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New Releases by Black Authors

April 2025

  • Chrasmere “Chrome” Black, the name is one many knew. When it comes to running the streets, his crew is the most qualified. Black Metal Gang is the blueprint and holds an undefeated title. Burning rubber is what kept most of them out of jail or in a grave. Chrome is the man who kn...

  • Ms. V's Hot Girl Summerby A.H. Cunningham
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    Trinidad Velasquez plays by the rules. Now she has one chance—one sizzlin’ Carnival weekend—to leave it all behind. Go on, get spicy… For the last sixteen years, Trinidad Velasquez has done everything right. Raised her twin sons on her own, worked her butt off and created a stabl...

  • Stealing The Plug's Loveby Aleisha Dawn
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    Blake I never asked for life to be this brutal, but when it came down to survival—for me and my sister, British—I did whatever it took. Every single day proved to be a battle just to stay above water. I thought I'd seen the worst the world could throw at us... until a single choi...

  • Vanessa “Vanity” Kirkland is no stranger to drama. Her largely-agreed-upon title as the “Baddest Chick” in hip-hop practically demands it. But if she wants to catapult to megastar status, she’s going to have to break out of the box her raunchy lyrics have built around her and tak...

  • Welcome to Crowned and Covered , a beloved Black-owned salon. After the passing of her Aunt Shirley, twenty-one-year-old hairstylist Senae inherits the shop that has been a second home to generations of women in Westin Hills, Antionette. Determined to preserve its legacy while gi...

  • I came to the salon for a new style… but somehow, I’m sitting here questioning my entire life. Two lovers. One heart. And a hairstyle I swore I’d never get. I’ve spent years keeping it all together—hair laid, smile fixed, life picture-perfect. But these braids? They’re pulling mo...

  • Spin 2 (Spin, #2)by Diamond D. Johnson
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    Who is in the back seat of Toni’s car? I think that’s a question that we all need answers to. You would think that it would be an easy find, but the hunt to find this person has become a long, drawn out process. All Toni wants to do is continue to excel in her career field, but t...

  • Friction (Reverie, #1)by Christina C. Jones
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    Vegas is a city built on spectacle, and Rhea plays the game better than most… until undefeated heavyweight temptation Micah McKnight locks eyes with her. Touches her. Just a touch. And everything shifts. She’s not sure if this... whatever it is... is fate, desire, or something sh...

  • Cum Into the Darkby Latoya Nicole
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    We’ve always been told that bad things happen in the dark. The unknown is always lurking in the shadows, so we tend to stay in the light where it’s safe. What do you do when something happens and force you into a place you know you should stay away from? Solana Divet lived a norm...

  • If We Were a Movieby Zakiya N. Jamal
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    Lights. Camera. Love? Rochelle “The Shell” Coleman is laser focused on only three things: becoming valedictorian, getting into Wharton, and, of course, taking down her annoyingly charismatic nemesis and only academic competition, Amira Rodriguez. However, despite her stellar grad...

  • If You Stayedby Brittainy C. Cherry
    4.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished Apr 2025

    There once was a man who loved me, until he forgot every memory we've ever shared… Gabriel Sinclair would forever be my first. My first best friend, my first kiss, my first love…and my first heartbreak. The accident that nearly took his life ripped the memory of me from his grasp...

  • Crossroads (Hickory Springs, #1)by Karmen Lee
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    Devastated by betrayal, Kandice returns to her small hometown to start over as a single mom and teacher. But as her reawakened bond with Rebekah, her former high school friend, deepens, Kandice can't ignore the growing feelings she’s tried so hard to suppress. Rebekah has always...

  • Love Set Me Freeby Cyn
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    I was never supposed to love Kydrick, but his arrest changed everything. Me, Kydrick, and my ex best friend, Janelle, grew up together. We did everything together, until high school changed everything. They became a couple, and I hid the feelings that had always lingered. It stay...

  • Cutthroatby Octavia Grant
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    Eden Shelton was once told that you can’t spell embarrassment without MEN. She never believed it because according to her there was nothing better than being a wife to a loving and appreciative man. Marrying her college sweetheart seemed to make everything in her life better. But...

  • The Cuppacio twins have done everything but what they came to Jagoda Bay to get married and join the Rinaldi Mafia. With old and new enemies lurking and creating chaos, Renello, Metavello, their family, and their associates are now on a mission to ensure everyone remains fearful...

  • Ms. Mosleyby Talena Tillman
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    Professor Nia’Rose Mosley finds herself drawn to the soon reformed bad boy, Prosper Shakur. But it isn’t just his rebellious nature that has her hesitant— he’s also her student.

  • Giving Good Love to a Bad Boy 2by Tatum James
    3.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished Apr 2025

    After years of mourning his late wife, Kross is finally ready to open his heart to love. There is only one man standing in the way of him having the freedom to love without worrying about looking over his shoulder. Fortunately, he happens to be in the right place at the right tim...

  • Truce of the Matterby Charity Shane'
    4.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished Apr 2025

    One fifteen-minute encounter as teenagers changed everything for Rex Goode and Truce Redmond. They both walked away different people. For him, it catapulted his career in boxing. For her, it challenged her commitment to family. Years later, Rex is a retired boxer, single father,...

  • A Taunting Loveby Rayvin Skye
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    Jamina Joseph thought she wanted to be single for the rest of her life. After getting her heart broken by a man she saw forever with, she gives up on love. When the uncle of one of her students comes into her classroom, her life takes a turn. Jaxton Holmes is a man that knows wha...

  • She spent her whole life doing what was ‘right’—until doing right nearly broke her. Taylor Bradshaw-Martin is the woman everyone counts on. Wife. Daughter. Professional. She’s the one who holds it all together—even when everything inside her is falling apart. But when her husband...

  • Intercept My Heartby Kami Holt
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    to catch or take possession of. Safety, love, peace—all those words Charae Royster craves in her life. After being bounced around from one foster care to the next, she considers herself unlovable. When a series of events leads her into the arms and heart of a street-savvy star pl...

  • Here Forever (All to Me, #2)by Zee Reneé
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    Here , in, at, or to this place or position. Truce Wright is soft when it comes to who he loves, and ruthless when it comes to everything else. The kind of man who’ll build Sanai a safe space with one hand and tear the world down with the other. He isn’t a man that folds, not eve...

  • Smoke (Dillinger Chronicles, #3)by Kimberly Brown
    5.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished Apr 2025

    Devin "Smoke" Dillinger lives by a simple code—protect what's his at all costs. As the third oldest Dillinger and owner of a successful weapons distribution business, Smoke has a reputation that precedes him. He's a man of few attachments who prides himself on control, discipline...

  • Open My Heart (Armani Sisters, #3)by T'Lyn
    4.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished Apr 2025

    Kenya has mastered the art of keeping people at a distance. After a painful betrayal, she's convinced love is nothing more than a weakness she can't afford. Sanchez, however, is a man who knows exactly what he wants-power, legacy, and a love that can stand the test of time. Their...

  • Hear My Heartby Tay Mo'Nae
    4.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished Apr 2025

    Growing up deaf in a family that ignored her caused Nakyra to embrace the silence. When she meets Rome, she believes she's found the one, and after years of being together the two decide it's time to finally tie the knot when tragedy hits. Then he comes into the picture, and her...

  • Velvet & Venom (The South-Hurst Syndicate, #1)by Dominique Black
    4.5 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished Apr 2025

    SImone "Honey" Williams isn't looking for love, just the next bag. Guarded, gorgeous and grinding her way through nights at Magic's Garden, she's mastered the art of taking what she needs without letting anyone close. Until Kingston "King" Carter walks in. Ruthless, rich and alwa...

  • Step into the shadows with Monsters In Masquerade , the first book in OwlCrate Press's anthology series, The Darkset Chronicles. In these pages, myths are reborn, monsters roam unchecked, and love flickers as the only light in the dark. This haunting collection of 16 stories weav...

  • Playin' Hardby Whitney D. Grandison
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    Readers of YA contemporary romance, sports romance, enemies-to-lovers stories, and those looking for Black love will be drawn to this title. If there’s one thing Cree Jacobs can’t stand about Moorehead High, it’s definitely the Ballers Club—an exclusive clique of boys who dominat...

  • Jawaan Young is a man who can make a joke out of any situation. Yet, beneath the surface of his humor is a mask splintering on every side. Suffering from abandonment and rejection, why would he consider showcasing his scars? Yet, one spontaneous decision causes him to question wh...

  • Troyby Rita A. Gordon
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    To get to her, you have to get through him. Dr. Kennedy Green has always been focused on her work, pushing the boundaries of biophysics to create groundbreaking technology that could change the world. But as word of her recent breakthrough leaks, dangerous figures emerge, eager t...

  • Candy Reignby Tacarra
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    **PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THIS IS A RE-RELEASE** Isaac knew from the moment Solei walked into his life that she was meant to be his forever. Solei’s feelings mimicked Isaac’s, and she was utterly enamored with him from the moment he entered her life. They knew at a young age that...

  • Carrying A Thug’s Heartby Thee Tasha Marie
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    She only wanted the money. He only wanted an heir. But when Khadoja Perry agrees to become a surrogate for Canyon “Cannon” Kross—a cold hearted, fine-as-hell, hood-rich thug with no interest in love—everything starts to unravel. What was supposed to be a contractual, nine-month t...

  • Flirting Lessonsby Jasmine Guillory
    Not ratedpublished Apr 2025

    The exciting new contemporary romance—and her first to feature a queer romance—by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory Avery Jensen is almost thirty, fresh off a breakup, and she’s tired of always being so uptight and well-behaved. She wants to get a hobby, date aro...

  • In a world where passion and danger collide, Kaylona, a struggling singer, finds herself entangled in a high-stakes debt she never anticipated. To escape her stressed reality, she reluctantly agrees to step into a once-in-a-lifetime role for Kymeco Crown. As she navigates the dan...

  • Impending Consent (Hearts Consent, #3)by K.C. Mills
    4.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished Apr 2025

    Sailor Addison wants one of the only men who refuses to end up in her bed. Rival Hassan is determined to convince Sailor that what she wants extends beyond a one night stand. One night. Too much to drink and Sailor Addison finds herself married to a man she only meant to seduce....

  • A scandalous expose. A desperate friend. A boxer with a tempting offer. When Adeola’s latest assignment leads her into the dark corners of power and corruption, she vows to bring the truth to light. But in a world where silence is bought and sold, how far is she willing to go?