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April 2017

  • 30 Days, 30 Storiesby Nia Forrester
    Not ratedpublished April 2, 2017

    ** This compilation consists of both new, and previously-published material. ** A young mother tries to recall the love affair with her husband and reconcile it with their new domestic drudgery. A new college grad reflects on the reasons for the end of her relationship. An ambiti...

  • In Havenby B. Love
    4.0 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished April 2, 2017

    Raleigh Simone couldn’t tell you anything about love and family. After watching her mother suffer from the abuse of her father for years, Raleigh decided love would never be worth the possibility of pain. Haven Jackson didn’t have a normal childhood growing up. He didn’t experien...

  • Sweet Misery (The Sweet Series, #7)by Monica Walters
    5.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 2, 2017

    Sonya Thompson is a whirlwind of emotions, and entangles everyone she comes in contact with in that same whirlwind. She’s very passionate and despite her nonchalant attitude at times, she really loves her family and just wants love in return. However, with her illness, most of th...

  • Where The Pieces Fall (Lost Hearts, #1)by Blue Saffire
    4.63 avg ratings, 4 reviewspublished April 3, 2017

    My world is falling apart. I don’t know how to stop my breath from leaving me. She’s my everything, my woman, my life, my love, my glue. She saw me, even as I tried to hide, but I wanted her to, because I wanted her. Now, I have to find my way back, my way back to my Nicole. At s...

  • Nobody tells you how much your life will change right before you turn 30. They only tell you about the obvious things that you can Google, and not the heartbreak, addiction or even jail time that comes with it. Welcome to Broken Condoms and Promises, where best friends Siya, Esha...

  • Crowned 2: The Return of a Savage (Crowned, #2)by Deshon Dreamz
    5.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 4, 2017

    “Don’t disturb the savage inside of me… you won’t like what she brings to the table!”- Ashura Trenton After all the life-changing situations thrown her way, Ashura Trenton is desperately trying to piece back together the puzzle of her life. At a very young age, she acknowledged t...

  • Bossby Tracy Brown
    3.83 avg ratings, 6 reviewspublished April 4, 2017

    Empire meets Scandal meets Romeo and Juliet with an edgy twist in Boss, a new standalone novel from bestselling author Tracy Brown. Crystal Scott has the world at her fingertips. At the height of her career at a wildly popular magazine and on the rise in an enviable social circle...

  • No One Is Coming to Save Usby Stephanie Powell Watts
    4.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished April 4, 2017

    The Great Gatsby brilliantly recast in the contemporary South: a powerful first novel about an extended African-American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream. JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina to build his dream home and to woo his high...

  • Thug Legacy 2: A Young Thug Love Affairby Mz. Lady P
    3.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 5, 2017

    Do children pay for the sins of their parents? If so, the new generation of the Thug Passion saga is paying dearly. Growing up the Legacy Inc. kids were all exposed to their parents way of life. Now that they're adults and building families of their own history is starting to rep...

  • After finding out that her boyfriend has cheated again, April meets this guy who quickly becomes her knight in shining armor. Everything about him is perfect to her until she finds out that he’s married and she’d become the same type of woman that she despised. See what happens i...

  • Salvation: The Prelude (Salvation, #1)by Nako
    4.67 avg ratings, 6 reviewspublished April 6, 2017

    She said....He saved me from becoming the woman I never wanted to be and that was my mother. He said....She saved me from being alone and dying to soon. Moses Parks is a man with the million dollar plan but soon realizes that money can not buy happiness. Searching for something e...

  • Baked with Love (The Boardwalk Bakery Romance, #1)by Tina Martin
    4.67 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished April 10, 2017

    Ramsey St. Claire can’t understand the pull he has to visit The Boardwalk Bakery - that is until he actually goes inside and meets the quirky, timid bakery owner, Gianna Jacobsen. There’s an instant...‘something’. Not love, though. He doesn’t believe in love at first sight. But t...

  • Homies, Lovers & Friends 3: A Brooklyn Love Storyby Jahquel J.
    4.19 avg ratings, 57 reviewspublished April 10, 2017

    With the secrets of Mello’s infidelity, Patsy is left with a baby, drinking problem and decision to make on her marriage. For years Patsy’s life has been about her husband. Will she be willing to work things out with the only man she has loved? Or will she allow her drinking prob...

  • Sincerely, The Boss!by Wahida Clark
    Not ratedpublished April 11, 2017

    Torn between steamy, passionate nights between the sheets and the truths she doesn't want to face, Margo Harris unravels mysteries from her past as she forms ties with a dangerous group of people. Determined to rebuild the fragments of her previous life, she clings to the sexy an...

  • And Then There Was Meby Sadeqa Johnson
    3.58 avg ratings, 9 reviewspublished April 11, 2017

    Bea and Awilda have been best friends from the moment Awilda threw her fourteen year-old self across Bea’s twin-sized bed as if they had known each other forever. Bubbly, adventurous Awilda taught sheltered, shy Bea how to dress, wear her hair and what to do with boys. She even i...

  • Bryce (The Player, #1)by Nana Malone
    Not ratedpublished April 11, 2017

    Money, power, prestige…failure. Bryce Coulter is The Player. Don’t call it a come back….Because no one else is. Poised to live up to his legacy, tennis player, Blake Colby, loses it all on one swing. Now, with the pressure on and his future in jeopardy, the last thing he needs is...

  • After killing her own mother, Angela will stop at nothing until the woman who’s ruined her life twice has experienced just as much pain as she has. She vows to make Jade’s life a living hell and with the help of her brother, she’s going to hit her where it hurts first by going af...

  • The Kinseys. Four brothers and one-up-and-coming sister. They got the street game on lock, but when it comes to the game of love, things ain't so easy... Tre, the oldest, has his work cut out for him, trying to win back his baby mama, Shamar, and cut ties with his ex. Shamar is d...

  • Love or Survival? Sometimes you have to do what’s necessary, even when you know that you’ll hurt those closest to you. Lock quickly learned that love wouldn’t earn him the respect he so desperately craved, nor put food on the table or money in his pockets. When he was forced to c...

  • The Janesby B.M. Hardin
    4.17 avg ratings, 35 reviewspublished April 15, 2017

    Jane has the perfect life. She’s thriving in her career, and her marriage is solid. Her life is only missing one thing; a house to fill with children, which leads her to S.J. Lane. Who knew that one simple decision would cause everything in her life to change?In a community, were...

  • I Hate That I Love Youby Natisha Raynor
    4.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished April 15, 2017

    At the age of fifteen, Chill commits a crime that sends him to a juvenile detention center. Locked away for seven years, he comes home to a new era. New music, new clothes, new cellphones, all the trends are foreign to him, especially the way his best friend Black blows money. Ch...

  • DUI: Drowning Under The Influence Of Youby Charae Lewis
    5.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 16, 2017

    Have you ever been so submerged in a person's love that you felt like you were drowning? It's almost like you're being smothered by their entire existence. Tyme was overwhelmed with trouble. Her dilemma was so dark and disheartening that she didn't know if she would be able to pe...

  • Popular speaker and author Sarah Jakes Roberts shows women they are not disqualified by their pain and failures and offers encouragement and strength to believe God’s best is still possible. Sarah wants to help you… - view your history with positivity, - demolish destructive patt...

  • The gang is back fighting harder for love more than ever. Kwenya and Ashanta are now happy and expecting their first child, but the people around them still haven't found their happily ever after. Desi and Bishop are at the end of their relationship. A series of crisis seems to b...

  • Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create Itby Charlamagne Tha God
    4.5 avg ratings, 6 reviewspublished April 18, 2017

    An instant New York Times bestseller! Charlamagne Tha God—the self-proclaimed “Prince of Pissing People Off,” cohost of Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, and “the most important voice in hip-hop”—shares his eight principles for unlocking your God-given privilege. In Black Privile...

  • Weak: An Irresistible Loveby B. Love
    5.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 18, 2017

    Briella Michaels had one goal for 2017–to fall in love and get married. Under the guidance of her love and relationship guru, Briella devotes herself to endless dates in hopes of finding the man for her. Priest Bradford had one goal for 2017–to get over his ex-fiancée and make su...

  • Ryann is indeed a different breed of woman. Confident, sultry, and ambitious, you couldn't tell her she wasn't the hottest thing to ever stomp the cold streets of Detroit. Her slick mouth and fiesty attitude had always gotten her into trouble, but with her .380 faithfully by her...

  • Trill Love 2by Coco Shawnde
    Not ratedpublished April 22, 2017

    Now that Meechie has shown her feelings to Chevy, she can't do anything but try to reroute where things are heading. With her still cooking up his dope, Chevy doesn't like the news of her visiting an ex. Meechie learns fast that having dealings with a street nigga can bring you m...

  • Mine to Have (Mine Series, #2)by AshleyNicole
    4.32 avg ratings, 17 reviewspublished April 23, 2017

    Somebody is killing young boys in the neighborhood and its homicide Detective Mellina August’s responsibility to figure out who. She’s the new kid in the precinct and not everybody’s happy about her landing this case, but that won’t stop her from solving it. All she needs is a go...

  • In the second installment of what is love, strengths will be tested, bonds will be broken, and loyalty will be put to the test. as Jessica fights to survive, help is found in someone unexpected. Secrets from Dangers past are revealed leaving him to find out that the people around...

  • I Hate That I Love You 2by Natisha Raynor
    4.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 24, 2017

    Chill is still running with Black, even though he knows it's the last thing that he needs to be doing. His plans to only stay in the game long enough to save money night not go as he hopes as Black drags him further into beef. Relationship issues bring Chill to the conclusion tha...

  • Seized by Seduction (The Protectors, #2)by Brenda Jackson
    3.5 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 25, 2017

    One glance is all it takes From the moment his eyes meet hers across the crime-scene tape, ex-con turned bodyguard Quasar Patterson knows he has to see the mysterious Dr. Randi Fuller again. She's a renowned psychic investigator who can foresee danger for others, but not for hers...

  • The Streets Have No Kingby JaQuavis Coleman
    4.63 avg ratings, 8 reviewspublished April 25, 2017

    A street thriller of kidnapping, murder, trickery, and love that will have you at the edge of your seat. After 7 years of prison, multi-millionaire drug mogul Kane Garrett is back on the streets. But instead of diving back into the drug game, he’s teaching a college class, infusi...

  • Beautiful Assassin (Destiny Awaits, #1)by Stephanie Nicole Norris
    3.83 avg ratings, 10 reviewspublished April 25, 2017

    Retired hitwoman Celine Briggs loved few people in this world; Her husband Caleb, and her ex-handler, Brian Devereaux. When Celine took her marital vows, she exchanged the life of guns, drugs, and violence for the peaceful life as Caleb's wife. However, not all things buried stay...

  • I Just Wanna Be Yours 2 (I Just Wanna Be Yours, #2)by Lucinda John
    5.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 26, 2017

    Tyreema is on a high- a high no drug can provide, a natural high that steams from being madly in love. There’s only one problem, Jerecho. When Tyreema comes home from her trip, basking in the glow of her newfound happiness, she walks into the closed fist of Jerecho. With all of T...

  • I Got a Love Jones 3by Ebony Diamonds
    Not ratedpublished April 29, 2017

    Cain and Milan just can’t seem to catch a break. As soon as things seem to come together for them, they fall apart just as quickly. Cain and Milan have weathered the storm together, proving that their love is the real thing. Just when they think they have overcome every obstacle,...