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Oct 18 - Oct 24, 2026

  • Kincaid: Part Oneby B.W. Lacey
    Not ratedpublished October 18, 2026

    Not every love story is a romance. Some are the beginning of a nightmareBefore there was Seth. Before there was Luke. Before the Kincaid name became something people feared, there was Richard Kincaid. Samantha Whitmore never imagined Richard Kincaid would change the course of her...

  • An 800 year old Kitsune bound to the Japanese Mafia. A Voodoo Witch love-cursed. Yoichi is a powerful kitsune who has spent centuries protecting a bloodline and accepting that whatever curse chained him to his mafia boss, the Dragon, took his fated mate too. He has survived the b...

  • A Night To Remember: A Halloween Noveletteby De' Andrea
    4.46 avg ratings, 6 reviewspublished October 19, 2026

    After running from her grief and all things Eastland, Milani Young returns to her hometown to visit her best friend and attend their alma mater’s Halloween night homecoming celebration. But the emotional baggage she still carries makes the evening anything but fun or nostalgic. U...

  • Luv 4 Sy 2 : A YK Street Lover Novelby Natavia
    Not ratedpublished October 19, 2026

    Luv 4 Sy 2 picks up right where Part One left off. Sy is home, but freedom comes with a reality he wasn’t prepared for. The world kept moving while he was gone, people changed, loyalties shifted, and the life he once knew no longer looks the same. Golden has done her best to move...

  • Five girlfriends. One forgotten night. And a woman who was never supposed to matter. Six years after one reckless night in Vegas, Ares Delacroix and Azaria Laveau are thrown back into each other’s lives under circumstances neither of them saw coming. Ares remembers exactly who sh...

  • Before We Let Goby Airicia Jones
    4.4 avg ratings, 5 reviewspublished October 20, 2026

    72 hours together. A marriage in crisis. One last chance at forever. After almost thirteen years together, ten years of marriage, and two children, Sanaa Brooks is ready to walk away from the life she and Leo built together. But before she does, Leo asks for one final chance. One...

  • What Remains Is Graceby Tina N. Shelton
    Not ratedpublished October 20, 2026

    Award-winning author pens a moving literary tale about the inconvenience of aging and the power of going home It's 1997, and college grad Grace Downing is taking the next big step in her career: a teaching job on the North Shore of Chicago. She packs up her life and makes the jou...

  • The Queen’s Command (Queen's Spade, #2)by Sarah Raughley
    Not ratedpublished October 20, 2026

    The Inheritance Games meets Bridgerton in the riveting companion novel to The Queen's Spade , where our heroine must play a deadly game and risk everything to get to the truth that’s poisoning Victorian England’s royal court. Favored by Queen Victoria, Vicky Davies has survived r...

  • Knight of the God Kingby Lauren Blackwood
    Not ratedpublished October 20, 2026

    A powerful knight and her handsome squire must stop the deadly schemes of a savior king in this romantic fantasy of dark deeds and court intrigue. Calliope’s wish has always been to become a knight, an elite healer and protector who uses music to summon magic. Yet despite her exc...

  • La'Belle Mafia : A Forced Marriage Romanceby Roxanne Taylor
    4.58 avg ratings, 6 reviewspublished October 20, 2026

    La’Belle Evans lives by one rule: take from men before they take from you. She learned the game from her mother and never once let a man get close enough to cost her anything. Then she meets Cardez Montague, next in line to the biggest crime family in New York, and decides he’s g...

  • Everything's Not Lostby Frederick Joseph
    5.0 avg ratings, 1 reviewpublished October 20, 2026

    A heart-wrenching yet vividly hopeful novel about a Black girl's struggle to find the quiet beauty in life and friendship amid the chaos of grief and mental illness by New York Times, USA Today , and Indie bestselling author Frederick Joseph. "Frederick is such a grounded and bea...

  • Promised To A Menaceby Keisha J.
    Not ratedpublished October 20, 2026

    Shakaylen Barrett had everything going for herself. At twenty-five, she had a career she loved, plans to open her own business, and a family she thought she could always count on. The last thing she expected was for the man she’d trusted her entire life to be the same person resp...

  • In a small town, every road leads back to the one person you can never forget. Dial Birch has never needed saving. She’s built her life with her own two hands. In Hume, Tennessee everyone knows Dial: the woman who can propagate a dying orchid back to life, who’ll throw a right ho...

  • Some things take years. Some things take one Friendsgiving and too much wine. Look, I've been in love with Hollis Cochran since college. Which is a problem, because she's my brother's best friend, she hosts a podcast about Black queer joy, and she's been rotating through girlfrie...

  • My Baby Daddy's Secretby Lady Lissa
    Not ratedpublished October 20, 2026

    After being betrayed by the man she sacrificed everything for, Kameron has no interest in falling in love again. Then she meets Andrew, a successful real estate developer who seems to be everything her ex wasn’t. Patient, attentive, established, and consistent, Andrew slowly brea...

  • Off Balance (The Heights, #2)by Paula Chase
    Not ratedpublished October 20, 2026

    Gossip is juicier, secrets are bigger, and tensions are higher than ever in this riveting sequel to Balancing Act . Hot Lipz, everyone’s favorite–or least favorite–Chatter account is back at it, stirring up gossip among the rival schools in Da Icy City. Selena knows that it’s onl...

  • The Love She Needed: Episode Twoby Johnazia Gray
    Not ratedpublished October 21, 2026

    Mil kids are left to pick up the pieces of a life filled with pain, secrets, and unfinished business. With their mother’s murder shaking their world, Zariah, Lips, and Jaylen are forced to face grief, betrayal, and family wounds that run deeper than anyone wants to admit. Just wh...

  • Latoya is fighting to find her way out of grief after losing her brother while struggling to keep her head above water financially. Desperate for a way out of the hole she's fallen into, she's willing to do the unthinkable for her best friend, Kharti. Kharti is married to Caine E...

  • Strict Program : An Unhinged Ghetto Love Storyby Indica
    Not ratedpublished October 21, 2026

    If you let me tell it, my daddy wasn’t nowhere near a saint in the streets, and he damn sure ain’t raise me to be nobody’s cute little sweetheart either. More like one of the coldest hood chicks straight out of D.C. I knew how to get what I wanted and didn’t care who had a proble...

  • His Favorite Felonby B. Nicole Anderson
    4.75 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished October 21, 2026

    Justice Kingsley Jr. went to prison after unknowingly grabbing the wrong suitcase for a girls' trip and crossing paths with the most connected man in the streets, Link. Behind bars, she finds comfort in the last person she should Officer Legend, a correctional officer who promise...

  • Love Don't Cost A Thingby Niecee Wilson
    3.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished October 21, 2026

    Shanice Jackson isn't looking for love. She's running for her life. With a past she refuses to discuss and a secret that could put her in even greater danger, the last thing she needs is Cameron Taylor—moody, arrogant and dangerously irresistible. Cameron has money, power and no...

  • Fever Bridgeby Akpoebi Nora Ojeke
    Not ratedpublished October 21, 2026

    One bus. One bridge. No way out. When a public bus stalls in the choking heat of Lagos’s Third Mainland Bridge, what begins as an ordinary traffic jam descends into a nightmare. A strange sickness grips the passengers—screaming, coughing, convulsing—until bodies start to drop. Th...

  • Jade (The De León Dynasty, #2)by Desiree Moodie
    Not ratedpublished October 21, 2026

    When the two lives Jade Monroe has fought to keep separate finally collide, hiding is no longer an option. Jade has always lived in compartments. Banker. Daughter. Sister. The woman secretly in love with Cristóbal “Crimson” De León, Brooklyn’s most dangerous man. She keeps the do...

  • Protected by A Goonby Chyna Alexis
    Not ratedpublished October 22, 2026

    Xiyah is ready to leave Hasan in her past because, as far as she’s concerned, the man she thought she loved isn’t the man he’s been pretending to be. And as much as she loves him, playing the fool for anybody, especially him, is something she refuses to do. But Hasan isn't willin...

  • It's Always Been Youby Shani Denise
    4.25 avg ratings, 4 reviewspublished October 22, 2026

    She spent years loving a man who made her question her worth. When Lisa finally chooses herself and walks away, she returns home determined to heal, rebuild, and remember the woman she used to be. She wasn't looking for love. Especially not in the middle of Target. And definitely...

  • “Living with Sincere Steele was supposed to make our lie more believable. Nobody warned me I might start believing it too.” — Camille Camille Banks has spent her entire career knowing exactly how to handle complicated situations, but moving herself and her niece into Sincere Stee...

  • Five years ago, the Skeleton Man murdered my boss inside Terror Acres. I was the only witness. Before he disappeared, he promised he would come back for me. Now Halloween has arrived again, and a jack-o’-lantern appears on my porch with a chilling IT’S BEEN 5 LONG YEARS. Then my...

  • Miles From Yesterday: A Road Trip Romanceby Jamiya T.
    Not ratedpublished October 23, 2026

    After catching her fiancé cheating, Willonia Evans is left heartbroken and questioning her future. Khalil Bellamy, reeling from the discovery that the child his ex-girlfriend birthed isn’t his, is also struggling to rebuild his shattered trust. When their paths unexpectedly cross...

  • Where We Start (The Becoming, #1)by Anita Best
    Not ratedpublished October 24, 2026

    Set against the vibrant backdrop of Ontario and the milestones of early adulthood “Where We Start” is an emotional, character-driven romance about ambition, friendship, family, and the kind of love that feels both terrifying and inevitable. Olanma Eze has always been focused on t...