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New Releases by Black Authors

April 2025

  • Giving Good Love to a Bad Boyby Tatum James
    3.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 1, 2025

    Against her controlling father’s protest, Doctor Janelle St. John worked hard to become a veterinarian and open a practice with her best friend. As much as she loves her family, she can’t stomach dealing with her father’s betrayal. While she thought her parents would live happily...

  • No Ordinary Loveby Myah Ariel
    3.5 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished April 1, 2025

    A PR relationship between a pop superstar and a pro-athlete bad boy turns into so much more in this swoony romance from the acclaimed author of When I Think of You . Ella Simone’s popstar life is what dreams are made of. Her eight year marriage to renowned music producer, Elliot...

  • Hoop Session (KC Queens, #1)by Aubry J.
    4.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished April 1, 2025

    Previously titled Hood session I didn’t mean to fall in love with her; I swear I didn’t. Mercy DeCorte was the good girl of the WNBA. With two rings, a thriving career, and an unblemished image, she didn’t need someone like me in her corner causing havoc. See, me? I was the bad b...

  • 'Til I Say Whenby Natisha Raynor
    3.8 avg ratings, 5 reviewspublished April 1, 2025

    Wonder Sutton found the courage to leave a dead end relationship and start life over, but she left with more than unresolved trauma. She left with a bad habit. A habit that's going to do more harm than good, especially when it's the reason she becomes a witness to a horrendous cr...

  • Rosaleigh Drury, the youngest of the Drury siblings, grew up worlds apart from her family’s idyllic life under the willow tree. Her childhood was shaped by the gritty streets of The Junction, where survival meant hardening her heart and trusting no one but herself. With a career...

  • Delicious Devotionby Shay Davis
    Not ratedpublished April 1, 2025

    After being forcefully devoted to a wolf in sheep's clothing, Yanelle is happy to be free. Only now, she finds herself deliciously devoted to her knight in shining armor. The contrast of wanting to get out at any cost, to never wanting to leave, is so vast that Yanelle is left re...

  • The dark and thrillingly romantic debut vampire fantasy that questions what it truly means to sacrifice for love. You have no idea what I’ve done for love. Just as you have no idea what you may one day do. Once long ago, a girl named Favre sacrificed her wings for love. Thana, th...

  • Unlikely Neighborsby Renee Daniel Flagler
    3.3 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 1, 2025

    A small-town woman’s journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when she inherits a Brooklyn brownstone—complete with one hot next-door neighbor—in this sexy, emotional contemporary romance. When you least expect it, love comes knocking… Holland Davenport is ready to go...

  • Fists (Keeping up with Adeola, #2)by Camaa Pearl, L. Leigh
    Not ratedpublished April 3, 2025

    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?

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

  • Forever Her Savior (Mob Love Series, #2)by Charae Lewis
    Not ratedpublished April 4, 2025

    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...

  • Counting His heartbeats (Baxter County Blues, #3)by Riley Baxter
    3.5 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 8, 2025

    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...

  • 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 April 8, 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...

  • Troyby Rita A. Gordon
    Not ratedpublished April 8, 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 April 8, 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 April 8, 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
    3.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 8, 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...

  • Velvet & Venom (The South-Hurst Syndicate, #1)by Dominique Black
    4.25 avg ratings, 4 reviewspublished April 9, 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...

  • Hear My Heartby Tay Mo'Nae
    4.33 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished April 12, 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...

  • Open My Heart (Armani Sisters, #3)by T'Lyn
    4.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 13, 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...

  • THAT: Taylor & Brooks (Love By Any Means, #2)by C. Monet
    5.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 15, 2025

    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
    5.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished April 15, 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
    5.0 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished April 15, 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, 6 reviewspublished April 15, 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...

  • Somadinaby Akwaeke Emezi
    Not ratedpublished April 15, 2025

    From the National Book Award finalist and author of Pet comes a novel set in a magical West African world, about a teen girl who must save her missing twin while learning to navigate her own terrifying new powers. Somadina and her twin brother, Jayaike, are practically the same p...

  • A Taunting Loveby Rayvin Skye
    Not ratedpublished April 16, 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...

  • Giving Good Love to a Bad Boy 2by Tatum James
    3.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 17, 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 April 17, 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,...

  • Ms. Mosleyby Talena Tillman
    4.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 18, 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.

  • Crossroads (Hickory Springs, #1)by Karmen Lee
    4.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 20, 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 April 20, 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...

  • 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...

  • Cutthroatby Octavia Grant
    3.93 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished April 20, 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...

  • If You Stayedby Brittainy C. Cherry
    4.6 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished April 22, 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...

  • If We Were a Movieby Zakiya N. Jamal
    Not ratedpublished April 22, 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...