New Releases by Black Authors

By day, Jaseon McKnight Jr. is Milly Grove’s Medical Examiner, a respected doctor with access to the city’s darkest crime scenes. By night, he’s Slash, an elite killer known for his precision with a blade whose work never leaves traces or witnesses behind. Until he does. After a...

Joy is done settling for almost-love.After watching her best friend’s fairytale romance turn into a proposal straight out of a movie, the sad state of her own love life has never been clearer. She’s been trapped in a friends-with-benefits loop—not because it’s what she wants, but...

Your favorite couples in the Protectors series are saying hello and goodbye one last time in this update novella.

Small towns never forget. And secrets don’t stay buried for long. Two months after Christmas shattered everything Vanessa Bell thought she knew, Stonecrest is quiet on the surface—but restless underneath. Love has been tested. Loyalties are fractured. And the truth everyone’s bee...

Twenty-seven-year-old Chyanne English thinks she has life figured out. With everything going right for her, she hasn't realized she is missing something until a gut feeling tells her so. Since a mysterious man enters the bar nearly every night, she feels like she needs to get to...

An ice storm derails a flight layover and leaves two rival professors in one hotel room — with too much time together. Celeste The universe has a sick and twisted sense of humor. I spend months avoiding Alex Callahan — the department’s resident philosophy god with a disdain for d...

In this young adult speculative mystery, a teen must find a way to free a cursed witch in order to save her best friend before time runs out. Every year horror-loving Simone Washington throws an epic Halloween party for her classmates. Party-planning is her favorite escape from t...

Tunnel Vision. Blind Devotion. Blurred Lines. The State of Betrayal series has taken us on a ride. One thing that can be promised is betrayal lurking around every corner; and this book is no different. As we close out our time with the series, we get to see our favorite character...

A maternal gothic tale of new motherhood and the torment of a centuries-old haunting. Before the shadow appeared, Sofia thought mothering would be all sun-drenched light and white linen sheets, as seen advertised by the momfluencers of Instagram. In her gorgeous home anchored in...

From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a poignant story of survival and redemption, asking readers to question what it means to stop surviving and start living. Leigh is the last of the Wildes. She knows this because she watched them all die. Grief never truly fades and...

In this gripping thriller, truth and justice are called into question when a Black man is gunned down in cold blood—the first novel in a riveting series from renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump. “A sensationally good crime and legal thriller . . . This is exactly what a book...

When graphic designer Hazelle DuBois agrees to a professional mentorship with one of Farmerton, Georgia’s most respected architects, she expects guidance, structure, and a fresh start, not the unraveling of every belief she holds about trust, ambition, and love. Vincent Freeman c...

A fun, exciting, and informative guide to sexual health, wellness, and pleasure for women of color In Pleasure, Please! The Black Woman's Guide to Unapologetic Pleasure and Confidence, certified sex educator Ashley Cobb delivers a comprehensive and empowering new exploration of s...

Kyeriss and Joyous are fresh off the holidays on a rare high, warm, locked in, finally talking about a real future. Kids. Trips. Getting out the hood. Kyeriss swears he’s done with the streets and the bodies that came with his name, but the gun by the bed, the late calls, the way...

Some girls collect book boyfriends; others collect bad decisions. Harlowe Daye is a popular romance book content creator who has been invited on the biggest brand trip of her career. The problem? It’s a couples' retreat, and she doesn’t have a boyfriend to bring. After a string o...

When Sienna Carson takes on a high-stakes assignment in North Carrollton, one of her biggest fears is colliding with Montrell Doucet, the college sweetheart who broke her heart. For Montrell, Sienna’s sudden arrival, combined with the fact that she’s working with a company that c...

The last thing Malaki Mercer remembers before his life fell apart was his father, King, dropping him off at school. Before the bell rung, both of his parents were dead. Murdered at their own mansion. Detectives labeled it a home invasion, but there were no arrests or suspects. On...

When a simple “special delivery” turns into the nastiest, most unforgettable night of her life, Taelyn swears she only wants to run it back one more time. But wanting it and surviving it are two different things, especially when Ahmad is the one knocking. He may be younger, but h...

If you read Book One, you already know he doesn't play by anyone's rules but his own. Book Two is where everything he built gets tested. She survived 72 hours of captivity. She survived his obsession, his control, his unhinged need to possess everything he decided was his. What s...

Sometimes you got to burn some bridges, so people never cross you again. & Thats exactly what I did when I got out of jail and my husband wasn’t there. I was done, okay? Absolutely finished. As finished as a pregnant woman could be, anyway. I guess it’s if you want to make Go...

A cozy Omegaverse romance with soft Alpha devotion, bakery warmth, and slow-burn heat. Amara Brooks likes her life quiet. A curvy, kind, unmated Omega , she spends her days tucked away in a small-city library, surrounded by books and routine. After her cousin stole her Alpha year...

After graduating dental school and fighting for custody of her siblings, the last thing Eden Grey expected was to fall for her best friend’s brother, Jericho Bates. Jericho serves a seven-year bid for protecting his sister which causes a strain on his and his parents’ relationshi...

but.. he left us... Ja’Mya and Ja’Mila Choi: Two sisters who grew up with their loving mother, who raised them and instilled every loving quality they hold. Their bond is so tight, and they love each other more than anything. From childhood, they vowed to always have each other’s...

All Zaire did was agree to do his cousin a favor, not knowing it would put him in the last position that he wanted to be in…alone with Sade. Sade was the type of woman who knew what she wanted, even if it meant she couldn’t have it…including Zaire. One unlikely visit became the s...

Grief taught Tiana how to survive, not how to trust. Then losing the people she loved the most taught her that attachment is dangerous. So, she closes herself off and builds walls. She feels that solitude is safer than hope, and love is no longer an option for her until she meets...

Ellington Rome Blackwell vanished to protect the woman he loved. When he resurfaces years later, he is wealthier, colder, and far more dangerous than the man who disappeared. All he wants now is peace—and to make amends with the one person he left behind to protect... her. But pe...