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May 2021

  • His Muse, Her Addictionby Mya
    Not ratedpublished May 1, 2021

    Mutualism – a relationship in which both species benefit. For Chelsea Chisolm and Calvin James, they fit together like the perfect jigsaw puzzle. Their relationship was far from simple, a complex romance filled with mental, emotional, and physical strains for the both of them. Fo...

  • With A Dozen Roses (When We Were Flowers, #2)by Harleigh Rae
    3.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished May 1, 2021

    Episode two finds Primrose Drury wrestling with grief and refereeing the ongoing feud between her younger siblings while raising young adults of her own. She’s given every ounce of herself, mentally and emotionally, to manage the shop while allowing everyone to keep following the...

  • Not Good Enough For You (The Harris Sisters, #4)by Renée A. Moses
    3.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished May 1, 2021

    Lyric Phillips is ready for love. For the first time ever, she believes that something worth having may exist for her. She always did what made her feel good with no cares for anything else until it caught up and bit her. She ultimately changed her mindset, vowed celibacy, and to...

  • A Love That Melted A Capo's Cold Heartby Miss Jenesequa
    4.49 avg ratings, 26 reviewspublished May 1, 2021

    After fleeing her hometown for ten months due to her broken heart, Danaë Westbrook is summoned home and forced to get her act together. No longer fond of her free-spirited nature, Danaë’s father wants the apple of his eye to put her brains to use and makes her his newest employee...

  • When A Hood Beast Ringsby Kennedy B.
    2.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished May 2, 2021

    This is the story of Regancy and Savior, one for the books, a story so fast-paced that you think you know what’s happening… until the opposite occurs. It’s the unexplainable chemistry that starts this story and the undeniable passion that keeps it going. It’s the perfect love sto...

  • Autumn: A Love Story (Seasons of Love)by Norian Love
    3.75 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished May 3, 2021

    Norian Love presents a gripping novel that explores the line between love and loyalty - a romance for the ages of star-crossed lovers faced with an impossible choice. In the final year of pharmacy school, all of Tatum’s dreams are about to come true. As a single father, his hard...

  • Hurricane Summerby Asha Ashanti Bromfield
    4.44 avg ratings, 42 reviewspublished May 4, 2021

    Tilla has spent her entire life trying to make her father love her. But every six months, he leaves their family and returns to his true home: the island of Jamaica. When Tilla’s mother tells her she’ll be spending the summer on the island, Tilla dreads the idea of seeing him aga...

  • Unexpected Temptationby Connie Easton
    3.89 avg ratings, 9 reviewspublished May 4, 2021

    Life was hard enough for Journei Evans growing up. Her trust in men was tainted due to her traumatizing past. Thinking she was finally on the path to happiness, and able to live a normal life, a series of events causes a rift in her joy. That path now has an alternate route. Chri...

  • The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes (The Lillys, #1)by Xio Axelrod
    3.7 avg ratings, 10 reviewspublished May 4, 2021

    They say the road to stardom is paved with broken dreams. Growing up, Antonia "Toni" Bennett's guitar was her only companion...until she met Sebastian Quick. Seb was a little older, a lot wiser, and he became Toni's way out, promising they'd escape their small town together. Then...

  • Excuse Me While I Ugly Cryby Joya Goffney
    4.26 avg ratings, 97 reviewspublished May 4, 2021

    Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by debut author Joya Goffney is the story of an overly enthusiastic list maker who is blackmailed into completing a to-do list of all her worst fears. It’s a heartfelt, tortured, contemporary YA high school romance with epistolary elements. Fans of Jenn...

  • Sorrowlandby Rivers Solomon
    4.25 avg ratings, 5 reviewspublished May 4, 2021

    Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised - flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the forest, Vern is a hu...

  • HOOD LOVE FROM A BOSSby Chelly P.
    3.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished May 5, 2021

    Sometimes, your greatest challenge may be your biggest blessing. Their first encounter leaves an impression neither of them are able to forget. Their next encounter leaves one not wanting to risk a second chance. Can the third encounter help the two find peace? After being shelte...

  • Down to Ride for An ATL Goonby Tay Mo'Nae
    4.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished May 5, 2021

    *Rerelease* *Previously titled Trap 4 Down To Ride For An ATL Menace* After being sent to jail and betrayed by two people close to her, India is determined not to let it hold her back. Trying to get her life back on track isn’t easy until Emmanuel “Manny”, walks into her life, sh...

  • Down To Ride For An ATL Goon 2by Tay Mo'Nae
    4.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished May 5, 2021

    *Rerelease* *Previously titled Trap 4 Down To Ride For An ATL Menace* After hearing her sister was murder India is filled with sorrow and regret. Manny tries to console her not knowing she’s still holding a huge secret from him. Not only does Manny have to deal with India’s const...

  • Love & Basketball: Booker & Imaniby Shanel
    4.2 avg ratings, 5 reviewspublished May 5, 2021

    Growing up together made Booker and Imani closer than they could have ever imagined. Best friends who would do anything and go anywhere, as long as they had each other. From middle school to their graduation year, life was good and things were planned out perfectly. But when thos...

  • Young, Pretty And Hoodby Kellz Kimberly
    Not ratedpublished May 6, 2021

    Being young & pretty comes with its benefits but it also has its struggles. At Twenty-one Cinnamon thought she had it all figured out. Being young, pretty and hood was her meal ticket. Money came from those she slept with and the poles she danced on. Thinking her life was goi...

  • Under his Spellby Jade Jones
    Not ratedpublished May 6, 2021

    Coronavirus, Flu, a common cold. What do all these things have in common? Germs. Shy is a professional author who spends her time weaving worlds full of wonder and romance. But when her well of inspiration seems to run dry, she jumps at the chance to start afresh. Her search take...

  • Better the Second Time Around (Henderson Family Saga, #9)by Monica Walters
    4.7 avg ratings, 10 reviewspublished May 6, 2021

    Chrissy Henderson has endured more hurt and heartache now more than ever. Finding out her husband of over twenty years isn’t the man she thought him to be has taken a toll on her mental health and stability. His actions and the demise of their marriage has brought her to her knee...

  • Victor: Her Ruthless Husband (Ruthless Triad, #3)by Theodora Taylor
    5.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished May 6, 2021

    The final book in the Victor Trilogy. DAWN: Three dates with the monster. That's the price he's demanding for my freedom. With a growing secret inside my womb, I have no choice but to accept his deal. But can I tangle with the silent beast without losing myself again? VICTOR: She...

  • What she wouldn't doby Linette King
    Not ratedpublished May 6, 2021

    Life wasn’t always hard for Courtney, but after finding out the people closest to her had committed the worst act of betrayal possible, it changed her. A spontaneous act causes her to have to pack up and leave everything that she’s ever known behind, but will she get the fresh st...

  • Back in the Day (Bay Area Blues, #2)by Katrina Jackson
    3.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished May 7, 2021

    2010 Helping pack up his childhood home was going much easier than Amir expected. The only sticking point is the record collection his father Alonzo refuses to put in storage. When Amir asked his father why he needs to keep all those records with him, Alonzo offers to tell him a...

  • The Lyrics to his Heart 2by Taniece
    3.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished May 7, 2021

    Once Ryan gets rid of Trippy for Justine, she places the incident in the back of her mind and goes on with her life as well as everyone else. Officially being with Chi-Raq and trying to juggle her music career wasn’t easy. Obstacles keep getting in the way. One thing he does was...

  • Beast: Happily Ever After (Urban Fairytale Series, #2)by Skye Moon
    4.0 avg ratings, 9 reviewspublished May 7, 2021

    Aasim and Laurent have their happily ever afters. Now, it's Chaunce's turn. **This short takes place between the ending and the epilogue of the standalone novel, Beast.**

  • Paths cross. Love blooms. War rages. "By order of His Majesty the king..." These words changed Calla Emery's life forever. With her father missing and her mother falling ill, Calla is forced to enter the world of nobility to leave her family's commoner status behind to land a wea...

  • Deacon (The A**hole Club, #4)by Tiya Rayne
    5.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished May 8, 2021

    Deacon Yeah, I know what they call me. Hell, I’ll be honest. I’m a criminal. Well, I use to be, but you know that saying, a leopard can’t change its spots. I’ve been out of the car theft business for years, ever since that one night when everything blew up. Since then, I’ve gone...

  • King & Queen of the Hood (King & Queen of the Hood, #1)by Shvonne Latrice
    4.36 avg ratings, 67 reviewspublished May 8, 2021

    At a young age, Andreka Nicholas was thrown into a dangerous world she knew nothing about, taking her from a normal teenage girl to the main chick of a street soldier overnight. What initially seemed to be the worst night of her life, turned out to be what Andreka thought to be a...

  • Deliver Me from Duval (The Duval Series, #1)by Chassilyn Hamilton
    4.14 avg ratings, 7 reviewspublished May 9, 2021

    Duval County, home to the Jacksonville Florida Jaguars, taught Tyree Morris many lessons through loss. She’d lost her mother at a young age, her father years later, and she even almost lost herself in heartbreak. But now, at twenty-one years old, life is on the upswing. Tyree hit...

  • Her Baby Daddy: My Bae 4 The Finaleby Lady Lissa
    Not ratedpublished May 9, 2021

    With Keisha fighting to survive a gunshot wound she suffered at the hands of someone she once called her best friend, Cobra is in a race against time to find their daughter. Cobra will stop at nothing to find his daughter and if that means bodies are gonna drop, then so be it. Af...

  • Fight or flight… that’s not a typical dilemma that would ever cross Hakeem’s mind. He’s unsure on what direction to make when it comes to Jalisa. While straddling the fence, the decision could be taken out of his hands as Jalisa begins to make her own moves. Still dealing with is...

  • Dear Amelia (Love in Seattle, #1)by Asia Monique
    3.98 avg ratings, 51 reviewspublished May 9, 2021

    Dear Amelia, I love you... Advice columnist, Amelia Reinhardt, had been told her entire life that she was destined for greatness. After gracing the cover of a popular magazine that highlights black professionals, Amelia knew she’d finally made it. Now that her career was taking o...

  • Upgraded by a Gangsta 2: Finaleby Dedra B.
    3.86 avg ratings, 7 reviewspublished May 10, 2021

    At the beginning of book one, no one is able to penetrate the tight knit brotherhood of the Millz brothers, Millz and Onyx. They have a strong partnership in the real estate business as well as in the streets. But by the end, you start seeing cracks in their relationship, causing...

  • Kyrie is devastated when Khelani takes the bullet meant for him, and he's out for blood. In the hospital, Khelani gets some news that neither of them are expecting and for Kyrie, life begins to change. Khelani is still the same stubborn woman that he fell for, and her unwillingne...

  • Still Down to Ride for An ATL Goonby Tay Mo'Nae
    Not ratedpublished May 10, 2021

    *This is a rerelease* After her pregnancy test comes back positive Natasha wonders how she’s going to take care of a baby alone, after her baby’s father, has been kill. Hiding her pregnancy from her family for as long as she can, she realizes they’re her only support until someon...

  • My Sister's Boyfriendby Linette King
    Not ratedpublished May 11, 2021

    The simple statement that nobody is perfect fits Nakenya perfectly. One assumption leads to a bad decision that lands her in a situation that she can’t seem to get out of. Meanwhile, her older sister Nadia is going through a rough patch with her boyfriend David and just when she...

  • While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1)by Stacey Abrams
    3.67 avg ratings, 6 reviewspublished May 11, 2021

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court, where a young law clerk finds herself embroiled in a shocking mystery crafted by one of the most preeminent judges in America--from celebrated national leader and...

  • Jedidiah's Crowning Glory (Crowne Legacy, #3)by Sherelle Green
    4.2 avg ratings, 16 reviewspublished May 11, 2021

    Ever experience lust at first sight and know the person is wrong for you in every way? JEDIDIAH My demons are mine to slay. My burdens are mine to carry. I’ve never been a knight in shining armor. More like a savage in dusty timbs condemned to spend my existence taking lives. The...