African American Contemporary

Dismayed at what she now has to consider her life, Loriana tries her best to balance it all. The unforeseen death of her mother has her suffocating in grief, feeling as if she’s lost it all. While struggling internally, she smiles on the outside to save face. That’s until she can no longer keep up her façade. When she least expects it, the breath of fresh air she was desperately gasping for is given. On a rollercoaster with her emotions, wondering how her first love became her first heartbreak, she finds herself. Those good days she prayed to God for had finally came around.

Morgan and Messiah share many things. Love, hate, lust, trauma, and children. They are bonded forever by the gift of parenthood, but Morgan's attachment to Messiah comes with immense pain. After the discovery of Messiah's condition, Morgan's conflict is intensified. She knows how healing the M&M bubble can be, but she also knows that Messiah has the ability to ruin her. Will Morgan finally take her second chance with her first love? Or will she make the hardest decision of all and let go of the past?

Blossom Baker has watched her sisters find love one by one. And just when she began to wonder when her Prince Charming would show his face, Roman Fields entered the picture, helping to bring all of her deepest desires to fruition.

The small town of Keatchie, Louisiana is growing and the town's folks are falling in love and learning to live by faith. In each of these books, you'll meet members of the Faltime Baptist Church and get a peek into their lives. About: INTENSE She’s been sidelined. And she’s wanting love just as much as me. I feel her… The pain of her past, The fear of letting another person in, And as much as I should be stuck, especially after what I witnessed, I find myself wondering about her story. I understand… The woman I wanted to love is too broken to let anyone in. She was bruised and bent ...

When their parents are discovered brutally murdered in a ditch, Kenya and London are left orphaned and forced to navigate the unforgiving streets of Detroit. They might be identical twins, but they are as different as night and day. While one of them fights relentlessly to make it out of the ghetto, the other eagerly embraces true hood life and everything their parents believed in - selling drugs, living fast, and even dying young (if it means getting paid!).

Upon her brother's death, missionary Rose Sayer and Charles Allnutt, disreputable skipper of the African Queen, become allies as, marooned in German Central Africa during World War I, they fight their old launch downriver 'to strike a blow for England'.

Nicole Whittaker finds herself battling deep insecurities and her struggles with self-love while being haunted by a terrifying past. Ensnared in the web of her cheating boyfriend’s dark secrets, Whitney’s caught up in the midst of fighting for her life. Beautiful and successful, Tyra appears to have it all. However, beneath the façade there’s someone weighing her down. Someone that should be uplifting her the most. Can these three make it through the storms that are brewing? Or will they end up losing both their hope and lives along the way?

When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. -William Shakespeare Molina King is young, successful, beautiful, and single. Love is not on her mind when she meets successful pediatric surgeon, Dr. Gavin Navarro, but it’s love at first sight. The two hit it off quickly and begin a whirlwind romance, and everyone around them thinks they’re crazy. Dr. Gavin Navarro meets Molina at the perfect time. She’s everything he never knew he wanted, and he’s ready for love just as she arrives. Their relationship is perfect until his ex-fiancée shows up, and all those old ...

Darnell is in hot water. All his past crimes have surfaced, causing him to lose it. He has kidnapped his sister and kids to hide his past from his wife. He's facing financial ruin, his reputation is tarnished, and he’s at risk to lose it all. He's got nothing left to lose, and he’ll drag his family down with him if he must. Cherish is about to face her most difficult struggle yet. After a failed suicide attempt, she must face the fact that she has been married to a sexual predator for years. Her entire life has been a lie, and it’s all she can do to not lose it for real. When another ...

Rochelle is a gorgeous sista who finally decides that instead of doing wrong, she wants to do right. Unfortunately, in the environment that she grew up in, doing right is a hard task to accomplish. It takes some trial and error, but she eventually gets her life on track…meaning by God’s grace, Rochelle is finally able to turn her failures into successes. When she meets a brotha who has the right ingredients to steal her heart, she soon finds out he’s already taken. But Rochelle’s a praying type of sista—she’s vowed to give God her all. Even though the man she’s fallen for is ...

The Witch Sphere is in turmoil. In the years since a stunning betrayal sent shockwaves through society, the Sphere was hit with another crisis: witches are giving birth to more typics (non-witches) and their numbers are diminishing. Nadia is determined to help but finds hers efforts at the Witch Health Organization entangled with the political machinations of her powerful mother.

Tina has no idea who she's married. He's abusive and it's evident that he doesn't love her. Why wouldn't he give her a divorce? He told her numerous times that he would kill her first, and she believes him. Finding comfort in the arms of Edward is a dangerous game, but she can't resist him. Her body craves him and though she may die for a lay, to her it's worth it to feel the comfort of a man that doesn't hurt her. Tina's husband has a secret that only he knows. Tina only knows what he wants her to know and that's not much. He has more on his mind than his current marriage. He wants his ...

At the most wonderful time of the year, two hearts discover that family is more than blood. When Kira Williams left the Christmas Cove Children’s Home for New York, she never dreamed she’d see her childhood best friend Xavier again. For that matter, she never dreamed she’d go back to Christmas Cove, the town where Christmas never sleeps… until Mrs. Davis asks for her help. After his adoption from the Christmas Cove Children’s Home at age eleven, Xavier Moore had everything he could ever want—family, love, security—everything except for the woman who had ruined him for all ...

Greed is defined as an excessive desire to possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially wealth and power. A gold digger is defined as a person who dates someone simply to extract money from them. Twenty-six-year-old Chanel Franklin fits both definitions to a tee. Her "Married to the Money" mentality leads her to make more than a few bad choices. On the road to riches, she gets caught up in a whirlwind affair with a certified baller.

Book Three: Perilous Connections Trilogy Daphne Blackthorne thinks the worst is over, she's already been shot and has survived, her husband Nate has stood stoically by her side. But the pain and terror has just begun. After Nate devastates her world, she must fight to hold it together and just when she starts to heal, the final hammer falls and she’s thrust into a nightmare from which there can be no escape. Nate Blackthorne has done everything wrong, until he married Daphne, but even that cannot save him from the desperate steps he must take to save the woman he adores. But he soon finds...

Rhythm Mitchell is a single mom who works, comes home, and spends time with her son. Her last boyfriend hurt her bad, so she swore off men and had no problem being alone. She stays away from drama unless necessary, and her worst enemy is her best friend's sister. Zahra feels like Rhythm has been around too long, which interfered with bonding moments with her sister. Zahra and her sister can’t stand one another, but when she needs Kalila’s help, will the animosity they have toward one another stand in the way?

Melody Mazyk lives under a microscope. As if being a black female senior manager in corporate America wasn't enough, she's the architect of a most unusual diversity issue; eighty percent of leadership positions under her, are held down by women of color. As power is the mother of protest, they were bound to come under attack. The attack comes from Dominic Counsel - a bitter black man with processed hair and a fat white wife, who recruits a few luscious men to woo the top black female executives into complacency and destroy this corporate utopia of Black Girl Magic. Melody and her high-...

Penny finds herself dateless when she’s invited to her cousin’s wedding. To make matters worse, the groom is her cheating ex! Desperate to save face, Penny resorts to contacting an escort service for her plus one. Little does she know, SFH is not what she expected. It’s a private matchmaking service for lonely immortals. Nicholas has spent centuries searching for his true mate and finally finds her in his lovely date for the night. He instantly falls for the shy beauty right away. Determined to make her his, he will do anything in his power to convince him that they belong together, ...

Zahi was young and living life to the fullest. Then, he was thrust into fatherhood and forced to change his outlook on life, love, and happiness. The self-proclaimed bachelor did not expect to be swept up in emotions he'd never felt. However, caring for his daughter, Zuri, charged a part of his heart that he thought was dead. The spark awakened a need for more out of life. From the moment he laid eyes on India, he was drawn to her. The pull was so intense, and no matter how many times he told himself to stay away from her, he just couldn't follow his own command.

Welcome to Ashberry Park, an elite and luxurious community in San Francisco, California where five wives have formed a friendship and help each other through the challenges in their lives. Blair and Landon Adams have built an extravagant life together. Landon is the owner of Adams’s Oil Company with franchises all over the country. Blair started a foundation, Queens in the Making, that helps young women receive scholarships and job opportunities. They have two children in college, Jeremy and Nova. Blair is proud of the success she and Landon have, but when Landon starts spending most of ...