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Know Your Place

Shelly Ellis · Dafina
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Book 2 in the Branch Avenue Boys seriesSuccess didn't come easy for three best friends from the streets. And now dangerous choices and reckless desire will push their bond to lethal limits . . . A stint at the Branch Avenue Boys' Youth Institute taught Ricky, Derrick, and Jamal...
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Carl Weber's Kingpins: Houston

Treasure Hernandez · Urban Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Life is perfect for Donna and Kim Boon when they move in with their Aunt, until her murder unearths a secret that will alter everything they've ever known.

Donna and Kim Boon moved to Houston, Texas with their aunt Lisa when they were orphaned at ten years old. Lisa...

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Beating the Odds

SHERROD TUNSTALL · Urban Books
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Brad Carter is down on his luck. He loses his job, catches his woman in bed with another man, and he's days away from being booted out of his home. Wanting to get away from his problems, Brad and his boys go to a nightclub, where they meet a wealthy stranger who offers them each $50,000...
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If I Can't Have You: Dangerously in Love

Vee Bryant · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback

Diamond and Keisha are two best friends who are going down the wrong path entirely too fast. Their home lives are a bit shaky, no father's in the picture and both of their mothers are strung out on drugs and they depend on one another to make it until they meet local hustlers Kyson and Los....
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She Got it Bad For a Springfield Hitta: Sen & Skylen

Iisha Monet · Independently published
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback

With her relationship on the rocks with boyfriend Leland, Skylen feels like she has the weight of the world on her shoulders. After a night out with her best friend she meets Sen. Sen is everything that Leland isn't and as much as she tries to deny that she is attracted to him she realizes...
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She Got it Bad for A Detroit Hitta

Londyn Lenz · Independently published
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback

The number one rule, right after survival comes trust, and then respect. Mac Willis is twenty-five-years-old and he lived by these rules. For appearances, he worked at Chrysler Assembly Plant with his younger brother Sada and his cousin Maine. The three of them were tight and were hired...
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Hood Fetish

Derrick and Latroya Johnson · Independently published
Pages: 189
Format: Paperback

Sometimes the environment we so desperately want to stay away from becomes an unstoppable addiction. Our focus can be side tracked at the blink of an eye. Even when success is right around the corner with money, glamour, and women in view, our minds forget that these three things are also...
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Finessed By A Detroit Boss

Londyn Lenz · Independently published
Pages: 245
Format: Paperback

Kritikal and Sire are two cousins with two different upbringings. However, the tight bond between the two lead them to the same destination. As top drug distributors in Detroit, with expanding on the horizon, both young bosses are on the rise for more.Kritikal's childhood was everything...
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Finessed By A Detroit Boss 2

Londyn Lenz · Independently published
Pages: 303
Format: Paperback

Christmas morning took on a whole new meaning for Sire and his daughter Queen. Instead of doing family traditions, they were interrupted by the police, banging at the door with a warrant for Sire's arrest.Saxx has had it with waiting for Sire to give her the world. Her definition of a good...
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Intimate Secrets Untold

Derrick and Latroya Johnson · Independently published
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback

Having money can be everything you imagine. Where fantasies and deception replace your normal living standards. Mikal Edwards, (a famous R&B producer) , understands the best. His handsome features and suave style, captivate the hearts of every woman he meets. Nevertheless, his large...

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Cartier Cartel - Head Games - Part 4

Rechtbank Overijssel. · Melodrama Publishing
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Shattered Illusions
Cartier is back from South Beach and anxious to begin the next chapter of her life with Head. She soon awakens from her love fantasy, however, and realizes that her dark knight isn't all he seems.
With her love life on the rocks yet again, Cartier has a nightmare...
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They Don't Play Fair

Clifford "Spud" Johnson · Urban Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Papio and Special are back! Their love for one another has withstood the drama and turmoil of their chaotic lives, but their thirst for the dollar has once again set them on a crash course for mayhem. They've accumulated a long list of enemies, and now it's time to do battle. Calling on some...
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Power Trip

Treasure Malian · Urban Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

As the daughter of a former NBA player and a criminal attorney, 21-year-old Skye Lewis is faced with immense pressures to become as successful as her parents. Upon starting her first year of law school, she meets third-year student Cameron Carter. Almost immediately, they find themselves...
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A Big Girl's Revenge

Ms. Michel Moore · Urban Renaissance
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Life is great for thick-boned Keisha Jackson. With a good education, well-paying job, and a promising future, she has everything a young woman could ask for, including high self-esteem. But after a chance meeting with Rico, the neighborhood "bad boy," her fairy tale life is quickly...
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Full Figured 13: Carl Weber Presents

Mona Love · Urban Renaissance
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A Million Dollars Worth of Fat by Mona Love: Keisha Long is cute, funny, and is always the life of the party but she is also 320 pounds and lonely. She's tried dating apps, blind dates, and everything else she can think of, but nothing has gotten her further than the friend zone...

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Tomorrow's Bread

Anna Jean Mayhew · Kensington
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

From the author of the acclaimed The Dry Grass of August comes a richly researched yet lyrical Southern-set novel that explores the conflicts of gentrification - a moving story of loss, love, and resilience.

In 1961 Charlotte, North Carolina, the predominantly black neighborhood...
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Love's Broken Vow

Honey · Urban Renaissance
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Nicholas Gregory is everything any woman could ever wish for in a man. He's towering in height, with a gorgeous chocolate complexion. Throw in the facts that he's sexier than homemade sin and gainfully employed, and there's no doubt he's a certified keeper. So, why at age twenty-nine...

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