African American Contemporary Urban

Fast-Paced and HOT Romance Seasoned with Suspense! Tony Gets in Trouble with the wrong people due to his mother’s gambling debts… Can Tanesha Save Him? Tony Panetta is a hot Italian guy, but his looks aren't going to get him out of trouble with the local weed mafia in Denver, Colorado. Paying off his mother’s gambling debt is the priority in his life until Tanesha Patterson walks into Pizza Pizza. When the single mother comes around looking for a job, he cannot turn her away. As they spend days and nights together, they begin to fall in love – until both their secrets come out. Can ...

Aspiring chef London Johnson gets to meet Chante when he delivers her dinner on a night when the restaurant where he works is short-staffed. As soon as he lays eyes on her, he wants her. Even though he knew she was older than him, that didn't stop him from asking her for her number. Flattered but uninterested, Chante decides to give him a chance, believing there is no way they'd have anything other than a physical connection. Within a matter of weeks, London steals her heart. But because of their age difference, Chante is terrified and puts up a fight, only to be defeated by love.

Audrielle Freeman hasn't really been dealt a fair hand when it comes to love. After having her heart broken for the last time, she decides to take a breather from relationships and focus on the thriving shoe store she owns with her sister, Ariana. Cairo Broussard isn't looking for love, but at the same time, he's open for it to happen if it comes. He never thought in a million years that he'd practically fall in love at first sight after walking into the custom shoe store one of his players told him about.

Alicia has been out of grad school for months. She has no career prospects and lives with her mom, who won’t stop texting her macabre news stories and reminders to pick up items from the grocery store. Then, one evening, the Jamaican water deity River Mumma appears to Alicia, telling her that she has twenty-four hours to scour the city for her missing comb. Alicia doesn’t understand why River Mumma would choose her. She can’t remember all the legends her relatives told her, unlike her retail co-worker Heaven, who can reel off Jamaican folklore by heart.

Ebony, Phoenix, and Joi are three 30-somethings with some serious man problems!

True friends are hard to come by, and even when you find them, it can be an all-or-nothing situation. Jada battles with being the glue that holds her group together, and she finds herself continuously stuck in the middle of her four girlfriends’ family and relationship drama. Together, the girls witness life and death, sticky situations, and the pros and cons of relationships. Their true dedication to their friendship is tried again and again, but there’s only so much a chick can take. Once each girl has reached her boiling point, there’s no telling who will get burned.

Preston is a man who has everything. He has the perfect job, lives in the perfect home, and has the perfect wife. Life is going great for him until tragedy strikes when his wife, Nia, is killed in a car accident leaving the marketing executive alone for the first time in over fifteen years. As Preston continues to adjust to his new life, his friends, CJ and Bryan, try to warn him about what’s to come on the sixth month anniversary of his wife’s death, which ends his official mourning period in single women’s eyes. He’s on the cusp of being the most desirable man in the office, which...

A tragic accident nearly claims Vanessa Mitchell’s life, one that leaves her trapped in a world of the unknown. When she awakens from a coma at Eastwood, the mystery deepens once she meets her elusive fiancé. Dangerous, sexy, and mysterious, her Italian billionaire lover exists in a world of hidden secrets, and she’s immediately drawn to him. Once he snares her heart, she becomes entangled in his wicked web of deceit, pleasure, and pain. Sebastian Armani is driven by revenge, and he plans to exact that very thing as he kidnaps his nemesis’s intended bride on the day of their wedding....

For some, love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends in tears. For four friends from Queens, it's about to get complicated....

“You never fall in love by yourself, love captures you. Love comes to you when you don’t need it really, and it comes to an end when you need it the most.” ~Farah Mustafa Love is one of those things that is not always there when you want it, but it is always on time. Love can never be anticipated. It is a force that comes when you least expect it. Raised by a single mother with an estranged father and two half-brothers thrown in the mix, Freedom “Free” Calloway’s life was one that some may call dysfunctional. Contrary to popular beliefs, Freedom loved her life; that is, until ...

At 72, Johnny Ribkins shouldn't have such problems: he's got one week to come up with the money he stole from his mobster boss or it's curtains. What may or may not be useful to Johnny as he flees is that he comes from an African American family that has been gifted with superpowers that are a bit, well, odd. Okay, very odd. For example, Johnny's father could see colors no one else could see. His brother could scale perfectly flat walls. His cousin belches fire. And Johnny himself can make precise maps of any space you name, whether he's been there or not.

Talented author Dakota Bibbs has deemed herself unlucky in love. She only dreams of experiencing a connection with a man similar to the ones she writes about in her novels. After ending a tumultuous five-year relationship, Dakota has decided to focus on herself and her blossoming business for the time being. Love will just have to wait. Other than dealing with her worrisome ex, things are going well for her. Then on cue, Giannis Williams enters her life.

Tamika isn't afraid of a challenge, but going undercover in a white biker gang might be biting off more than she can chew. Falling for the white VP of the gang was never part of the plan. When her secret comes out, will he still want anything to do with her? Warning: This story contains some seriously steamy scenes between an undercover black reporter and a sexy white biker. Adult readers only.

When we last left Ava Marie Grant, the former Mistress was marrying Pastor Gregg Davis. Now only armed with the Bible, she is the First Lady of her new husband’s church. Ava quickly finds out that there is far more drama in the church than in her former life. What’s worse is people are now looking to her for guidance. How does a worldly woman new to the church counsel people that like her, struggle with their faith? This book is the final installment that began with Love & Sex, and The Mistress Rules.

Eve is a recovering drug addict, who was just released from prison to a female Christian halfway house. She signed up for the halfway house not to recover but to learn how to stop using drugs so often. Eve has no intentions of staying clean until she meets Reverend Washington. Reverend Washington's wife dies during childbirth, and Eve seduces the newly widowed reverend until she becomes his new wife and the mother to the reverend's three young children. But Eve is very resentful of the deceased Mrs. Washington and plots to make her husband's first wife look like a lying adulterer.

After the demise of her relationship with longtime boyfriend DonTravious, Nicole thought God had truly blessed her the day Kendrick Taylor walked into her life; her prayers for a lasting love had been answered. Life with him was bliss - until he walked out of her life without a second thought, leaving her more broken and alone than she'd ever felt. Nicole resigned herself to the fact she was going to be alone. She was tired of looking for love and only being left out in the cold. She was content to mourn the love she'd lost...or rather never had with a now happily married Kendrick.

Ray and Mckayla flee the family’s annual Thanksgiving party before Shawn has the chance to confront them about their affair. During the three days they go MIA, and with Lindsey’s help, Shawn concocts a revenge plot against them. Unaware of all the deep, dark secrets he would dredge up by doing so, Shawn travels down to Texas to apprehend Mckayla’s father for the murder of his sister. Shortly after he returns with his prisoner, things quickly begin to spiral out of control, causing someone to lose their life. Ray is forced to participate in the cover up, and to continue to work side by...

How was Locksie supposed to tell her boyfriend that she had gone off to church and fallen in love with another man? Locksie grew up in the church - against her will - thanks to her holier than thou mother. But now that she's all grown-up, she's her own woman and church is the last thing on her mind; her live-in boyfriend, Dawson, is the first. When Locksie finally decides to go back to church, she ends up finding more than she could have ever expected.

This rescue is a matter of life or death for everyone. Will Grace be found before it’s too late, or will Jason come to his senses and let her go? Wilson and Michael are desperate to get the women they love back home at any cost. How will the couples deal when their secrets are exposed? The Johnson family’s past and present will be uncovered by Detective Sanford as he hits the streets to find Janice. The FBI finds a few answers and clues that will change lives forever. Tragedy will either bring people you love closer or rip them apart. Families, friends, and couples’ relations will be ...

Love continues to fail Nia and with the arrival of her daughter she doesn’t have the time or energy to pour into her failing relationship with East. Money is no longer the only thing on her mind; her daughter is. Nia realizes that family is above everything else and so she steps back from the demands of being a boss and running her own company. Torn between pride and his past, East uses the poor excuse of “not being enough” for his beloved Nia as the reason why he’s not around.