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Apr 20 - Apr 26, 2025

  • Love Set Me Freeby Cyn
    4.05 avg ratings, 15 reviewspublished 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...

  • Crossroads (Hickory Springs, #1)by Karmen Lee
    3.3 avg ratings, 5 reviewspublished 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...

  • Airplane Mode 2: An Arranged Marriageby J. Dominique
    3.9 avg ratings, 12 reviewspublished April 20, 2025

    In the aftermath of heartbreak and betrayal, Avery finds herself trapped in emotional turmoil. After losing and reclaiming Maasai , only to discover his shocking engagement , she’s left questioning everything. Torn between fighting for the man she loves and respecting his familia...

  • On the mob 3: The Cuppacio Twins (Put It on the Mob, #6)by Lisa Austin
    4.63 avg ratings, 24 reviewspublished April 20, 2025

    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
    4.2 avg ratings, 260 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...

  • The Smoke Hourby Egypt Cynaé
    3.97 avg ratings, 8 reviewspublished April 21, 2025

    One night with my girls was all I wanted to escape the weight of my financial woes and the overwhelming pressure of an arranged marriage. But when I stepped into The Smoke Hour Gentlemen's Lounge, I made a pact with the devil that would cost me far more than I could afford—my hea...

  • Risking It All For My Baby Daddy's Homeboy 2by T. Michelle
    5.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished April 21, 2025

    Three years ago, Quentin ended things with Kalea, breaking her heart in the process. Hoping for a fresh start, she relocated to a new city, but she never truly got over him. To make matters worse, she’s been keeping a life-altering secret. Now, Kalea is back, and the truth threat...

  • The Summer I Ate the Richby Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite
    3.36 avg ratings, 11 reviewspublished April 22, 2025

    Just add lemon, garlic, and a dash of the one percent. This smart, biting novel explores what happens when a Haitian American girl uses her previously hidden zombie abilities to exact revenge on the wealthy elites who’ve caused her family pain. Brielle Petitfour loves to cook. Bu...

  • Matriarch: A Memoirby Tina Knowles, Kevin Carr O'Leary
    4.69 avg ratings, 18 reviewspublished April 22, 2025

    A glorious chronicle of a life like none other—enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering—and a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood "You are Celestine," she said. She squatted to push the hair off my face and pull leaves off my pajama legs. "Like my...

  • Fairytale Rule No. 1: All the best fairytales start with ‘Once upon a time . . .’ First-year student Brielle, a daydreamy book lover, knows everything there is to know about fairytales. Returning to the city of Rosebridge four years after moving away, she attends Once Upon a Time...

  • If We Were a Movieby Zakiya N. Jamal
    3.83 avg ratings, 9 reviewspublished 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...

  • The Spark (The Lovers Series)by Aja
    4.67 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished April 22, 2025

    They were always more than friends. Amaya Jameson never forgot the night Amir Barkley touched her like she was his. They were supposed to be just friends. They tried to be. But the spark between them has always burned too hot to ignore. Now, years later, they’ve crossed the line...

  • If You Stayedby Brittainy C. Cherry
    4.49 avg ratings, 81 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...

  • Captured By A Bama Plug 2by Andi A. Brooks
    4.01 avg ratings, 17 reviewspublished April 22, 2025

    Secrets get exposed and a life-changing bomb drops on Summer and Draco, shaking up everything they thought was solid. Love turns dangerous, loyalty gets tested, and enemies pop up from every direction—some wearing familiar faces. Lani’s battling her demons while trying to hold on...

  • Zealby Morgan Jerkins
    4.72 avg ratings, 30 reviewspublished April 22, 2025

    The New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby returns with an epic, multi-generational novel that illuminates the legacy of slavery and the power of romantic love. Harlem, 2019. Ardelia and Oliver are hosting their engagement party. As the guests...

  • Raising Love: A Friends-to-Lovers Romanceby Brookelyn Mosley
    4.0 avg ratings, 6 reviewspublished April 23, 2025

    When Ivy Pressman and Leo Vanguard, two career-driven friends who couldn’t be more different, suddenly become guardians to a baby, their lives are turned upside down. Navigating sleepless nights and the baby’s milestones, they begin to uncover feelings for each other they had alw...

  • Tempted By Surrendering To His Temptation 3 turns the pressure all the way up in the third installment of Azhia and Smoke’s addictive love story. She said they needed space. He heard that—but he ain’t having it. Love with Smoke was never soft, and now that Azhia’s pulling away, h...

  • Her Husband, My Thug: Standaloneby Lady Lissa
    Not ratedpublished April 23, 2025

    ********** THIS IS A RE-RELEASE********** LIES! DECEIT! DRAMA! EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT IN A BOOK CAN BE FOUND IN THIS STORY! When Shamika first met Brick aka Lennox, she had no idea she was messing with someone else’s man. But it wasn’t long before she found out about Chyna, Br...

  • 52 Weeks a Party of Oneby Bianca Pensy Aba
    3.5 avg ratings, 4 reviewspublished April 23, 2025

    Aisha isn’t known to hold her tongue, but that’s until she finds out her boyfriend and her best friend are having an affair on New Year’s Eve. This sends her packing. She leaves Denver and moves to Dallas to have the time and space to process the betrayal. Spending time alone als...

  • Cum Into the Darkby Latoya Nicole
    4.44 avg ratings, 28 reviewspublished April 23, 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...

  • The Cheater's Wife: An Addictive Twisty Psychological Thrillerby C.N. Mabry
    4.13 avg ratings, 15 reviewspublished April 23, 2025

    She turned her husband’s betrayal into a second chance. Now, it might cost her everything. Camille Bell never wanted to raise her husband’s mistake. RJ, the son of Ryan’s most public betrayal, was a constant reminder of everything she lost—the picture-perfect life, the adoring hu...

  • Masika Holt made peace with never seeing her best friend—and ex-lover—from high school ever again. She betrayed him, after all. But a change of heart puts her right on Aiden Zetrenne's doorstep with hopes of atonement. Despite her mistakes, he accepts the apology with open arms a...

  • Dangerously In Love With A YN 2: The Finaleby Shaquina
    3.5 avg ratings, 4 reviewspublished April 24, 2025

    Love was never supposed to be this dangerous… After being kidnapped alongside the sister she never knew existed, Gigi is forced to confront a life built on her father’s web of lies, betrayal, and pain. Fighting desperately for her survival, Gigi soon realizes this abduction isn’t...

  • Friction (Reverie, #1)by Christina C. Jones
    4.1 avg ratings, 30 reviewspublished April 24, 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...

  • Enzo (Dark Woods Pack, #2)by Tiya Rayne
    5.0 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished April 24, 2025

    Enzo I despise vampires. They're bloodthirsty, manipulative, and violent creatures. And now, my Alpha has two of them living with us. But that’s alright because we have a plan. To show our Luna the truth about her so-called best friend, we need to expose the vampires as the power...

  • Truth is Stranger than Fictionby C. Wilson
    Not ratedpublished April 25, 2025

    Coming from the mean streets of Bushwick, Brooklyn New York, Tone and Rowdy lived a life that others would run away from. With their younger bro, Stacks, by their sides, all three men became legit and rose to the top of the music industry. But you know what they say, “mo money, m...

  • They thought the kingdom fell when Royal Ellis went down. But death row didn’t break him—it built him. Now back in Harlem, Royal moves quieter, colder, and more dangerous than ever. But power don’t come without shadows. And the streets are still hungry—watching him, testing him,...

  • eight: o’clockby Tyra Racquel
    Not ratedpublished April 25, 2025

    Eight o’clock 💙 With love painted on your soul; I waited. I waited for you to walk through the door and tell me that you loved me. That you needed me. That nobody else mattered, but me. You never did. You walked out of that door and walked out of my life forever. I’ll always rem...

  • Healing Hazel (Fated Mates, #5)by Tessa Stone
    4.5 avg ratings, 25 reviewspublished April 25, 2025

    Hazel The curse is lifted, the dark magic is gone… and so is my mother. It’s time to let go of my pain and heal. But of course, Fate wouldn’t make healing easy. Turns out, I’ve inherited Brookstone and Blackburn Enterprises because, surprise... I’m a Blackburn. My mother murdered...

  • Charlie's Angels: A Polyamorous Affairby Penny Blacwrite
    4.4 avg ratings, 5 reviewspublished April 26, 2025

    What happens when a threesome turns into a polyamorous affair? The question is, can Charlie Thompson handle it? Sure, she can. She endured single motherhood for twenty-one years after having her son Jaden when she was only thirteen years old. She even leveled up from making nine...

  • After everything they’ve survived, Savanna and Kairo are done playing by the rules. The contract that once bound them is now the blueprint for an unbreakable empire—but love, power, and peace don’t always coexist. With the past clawing at their future and new chapters unfolding f...

  • The Weekend Omnibus: Book 1-3by Monaye Paris
    3.86 avg ratings, 7 reviewspublished April 26, 2025

    What started as something small turned into love. Even if that love is toxic, crazy, and straight-up unhinged
    Book 1-3 of the weekend series.