New Releases by Black Authors

Blair Miller has always lived life on her own terms. When her sister announces a whirlwind engagement, Blair returns to Boston from Paris to help plan the wedding. But nothing prepares her for the moment she meets Calvin Stirling— her sister’s fiancé. Older, powerful, intimidatin...

Cerys Halbrook has built her career on a single belief: not every monster needs to be destroyed. As Assistant Director of Research for the ECPS, she studies what others fear: cryptids, possession events, extradimensional threats, and the impossible creatures that slip through the...

Aria Price arrived at Horizon Point University determined to start over, committed to her future music career. But once Chase Knight reappears, the past she assumed was left behind comes rushing back. As middle school classmates with secret crushes they never confessed, their con...

Medusa’s story didn’t end. It went on, and on and on… Now her time is up. The gorgon of mythical infamy now goes by Onyx; the latest in a long line of reincarnations. She gets by, avoiding attachments that make immortality more unbearable. She wouldn’t have chosen this life. But...

Like a 90s R&B album, Love in the Key of Black is a collection of slow-burning Black romance stories where love moves in rhythm, and every story is a track. In New Orleans, a disciplined classical pianist collides with a magnetic street musician who plays by feel, not rules....

Two couples. Two solid relationships. One decision that was never supposed to mean anything. Felix and Summer. Johneil and Promise. They’ve built their lives on loyalty, routine, and trust. The kind that feels unbreakable. Nights spent together, laughs that come easy, and a bond...

For Thurgood Marshall Academy's best and brightest--five friends who've been thick as thieves since kindergarten--this spring break is all about forgetting: they want nothing more than to wash away last year's tragedy, and the human-shaped hole it left in their friend group. It's...

A girl with a mission. A god with a deal. A story that could change everything. When 17-year-old Akoma Addo stumbles into a world of ancient gods and modern magic, she’ll have to choose between saving her father… or staying true to everything she’s ever believed. Akoma Addo has o...

Kenya Stewart is so close to getting her dream position at an event agency. When a scheduling blunder risks her promotion, she hopes an upcoming pitch will give her a second chance. But an accident at her cousin's wedding sends her to the emergency room in the care of another wed...

The legendary urban lit author returns with a new character, a new city, a new series, as AUWA Books makes its first foray into fiction. Toussaint Batiste is returning home to the City of Brotherly Love hoping he can, for once in his life, outrun his Trouble. Toussaint has been i...

A cinematic, razor-sharp novel following a backlot fixer’s daring investigation into the suspicious death of a closeted Black actor within the glamorous world of Hollywood, from the bestselling author of My Government Means to Kill Me Xavier C. Barlow, one of Hollywood’s young Bl...

DELUXE EDITION–featuring gorgeous deep turquoise sprayed edges! The next exciting novel in Rebecca Johnpee's Wicked trilogy where dark steamy mafia romance meets heist thriller. Elio They say obsession is a weakness. But I’ve never been stronger. No distractions. No softness. No...

After losing his wife five years ago in a car accident, Warren’s life has drastically changed. Every day he feels the emptiness in his home and in his heart. Even his career as one of the top quarterback coaches in the league is no longer fulfilling. The one thing keeping him gro...

Cat St. Clair is ready for her messy love triangle era now that she’s in an open relationship. But she didn ’ t foresee a forbidden love triangle with the only two people who are off limits: her boyfriend’s best friend and his girlfriend. Being a twenty-something writer who lives...

A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law—a prosecutor and a madam—who team up to bring down notorious Mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York Eunice Carter, assistant district attorney for the City of New York and Manhattan’s first Black female...

PRINTING WITH SPECIAL STAINED EDGE From the award-winning New York Times and Indie bestselling author of Ace of Spades comes a mystery about five teen geniuses, their billionaire father, and the aftermath of his murder—perfect for fans of The Inheritance Games, Umbrella Academy ,...

THIS IS A NOVELLA SEQUAL. Blood slicks the floor where champagne should’ve spilled. Six months before his wedding, Oath Kreed stands in the wreckage of what was supposed to be the happiest night of his life, staring at a body that never should’ve been there. Someone breached his...

Amara never fit inside the life her mother built, one dripping in wealth, secrets, and pills she’s forced to swallow “for her own good.” Her mother, Paige, has spent years trying to silence the voice haunting Amara’s mind. But the voice hasn’t faded. It’s only getting louder. And...

Welcome to Lagos; where love is a transaction, survival is an extreme sport, and the ‘soft life’ always comes with a hidden price tag. Chiamaka falls for a generous married man she swore she’d never entertain. Kimberly discovers that beauty pageants hide dangerous secrets beneath...

Holding on to a vision God had given her, Emerald Keith spent her days working at an art museum and her weekends immersed in church activities with her best friend, Sunshine. When God suddenly commanded Emerald to ‘be still’ after a car accident, she had no choice but to sit all...

Kairi has spent years trying to break out of the friend zone with Zale, her teammate and long-time crush. But no matter how hard she tries, he only sees her as a friend---with the occasional benefits. Frustrated and heartbroken, she doesn't know how to make him realize she's the...