African American Mystery Suspense

From Richard Wright comes a compelling story of one man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself—a man of superior intellect who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes. The Outsider is an important work of fiction that depicts American racism and its devastating consequences in raw and unflinching terms. Brilliantly imagined and frighteningly prescient, it is an epic exploration of the tragic roots of criminal behavior.

Banks Wales can’t catch a break. After losing his son in a failed prison escape scheme, Banks is immediately forced to deal with the stowaways on his plane - Mason and his family. Forced to take them to his private island, he is immediately greeted by Whoyawanmetabe, the mystery man who did odd jobs for him back in America.

Retiree Eugeena Patterson has picked up some new activities which include volunteering at an afterschool program and helping her future daughter-in-law plan a wedding. Eugeena is more than thrilled to see her son, Dr. Cedric Patterson, a longtime bachelor soon wed his girlfriend, Carmen Alpine. During wedding planning errands, Eugeena notices a man is tailing her and Carmen. When Eugeena finds out the man is Carmen's ex-husband, this lessens her enthusiasm for the upcoming nuptials, especially since Carmen had failed to share this information about her past.

Two Orphans. One Love. As Ashley researches her heritage, she uncovers news that may change her life forever. Josh wants nothing to do with her at first so he can hang onto his trust fund. During a trip to New Orleans, their world changes forever. Will they come to terms with their relationship? Does love know no bounds? Find out today in this exciting new billionaire romance novella.

When contract killer Cooper Franklin makes a deathbed confession, his revelations upend the lives of two strangers, setting them on an intersecting and ruinous path that imperils them both. Widow and single mom Tamara Foster must reckon with the mystery of her late husband’s death and the secrets he left behind. As she digs deeper into his past to discover that she never truly knew him at all, her carefully reconstructed world begins to crumble all over again.

Most of us are aware of the age old saying ‘Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.’ Well Ryder Haynes is the exception, being completely oblivious to the fact that words carry weight she learns about the power she holds in her tongue the hard way. Twelve years ago, Ryder uttered the cruelest words no daughter should ever say to their mother. Now she’s back home to bid her mother a premature farewell. However, Ryder soon learns that her mother’s death wasn’t from natural causes and her death may possibly have been at the hands of someone very close to her. Once...

Torn between steamy, passionate nights between the sheets and the truths she doesn't want to face, Margo Harris unravels mysteries from her past as she forms ties with a dangerous group of people. Determined to rebuild the fragments of her previous life, she clings to the sexy and magnetic Salvatore Mazzillo for comfort he can't truly provide, finding herself deeper and deeper in a world she can't escape. A breathtakingly sensual and suspenseful ride that will have you questioning what real love means.

Sand Cove is a beautiful secret haven tucked away from the city, entirely off-limits to everyone except for its residents. Sand Cove seems like the picture-perfect place to live, but when Luca Moretti is found dead in his home, FBI agents Tyler and Stanton expose the residents' deepest secrets to find his killer.

With a drug addict mother and a drug lord father, Aphtan learns how to fend for herself at an early age. Being the princess of an empire has its perks - until her father gets arrested. From stealing clothes and food to committing fraud, Aphtan does what she has to do to take care of her mother and herself. But when her schemes prove problematic, she turns to a new hustle: dancing at Pearl Tongue, the most notorious strip club in Texas.

In Calico Springs, Willie’s life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The “miracle boy” died for five minutes as a young child, and ever since, Willie is certain he survived for a reason, but that purpose didn’t become clear until he found the Game. The Game is called Manifest Atlas, and the concept is simple: enter an intention and the Game provides a target—a blinking blue dot on the map. Willie’s second time playing Manifest Atlas, his intention takes him to an ominous target: three empty graves. Willie is sure the Game is telling him he’s going to die.

Trained to be a Special Forces killer, Leader came back from his tours of duty broke - and near-broken. So when the streets came calling, he rose from ruthless hood enforcer to a powerful international cartel's most feared "cleaner". And when tragedy hit home, his sensitive son, Justus, turned out to be a natural assassin - and unshakably loyal to his father. Together, they are an unstoppable team that leaves no trace behind.... Until a mysterious woman from nowhere begins working Leader's deep-hidden weaknesses. Slowly, she's exploding all his secrets....

Sabiduría familiar sigue a las Marte a través de este período liminal, mientras se preparan para el velorio de Flor y lo que vendrá después. Con excepcional maestría, y su inconfundible y deslumbrante voz poética, Elizabeth Acevedo teje la epopeya de las Marte: una familia sinigual que, como cualquier otra, deberá romper el conjuro del silencio para empezar a escribir su futuro.

A marriage made in heaven, or a marriage made in hell Ask Paisley Cresswell as she has taken one of her vows extremely seriously—until death we part. Paisley does not plan to stay around for bad or for worse or for in times of sickness or prospering health. Some people get married for love, some people get married for security, some people get married because of pressure from their family, and some people get married for show. Paisley got married to tie up loose ends. Yet at the end of a plan to cut all ties—a means to an end becomes a knot not so able to be loosely untied.

Two small-town women’s dream jobs in New York City turn into deadly nightmares when they discover someone is willing to kill to take their place and thrive unethically in this two-part story of intrigue and corruption that surrounds in the workplace.

Do lies become the truth within corrupt situations? Or is it that malicious actions and scandalous deeds are justified by those who believe in their own untruths? Deep in the heart of the small, quiet, picturesque rural and urban towns of upstate New York lie lust, greed, jealousy, deceit, murder, and mystery among those who call themselves friends. In an environment of this nature, one would surely ask—who needs enemies when you have friends like these? These people do more than smile in each other’s faces while plotting behind one another’s backs. Bold and shameless facades, suspect...

Join Rowan Hayes in his venture to France to start new after he loses the love of his life. Finding it hard to get over Aurora his sister, Nola Hayes, recommends for him to spend time off from his job to take a vacation to France—where she lives and is the manager of her own cafe. A cafe that just further serves as a reminder of Aurora as she once worked at the Bakery Boutique Irresistible Bites Bakehouse and Cafe back in Long Island, the first place they had ever met before dating and coming close to marriage. On Rowan’s vacation from Roslyn, New York—which Nola hopes will become her...

Heir to the infamous DeLuca drug cartel fortune, Angel DeLuca walked away from it all for a normal life - until a wrenching betrayal shattered his belief in anything but saving his family's hard-won legacy. He's come back to lead the DeLuca empire - no matter the cost. But his most dangerous rival is the one woman whose fierce determination he can't resist....

In the beautiful county of Luxaha on the coast of the Notaro Bay shores above the Tomosa river in the city of Winterly, Virginia sits the luxurious home of the wealthy African American Dorrance family who propitiously struck gold in the oil and gas industry. Inside the extravagant mansion covered on lush, opulent grounds—filled with amenity and high-end living—lies a dark secret waiting to become unfold. When Deane Dorrance arrives home one night to find that a seemingly accidental death had taken place on the staircase like the incident on the staircase that had taken place seven years...

Aspen is an artist with a hidden talent one that goes beyond his paintbrush and easel. While he is successful in his work life as a cartoonist and comic book illustrator loved by both his sister Amiyah and his best friend Xander he suffers immensely in his personal life. Aspen has no luck with the ladies. Women that he finds interest in have no interest in him. They paint him out as one who they could not picture themselves with and there is no shortage to them expressing their unkindness and showing him their cruelness. Fed up with the constant mistreat and disrespect from the objects of ...

Do to others as you would have done unto you or do to others what they have done to you? One should ask Delilah, the beauty with a score to settle against those who inhabit her world. When an incident of disturbance shake-up Delilah’s life, she becomes twisted, diving into the arms of men who cannot resist her fire. Ready to burn each one in her passion- things turn deadly. While Delilah plays a dangerous game of laying traps for those who cannot break free- even when she chooses to let go and cut loose- danger comes to bite back at a cost where murder inevitably will pay.