New Releases by Black Authors

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An R&B singer and a corporate executive find love that hits the right notes in this romance by Kristina Forest, USA Today bestselling author of The Partner Plot. Iris Greene used to be a woman with a plan. But all of that changed after she met the love of her life at twenty-f...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Eyes like whoa. Dimples like hello… Twenty-two-year-old Robbin Jay has lived by one motto her whole life. If you're that girl, you have no choice but to be that girl. She's a hard-working medical student by day, but at night, she lets her freak out to play. That is until she has...

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...

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...

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...

The inspiring and resilient story of George E. Johnson, creator of the iconic Afro Sheen and the first Black-owned company to be traded on Wall Street You might already be familiar with Afro Sheen and Ultra Sheen, but have you heard of the man behind the company that produced the...

In this Award winner, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian , here illuminates the life of Jessie Redmon Fauset, a Black literary editor whose job working for W.E.B. Du Bois shaped the future of writing — and kick-started the Harlem Renaissance. A “must-re...

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...

Khyana was focused. She had built some stability around her fragile mindset over the last six years and was determined to keep herself from any nonsense that would cause her to lower her guard. Whether that nonsense was a relationship or anything related to the matters of her hea...

Stella is inches away from the title of lonely cat lady. What’s even more tragic is she doesn’t realize she’s lonely until a concussion and a tow truck driver inserts himself into her life. Nine is mean, callous, and short tempered…until he meets a woman who he can’t seem to stay...

Loyal’s life was dark with only small specks of light coming from the flash of bullets spewing from his gun. His mind didn’t wonder nor did he dream. In the rare moments of him closing his eyes all he had was nightmares. Until he met her. Wholly and fully engulfed in her energy a...

Cammie I came to Alpenglow Ridge for a fresh start—free from heartbreak and unmet expectations. When my friend requested that I move to Alpenglow Ridge, it was the perfect escape opportunity. Working as a hippotherapist at Mason Sanctuary gave me purpose and peace, until Ellis Mc...