New Releases by Black Authors

McKay Bailey is the type of girl who moves by the rules: meet a good man, fall in love, and settle down. The plan is working perfectly until the day she finds out she is pregnant and the baby’s father disappears in the middle of the night, leaving McKay questioning everything. Wh...

Event-planner Noelle Sterling takes a rare break from her nonstop Atlanta grind and escapes to Winter Haven for a week of peace, wine, and silence. She expected to come home rested, not obsessed with the man who turned her trip into a blur of heat, chemistry, and unforgettable ni...

Frazier James is already lying to his wife. He is unemployed, ashamed, and pretending everything is fine when a letter blows up his life. Nicole Renée Coleman is dead. In her will, she names Frazier as the biological father and guardian of Layla , a fourteen-year-old girl he neve...

When Michigan bookshop owner and mystery writer Samantha Washington and her sister, Jenna, agreed to host a class for seniors on estate planning, they didn’t plan on discovering shady doings at Shady Acres Retirement Village . . . Nana Jo has volunteered her lawyer granddaughter,...

From Beatrice Dixon, founder of The Honey Pot Company, comes an inspiring memoir about overcoming adversity—personally and professionally—by trusting her intuition and following what she calls her “soul instinct” to build the life of her dreams. Beatrice Dixon, cofounder and CEO...

From New York Times bestselling author Ryan Douglass comes a gripping and tender reimagining of The Great Gatsby about the pursuit of happiness—and love—in a society built on cruelty and secrets. Seventeen-year-old Nick Carrington wants nothing more than to leave Greenwood, Oklah...

"Marry or lose your inheritance." A commitment phobic heir in Detroit, Michigan faces the ultimate challenge from his powerful grandmother and family company CEO in this charming, irresistibly fun and flirty new contemporary romance from award-winning author Elle Wright. Wesley B...

Inspired by true, long-buried stories of enslaved people who dared to fight back, a searing portrayal of resistance for readers of Colson Whitehead, Jesmyn Ward, and Percival Everett, from Clay Cane, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Grift . In...

What would you do with a second chance at your first time? Following a bad breakup, Willow Lewis tackles a re-do list with the help of her brother’s best friend in this sweet and sexy new romance. Willow experienced all her big firsts with her high school sweetheart. Now, reeling...

When a guarded divorcée and a love-weary mogul cross paths on a singles cruise, a pact to keep things platonic sets sail toward a second chance neither of them is ready for. Aquila Richards-Oliver has the life many a high-profile husband, two beautiful sons, and a seemingly perfe...

Jordan Peele and Jeff Vandermeer meet The Overstory in comedy writer Allison Mick’s darkly humorous debut eco-horror novel, as a Black woman returns home to the redwood forests of northern California, only to unearth the monsters that lurk among the trees… Jasmine Bay is a nurse...

A YA thriller about a Black teen whose family vacation to a town with a terrifying history becomes a desperate search for two missing girls and a fight for survival. When sixteen-year-old Naomi Stoakes and her family head to a secluded cabin in the Shenandoah Valley for summer va...

"Tate blends fact and fiction with elegance...A captivating, emotionally resonant portrait of a singular woman who refused to be diminished." — LIBRARY JOURNAL "Tate has a rare gift for storytelling that strikes straight to the heart." — SADEQA JOHNSON, New York Times bestselling...

A fast-paced, juicy debut novel that peeks behind the curtain at the cutthroat world of hip-hop music and the glamorous magazine scene in the late 1990s, written by the ultimate insider It’s 1999, and Nikki Rose is the only Black editor on the staff of a prestigious fashion magaz...

Sparks fly in this second chance m/m rom com when an unlucky-in-love event manager realizes the man-of-honor at the high profile wedding he's planning is the same man who broke his heart. They say you never forget your first kiss. But Jordan Carter wishes he could forget the one...

Cedar Burke knows how to keep calm during chaos. As a twenty-six-year-old 911 dispatcher, she thrives handling other people’s trauma. However, behind the headset, her own life is unraveling. Her first love, Tavrick Burke, is a sexy shell of the high school sweetheart she married....

A husband’s deadly affair sets off a chain of deception, obsession, and unraveling truths in this twisted domestic thriller where love becomes a weapon, the past won’t stay buried, and the truth is more dangerous than the lie. Damar Scott is a man with everything to lose—and even...

From the two-time Emmy Award–winning producer and host of the Black and Published podcast comes a sweeping multi-generational epic following seven generations of Dupree women as they navigate love, loss, and the unyielding ties of family in the tradition of Homegoing and The Love...

Samson Mulholland is a man who lives by rules he wrote himself. Power comes naturally to him and was earned through discipline, loyalty, and an unflinching willingness to do what others won’t.He runs his world with precision, protecting what’s his and eliminating what threatens i...

Xai Watts will do anything for his brother, anything. He’s been raising him since he was fourteen. The streets provided the means until Xai left them behind and opened his own business. Years have passed, but things haven’t changed. Because of love and guilt, Xai is still protect...

Robert Brand has not been lucky in love. He could blame others for that, but he would rather take the blame himself, fix the problem, and move on. Now, divorced and healed, he is ready for his real forever. What will he do when his forever is just an elevator door opening away? J...

She thought I wouldn’t notice. That the clinic mix-up would stay buried. That I wouldn’t recognize what’s growing inside her. But I know my sample. And I never gave anyone permission to use it. She left me at the altar five years ago. Now she’s back in my city, in my clinic— Preg...

My best friend really thought she could hide her new boo from me; what I don't expect is her "boo" to be not one, not two, but THREE supernatural men from a different dimension. After I unwittingly show some keenness in how'd gotten together, one of Melody's boyfriends says he mi...

Top model, Nyako Bellacorte has everything that money can buy, but she can’t buy love and happiness. Betrayal at the hands of someone she trusts has her on a self-imposed abstinence streak. But fizzy drinks and falling temps are the perfect combination to turn her Valentines’ wee...