General Fiction

Introducing a new star of her generation, an electric debut story collection about mixed-race and African-American teenagers, women, and men struggling to find a place in their families and communities. When Danielle Evans's short story Virgins was...

From New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey, "one of the most successful Black authors of the last quarter-century"* comes a novel about the how one chance meeting can change everything in this thrilling, sexy tale of star-crossed lust...

MAHALA IS A CITY OF CONTRASTS: LIGHT AND DARK. HOPE AND DESPAIR.Rojan Dizon just wants to keep his head down. But his worst nightmare is around the corner. With the destruction of their power source, his city is in crisis: riots are breaking out, mages...

For a long time, the idea of a soulmate seemed unreal to me. I thought that too many people die lonely for soulmates to exist. But most of the time we run our soulmate off because we don't realize it when they're right in front of us. I almost ran away...

Three boroughs. Two people. One summer that could change everything."This is not a love story," she said."Good. I've never been big on those," he responded."But this might hurt a little.""Well, then make it hurt good."So begins Ran Walker's 19th book, a...

Set amidst the turbulence of 1950s Cairo, Beer in the Snooker Club is the story of Ram Bey, an over-educated, under-ambitious young Egyptian struggling to find out where he fits in. Ram's favorite haunt is the fashionable Cairo Snooker Club, whose...

In Darrien Lee's sequel to All That and a Bag of Chips, readers meet up again with Craig Bennett, who is still wary of love even years after his affair with Venice Taylor. This compelling continuation of the Craig Bennett and Venice Taylor saga reveals...

Trista Russell, author of Going Broke and Dead Broke, turns up the heat in this erotic urban tale featuring a powerful attraction between a fugitive and the woman he is holding captive. As Audra Lopez watches news reports about the infamous "Turnpike...

From the author of Dear Marcus comes a breathtaking novel about a fated love affair that crosses the divides of race and class.Rashid is a young Black man from Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, with a complicated life. Looking for an escape from a neighborhood few...

Meet Gabriel Lee, if he were a young billionaire, his last few years would have earned him celebrity status. But, he's a mechanic in Baltimore's inner city. Past regrets haunt him. Can he ever win in a rigged system?Opposites attract when Grace Lerner...

Marsha, Taelyn, and Veronica must deal with the untimely death of their close friend Kaycee. Taelyn and Veronica travel back to their old stomping grounds of New Orleans to be with Marsha for the funeral, where secrets are revealed and the women must...

Blake Karrington brings together a group of talented authors, each with their unique writing style, and the end result is astonishingly jaw-dropping and will surely leave you begging for more. Beard Gang Chronicles is a collection of erotic short stories...

Kate Chopin's classic book of 23 masterful short stories shows rural life in Louisiana after the American Civil War and how former slaves, people of color, women, poor whites, and wealthy whites chafed against social restrictions. Lightly edited for...

She'll help him find a kidnapped victim He'll keep her alive in the process Mona Avery is determined to investigate Dillon Reed's high-profile missing person case in the Louisiana bayou. Even if stubborn Detective Reed insists the hotshot investigative...

Peter Jericho has spent most of his adult life living for God and serving his country as a Marine. Just before getting the orders for his third assignment in Iraq, his once solid marriage suddenly takes a turn for the worse, prompting his wife, Jan, and...

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos...