African American Mystery Suspense

For college graduate Sidney Temple, the Roaring '20s bring opportunities even members of his accomplished black bourgeois family couldn't have imagined. His impulsive marriage to independent artist Loretta is a happiness he never thought he'd find. And when he's tapped by J. Edgar Hoover to be the FBI's first African American agent, he sees a once-in-a-lifetime chance to secure real justice.

Please Note: This is Book Two (2) of a Standalone Steries. You are not required to read Book One (1) to enjoy this story. “The past is never where you think you left it.” ― Katherine Anne Porter After the humiliation of being exposed and losing the subsequent trial, Mora is starting her life over with a new name, a new university, new friends, and a potential boyfriend. Her former life is defunct—or so she thinks. When a college party leads to an encounter with an old acquaintance, Mora realizes the past never stays buried. Old wounds are ripped open, and her former life collides ...

In this follow up to Fatal Beauty emotions run high while tempers flare out of control. From the brutal actions of a woman scorned to the husband and mistress that drove her into rage- a binary fury savagely on the rise. Violent repercussions stir the pot of a dish on the menu called revenge that in this quandary is best when served either hot or cold. Nothing held back, and no one is spared from the deadly wrath of a mother hell-bent on payback for the vicious/malicious attack on her beloved daughter, Delilah Jaxon.

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.

What is lurking in the clear waters of Lake Cahuilla in upstate White Oaks, New York? It seems when those that dive in for a cool splash or to take a rejuvenating swim, they do not always make it out of the loch alive. In such a lovely, inviting atmosphere there at the Backwater Summer Lake Resort And Water Park- where there is luxury lodging at the Red Brick Villa, luxury dining at the Lakeside Hideaway, luxury coffees and pastries at Cahuilla Lakeside Café, luxury entertainment and drinks at the Swinging Cahuilla Cocktail Lounge, luxury lake boat rides on the Brave-Waters Expedition, ...

Bambi is a trusted therapist who clients put their money and trust in. They share to her their innermost feelings and spill their deep darkest secrets. Bambi thought she had heard and seen it all until this one unusual client comes in for a session and manages to get inside to pick her brain. Bambi eventually starts to lose her grip and begins to wonder who the therapist is and who the client is. In a head game of truth and revelation, will this new client serve as a hard nut to crack- or will Bambi end up the one to crack up enough to kill?

Though surrounded by loved ones and friends Arlette Bardot feels old, lonely, and bored with her life. Filled with nostalgia she yearns for the times of long ago when her beauty reigned, and she blossomed in her youth. Perceiving herself as burnt out and over the hill Arlette seeks rejuvenation in the wrong place. A mystical remedy to cure her discontentment teaches her a lesson about searching out of her zone for restoration in a tabooed setting. Arlette learns too late that she should have been grateful for the life she already had instead of chasing behind a fleeting illusion that ...

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...

The Bledsoe Clan- Occult Power in The Bloodline From Caul births to the calling of the Orishas into the pathways of the Yoruba religion to the mystical powers that inhabit the universe. Festivity, food, fashion, creative celebratory culture. Living a lifestyle aligned to their nature. Unorthodox, unapologetic, and unafraid. Wishing well are wishes that come true as they do for Emery Bledsoe. In her rich culture and heritage, she learned early what she was able to do. The enigma to attract what she wanted had uncannily come as an advantage throughout her unusual, extraordinary life. In what ...

From the suspense thriller “Lady” comes “Paper Dolls” a standalone novel with the late Ingrid Eckhart’s daughter undertaking a high-stake in her career after the death of her mother then later running into the unabating Tex Hayes and Rory Holden—the lieutenant and sergeant—who would stop at nothing in their mission to take down her niece—the infamous Cora Eckhart— from the first tale in this elegantly told gritty trilogy saga. After scouting for talent to conduct a casting call, project manager and ex fashion model turned photographer Irma Eckhart uncovers the start of a ...

Some threads can’t be cut, no matter how far you run. Nerisse thought she had escaped the Loom and the haunting threads that wove her into a nightmare she couldn’t control. After facing trauma and supernatural horrors that nearly destroyed her, she believed her life could finally return to normal. She wanted to move forward, to rebuild, to heal. But the past has a way of finding you. When a series of unsettling events begin to disturb the fragile normalcy she’s built, Nerisse realizes the Loom’s reach is far from gone.

Sent to prison, Tyrone Stokes left his wife to raise their son, Marcus, alone. Now Tyrone is free, but 17-year-old Marcus is on Louisiana's death row for the murder of a young white girl. Convinced of his son's innocence, Tyrone will sacrifice everything to keep Marcus alive. Cry Me a River offers the distinctive blend of emotional power, vivid imagery, and rich characters that has brought its author national acclaim.

Take a moment and walk in the shoes of a 17-year-old Egyptian girl who was drugged, raped, and turned into a hoe. Meet a young single Black mother who lost her job and needed a way to make ends meet but ended up losing it all. Get to know a White runaway girl who started turning tricks just to eat. The one thing they all had in common was Tmac. He was a smooth monster who hid behind a charming smile.

Dmytryk Knight was a respectable man who had followed the blueprints for the American Dream: go to college, find the girl of your dreams, get married, buy a house on the affluent side of Detroit. He’d done it all by the book. But when a crippling recession annihilates the auto industry, Dmytryk and his wife, Cora, suddenly find themselves without jobs and in foreclosure. And after two years of taking any job they can find and trying to live honestly, they realize that integrity just doesn’t pay the bills.

A message in a bottle washes ashore. Two sisters then find their lives completely upended. This discovery reveals a chilling truth: their mother was not lost, but murdered. She died because of a powerful gift she possessed. Now, that same mysterious ability passes to them. They must learn to control it quickly. A dangerous conspiracy reaches deep into their quiet coastal town. Can these sisters confront the secret society that killed their mother? Or will the town’s dark past claim them next? Their fight for answers begins now.

His boat came in, but Denise Martine’s husband, Charles, wasn’t on it. Almost a year later, with his death still a mystery, Denise retreats to their vacation home on Kiawah Island to begin to sort out his affairs and her feelings amongst a group of her friends, only to be confronted with the mystery he left behind. Although she must go on, Denise feels as if something is not quite right with her husband's mysterious disappearance. Her suspicions are compounded as an old flame from college shows up and begins to poke around in what Denise considers to be a very private matter.

Security firm CEO David Price is living the rewards of hard work and determination. Single, self-employed, and satisfied with his life, he has it all. Things couldn’t be better. That is, until he meets sexy vixen Sugar Greer - a married woman with a dark history that she must hide, and who he vows to protect. When it’s all over, David and his client are left with blood on their hands. Caught in a web of abuse, theft, and murder, David must get back on the streets to clear his name. It’s a journey that will lead him to One Dead Preacher!

Sheriff Trinity Rosewood is proud to lead, serve and protect in the small, predominantly African American town where she grew up. It is a town that rarely sees murders, yet; suddenly men that work at the same hospital as her upstairs tenant are dying mysteriously. To complicate matters, Trinity begins to suspect her tenant Desdemona Valentine whom she already despises as a possible suspect. Things get real when the murders hit home. As her professional life suffers, and the residents question her capabilities , everyone around her becomes a target for murder. Trinity's love life is ...

Fed up with her married Miami boyfriend, savvy Dulce has no problem stealing his drug-dealer stash and fleeing to the Caribbean. Between her special skills - and an eye for very rich and/or very smokin' men - Dulce stays a hustle ahead of trouble and makes her new life one endless party in Puerto Rico. Until she's caught in Hurricane Maria - and witnesses both the heartbreaking disaster of climate change, and the international vultures who plunder the tragedy for a financial killing, making shady use of relief funds to devastate the island even more....