General Fiction

New York Times bestselling authors Ashley and JaQuavis are back with the second installment in the epic Murderville series--love, murder, loyalty, and money fill this gritty, urban tale as they continue this international street saga. With Samad's target...

From the critically acclaimed author of A Cupboard Full of Coats comes a provocative novel of a mother enduring the loss of her child, illuminating some of the most important and troubling issues of our time. Marcia s husband, Lloydie, expresses his...

Solemn Redvine is a precocious Mississippi girl who senses a nearby baby may be her half-sibling: the outcome of her father's mistakes with a married woman who lives in their trailer park. After Solemn witnesses a man throw the baby down a community...

Hellsmouth, an indomitable Thoroughbred with the blood of Triple Crown winners in her veins, runs for the glory of the Forge family, one of Kentucky s oldest and most powerful dynasties. Henry Forge has partnered with his daughter, Henrietta, in an...

"New York Times"bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey delivers his next delectable, erotic romance  They call themselves the Blackbirds. Kwanzaa Browne, Indigo Abdulrahaman, Destiny Jones, and Ericka Stockwell are four best friends who are closer...

Winner of the 2016 Fauset Book Award in the Category of First Fiction Set in Arkansas in 1957, the complexities of identity, yearnings for love and acceptance, and racial tension are all unmasked in the riveting literary drama, Melting the Blues, by...

Ripped from the pages of his New York Times bestselling Family Business series, Carl Weber brings you No More Mr. Nice Guy, the origin of Niles Monroe, the super-bad hitman who will one day become Paris Duncan's one true love. Niles has just returned...

Things are falling apart in the Richardson household. Angry arguments between Celine and her husband, Keith, have become routine. She resents that he's working long hours and staying out all night, and he accuses her of not giving him the attention he...

When her son is in trouble, a heartbroken mother finds the courage and faith to save him, in ReShonda Tate Billingsley's powerful family drama--a novel as timely as today's headlines.  The breaking TV news rocks Jasper, Texas, to the core: a white...

Russell's Knob is not paradise. But already in 1849 this New Jersey highlands settlement is home to a diverse population of blacks, whites, and reds who have intermarried and lived in relative harmony for generations. It is a haven for Dossie Bird, who...

A stunning debut novel of two girls raised in hardship, separated by fortune, and reunited through tragedy. Fourteen-year-old Audrey Martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she ll never get out of...

National bestselling authors Carl Weber and Treasure Hernandez are back with their latest installment in the wildly popular Family Business saga. Vegas Duncan's release from prison is right on time for his older brother Junior's engagement to the...

One of "Library Journal"'s Best African American Fiction Books of 2014!  Nominated for Library Services for Youth in Custody's "In the Margins" selection list  "[A] heart-thumping thriller...K'wan does a masterful job of keeping readers on...

From an acclaimed African writer, a novel about family, freedom, and loyalty.  When Bella learns of the murder of her beloved half brother by political extremists in Mogadiscio, she's in Rome. The two had different fathers but shared a Somali...

NAACP nominee and bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to the charming town of Henry Adams, Kansas--a place that always feels like home--in this heartwarming story of family, friendship, and the surprises hidden in our lives.Henry Adams has had its...

Carl Weber is the New York Times and #1 Essencer bestselling author of Something on the Side, The First Lady, So You Call Yourself a Man, The Preacher's Son, Player Haters, Lookin' for Luv, Married Men, and Baby Momma Drama. He is also the Publisher and...