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February 2021

  • Be Mineby Millie Belizaire
    4.18 avg ratings, 11 reviewspublished February 1, 2021

    Join some of Millie Belizaire's familiar characters as they celebrate Valentine's Day this year. Each section is a five-chapter sweet romance with just a dash of heat. The stories in Be Mine are not intended to be sequels, but more like extended peeks into the lives of previously...

  • Twenty-six-year-old Yasmine Wilson decides to finally leave her worthless boyfriend Alonzo. She’s determined to take back control of her destiny. Yasmine moves to San Antonio for a fresh start. Two weeks before Valentine’s Day, she cross paths again with the unforgettable Dr. Pie...

  • One Week (FANtasy, #1)by Tiye Love
    4.04 avg ratings, 20 reviewspublished February 1, 2021

    An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here . When all it takes is seven days... Nia Winston, a young high school principal, stands in a fan line at the Essence Festival in New Orleans, hoping to get Justin Ray, the hottest R&B singer, to donate to her non-profit. When...

  • An Unlikely Proposalby Toni Shiloh
    Not ratedpublished February 1, 2021

    Their friendship can survive almost anything… For two best friends, marriage could be their greatest test yet… Trinity Davis must not have heard firefighter Omar Young correctly. Did her handsome widowed best friend just suggest they get married ? Omar needs a mom for his adorabl...

  • Beyond Benefriends (A Friend In Need, #2)by Chencia C. Higgins
    4.43 avg ratings, 10 reviewspublished February 1, 2021

    There wasn’t too much in my life that I could complain about; I had a career that I loved, a group of friends that I would do anything for—who had my back in return—and my family wanted for nothing. Most importantly, I was content with pretending that I didn’t want something that...

  • Kiss The Plug Goodnight: A Hood Fairytaleby Barbie Scott, Barbie Amor
    3.5 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished February 1, 2021

    Once upon a time, in a small town, lived a young girl who was abandoned by her mother. She was left with a pensive heart because she watched her father die by the hands of his brother. Beauty was left to fend for herself, along with the heartache of having not a soul to genuinely...

  • Blood Grove (Easy Rawlins, #15)by Walter Mosley
    Not ratedpublished February 2, 2021

    "Master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley returns with this crowning achievement in the Easy Rawlins saga, in which the iconic detective's loyalties are tested on the sun-soaked streets of Southern California (National Book Foundation) It is 1969, and flames can be seen on th...

  • Love's Divineby Ava Freeman
    3.88 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished February 2, 2021

    Go on vacation? Check. Sip cocktails and relax on the beach? Check. Fall in love? Definitely not on the list. On a whim, Genesis Malone decides to book a solo trip to the island of Barbados. A sunny beach vacation sounds like the perfect way to renew her spirit after a heartbreak...

  • Love’s Deadly Holdby Wynta Tyme
    3.92 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished February 2, 2021

    Life was bliss for thirty-one-year-old Simbi Evans. She was married and enjoying every moment of life with her love and her talking feathered best friend, Angela Bassett. However, one trip to get bird food unravels a deadly, dark secret that she had no knowledge existed. Now she’...

  • This Close to Okayby Leesa Cross-Smith
    3.66 avg ratings, 9 reviewspublished February 2, 2021

    Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781538715376 From the award-winning Southern writer who Roxane Gay calls "a consummate storyteller" comes a cathartic novel about the life-changing weekend shared between two strangers: a therapist and the man she prevents from ending his life. On...

  • The Kindest Lieby Nancy Johnson
    3.64 avg ratings, 11 reviewspublished February 2, 2021

    A promise could betray you. It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She ha...

  • A Billionaire For Valentine's Dayby C. Monet
    3.93 avg ratings, 11 reviewspublished February 3, 2021

    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” - Lao Tzu Camille Pemberley’s life is turned upside down when she's falsely accused of embezzling money through her cosmetics company. What was once the high of success is now shott...

  • A Week with a Kingpinby Lakia
    3.88 avg ratings, 18 reviewspublished February 3, 2021

    “Meeting you was fate. Becoming your friend was a choice. But falling in love with you was beyond my control.” ~ Unknown Talia and Sergio Black certainly almost have it all: love, marriage, businesses, money, and a growing family. Everything is at the tip of their fingers but lik...

  • Summers' Howl (A Charleston Love Story, #5)by Mel Dau
    4.27 avg ratings, 13 reviewspublished February 4, 2021

    💙💙RE-RELEASE 💙💙Just when you thought Claire Summers’ story is over, it has just begun. Finding out that her family tradition has now extended to her, she has to make the adjustment in her life when she returns to Forks, Washington. As the manager of her father Alo’s Casino, s...

  • The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights, #1)by T.L. Huchu
    3.5 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished February 4, 2021

    When a child goes missing in Edinburgh's darkest streets, young Ropa investigates. She'll need to call on Zimbabwean magic as well as her Scottish pragmatism to hunt down clues. But as shadows lengthen, will the hunter become the hunted? When ghosts talk, she will listen... Ropa...

  • Craving A Thug's Loveby Asia Monique
    4.08 avg ratings, 25 reviewspublished February 4, 2021

    You're cordially invited to the wedding of Sheldon Black and Monroe Harper. Him I was in love with my fiance—the woman I was marrying in six weeks' time and she had no idea. Her I was marrying the love of my life, only he didn't see me in the same way. Falling for my fiance hadn'...

  • Pretty Shattered Soul (The Pretty Shattered Trilogy, #1)by Robbi Renee
    4.36 avg ratings, 18 reviewspublished February 5, 2021

    Trauma left her captivating, sweet soul flawed, distressed, disconnected, and shattered. Savvy and effortlessly beautiful, Syncere James concealed her heartache, finding security and refuge in her career as a successful real estate agent. Refusing to lose control, Syncere dictate...

  • It Was Good Until It Wasn't 2 : An Interracial Romanceby Kim K.
    2.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished February 5, 2021

    The truth is out! Now everyone knows about Nady and Qunitin's past. Brent is trying to wrap his head around the devastating news while trying to fight his feelings for the woman he loves. Nady finds herself on a journey of self discovery after everything comes to the light, but i...

  • A Week with a Miami Donby Zarkia
    4.5 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished February 5, 2021

    Beautiful, sassy, and sexy Jaelyn Rogers works hard to get her paper up, getting her stuff together. Her one downfall is falling for real true phuck boys. After dealing with her current phuck boy’s antics, Jae is ready to just do her, but her lovely big sister won’t let her be, w...

  • Just Like I Want You: A Noveletteby B. Love
    4.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished February 5, 2021

    After taking on a big responsibility leads to the ending of Ryan’s three-year relationship, she decides to spend a couple of weeks away from the city. Ten days into her seclusion, the last thing she expects is to meet Gideon Shakur—the man who presents himself as a mirror for her...

  • A Berry Strange Mysteryby Wynta Tyme
    3.25 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished February 6, 2021

    Valentine’s Day is the love capital of the year. However, for Saweetie Flavors, the holiday is a constant and unrelenting reminder of a mistake made ten years ago. Still, attempting to turnover a new leaf, Saweetie lends refuge to a mysterious stranger who’s down on his luck. As...

  • The Endgame (The Sun, #2)by Rae Lyse
    4.61 avg ratings, 113 reviewspublished February 6, 2021

    Josiah Joseph is trouble—at least that’s what everyone says about him. Jade Taylor can’t help but to agree with their sentiments.He’s a hotheaded football player and one of her most lackluster students.She’s a young mother and a laser-focused teacher’s assistant, counting the day...

  • Undeserving Love: The Heart of a NY Kingby Connie Easton
    3.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished February 7, 2021

    Blue Jay was that pure soul that had yet to experience anything real. She had everything except true love. She wasn’t easily persuaded nor was she easy to love, so her heart was broken a time or two. Perhaps all she needed was a King to mend it. Ryan King was a man that held so m...

  • Marrying My First Love: A Turned Out By His Hood Mentality Spin Offby Diamond D. Johnson
    4.38 avg ratings, 12 reviewspublished February 8, 2021

    Love is in the air, and wedding bells too. The Turned Out by His Hood Mentality crew is back, but this time under different circumstances. Twinkle and Truth, high school sweethearts who went their separate ways after high school, are now back in each other’s lives. They share a h...

  • She Ain't Never Met Another One Like Me 2by Jahquel J.
    4.48 avg ratings, 41 reviewspublished February 8, 2021

    When a skeleton Italy thought she buried comes back into her life, she has no choice but to deal with the situation. However, what happens when the situation calls for her to further explain herself and prove that Trell did rape her and fathered her oldest daughter, Jai. Poppa ha...

  • And Then We Fell In Loveby Kay Shanee
    3.78 avg ratings, 9 reviewspublished February 8, 2021

    For a strong-willed, independent woman like Keyla Carson, looking for love is not on the agenda. However, should love come her way, she will welcome it with open arms. Working as a registered nurse, she doesn’t have the time to dedicate to dating, but she has needs that only a ma...

  • A Valentine Quest: RAW: A Valentine Shortby Bailey West
    4.17 avg ratings, 6 reviewspublished February 9, 2021

    LaShae Hampton is looking forward to spending Valentine’s Day with her boyfriend, Cole Francis, until he informs her that he won’t make it home for their special holiday. LaShae has no idea that Cole has planned the most epic Valentine's Day ever. He's sending her on A Valentine...

  • Feelings, Not Flights - A Heights Short (Heights Stories)by Christina C. Jones
    5.0 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished February 9, 2021

  • "Last Valentine’s Day, I concocted a plan that was a sure way to reignite the purest passion. I thought that one night would jump start my refocus, not create such a sticky situation." Cyanna Davis is desperate to give her husband Shemar the one thing that she knew he desired mos...

  • Wild Rain (Women Who Dare, #2)by Beverly Jenkins
    4.03 avg ratings, 15 reviewspublished February 9, 2021

    The second novel in USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins’ compelling new Women Who Dare series follows a female rancher in Wyoming after the Civil War. A reporter has come to Wyoming to do a story on doctors for his Black newspaper back east. He thinks Colton Lee will be...

  • First Sightby Shantel Davis
    4.13 avg ratings, 8 reviewspublished February 10, 2021

    What happens when the one woman you crave turns out to be your wife's daughter? “If you don’t let me go—“ “What?” He cut off my protest. “You’ll do what, Lolita? If I thought for a moment you really didn’t want me, I’d let you go, but I think I know what you really want and since...

  • My Anti-Valentineby Danielle Allen
    4.14 avg ratings, 11 reviewspublished February 10, 2021

    After a brunch with my best friends, I usually spend February 14th watching horror movies because Valentine’s Day is not a real holiday. It’s a corporate scheme that was designed to monetize fake romance. It’s a capitalistic scam to profit off performative love. This year, I agre...

  • High Stakes Holiday (High Stakes, #3.5)by Christina C. Jones
    4.34 avg ratings, 17 reviewspublished February 10, 2021

    A (very) quick series of check-ins with a few favorite couples from the High Stakes series - Kingston and Asha, Alicia and Cree, and Zora and Trei. This is a collection of very short stories, previously available for purchase on my site.

  • A Gangsta Repo'd My Heartby Jazz E.
    3.75 avg ratings, 4 reviewspublished February 11, 2021

    Raven is a fire cracker waiting to blow, the only thing she cares about is protecting her son and trying to give him the best life that she possibly can. While trying to run away from her past she meets a man that she tries so hard to resist. With all of the walls she built aroun...

  • These H*es Ain't Loyalby Tay Mo'Nae
    Not ratedpublished February 11, 2021

    (Rerelease) Ratchet, Crazy, Feisty, with a sprinkle of hoeness is the only way to describe the friends, Celine, Aashi, and Zahra. Celine and Seth seem happy in their relationship, but like every relationship, there are always issues. When Seth can't seem to get it right in the be...

  • Until The End of Time: Benji & Juri V-Day Novellaby Cion Lee
    4.5 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished February 12, 2021

    Benji and Juri are back for Valentines Day, and even though their relationship has come a long way they can't control outside forces that bring them problems. Will they fall apart or is their relationship built to last until the end of time? (This is a NOVELLA)