African American Suspense Thriller

While searching for her brother’s killer, Deondra “Dee Dee” Davis, out of jail on bail, must deal with a ruthless drug lord, the mob-connected Robinson brothers, a hired assassin, and unexpected love - all while eluding Detectives Gary and Perkins, who want nothing more than to see her behind bars.

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.

Harlem, 1936: Lena Aldridge grew up in a cramped corner of London, hearing stories of the bright lights of Broadway. She always imagined that when she finally went to New York City, she’d be there with her father. But now he’s dead, and she’s newly arrived and alone, chasing a dream that has quickly dried up. When Will Goodman—the handsome musician she met on the crossing from England—offers for her to stay with his friends in Harlem, she agrees.

🩸 He thought his biggest threat was a failing marriage—until the darkness in his blood came calling. Book Two in the Embracing the Darkness Series When celestial guardians crossed the divide between the seen and unseen, they created a bloodline born of desire and destined for war. Meet DeMarco Thomas. His life was built on secrets—and a mysterious past he never knew existed. What begins as a crumbling marriage and rising crime in his city quickly spirals into something darker. A supernatural legacy awakens. Hidden enemies close in. And DeMarco is forced to confront a truth that could...

Dee Dee is as laid back, sassy, and cute as they come, but having two overprotective brothers like Jay and Bee, who have clout in the Memphis streets, makes finding and building a relationship seriously hazardous to a brother's health. Things move fast for Jay and Bee after hooking up with a new contact. All of the training that Jay was secretly putting Dee Dee through comes into play as Jay and Bee are locked up in the county jail for selling to an informant. The game is dominated by thugs until Dee Dee hits the scene.

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.

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.

Gabriel Reid has led a life of good luck, and holds an important office in a prominent Atlanta construction company. But good fortune doesn't always last. Isaiah Battle arrives from the slums of Chicago, where he grew up in poverty, surviving by his wits and a hidden inner power. Isaiah is Gabriel's half-brother, and now he wants to claim the life he believes is rightfully his. The stage is set for an epic battle between brothers: a battle that will leave only one man standing.

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...

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.

When business mixes with pleasure, passions ignite in the Book Shop Zara knows romancing her boss is a recipe for disaster, but she can't resist the powerful attraction between them. Alex is the older, successful owner of a thriving bookstore chain who could threaten everything Zara has worked for with just a flick of his wrist. Yet from the moment the beautiful young black woman begins working for Alex's company, the confident white executive pursues her relentlessly, unable to deny their explosive chemistry. Strict rules against office relationships exist for good reason, but Alex and ...

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.

Charlie knows that she’s not an angel... Charlie constantly finds herself reminiscing about the good times at grandma's house. She recalled her brother and sister playing outside while she helped Grandma Rose pick greens from the garden. The delicious soul food, the gospel teachings, and getting eggs from the chicken coop were only a few of the fond memories that entertained Charlie. Unfortunately for Charlie, those good memories were always plagued by the grim reality of her everyday existence. Although she strives to be everything that her grandma taught her to be, Charlie knows that ...

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.

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...

In this fictional California town of Ramona life is kind until a sudden flow of recent events come to threaten the immediate future of a young woman who is resistant to change and not prepared for the misfortune that occurs. When all goes wrong, and Cora Eckhart’s life turns upside down she chooses a path that leads into a world of uncertainty, instability, and risk. Aware of the imperilment that she faces, Cora has a plan, one that eludes the law and those who are blazing on her trail. With nothing else left but to fight and to survive, she takes on a double life that takes the lives of ...

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 ...

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....