Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure of Topsy, an enslaved girl in Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Many interpret the works of authors such as...

Perfect for fans of Promise Boys, this gripping historical mystery follows a teenager who finds a murdered girl on her family's California beach--a discovery that will reveal the racism rampant in her world. Fifteen-year-old Blue Collins's parents own...

A Black teen grapples with the fallout from accidentally killing his older brother in this moving novel by the author of The Colored Garden."Bennett engagingly examines the idea that our actions are often bigger than our selves while also executing a...

A widowed mother's life unravels after she thinks she's seen her long-dead husband in this thriller from the author of Creatures Here Below."This engaging literary thriller from Bennett . . . ratchets up the tension, and delivers satisfying revelations...

The bonds of a makeshift family are tested in this emotional slice of life novel from the author of The Colored Garden."Bennett brings an African-American community to vivid life with strong and compelling characters and narrative themes to...

Roy Glenn returns with his bestselling Mike Black saga, which has continued to excite readers for two decades. When Shayla Clark murders Giovanni Folliero, a made man in The Montanari Family, it forces a sit-down between kingpins Mike Black and Salvatore...

As the seventeenth century burns to a close in Tidewater, Virginia, America's character is wrought in the fires of wealth, race, and freedom.Young Bless, the only child left to her enslaved mother, stubbornly crafts the terms of her vital existence. She...

A surprise addition to their business plan... Ascension Publishing's newly minted publisher Morgan Chambers has to make the organization profitable or risk everything he's ever worked for if it fails. Morgan doesn't have time for distractions like...

In the aftermath of Haiti's independence, the vengeful unborn spirit of a child named Etta draws her father from the Bight of Biafra onto a slave ship bound for the harshly colonized Caribbean island of Dominica in this lush historical novel infused with...

A chilling Lovecraftian horror story from the author of Midnight Rooms, in which a recently freed slave from America making a new life for herself in 1800 Venice finds the mysterious plague that killed her former master may have followed her to Italy . ...

Set in Atlanta, The Resistance is a fast-paced thriller. Not everything is as it seems in the city's upper crust... Natalie Harris is the perfect politician's wife, mother, socialite, and First Lady of Atlanta. She throws the best parties, is an...

In this spicy emotional sports romance, a WNBA star must decide: Should she blow the whistle on her relationship?Atlanta Cannons star Courtney Johnson should be soaring after a winning season. However, off the court, things are falling short. Courtney...