New Releases by Black Authors

New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson brings you The Westmorelands--a family whose loyalty always leads to love! Millionaire deal maker Spencer Westmoreland has a proposal for Chardonnay he'll save her business if she becomes his wife... Patrina Forman won't fall into...

Brooke Alexander is in love with one of Washington, D.C.’s most prominent attorneys. Patrick is everything that dreams are made of—or so it seems. One day, Patrick can be loving and supportive, the next he is demeaning and angry at the world. Damon Johnson has been married to his...

Kimberla Lawson Roby explores the consequences of a life-altering family trauma in A Deep Dark Secret, tackling controversy with the same storytelling brio and startling insight into human nature that made her previous books New York Times bestsellers. Leaving behind the world of...

Nautica was raised by the streets and forced to grow up fast. The allure of the fast like pulled her into a world of scandal, schemes, and hustling. After Nautica comes up on a big scam and her biggest payday ever, she decided to move to the East Coast in search of a new beginnin...

When Stacy Gray meets friends for lunch, the last thing she expects to be served is legal papers suing her for custody of her son, Darius Jr. As far as Stacy’s concerned, when Darius Sr. chose to be with his male lover, he lost his chance at fatherhood. But when an unexpected cri...

Only a special woman can win the heart of a brother... Meet the Chance, Sebastian, Morgan, and Vanessa. Running the family-owned Steele Corporation, these hard-working relatives are successful in business...and once they meet that special someone, they're lucky in love, too. Expe...

A YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers South Bay High's Jayd Jackson finally has her own ride, but that sure doesn't mean her troubles are over. . . These days, Jayd just can't seem to get a break. Her car is more trouble than it's worth; her girl Mickey is being fo...

The Duke sisters return in this fabulous finale to the Hotlanta trilogy! At their prestigious Atlanta high school, twins Sydney and Lauren Duke rule the roost. While straight-A Sydney wields her power in Tory Burch flats and pearl studs, reckless, sultry Lauren makes it happen as...

Confronted by a dark episode from his past, Corey Webb finds his family and career shattered by the machinations of a ruthless stalker who displays a willingness to sacrifice anyone who gets in his way. By the Gold Pen-winning author of Don't Ever Tell. Original.

From the bestselling author of The Personal Librarian comes the third in the The Divas series following the stories of four fifteen-year-old girls who form their own singing group. Veronique wants to be a star just as much as her fellow Divas do, but there's more to it than just...

Bianca seeks a new start in Richmond, VA and finds herself working as a prostitute for Daddy, the most notorious pimp in the capital city. While working for him, Bianca meets Leon, a suave gentleman who has befriended Daddy, and she and the mysterious man instantly fall in love....

A YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Between Christmas, the annual Fall Festival, and baby-mama issues, South Bay High is vibrating with activity, excitement, and drama. . . The holidays are coming, along with all the madness and materialism that comes with them....

The world-renowned Reverend Curtis Black's daughter, Alicia, is all grown up and even more trouble than her father. The apple certainly doesn't fall far from the tree in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin No More and Love and Lies . Alicia Black Sull...

As the pampered wife of Frankie Bingham, Camille wants for nothing. After all Frankie and their life together are her whole world. So Camille tries not to be bothered by his closeness with his coworker and dear friend Gillian. But it soon becomes clear that Camille's suspicions a...

The reigning queen of hip-hop lit, Nikki Turner, takes on the music biz in this tale of a young woman who risks everything to be a superstar. Fabiola Mays was born to sing. She has a voice like honey and a body to match, but one heartbreaking setback after another threatens to de...

It's almost Valentine's Day at South Bay High, but romance is the last thing on Jayd Jackson's mind. . . If Cupid had his way, love would be in the air at South Bay High. But even though Valentine's Day is around the corner, no one's having an easy time of it--especially not Jayd...

How far will you go for love? From the Essence bestselling author of Never Enough comes a novel about an explosive love triangle that threatens to bring down a city. Leah -- Young, beautiful, and in love with the wrong man. Distraught after her boyfriend Kenny sets her up to take...

She had longed for a taste of the wild and reckless. And Olivia Jeffries got her chance when she met a handsome stranger at a masquerade ball. The attraction was instant, the electricity ... volatile. But days later she discovered her new lover was none other than Reginald Westmo...

From bestselling author Antoinette comes the gritty, harrowing tale of a young woman who finds herself drawn to a seductive street hustler who will be the death of her. In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of characters...

From bestselling author Antoinette comes the gritty, harrowing tale of a young woman who finds herself drawn to a seductive street hustler who will be the death of her. In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of characters...

The port of Miami brings in millions of dollars worth of cocaine every year, and The Cartel controls eighty percent of it. The Diamond family is a force to be reckoned with, but all hell breaks loose when they lose their leader. The most ruthless gangster Miami has ever seen, Car...

When she hires ex-Navy Seal, formery mercenary, and security specialist Jack Kaughman to keep her multi-million dollar hotel chain safe, Stephanie Mason succumbs to undeniable passion with this mysterious man, who, unbeknownst to her, has a secret agenda that could destroy everyt...

An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of...

E. Lynn Harris has wowed and seduced more than three million readers with the wicked drama and undeniable heart in his novels. Now he’s back with another winner sure to top the bestseller lists—a rip-roaring tale of sex, secrets, betrayal . . . and blackmail. Aldridge James “AJ”...

Steamy, sensual, and poetically hypnotic, Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2 is the follow-up to the bestseller Purple Panties. The Queen of Erotic Fiction delivers a collection of lesbian erotica that will have readers squirming on the edge of their seats, curling up beneath t...

In the third and final installment of the Desperate Hoodwives trilogy, a pimp, a killer, a playa, and a drug dealer struggle to get their game right in a sizzling novel where leaving the life and trying to go straight is a deadly option. Tavon, better known as “Sweet,” would pimp...

From the biggest names in urban fiction comes a collection of unforgettably hot short stories of urban love. Flirting with Disaster by Tracy Brown Chloe Webster is an around-the-way girl pursuing her journalism degree at Hunter College. Then she meets Trey, a handsome and well dr...

A Black high school student with college ambitions who is dating a White classmate learns that the world is more complex than he and his father's opposing mind sets suggest.

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The old approaches to fighting crime just aren't working. Two thirds of people released from prison commit another crime within two years. In Smart on Crime , career prosecutor Kamala D. Harris shatters the old distinctions, rooted in false choices and myths, and offers a compell...

The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a...

When single father Alexander Holmes, who has sworn off women, volunteers at his daughter's school, he finds himself falling for his daughter's teacher, Renee Moore. Original.

“Urban erotica has never been hotter!” –Nikki Turner, author of Black Widow Have you ever been betrayed by those you love? Violated in the worst kind of way? And no matter how hard you tried to fight your way out of a trick bag, no matter how tall you tried to walk, did the cold...

On Bernadine Brown's fifty-second birthday she received an unexpected gift—she caught her husband, Leo, cheating with his secretary. She was hurt—angry, too—but she didn't cry woe is me. Nope, she hired herself a top-notch lawyer and ended up with a cool $275 million. Having been...

STORIES THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THIS TRADE-SIZE BOOK FOR LOVEBarbara Andrews is trying to get her life back together after her divorce while planning her daughter's wedding. Even with everything she has on her plate she hasn't been able to forget the man who had entered her life at...