Bunny Debarge, Sharon Ewell Foster, Claudia Mair Burney, and other women share their stories of abuse, betrayal, rape, abortion, and abandonment, giving readers permission to be honest about their own pain. The miracle of telling the truth allows the...

Twenty-four-year-old Aisha Carlisle is the owner of A-Carlisle Studio of Dance and Choreography. Aisha's life is surrounded by great friends, a doting father, and a dashing bachelor, Chandler Larson, dangling on her arm and in her heart. Aisha is rooted...

From the bestselling author of The Personal Librarian​ comes a story of a mother whose sins of her past may have finally caught up with her--and her daughter. Have the sins of the mother come upon the daughter?Jasmine Larson Bush is finally living...

An erotic and suspenseful tale about a young woman navigating the criminal underworld despite her own moral conflicts. She ran away from home as a teen to escape her overprotective and heavily religious family, but now Trenda Fuqua finds herself seduced...

An Essence bestseller from the author of Sins, Secrets & Success. Candice, Amber, and Toi are three young black women who have risen above life on the streets. Successful entrepreneurs, they are at the top of their game, but they will soon find that...

TEAM JASMINE or TEAM RACHEL? Bestselling and award-winning novelists Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate Billingsley bring their favorite heroines together in a novel that will delight their legions of fans. Jasmine Larson Bush and Rachel...

Deborah Anne Peterson knows that her amazing singing voice is a gift from God and fully realizes that when He gives you a gift He means for you to use it.

Three men grappling with fatherhood and one single mother of striking character and independence face off in this compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Flyy Girl and A Do Right Man. After more than ten years of successfully raising two...

A steamy, erotic tale from New York Times bestselling author, Mary B. Morrison, writing under the pseudonym HoneyB, about three men who marry for all the wrong reasons. Herschel Henderson said, I do, to gain access to his wife's money, Lexington Lewis...

Tracy Brown's Single Black Female is a taut, edgy, deftly spun novel about four friends grappling with the dramatic twists and turns of life, love and what it means to "make it" in America. Ivy Donovan is a successful stylist, entrepreneur, and single...

Singing Jazz looks at the ups and downs of this tough profession through the eyes of legendary jazz singers, well-established performers, and some newcomers. Drawing on accounts from vocalists of yesterday and today in all major jazz styles, the book...

A prizewinning historian pens this biography of C.L. Franklin, the greatest African-American preacher of his generation, father of Aretha, and civil rights pioneer.