African Fantasy

Welcome to the Northwestern Hemisphere, 2529. An equally exciting and terrifying world born from the ashes of our own, where almost half of people are born invisible, and thus relegated to second-class citizenship. Sweetmint, a young invisible woman, has done everything right her entire life, from excelling in school to landing a highly sought-after apprenticeship with a mysterious, powerful inventor.

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 ...

Semma- learns that there is more to Franklin and his plans than even she knew. When an important piece of information comes forward that threatens what she sees as the reign of she and Franklin, she enacts a plan to be sure that she can keep her crown and place as the Fox queen. Will her plan work, or will she lose her place by his side? Jeter- Has trained at Klare's hand for years. Now, as the head priest witch of the Fox faction, he is drawn into plots by his new queen, Semma. Honored to have been noticed for his talents and connection to magic, he plays along at the side of the new Fox ...

The sky is not the limit. From an alley in New York to an interstellar wormhole, the path to the future looks different for everyone. These cosmic short stories from some of today’s most influential Black authors reveal a universe of possibilities.

Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, whom they consider to be less than human.

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.

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.

What happens when everything around you seems perfect - your family, your health, your social status, your overall life - but all of a sudden something threatens to tear it all apart and rob you of what you've always known? This type of thing happens to many people, every day, from all walks of life. Some are able to get over it and go on with their lives. But others are not so fortunate. They find themselves stuck in their own meltdown of loss, hurt, and pain. Such is the situation in Marita L. Kinney's latest novel.

The Snow family continues to push through their issues, until Pastor Snow takes a special interest in a prostitute named Candy. His wife, Lady Snow is dying of cancer and that doesn't seem to make him cut ties with Candy, although his reputation is on the line. Will the family have another meltdown or will they persevere? A Christian Fiction Novella that offers healing, deliverance, and restoration.

Fight the dead. Fear the living Grimez, Brittoni, Dekari, Ariah and Gabby are back for the shocking final installment of the Chi-Raq series. Find out what happens when the group stumbles upon a food plant run by a bloodthirsty tyrant. Will they learn that the living is just as dangerous as the unliving--if not more? Fasten your seatbelts for a wild ride as your favorite group of survivors embark on yet another terrifying, zombie-infested journey. Not everyone will survive this trip. But those who do are in a race against time to find a vaccine to stop the deadliest pandemic known to man.

Six years have passed since the intervention of the Man-Lion, a creature in the likeness of the Sphinx, and the quantum computer, in human affairs. But trouble is brewing once again for Jack Wheeler and the woman he loves from afar—Emma White. Imprisoned in the sunken city of Atlantis for straying from the anointed path, the Man-Lion dispatches the Sphere of Ra to warn Jack about the approaching danger. The object, discovered inside a bolder in the Drakensberg mountains of South Africa by archeologist and rock-painting expert Dr. Kobus van Niekerk, seems to confirm various predictions ...

In the thrilling second installment of the "My Polished, Professional Thug" series, Skot, Mendesa, and the enigmatic Man are back with a vengeance. The story picks up where the first book left off, plunging readers into an electrifying narrative that explores the complexities of a world where psychic abilities and the criminal underground collide. Mendesa quickly finds herself entangled in a web of intrigue as her psychic powers lead her to an infamous scammer in the bustling city of Atlanta. As her connection with this enigmatic character deepens, the boundaries between right and wrong ...

Deep within the imperial palace at Timbuktu, Amie has suffered a devastating loss. Once the daughter of a prosperous salt merchant Amie’s life was cruelly overturned in a matter of months. At sixteen, Amie now finds herself disinherited, framed for a scandalous crime, and forced to serve Princess Mariama of Mali. Her father, Emperor Sulyeman, has created a series of impossible trials for his daughter's suitors. When they fail, he publicly boils them alive, littering Mariama’s path to marriage with ninety-nine corpses.

Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. To Perilous Graves, it’s simply home. Perry knows Nola’s rhythm as intimately as his own heartbeat. So when the city’s Great Magician starts appearing in odd places and essential songs are forgotten, Perry knows trouble is afoot.

Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker - and they sure do love to talk. Now she speaks to Edinburgh’s dead, carrying messages to those they left behind. A girl’s gotta earn a living, and it seems harmless enough. Until, that is, the dead whisper that someone’s bewitching children - leaving them husks, empty of joy and strength. It’s on Ropa’s patch, so she feels honor-bound to investigate. But what she learns will rock her world.

"My world was spinning. Was she actually going to go out with James on Friday night? What would they do? Was it just for dinner? Was she going to… cheat on me?"Greg's fantasy of watching Emma with another, darker, man opened her eyes to possibilities she'd never considered. Now that the door has been set ajar Greg wonders if she will walk through it. But something is wrong in the scenario, she hasn't told him about a secret rendezvous with a young black waiter from their favorite restaurant. Will she cheat on him? Was it cheating if he set them off on this course? And when its all over ...

Ramsay Wick, the legendary warrior, has spent much of his life fighting to keep Aegemald safe. His latest mission - as leader of Team Leopadillo - is more dangerous than any before it; to find and vanquish the Alpha Dragon who seeks to cause destruction. Fortunately, he has a secret weapon in his arsenal. Join the team of warriors and wizards on their nail-biting journey to the dragon’s lair where, confronted with an impossible choice, Ramsay will have to make a life-changing decision.

Asia's mother went missing 18 years ago and since then, Asia has feared the one thing she always dreamt of working with. The ocean. So instead, she's been living life as a lab tech. She doesn't exactly love her job, but it pays the bills and she has money to spend on nights out with her girls. However, her most recent night out ends up with her gaining markings on her skin and losing body parts....

Stepping Stone and Love Machine are but two of six fragments in the Crosstown to Oblivion short novels in which Walter Mosley entertainingly explores life’s cosmic questions. From life’s meaning to the nature of good and evil, these tales take us on speculative journeys beyond the reality we have come to know. In each tale, someone in our world today is given insight into these long pondered mysteries. But how would the world really receive the answers?

In the wake of her mother's passing, Layla Hurley unexpectedly reconnects with her mother's sisters, women she hasn't been allowed to speak to, or of, in years. Her aunts reveal to Layla that a Gullah-Geechee island off the shore of South Carolina now belongs to her. As Layla digs deeper into her mother’s past and the mysterious island’s history, she discovers that the terrifying nightmares that have plagued her throughout her life and tainted her relationship with her mother and all of her family, is actually a power passed down through generations of her Gullah ancestors.