Fiction

You both wanted her out of your lives. But is one of you a killer?When Paige Nichols meets her husband's glamorous new colleague at a faculty mixer, she instantly knows they're having an affair. It's the way he looks at her, like she's the only woman in...

The perfect couple. The perfect life. The perfect lie.Clare and Peter Davidson have always looked like they had it all -- college sweethearts turned devoted partners, with two bright children and a picture-perfect home in the tight-knit community of...

From the Marrow collects nine ritual/jazz performance texts by SharonBridgforth, including lovve/rituals & rage, no mo blues, dyke/warrior-prayers, blood pudding, con flama, love conjure/blues, delta dandi, River See, and dat Black Mermaid Man Lady/The...

Dark, Southern gothic tale of homicide detective Raven Burns, with a complicated past and a desperate case to solve. Black Girls Lit recommends the first book, A Killing Fire "to crime fiction and mystery lovers and fans of Ruth Ware and Gillian Flynn."...

In this "engrossing" (Los Angeles Times) novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, a grieving young man is drawn into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader who forces him to reconsider why people give up control--and...

A young black lesbian activist reclaims land from a greedy billionaire but struggles to hold peace against a rise of fear-based security culture and a toothache that seems whisper to her. An alien intelligence marvels at the human form, then horrifies at...

A Detroit bad boy and legendary rapper sets his sights on a woman whose dark past may keep her from a chance at happily ever after in this urban romance.At one point, Marley had it all figured out. She was going to marry her childhood sweetheart and have...

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Speculative fiction, set in the not-so-distant future, about family, scarcity, and what it means to sell out as the world ends.The world hasn't quite ended, but it's getting there. Me and Mine brings readers to a not-so-distant future in pre-apocalyptic...

Brimming with unpredictable twists and scandals, the latest Depression-era Alabama novel from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe tells of a mistreated wife who finally finds the love she's longed for--only to be plunged into...

This is the Underground. We go by a different set of rules here--ones steeped in magic, history, and well . . . blood.Maggie Grey always dismissed her grandmother's tales as superstition. Bedtime stories of vampiric priests, midnight covens, and secret...

In the face of an unjust system, a teenager with a bright future may lose everything over a crime he did not commit, but his mother will do anything to see her son walk free. Demarcus Jones is a star high school basketball player who earns a full...