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A Kind of Freedom: A Novel
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton · Counterpoint
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"A brilliant mosaic of an African American family and a love song to New Orleans...written with deep insight and devastating honesty but also with grace and beauty." -- Dana Johnson, author of Elsewhere, California Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height... |
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All About Him: A Novel
Pat Tucker · Strebor Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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A scorned woman is determined to expose her ex-lover for the cruel man he is but she has her work cut out for her since he is a globally beloved singer. Will she get her revenge or lose everything? This suspenseful and steamy novel is perfect for fans of Zane and ReShonda Tate Billingsley.Felicia... |
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Between Lost and Found
SHELLY STRATTON · Dafina
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Janelle Marshall's life is finally going according to plan. Her perfect, upscale career--and her perfect, successful boyfriend--will make her future as secure and predictable as her childhood never was. And with luck, Little Bill, the grandfather who raised her will someday understand why she'd... |
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Bluebird, Bluebird
ATTICA LOCKE · Mulholland Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire.When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules - a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply... |
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Breakfast in Bed
ROCHELLE ALERS · Dafina
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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Bestselling author Rochelle Alers welcomes readers back to romantic New Orleans in her warm and sexy series about four very different women embarking on a new adventure . . .Sometimes you go in search of a new beginning. Other times, it finds you. Tonya Martin enjoys her job as a professional... |
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Chasing Down a Dream: A Blessings Novel
BEVERLY JENKINS · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins continues her beloved Blessings series with a heartwarming novel about what really makes a family.There's never a dull day in Henry Adams, Kansas.Tamar July has never had a great relationship with certain members of her family.... |
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City of Saviors
RACHEL HOWZELL HALL · Forge Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise...Elouise Norton is the best new character you'll meet this year."--Lee Child"Hall deserves to be compared to Kathy Reichs or Patricia Cornwell, and it will not be long before she is recognized as every... |
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Commitments
DEVON SCOTT · Dafina
Pages: 416
Format: Book
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If possessing charm, wit, good looks and success doesn't guarantee finding the perfect man, what does?
Three best friends from the nation's capital drift through a sea of life choices. Each is searching for "the one" while running from all the broken... |
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Dirty Tricks
KIKI SWINSON · Dafina
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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STAY SCHEMING
KIKI SWINSON
Karlie Houston is broke, betrayed - and running from a bounty on her head. Turns out the real owners of the payday loan office she ripped off weren't cool with her idea of employment bennies. With her lover and friends gone, she's... |
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Five-Carat Soul
James McBride · Riverhead Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird. The stories in Five-Carat Soul--none of them ever published before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful... |
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Hollywood Homicide
KELLYE GARRETT · Midnight Ink
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
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Dayna Anderson doesn't set out to solve a murder. All the semi-famous, mega-broke black actress wants is to help her parents keep their house. After witnessing a deadly hit-and-run, she figures pursuing the fifteen-grand reward isn't the craziest thing a Hollywood actress has done for some... |
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It's Wrong for Me to Love You: Renaissance Collection
KRYSTAL ARMSTEAD · Urban Renaissance
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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Ne’Vaeh Washington attends Howard University, where her burning desire to be with Aaron Whitehaven, her best friend’s boyfriend, prevents her from living her life to the fullest. Unbeknownst to her, Aaron feels the same way.
While Ne’Vaeh’s best friend,... |
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Lightning Men: A Novel
Thomas Mullen · Atria / 37 INK
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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"Writes with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you." - The New York Times, on Darktown
"Reads like the best of James Ellroy." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) , on Darktown
"Mullen... |
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Little Boy Lost
J. D. Trafford · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback
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In a city divided and broken, this revelation will set it on fire ... Attorney Justin Glass's practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn't doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full... |
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Locked in Temptation
Brenda Jackson · HQN Books
Pages: 448
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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His job is to protect her ... no matter the cost Police detective Joy Ingram's connection to elite security expert Stonewall Courson is instant. Undeniable. Electric. But her commitment to protect and serve has always come first. Everything else is secondary - especially... |
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Passage: A Novel
Khary Lazarre-White · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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"In [Lazarre-White's] world, mysticism and madness walk hand in hand with the waking reality of so many young Black men in America, a reality that by any rational measure is itself insane." --Susan L. Taylor
Passage tells the story of Warrior, a young black man navigating... |
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The Prey of Gods
NICKY DRAYDEN · Harper Voyager
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor.... |
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Seducing Abby Rhodes
J D Mason · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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The propulsive second novel in a new contemporary trilogy about unforgettable love, scorching desire, and dangerous secrets.
When Abigail Rhodes bought that old house she fell in love with in Blink, Texas, she got more than she bargained for. After being told by the local... |
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Seeking Sarah: A Novel
ReShonda Tate Billingsley · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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From the national bestselling and award-winning ReShonda Tate Billingsley comes this gripping and emotional exploration of the complex bond between mother and daughter.
From the time Brooke Green was seven years old, she has lived with the pain of losing her mother. Her father has done... |
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel
JESMYN WARD · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward.
In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America.... |
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So Much Blue: A Novel
PERCIVAL EVERETT · Graywolf Press
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
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A new high point for a master novelist, an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and the past Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children; not his best friend, Richard; not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas... |
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The Betting Vow
K M JACKSON · Dafina
Pages: 3678
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Extravagant pay-your-own-way destination weddings. Money-dripping ice swans. And reception DJs who keep the "Chicken Dance" on repeat. Some brides are simply not having it. They'll rebel against white lace - and won't let "special day" crazy stop real love.
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The Devil You Know
Mary Monroe · Dafina
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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In the stunning climax of New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe's Lonely Heart, Deadly Heart series, the tension - and the heat - reach unforgettable heights as two restless women go after the ultimate satisfaction . . . and a killer desire prepares to strike . . .
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The One I've Waited For
MARY B MORRISON · Dafina
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
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In New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison's unforgettable series, the fiercely sexy Crystal women bring ultimate drama and shattering choices home with a vengeance . . .
Now that she's happily married-for-security, there's nothing Mercedes... |
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