New Releases by Black Authors

Ivy Jacobs just wanted peace—her record shop, her Christmas lights, her quiet life. But when her obsessive ex turns violent, the stranger who’s been watching her steps in. Chris Frinks is calm. Controlled. Deadly.A man who doesn’t raise his voice… he raises bodies. One broken win...

She wanted love and a family. He wanted money, power, and stability. Dreaux Davis learned early on that if you wanted something in life, you had to get it yourself. After his father was killed, he took on the responsibility of raising his sisters while trying to build his empire...

What happens when two married couples with years of friendship, loyalty, and undeniable chemistry decide to give each other the gift of indulgence for the holidays? Storm and Ohaji have been together for nineteen+ years, raising a beautiful family and building an empire with just...

For Autumn & Woods, it all started in an airport bathroom stall—spontaneous, nasty, and unforgettable. What was supposed to be a wild Thanksgiving weekend turned into something deeper and impossible to ignore. Now Christmas is approaching, snow’s falling, and Autumn’s carryin...

Grai Harlowe The love I had for my children’s father faded a long time ago. I didn’t stay for him, but because I was a high-school dropout who truly believed he was the best I could do. I couldn’t have been more wrong. When he kicks me and my kids out with nowhere to go, there’s...

A weekend cabin trip is always a good idea, especially when it involves your best friends. Hot cider, snowball fights, playing drinking games all through the night. Yeah, sounds like a time will be had. But maybe someone should've checked the weather forecast because a storm fron...

A seasonal ranch hand who craves life with no boundaries.
A Ranch owner raising her sister and maintaining her home.

Meleck and Wren

A Miller’s Pointe Christmas
Season Two

Nasir Block Thornton has wanted to be like his father his entire life. Tech was the coolest person on the planet in his son's eyes. Shortly after Block began chasing his dope boy dreams, Tech was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Despite not having any desire to give up his h...

When trust is the hardest game to win, love is the ultimate championship. Malik Latimer is a winner. With MVP trophies, championship rings, and the spotlight as the league’s most unstoppable point guard, he has it all. But beneath the fame is a man who wants something real. In De...

After ten years behind bars, a woman walks free—but freedom comes with its own sentence in this bold and unsparing novel by national bestselling author Kimberly Brown. After serving a ten-year sentence for killing her mother’s boyfriend, Alayah Chambers is finally free—but freedo...

Why is it that when we experience heartbreak, we play love songs that make us even sadder? Follow the stories of seven different women, experiencing seven different levels of heartbreak and the soundtracks that shaped them. In Before You Walk Out My Life , Onyx and Wynter are est...

This Thug Universe Christmas Special connects directly to the official INSIDE THE THUG UNIVERSE™ Access Pass and interactive AI experience. Christmas was supposed to be quiet. For Trae Macklin , it was supposed to be about family, legacy, and enjoying the clean life he fought to...

Five years ago, Noelle Brooks walked away from the man she thought she'd marry, and the life that scared her half to death. Now, as a destination hairstylist for a winter weddings, she's mastered the art of making everyone else picture- perfect while keeping her own heart under w...

After being ghosted at the altar three years ago, Brooklyn Kelley is career-focused and content in her singledom, refusing to rely on someone else who may never come through. A hardworking resident in the emergency room of one of the country's busiest hospitals, she has no time f...

Essence didn't expect to find an injured grizzly bear stowed away in the back of her truck. She certainly didn't expect to wake up the next morning to find him shifted into a six foot six hot man, or to be stuck at her house with him for the holiday… Shot by poachers, Amir jumped...

Grief changed her. The streets are about to test her. In New Orleans, loyalty is everything, and Deja has lost too much to trust easily. While she’s still mourning the life she once had, the city keeps pulling her back into chaos, secrets, and unfinished business. Friends aren’t...

Three years ago, I decided to have my first one-night stand. The plan was simple: research how to do it and meet a man at the bar before nerves playing with my guts got the best of me. I wanted to ring in the new year between a stranger’s legs. Someone with good hygiene and excep...

Part two picks up, and it’s heavy. The whole dynamic has changed, now that Dionne has come clean about what painfully happened in her childhood. Dionne has carried this heavy secret since she was eleven years old. The kind of secret that she held, it shaped her into becoming the...

French Kiss Wishes is a special compilation edition that brings together two previously published stories— French Kiss Christmas and French Kiss New Year —now refreshed with updated chapters, expanded moments, and revised scenes to enhance the reading experience. This edition als...

Previously published as A Bossed Up Yah-Yah & Bash by Jenica Johnson There’s something about a street chick who knows how to hold her man down while he’s out grindin’. But while she’s sacrificin’ everything, is he really hustlin’—or is he cheatin’? Yahria “Yah-Yah” grew up ha...

Not all demons thrive on confusion; some play the game until it plays them. Tunde, a tech mogul and one of the infamous Yoruba Demons Billionaires lives for adrenaline and control. He’s mastered the art of staying detached—until Dr. Kanyin (well almost a doctor) moves into his ho...

Hosting their first Christmas should bring Mackenzie and Jackson closer, but fame, new parenthood, and growing distance have made their marriage more fragile than either expected. Between missed moments and unspoken fears, the holiday season forces them to confront what they have...

Juliette Scott had a beautiful life once with a loving family and growing career as an author. Then tragedy struck, leaving her widowed and the rest of her life in tatters. As she grapples with her loss, Juliette leans on Logan, an old college friend, whose gentle charm and fierc...