New Releases by Black Authors

One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could re...

Fifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother and a Messi-in-training. He's also transgender. After transitioning at his old school leads to a year of bullying, Spencer gets a fresh start at Oakley, the most liberal private school in Ohio. At Oakley, Spe...

Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South. But the carnival’s newest act, a peculiar young woman with latent magical powers, may hold the key to defeating it. Her time has come. Abandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with litt...

Harlem, 1926. Young Black women like Louise Lloyd are ending up dead. Following a harrowing kidnapping ordeal when she was in her teens, Louise is doing everything she can to maintain a normal life. She’s succeeding, too. She spends her days working at Maggie’s Café and her night...

The world of thoroughbred racehorses doesn't immediately sound dangerous, but when Sam and Rachel devise a lucrative con involving the breeding process, it gets that way fast.

In an energetic debut novel about personal and professional chaos, author Addie Woolridge introduces a multicultural cast whose exploits are redefining the modern rom-com. Killing it at work? Check. Gorgeous boyfriend? Check. Ambitions derailed by an insecure boss? Sigh —check. T...

Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employ...

One intriguing encounter with Wade at Fire & Ice has you begging him to fulfill one request.
Teach me...
Class is in session.

8 hours, 50 minutes A heartwarming Avon debut of love, forgiveness, and new beginnings set in the beautiful South Carolina Lowcountry. Maya Jackson has worked for Laura Whitcomb, Inc, a renowned New York City bridal gown brand, for years and dreams of becoming Head Designer. She...

Heart can be defined as the central or innermost part of something. But when that core function is broken, shattered into pieces at the hands of the ones you love most–the distress, suffering, and anguish—can be debilitating. Sexy, savvy, unbossed, and unbothered, Symphony James...

Assad Black, alpha protector and leader of the Black Mayhem Mafia, does whatever it takes to keep his family safe. When he meets Scarlett Graham, he extends her the same grace. Winning her in a poker game to secure her freedom, Assad doesn't expect having her in his possession to...

The Hate U Give meets Shadowshaper in Bethany C. Morrow's A Chorus Rises, a brilliant contemporary fantasy set in the world of A Song Below Water. Teen influencer Naema Bradshaw has it all: she's famous, privileged, has “the good hair”— and she’s an Eloko, a person who’s gifted w...

Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. Women w...

An incendiary and utterly compelling thriller with a shocking twist that delves deep into the heart of institutionalized racism, from an exceptional new YA voice. Welcome to Niveus Private Academy, where money paves the hallways, and the students are never less than perfect. Unti...

Benji & Brooklyn : A White Wedding is the long awaited, highly anticipated continuation of Benji & Brooklyn : She Fell For a Chitown Boss. In this final installment you'll follow the doting couple on their three day journey to a blissful marriage.

Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary e...

Pedestals are lonely places. Teagan Tolliver is learning the hard way that for every new trophy, every tournament win, comes more scrutiny, more pressure - far beyond what she can do on a court. As an elite, Black female athlete in a sport dominated by people she has little in co...

No job, no money, no love - and to make things worse, 27-year-old Charlie has no choice but to leave New York City and move in with his mom in his isolated and conservative hometown of Sunset Springs. Home isn’t a comfortable place for Charlie. One of very few Black residents and...

Missed opportunities. Chance encounters. Instant connections. Everything happens for a reason. Life is made of little interconnected moments. Any one decision can completely change the trajectory of your life. Yet somehow, you’ll still end up exactly where you’re supposed to be....

In this romantic page-turner from the author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star, Evie has the power to see other people's romantic fates--what will happen when she finally sees her own? Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest...

Canyon married young, and it took him being married to realize that he wasn't ready to live the life of a faithful husband. Money was plentiful, and so were the women. Being the average man and taking his woman for granted cost Canyon dearly, but it didn't just cost him. It cost...

What would you do if the person that is supposed to protect you is the one that betrays you?Raven is stuck in between a rock and a hard place. Although she loves A’mil, she can’t get past his sneaky ways which causes her to do the unthinkable. She is losing herself by being with...

Kianna hasn’t been the luckiest woman to find love these days. After getting hurt by her last boyfriend, she struggles to trust men again. With help and encouragement from her best friend LaDonna, she decides to create a profile on an online dating site. Both women are surprised...

Behind the scenes of Skye Fall from drafty blog posts, deleted scenes and fake series dealing with our favorite characters. Warning, none of this shit is edited. I would post these every Tuesday and Friday on the blog just to keep the time passing by while we wait for the next st...

Have you ever felt like you weren’t good enough? Have you ever felt like everything you do is wrong? When two people battling the same thing collide, they learn they might be the perfect solution for each other.After finding out her fiancé is married, Ayame needs a fresh start. W...

Owner of the popular Foxview Heights Café, Mocha over Breakfast and known to her customers as The Café Lady, Autumyn Moon Day, has a history of running away from commitment, literally. After leaving one man at the altar and fleeing two proposals, she vows to enjoy meaningless fli...

The Hills may have the Monarchs and Prophets, but Lavendale is the home of the Knights and their queens.

Award-Winning Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kennedy Ryan launches a brand-new series with a Hollywood tale of wild ambition, artistic obsession, and unrelenting love. One moment in the spotlight... For months I stood by, an understudy waiting in the wings, preparing for...

In this romantic-comedy novella, the sexiest player in the NFL and a small-town librarian prove that when opposites attract, their chemistry can be game changing. Simone Thompson wakes up in a Vegas hotel suite to discover three Her headache might kill her. The guy spooned behind...

Naomi Edwards. Many of us know her as Normani’s big sister from the series, Turned Out by His Hood Mentality. We know of Naomi, but we haven’t quite figured out her story yet. We do know that Naomi has been in love with her husband, Liam Edwards, ever since the two of them were c...

Who moves your soul like no other can? Who makes you feel things that are beyond your own comprehension? Shane Taylor is struggling to find the love that can catapult him into euphoria. Seeing his sisters find that with their life partners, leaving him the odd man out, is driving...

This should’ve been apart of my autobiography, but this is just five months of my life twisted into the words that life has given me for the moment. 2021. Oh, what a year it has been already. The good times, the bad times, happy, sad, miserable, on the brink of death — this is wh...

Suzon Lattimore has always been told that she was pretty, but that didn't do anything for her love life. Men would try relentlessly to be with her, but none of them ever went the extra mile to show they cared, until she met rapper Big Draco. He not only wifed her, but he showed h...

Things pick up right where they left off with the crew having to deal with even more problems coming their way. Chanelle has been going through it. Not only has she found herself in one life-threatening situation after another, but she’s also unable to stop the feelings that are...

An urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first love to save her family’s magic. The problem is, she’s never been in love—she’ll have to find the perfect guy before she can kill him. After years of waiting for her Calling—a tria...

Pure, Koke, and Kane are triplets from Miami Florida, and they were born to raise hell in the streets just like their toxic and dysfunctional parents. Pure is cool calm and collected as he raises his daughter as a single father, he steers clear of any woman looking to steal his h...