African American Mystery Thriller Suspense

Tall, dark, and handsome best-selling author Xavier Preston thought his nightmare - in the form of Pilar, a fanatical stalker/fan - had finally ended. Little does he know, it’s only beginning. When Xavier met Pilar, he got much more than he bargained for. What started out as an erotic one-night stand quickly turned into a dangerous game of obsession and pain, with both parties playing to win. Then...she simply disappeared.

In the New England university town of Elm Harbor, a murder begins to crack the veneer that has hidden the racial complications of the town's past, the secrets of a prominent family, and the most hidden bastions of African-American political influence. At the center is Lemaster Carlyle, the university president, and his wife, Julia Carlyle, a deputy dean at the divinity school - African Americans living in "the heart of whiteness".

A marriage of convenience saved Lady Abigail Worthing's family from disgrace, but she's finding her absent husband's endless conditions increasingly repressive. Unable to stay at their London home during the oncoming winter, she accepts a ride to the country from her neighbor, Stapleton Henderson. However, she's less than delighted that she's his excuse to avoid a dinner held by Lord Charles Duncan, one of London's most powerful—and relentless—magistrates.

At the tender age of ten, Shamara Fox witnessed the brutal murder of her mom and dad as they exited a Church in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn because of their community activist efforts to rid Canarsie of drug dealers. The gunman, Tommy Bossett, a henchman for a ruthless drug gang, escapes prosecution. As the years pass Tommy becomes immensely rich, while Shamara's life progresses into a living hell. After her release from prison, Shamara decides it is time to confront the demons of her past.

Angel Lamb has overcome many obstacles in her three decades of life. Rescued from an abusive environment at a young age, Angel has a realistic and cynical outlook on life, yet a strong sense of right and wrong. After she loses her wife in a tragic automobile accident, Angel seeks out the assistance of a local grief support group to help her deal with the crushing loss. When violence begins to find members of the group, Angel is forced to face her painful past as well as an uncertain future. In order to survive, she will have to challenge her own black and white view of good and evil.

She's blossomed from a wealthy surgeon's beautiful daughter to elegant socialite to being the top fashion stylist in the country. And Nora Mackenzie is only days away from marrying into one of New York's richest, most powerful families. But her fairy tale rise is rooted in an incredible deception - one scandal away from turning her perfect world to ashes.... What no one knows is that Nora is the biracial daughter of a Caribbean woman and a long-gone white father.

This is the bizarre and shocking story of Marshall Daniels. The odd deaths of celebrities and public authorities have sparked widespread interest across the nation. When Marshall joins a secret blood society, he quickly ties the disappearance to his new group. Whether he's ready or not, the intelligent young man is propelled into a position of authority for which he is dreadfully unprepared. When he meets the love of his life, it forces him to make a hard decision.

During the board meeting of the prestigious smartphone company Bluenak, a senior executive, filmed by one of his peers, rushes at one of his colleagues and tries to strangle him, as if possessed. It will take seven men to subdue him before he dies of a heart attack. On his way to California to investigate a biotech company, Vick Lempereur has no idea that he will have to face the most formidable opponent that has ever crossed his path, nor that this trail will finally lead him to Bluenak. In order to survive, physical and supernatural help will not be too much to ask for—that of the New ...

Anita is a young, strong black woman who made her dreams a reality: the house, the cars, a generous bank account, and a fiancé who was getting ready to go pro. Everything was perfect. She was only a step away from finishing her doctorate when her world was shattered. When Leah’s teenage love Dropp got caught up and sent away for a five-year bid, Brit, a low key hustler, was there to show her that she never had to be alone again. Leah fell hard for Brit, married him, and made a family. But now Dropp is home....

This is the story of five marriages and one gun. A British couple wonders at the unknowable city beyond their guarded compound while they build walls between themselves. An American suspects his new home is having an insidious effect on his "African queen" and their young daughter. An enthusiastic young intellectual follows his wife to the city and finds only disillusion. An intelligence officer loses a crucial piece of evidence. It will cost him his marriage, his girlfriend, and maybe his life.

Rashin joined the others in the recitation they always said before they ate: “We are the invisible hand of justice, the caretakers of humanity, the voice of reason when the world becomes unreasonable.” Rashin believed in those words.

In 1972, Veronica Smith is arrested for murdering her fiancé just one week before their lavish wedding. At just 11 years old, Alexandria Smith has just witnessed the horrid crime committed by her mother. Veronica tries maintaining a level of sanity in an insane environment, and sanity comes with a price that Veronica does not want to pay. Both Veronica and her daughter face tumultuous obstacles to rise above the torment they've endured as children; one will lean on her faith as the other loses sight of her faith.

A college computer guru develops a decryption program that breaks entry codes to secure websites, then stumbles upon a plot by urban terrorists to bomb Freaknic - the black college spring celebration - into oblivion. When the "techie" turns up dead, the police treat it as just another drive-by shooting. But his girlfriend screamed, "No way, Hozay!" So with the help of a rag-tag bunch of fraternity brothers, she takes matters into her own hands.

When a teenage girl witnesses a carjacking gone bad, she is marked for death by a crime boss. A lawyer and an enforcer forge an uneasy alliance to protect the girl from a hit man with an agenda of his own. Soon after, Paul Elliott - lawyer and close friend of the witness's family - begins counseling them and becomes entangled in the murder plot. As the long-simmering feud between Rico - the white enforcer - and the hitman John D'Angelo reaches boiling point, bodies start to pile up in rapid succession...and old scores will be settled.

An officer acquitted of multiple sexual assaults. Three missing witnesses. And, an unlikely hero's relentless pursuit of justice.... A man with a less than legal past must take the law into his own hands to find three missing women, in this fast paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller, from the author of Double Tap. Fans of Alex Cross, Jack Reacher, and the Porter series will love this book.

With the Black Lives Matter movement being widely relevant, hate crimes are on the rise, and Jennifer eyewitnesses the aftermath of Isaiah being shot - at the hands of her fiancé, Robert (on Independence Day). This event changed her life drastically as national headlines covered the “Fourth of July shooting”. With some protesting in Isaiah’s name, and others shaming him, Jennifer feels obligated to make an extremely risky decision.

Two African-American attorneys, the best of friends, find themselves opposing council in the legal battle for African-American slavery reparations from the United States, while navigating the U.S. legal system and wrestling with the resulting personal turbulences in their lives.

The reputation of Charles "Esquire" Everson was well-known throughout the community, and now all eyes are on his protégé, Theodore Walker. One morning, Michael Ganvis barged into the office, barefooted with a gun in one hand, and a problem in the other. He’s on the run for robbery, attempted murder, and eluding police officers. As Theodore listens, he discovers that Michael is the brother of Pastor Thaddeus Ganvis - the pastor who was arrested for first-degree-murder and freed from the hands of the enemy by Charles "Esquire" Everson.

When the actions of domestic terrorist’s kill millions of Americans and people worldwide, Dr. Marvin James is called to return from the vacation he planned for months with his sister Fiesta at their aunt’s large ranch in the country. When the poison is released, he becomes a target and must fight for his life, despite being one of the few people who can help find a cure. He calls in his best friend, Zach to help protect his sister and home against those who would destroy them. But Fiesta has changed and is not the person he thinks she is. Luke and Paula are expecting their third child ...

Clue, an exiled hypnotist from outer space, is in dire need to get back to her interstellar planet, Nubia, to rescue her parents from the insidious brainwashing agents: The Screens. Clue's obstacle...she's stuck on earth. Will Clue be tried and tested by the prim and proper boarding school, the School of the Unknown, or will earth's killer simulators get the best of Clue?