the aftermath of the Ferguson unrest in St. Louis, Missouri. As family tensions deepen between Justine and her three grown children - a former Bay Area...

Teeming with dramatic plot twists and wickedly delightful erotic frills, a passionate story about two lovers struggling with heartbreak, heartthrobs, and self-fulfillment. Many of us fall into unrelenting cycles that lead us to inevitable heartbreak--a...