African Urban Fiction

In this fascinating tale set in 1919, the Thomas family leaves New Orleans for Chicago as part of the Great Migration, seeking equality denied in the South. They are confident and optimistic. But hope is extinguished when they are met by 6,000 National Guard troops deployed to quell an earlier race riot. Linda and Ben prepare their nephew Trey to lead the family through the treacherous landscape of a big city plagued by segregation, police violence, and corruption. Is he ready? They devise a risky plan to challenge real estate covenants banning Blacks from buying homes in white ...

In this final installment it seems that drama, lies, and secrets seem to keep brewing. It seems as if Riley can’t catch a break. Someone or something is always out for her. Mecca gets the surprise of his life when he receives a letter from Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee. From the moment he opened the letter, he knew that things were about to change. Riley finds herself in a dangerous situation, one that made her sick to her stomach. She fears for her life and the life of her unborn. Mekhi finds himself in a sea of hurt and pain when it’s revealed that his mother was ...

In the finale, Auburn has finally gotten the fairy tale love that she has always desired with the man of her dreams. Feeling on top of the world, nothing can bring her down— or so she thought. When a secret comes to surface, she quickly finds out how painful love can be. Everything has fallen into place in Eric’s life, both professional and personal. With this being the final year of him playing in the NFL, he plans to go out with a bang. But what he didn’t expect was a blast from the past, scheming her way back into his life with some life-altering news that could potentially destroy...

In the world of love, fast money and guns, life is a gamble, and in order to survive it, you have to be all about your poker chips. However, that didn't scare a slick talking go getter like Spring Stewart. What and who she wanted, she got. She lived life teetering on the edge, but always came up on top...usually. When a robbery goes bad and she is arrested for a double homicide, everything goes downhill and the only person she can depend on is her sheltered twin sister, Summer. Will Summer have the strength to pull her sister out of the line of fire, or will the bloody street life be too ...

Shatika “Empress” Tibideaux was living a Bawss’ life. Trained by her big brother, Birmingham, AL’s notorious Deondre “Show” Burns, she and her husband, Jayontae “Tae” Tibideaux, had built and empire that would set their great-great-grandkids straight. But her world starts to fall apart when the Feds kick in her door and she takes the charge for her man, like a true ridah would. She soon finds that loyalty doesn’t go both ways, when Tae leaves her to do her bid on her own. When Empress finally tastes freedom again, she discovers that Tae’s betrayal goes way deeper than ...

What happens when a double-crossed female goes to the greatest of all possible extremes to get her revenge? Absolute mayhem! This is a mind twisting, unpredictable, romantic nail biter from the same veins that brought you A Love Story and Bankroll Squad! The twists in this book are guaranteed to blow you away, all the way to the last paragraph.

Two is boring, three isn't company and four is no longer enough! Meet Serrati Million, tall, brown, and handsome wouldn’t be the right words to describe this beauty of a man. At the age of twenty-eight he has all that any man could want, successful businesses that he has built on his own from the ground up, and a harem of women who all seem to agree that sharing him isn’t a problem. Serrati has never been one to bite back on what he wants and he wants more. Four isn't a complete number for Serrati, he wants one more to complete his stable of gorgeous women. He doesn’t have to look too...

Nobody wants to live a four-year lie. Unfortunately for Dorri, also known as "Bam-Bam", one Facebook post that she wasn't supposed to see brought her entire world crashing around her ankles. Her infamous swinging fist that earned her the nickname Bam-Bam could do nothing for her aching heart. Dèon was as suave and as handsome as they came. This gentleman, however, has a dangerous flipside. By day he's a family man, perfectly balanced as a king. A Bando King. Aside from keeping his family comfortable, Dèon "Coinz" Monroe is stalked and overly loved by a woman he showed a little too much ...

*Formerly: The Need To Have Him A scandalous game... A stranger in her apartment... An intruder with an agenda... A game gone wrong? Maybe! “Don’t move,” were the words that will forever echo in her mind. In one second, Joi’s world changed. He stood behind her, hands over her mouth. And her life would never be the same. Joi thought it was a game. But it wasn’t! After that night, Dominic tried to move on. He tried to get past the guilt he feels. A game played through a social media app, has him wondering about the woman at the root of it all. Her teasing and taunting of men, that ...

The fast-paced, hood drama continues in BBW Looking for Love 4. The tension is heating up between Jevon and Detective Robinson. He’s a criminal. She’s a cop. They’ve got no business being in a hotel room together. Will they be able to control their intense desires? Breanna’s life has been thrown upside down. She's gone from one crisis to another. But there’s always been someone there to save her. Her luck might’ve just run out. Shaniyah really wants to build something with Jevon. But she’s starting to realize that there might not be room in his life for a serious relationship....

RE-RELEASE Can a woman who has been broken all of her life, pick up the pieces of her shattered soul and save herself? That is the question that Tyesha Sims has running through her mind. Her past was a series of bad choices that resulted in ruining other peoples’ lives as well as her own. When Tyesha decides to change, her past comes back to haunt her. Gunner Morales has been secretly in love with Tyesha for years now. But she was with one of his best friends, so he kept his feelings in. Now that Tyesha is single, he is trying to give her time to get her life together before he pursues ...

Two souls and two hearts collide after years of being best friends. Jaheem Jones and Dior Sanders have been best friends since a horrible tragedy placed them to build a bond like never before. Knowing pain like no other, Dior clings to her best friend. Ten years later ,the two are still holding strong as best friends. ​Dior finds herself in a crazy fit of rage after catching her boyfriend cheating. On the verge of being arrested, a trusted friend of Jaheem’s calls him to come and get a distraught Dior. There was nothing Jaheem wouldn’t do for Dior, but he was tired of the same thing ...

Jahzara Jones has always had a certain type of man she dated. If they weren’t in the corporate world, wearing an expensive suit, she wouldn’t look their way. After being played in her latest relationship, Jahzara wards off men with no intentions of dealing with anyone until… she and her best friend attend an all-white affair at a well-known spot called The Castle. Jahzara had no idea the night she was in for after meeting Kasen Logan. He is the true definition of a rude and sexy thug. Kasen is so far from Jahzara’s type but one night with him turns into many more nights. Being that ...

These Hoes Ain’t Loyal…and men ain’t either. Well, at least the few in Jasmine’s life don’t seem to be. After walking away from friendships and relationships where trust and loyalty no longer existed, she takes a second chance at love with Tristan. Life has a way of changing your plans without your permission. As Jasmine deals with life’s alterations, she struggles with her trust issues that continue to threaten her peace and sanity in her new relationship. Unfortunately, her decision to give in to temptation and her curiosity brings on more drama than she’s emotionally ready ...

***This is a Re-Release*** When fate intervenes Skye, Malakai, Tre, and Kareema learn that they are more connected than they thought. In a series of twisted events lives are turned upside down and death and destruction comes in and chaos ensues. Paths will cross and lives will be ruined along the way. Who will be around to tell the story when the smoke clears?

Two friends who just graduated high school, ready for life embark on a trip to Jamaica. There in Jamaica, they are having fun and find new love interest. A trip that was supposed to be two weeks turned into a summer long trip, when the girls meet their love interest. Minah is the shy girl who don't know her beauty. She’s been the awkward pretty girl all her life. She never went to a party or even had a boyfriend. Minah is all about her schoolwork and on the path to become a biomedical engineer. When Minah meets Kymani in Jamaica, she is letting go of the shy girl and breaking out her ...

Siana and Dolce thought they had their happily ever after, but the devil is always busy, and his name is Keon. He is still after Siana and will stop at nothing to get his revenge. His prison experience did not humble him; it made him worse. How far will he go? The phrase, 'be careful what you wish for,' rings true for Darryl as he learns that his dream girl just might be a nightmare. April wonders if she'll ever know what good love feels like as she goes through yet another heartbreak. Will her latest disappointment be devastating enough to make her give up on love? As things fall apart, ...

The Highly-Anticipated Finale Has Finally Arrived!!! Staxx, Junie, Siren and Glizzy are back for an explosive final installment in the "Captivated by a Brooklyn Boss" series! Find out what happens when love and war collide. Will Junie and Siren find their happily-ever-afters in their new romantic interests? Or will they crash and burn before their romance can even begin? "Captivated by a Brooklyn Boss 2" is filled with treachery, mind-blowing secrets, and an ending that'll leave you swooning for more.

After her community activist father is killed by the same criminal element he is trying to prevent, a teenage girl is forced to become head of a broken household. Her life transforms into a balancing act of rising above poverty, chaos, bad relationships and a system designed for her to fail to become one of the most successful businesswomen in history. IT’S ALL ABOUT BAE……. Bae Carter wasn’t like other girls. She had a photographic memory, and never forgot anything she read to the letter. Bae achieved a perfect score on her SAT’s at a young age and had an IQ of 200 which baffled ...

THE LOCALS WARNED HER TO STAY AWAY...SHE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED. Tucked away in a small Louisiana town, Bordeaux Behavioral Hospital has cast a shadow of fear over the local community for decades. Not affected by small town folklore and superstitions, Alana Grace, a newly appointed psychiatrist at Bordeaux Behavioral Hospital, is eager for a fresh start. But as she delves into the shadows of her patient, Savannah Hargrove's troubled mind, she begins to notice disturbing patterns and connections to the hospital's long-buried secrets. Determined to understand Savannah's trauma and forge a ...