General Fiction

New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber has tantalized us with his provocative and sexy plus size characters in Something on the Side, Big Girls Do Cry and Torn Between Two Lovers. Now Weber has taken on the role of not just writer but mentor and...

Valerie Wilson Wesley's Tamara Hayle mystery series featuring Newark, New Jersey's number one private investigator are loved for their smart, sexy protagonist who "has a way with a wisecrack that is positively lethal" (Washington Post). Now in Dying in...

Essence bestselling author Brenda Hampton's sequel to the sexy BFF reintroduces a trio of catty, backstabbing girlfriends that readers love to hate. Kayla thought that her best friends, Evelyn and Trina, were supposed to always have her back, but when...

Virtuosic ... glorious in its exploration. --The New York Times A singular and powerful debut novel about a young black American learning the difficulties of forming your own identity when society has already assigned you one Like most recent college...

My name is Sam Forman.I invite you to take a journey with me to a beautiful place called Stillwater.We started life as slaves, but the ashes of war gave us new hope and freedom.I took my family north in search of a dream. We found wealth in new friends...

In a world of secrets, who knew vengeance is just as important.Life hasn't always been full of secrets and hidden agendas for Paris Thompson. But, when she meets Trenton Devereaux, it is unexpectedly through aperson she trusts who left her stranded.Paris...

When tragedy strikes, Krystal is faced with decisions that could alter the fate of her entire generation for years to come. Right or wrong, good or bad, the choice was ultimately hers to make. She has brains, beauty, and she's eager to please. Krystal...

In part 6, the final chapter of the Never Again, No More series, the lives of all the men and women are forever changed as they are forced to come to terms with the consequences of their actions. And one thing is for sure: by product of them will ever be...

Avery Booker is beautiful, successful, and ready to pledge forever to Lloyd, starting with the elaborate wedding ceremony she's wanted for so long. Avery's happy; Lloyd's happy, but the pregnant woman who objects is not. It seems Lloyd has some...

Celebrity actress Diamond Swain needs a peaceful place to hide out from the news-hungry paparazzi--a place like Whispering Pines. And yet from the moment she arrives at the remote Texas ranch, Diamond finds herself at odds with its rugged owner, Jake...

One of The Guardian's Top 10 Debuts of the Year An electrifying debut about a young man faced with a fraught decision: escape a dangerous past alone, or brave his old life and keep the woman he loves. Sayon Hughes longs to escape the volatile Bristol...

The classic debut collection from Pulitzer Prize winner James Alan McPhersonHue and Cry is the remarkably mature and agile debut story collection from James Alan McPherson, one of America's most venerated and most original writers. McPherson's characters...

Don't miss this reader favorite from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson Even a once-in-a-lifetime love... When Halston Parker calls his daughter Caitlin to his deathbed, she's shocked to discover that her ex-husband, Dex Madaris, has been...

A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered...

Written in reaction to what Bentley perceived as the sterility and artificiality of the detective fiction of his day, Trent's Last Case features Philip Trent, an all-too-human detective who not only falls in love with the chief suspect but reaches a...