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February 2025

  • Anastassia has always had her entire life planned. Determined not to become like her mother and rely on a loveless marriage for survival, Stassi built a successful event planning business. In a world where her next client could be anyone, from a famous ball player, to a corporate...

  • Jolene: Season 1: A Louisianne Texas Seriesby J.S. Durst
    Not ratedpublished February 1, 2025

  • So Into You (Love Stories from The Unmasked Fiction Podcast, #3)by Taccara Martin
    3.95 avg ratings, 5 reviewspublished February 1, 2025

    Men are trouble. At least, that’s what I’ve always told myself. After a lifetime of disastrous relationships—each one a masterclass in betrayal, manipulation, and heartbreak—I swore off men entirely. No more compromises, no more ignoring red flags, and definitely no more letting...

  • Cruella Hoodvilby Natavia
    5.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished February 1, 2025

  • Aisle Be Yours: A Valentine's Novellaby Nina High
    3.92 avg ratings, 36 reviewspublished February 1, 2025

    Claire Briscoe has her life down to a hard work, structure, and zero distractions. She just got promoted at her law firm, and a cross-country move is calling her name. Love? Spontaneity? They can both sit all the way down—Claire’s got goals. But a last-minute seat mix-up on a Val...

  • Sundae & Taavon (Recipe For Love, #1)by Charity Shané
    4.3 avg ratings, 33 reviewspublished February 1, 2025

    Sundae Pearce has a vow to be open to all things new but a commitment to her job makes it nearly impossible. As CEO of his family business, Taavon Black has to prioritize his life leaving a void where his heart is concerned. Cake and conflict just might be the right combination t...

  • The Nahtahn Cartel: The Inc.by B. Love
    4.09 avg ratings, 8 reviewspublished February 1, 2025

    Gambino Nahtahn takes over the family organization with plans to take it to new heights. Before he can settle into his new position, an arranged marriage request is put at his feet. There’s no way he will approve the marriage for his ex. She’s the one who got away, and Gambino is...

  • The Nature of Love (Love in the Spotlight, #3)by Toni Shiloh
    4.67 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished February 1, 2025

    A doctor feeling fractured Dr. Erykah Kennedy, a renowned orthopedic surgeon, finds herself at a crossroads in life. At forty-one, she's achieved remarkable success in her career, yet when it comes to her love life, she feels hopeless. But when she meets Christian Gamble, a passi...

  • When your dreams pull you in three different directions… who do you choose when your heart wants them all? Shonte has it all — a loyal husband, a stable life, and a clear path forward. But when her nights start filling with vivid, sensual dreams featuring three different men , ev...

  • Spring Awakening (Training Seasons, #1)by J.S. Jasper
    4.1 avg ratings, 10 reviewspublished February 2, 2025

    Mali spent most of her life thinking her dream job didn’t exist. Now, she’s about to start working on the PR for the local rugby team she’s supported since childhood and wonders if she just got lucky. The Toulshire Titans have had a Hollywood-style rise to fame. Well, just above...

  • The De Santis Cartel: The Incby K.C. Mills
    4.25 avg ratings, 34 reviewspublished February 2, 2025

    Power. Blood. Loyalty. These are the tenets that rule the De Santis family, until an arranged marriage potentially threatens all three. Born into the most ruthless crime family in the South, Azreal De Santis is bred to lead, dominate, and rule. When a strategic marriage forces hi...

  • Love Won't Let Me Waitby Rosè Dior
    4.22 avg ratings, 9 reviewspublished February 2, 2025

    In a perfect world, Tyra and Ethan were soulmates. Their love and life was perfect… But their perfect world didn’t exist in the real world. With the decision to leave the man she’s ever loved, Tyra’s life as she knows it begins to take a new turn she never expected. What she thou...

  • Love Me Notby Ayla Cox
    3.93 avg ratings, 14 reviewspublished February 2, 2025

    If love is war, Cassia James is the mushroom cloud. Three years ago, Cassia "Cass" James went nuclear on a Hollywood red carpet, exposing her cheating fiancé and backstabbing best friend in front of the world. The fallout? A career in shambles, a reputation in ruins, and a yearly...

  • Hard Pressedby Ms. Chantal LaTrèviette
    Not ratedpublished February 3, 2025

    A broken girl will blossom into a woman warrior. Dia Fontaine has hit rock bottom and needs a change. Driven from home by her toxic mother, she encounters a social club of Black women who assist in her healing and transformation. The social club is a secret society rooted in the...

  • Six Dirty Deeds: A Girls Trip Gone Wrongby Denise Essex
    Not ratedpublished February 3, 2025

    One girls trip Six friends Six dirty deeds Melanie is a newly retired model ready to turn up with the girls and celebrate her hard work. They’ve known each other since high school and made a pact to travel together every year. Cameron is an exposé journalist who writes award winn...

  • Marked Territory : Beautiful Damage Series (Book 2)by Amari Bliss
    3.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished February 3, 2025

    A year after a devastating breakup, Cree Daniels has found love again. Her marriage to Dre is just months away, and the blushing bride couldn’t be happier. That is until her old flame, and ex gang member, Xavier, comes back with a vengeance, sending her perfect new life crashing...

  • Hooked on Loving Him (Baxter County Blues, #2)by Riley Baxter
    4.01 avg ratings, 23 reviewspublished February 3, 2025

    Kayshon Patton is overcome with painstaking nightmares that fuel his survivor’s guilt after escaping the bullets from his father’s gun. With tainted blood, why would he ever consider anything that could add to his father’s legacy? His plan is simple, until it isn’t, when he pulls...

  • Evan & Bellerose (Recipe For Love, #2)by ML Bash
    4.03 avg ratings, 25 reviewspublished February 3, 2025

    One kiss between childhood friends Evan and Bellerose ruined everything. After five years apart a wedding, an urban legend and a dozen cookies drag the pair back together, things get complicated. Is a weekend and a twenty-four hour mandatory cooldown enough to undo years of pent...

  • Purple Demon Emoji: An African American Romanceby Jenica Johnson
    4.38 avg ratings, 8 reviewspublished February 3, 2025

    In The Nine, loyalty is survival—and survival is hell. Eligah Bridges' childhood ended when his mama got addicted to drugs, leaving him and his brother Syn to fend for themselves. Their grandmother kept them alive, but the streets owned him. He promised Danielle he’d leave the ga...

  • Soul Ties With My Wife's BBW Sister: A Hood Millionaire Forbidden Affairby Shantelly
    4.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished February 3, 2025

    Welcome to a world where love and loyalty ain't always what they seem. Kioni and Kali were identical twins, born with an unshakable bond—two peas in a pod, ride or die. But as they grew, so did the cracks in their sisterhood, turning love into a twisted game of envy, betrayal, an...

  • Stay Awhileby Iesha Bree
    4.1 avg ratings, 26 reviewspublished February 3, 2025

    Skye Daniels is done being the perpetual third wheel. Frustrated with her love life, she throws caution to the wind and embarks on a solo adventure to Fiji. In an unexpected twist of fate, she bumps into a mysterious stranger who will turn her world upside down. Knox Bolden is a...

  • Santa, Bring Me A Gangsta For Christmasby Australia Burnett
    Not ratedpublished February 3, 2025

    After serving five long years in prison for a crime that left scars on his soul, street king Banks Coleman is finally free. But freedom comes with a price, and DoroughVille is a different place than the one he left behind. With the weight of his past on his shoulders and the stre...

  • Memphis (Three Kings, #2)by Alexandria House
    4.37 avg ratings, 123 reviewspublished February 4, 2025

    MEMPHIS I’ve been a fighter all my life. I never back down. I don’t fold. But him? One touch from him and my resolve instantly disintegrates. BO You might call me mean, evil, maybe even diabolical. I’ll take all that because I only care about her. Nothing and no one else. She’s a...

  • So This Is Loveby Miyeko May
    4.13 avg ratings, 24 reviewspublished February 4, 2025

    One time is chance. Two times is coincidence. Three times is … Laila Eden is focused. Focused on her career, on her friends and on herself. Everything except the man she somehow keeps crossing paths with. She isn’t interested in anything with him, or so she tells herself, but eve...

  • Needy Little Thingsby Channelle Desamours
    4.25 avg ratings, 27 reviewspublished February 4, 2025

    In this debut speculative YA mystery, a Black teen with premonition-like powers must solve her friend's disappearance before she finds herself in the same danger. Sariyah Lee Bryant can hear what people need—tangible things, like a pencil, a hair tie, a phone charger—an ability o...

  • Illusions of Fireby Nisha Sharma
    4.19 avg ratings, 4 reviewspublished February 4, 2025

    Unlike most of her classmates, Laila Bansal doesn’t roll out of bed and head to school. Instead, she wakes up early and trains in hand-to-hand combat with her adopted aunts who, when not tending to their thriving vineyard, are immortal Rakshasi demons sworn to protect Laila. Lail...

  • A fresh biography of this iconic American—and the first involving a Tubman family member since Harriet herself was interviewed in 1886. For all Harriet Tubman’s accomplishments and the myriad books written about her, many gaps, errors, and misconceptions of her life persist. One...

  • Out with the Oldby Sedona Rose
    3.5 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished February 4, 2025

    Solani Liberty finds herself in the realization of spending New Year’s Eve alone after a recent divorce.

    When she decides to attend a New Year's Eve party in Coconut Bay, she unexpectedly crosses paths with Ryder Johnson, a familiar face who has secretly cared for her all along.

  • The Art Of Loving A Millionaire Savage 2: Finaleby Shari B.
    5.0 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished February 4, 2025

    DaVinci Pierre You come at the king, you best not miss…famous words from Omar Little on The Wire . Unfortunately, whoever took those shots at me didn’t realize I was stronger than a few bullets. Being shot rocked my world off its axis, but my wife was determined to get it back sp...

  • A Project Chick & A Compton Hittaby Jai Love
    3.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished February 4, 2025

    Yadira Birdsong always believed walking across that graduation stage would be her way out, a one-way ticket to something bigger than the Compton projects. But instead of college dorms and fresh starts, she’s still in the same cramped apartment, playing mama to her little brother...

  • He's not like other dukes… Paris, 1889 Physician Aurora Montalban Wright takes risks in her career, but never with her heart. Running an underground women’s clinic exposes her to certain dangers, but help arrives in the unexpected form of the infuriating Duke of Annan. Aurora beg...

  • Red Clayby Charles B. Fancher
    4.43 avg ratings, 7 reviewspublished February 4, 2025

    An astounding multigenerational saga, Red Clay chronicles the interwoven lives of an enslaved Black family and their white owners as the Civil War ends and Reconstruction begins. In 1943, when a frail old white woman shows up in Red Clay, Alabama, at the home of a Black former sl...

  • This Ends in Embers (Divine Traitors, #2)by Kamilah Cole
    4.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished February 4, 2025

    Perfect for fans of Raybearer and Fourth Wing , this astonishing sequel to the bestselling novel So Let Them Burn doesn't hold back. After all, there are no easy endings in war—especially when sisters are forced to fight on opposite sides. Faron Vincent was once the saint of San...

  • Keep Going (South Kenton Stories: Foe Dub Fo' Life, #2)by Jessica A.
    4.47 avg ratings, 80 reviewspublished February 4, 2025

    Cousins Casey “Set” Washington and Patrick “Nutty” Rivera have always only had each other. Taught to stick together no matter what, you rarely saw one without the other running around the Birch Housing Projects in South Kenton. In just one month, however, their lives are altered...

  • Forever Mineby Thee Tasha Marie
    3.97 avg ratings, 107 reviewspublished February 4, 2025

    From the moment I saw Ashlynn, I knew she was mine. Didn’t matter that she had a ring on her finger or a man standin' next to her—she belonged to me, and deep down, she knew it too. I wasn’t about to play fair or fall back, not when somethin' that real was right in front of me. S...

  • Junieby Erin Crosby Eckstine
    4.52 avg ratings, 32 reviewspublished February 4, 2025

    A young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister’s ghost, navigating truths about love, friendship, and power as the Civil War looms. Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking...