African Fantasy

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia's epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm in Alabama, where he's being sent to heal from a tragedy. But on his first night there, he accidentally ripps open a chasm into the MidPass, a volatile place with a burning sea, haunted bone ships, and iron monsters that are hunting the inhabitants of this world.

Three years ago, on Halloween, Kindle lost her fiancé, LP (and her brother Kelvin), in a fatal car accident. Left behind to do life alone, Kindle lives every waking moment, thinking of her one true love while raising their child. Dreading the fun and spooky holiday of ghosts, jack-o'-lanterns, & trick or treat, Kindle strives to stay lifted for the sake of her daughter who enjoys everything about the particular time of the fall season. The love Kindle has for LP never died. When asked what she would do if had the chance to see him again, Kindle claims she would do anything. The only thing ...

Aryan, after giving up her hopes of a human life, is now forced to watch as her twin sister Kehlani lies asleep. A punishment that Aryan and own mother, the Queen of the Sirens themselves enacted with guilt. She goes on to marry her Merman prince to unite their people as she was always meant to do. Yet, she feels that half of her is missing. Will she ever see her sister awake again? Or will this punishment part them forever? Kehlani lies in her chambers surrounded by guards as punishment for using her Siren's gift of song against the humans. But she has a secret that she has kept from ...

Lana feels that her crown is threatened. The root to all her problems stem from Gethambe's love interest, Ashley. Trying desperately to savor her position as the true Queen of Achaemenid, she commits the ultimate sin and puts the lives of Ashley and her daughter in danger. Feeling guilty about how things ended with Lana, Gethambe attempts to find her to right his wrongs. Not realizing that Ashley is missing, his focus becomes bonding them as sister wives. His hope is for everyone to live together in perfect harmony. Little does he know, he's already too late. When Ashely awakens, she finds ...

Shallow Waters imagines Yemaya, an Orïsha—a deity in the religion of Africa’s Yoruba people—cast into mid-1800s America. We meet Yemaya as a young woman, still in the care of her mother and not yet fully aware of the spectacular power she possesses to protect herself and those she holds dear.

Monique has a problem. Well, two problems: Tyson James and Gage Dillinger. The first is her drug dealing boyfriend whose trying to go legit. He’s the tall, dark glass of handsome who pulled her out of her shitty apartment in Bed-Stuy and into a Tribeca Penthouse. The second is a self-made billionaire with enough charm and polish to hide the violent struggles of his past. Usually they’d move in different circles. But with Gage considering making a key investment in Tyson’s entertainment business, Monique ends up at a dinner at the Dillinger Mansion in the Upper East Side. The ...

Bridget Blade survived an explosion and has absorbed radiation equivalent to a nuclear blast. Yet she survived and now her body has become an object of research interest to many international governments who seek its untold biological secrets. The truth is that Bridget is a reincarnated god with an insatiable desire for adoration. But she’s also human, plagued by a myriad of insecurities and anxieties, who just wants love and acceptance. As human or god, she relishes her life with the two men who love her. But the two men offer different things. If Bridget chooses her husband, then ...

Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him.

I've never been into white guys, but the moment I set eyes on my college professor, I know he is the exception. But I might be in over my head when this white man tells me exactly what he wants from me. Can I really do everything that he asks? Warning: This hot story contains very naughty scenes between a pretty black student and her older white professor. If ropes and spanking offends you, then this might not be the book for you. Adult readers only.

Washington D. C., 1925. Clara Johnson talks to spirits, a gift that saved her during her darkest moments in a Washington D. C. jail. Now a curse that’s left her indebted to the cunning spirit world. So, when the Empress, the powerful spirit who holds her debt, offers her an opportunity to gain her freedom, a desperate Clara seizes the chance. The task: steal a magical ring from the wealthiest woman in the District.

America today is teetering on the edge of the alarming vision presented in LeVar Burton’s debut novel, written more than two decades ago. In 2012, the first African American president is assassinated by a White extremist - just four days after he is elected. The horrific tragedy leads to riots, financial collapse, and ultimately, a full-on civil war. In its aftermath, millions are left homeless as famine and disease spread throughout the country. But from Chicago, a mysterious voice cries out.

Desperate to delay an impending attack by the indigenous people of Xidda, Tau and his queen craft a dangerous plan. If Tau succeeds, the queen will have the time she needs to assemble her forces and launch an all-out assault on her own capital city, where her sister is being propped up as the 'true' Queen of the Omehi. If the city can be taken, if Tsiora can reclaim her throne and reunite her people, then the Omehi might have a chance to survive the coming onslaught.

I never meant to fall for a mysterious and sexy white billionaire. All I wanted was to help my professor with his research and advance my scientific career. Fate had other plans. When I met Clive, the sexiest white man I had ever seen, I knew my life would never be the same. Our attraction was instant and irrevocable. But when I learned his secret, and what he wanted from me, I had to make a choice that would forever change my destiny. Warning: This erotic story contains hard, unprotected sex between a hunky white billionaire and his curvy black lover. Adult readers only.

Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah’s perfect life is precarious. After a drug-fueled evening culminates in an eerie car accident, Nelah commits a desperate crime and buries the body, daring to hope that she can keep one last secret.

Lore Alemeyu wakes up to discover she’s on a ship in the middle of the ocean. Held prisoner and with no way to escape, she’s faced with a dire set of circumstances… A crew that’s distrustful of Lore’s magic capabilities… Her betrayal by a Fae she thought she could trust… A dangerous quest for the sun book, which, if placed in the wrong hands, will make the Alytherian Fae even more powerful. Lore must navigate threats on the ship and beyond, into the ocean’s magical and mysterious depths, in order to find the sun book herself and help free the humans.

Issaka has returned home to Timbouctou and a devastating al-Qaeda raid. His only hope for survival is Faro, a stunning, blue-beaded supernatural entity who rises free from the flames of her imprisoning book as it burns. Compelled to follow Faro, Issaka is opening his eyes to their shared history and the ancestral wisdom of his own past.

In Fantasies of Nina Simone, Jordan Alexander Stein examines the space between our collective and individual fantasies about Simone the performer, civil rights activist, and icon, and her own fantasies about herself. Stein outlines how Simone gave voice to personal fantasies through releasing dozens of covers of her white male contemporaries.

Jack and Annie are on the playground at recess when they feel the magic tree house calling them. They sneak away and are whisked off on an adventure in South Africa, where a majestic rhino needs saving! There are a swooping helicopter, strict park rangers, and—most terrifying of all—poachers. How do you hide one of the largest land mammals in the flat terrain of the African savanna? Jack and Annie are going to need a little bit of magic for this mission!

In the past, Frank's wife Jessica had a thing for black men and shortly after they were married he caught her in the act of cheating on him in their own house. Even though it scarred him deeply he forgave her and they made it work. But now, years later the signs of her infidelity have returned. The questions come at him hard and relentless. Is it all in his head or is there something to his suspicions? Is she cheating on him and if she is why does it make him feel more aroused than jealous? Why does he feel excited rather than hurt? Is it the end of their marriage? Or could it be the ...

Destiny Montgomery has just landed the opportunity of a lifetime to write singer and dancer, Jacob River's biography. She's more than thrilled to be a part of his project and travel closely with Jacob on his concert tour. However, Destiny doesn't expect the sparks she feels whenever she's near him and is irresistibly attracted to the sexy superstar as he slowly reveals his life and himself to her.