Fiction

The high priestess of the hood, Nikki Turner, is back with the novel fans have been feenin' for: the sequel to her #1 bestselling novel, A Hustler's Wife. Des, Virginia's slickest gangsta, is about to become a dad when he is charged with the murder of...

In this sequel to "Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned", Socrates Fortlow is back in Watts, trying to leave prison in his past, and confronting the most dangerous emotion of all: hope.

"An intense, provocative, and vital crime story that excavates paradoxical dimensions of race, class, sexism, family bonds, and social obligation while seeking the deepest meaning of the law." -- BooklistOriginally published posthumously by his daughter...

Award-winning and "Essence"-bestselling author Billingsley pens an inspiring new novel about love and finding strength during the most difficult of times.The irony of a divorce-court judge getting divorced herself is not lost on Vanessa Colton-Kirk...

Easy Rawlins is on the verge of losing everything--until he gets an offer from the FBI that he has no choice but to accept. For most Black Americans, the 1960s were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never...

A cozy Autumn romance with a killer twist: a murder-romance blend for fans of THE GILMORE GIRLS and THE PUMPKIN SPICE CAFÉ.  The perfect blend of romance, murder, and pumpkin spice. After a humiliating breakup at graduation and no job...

Lucinda Roy concludes her explosive speculative fiction trilogy, The Dreambird Chronicles, with the triumphant The Bird Tribe. Yearning is the only compass you need to fly a way home. Two years after Ji-ji's miraculous flight on her own impossible...

A college history professor must solve her superstar colleague's murder before she becomes the next target in this funny, romantic debut mystery, perfect for readers of Janet Evanovich, Kellye Garrett, and Ali Hazelwood. As a newly minted junior...

The electrifying and intimate first novel from the author of The Collection Plate and Fruit Punch, a searing story of a young Texan woman and the family she makes with two men "A couple years after Noon and I fall in love, we fall in love with Micah--and...

Diane McKinney-Whetstone's latest character-rich, page-turner blends her signature style with a little magic in her depiction of the Maces, a vibrant family of Philadelphia clairvoyants with issues.Ayana has inherited the Knowing gene that the Maces...

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession based on the hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author.   "As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer...

From the National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage, a fearless fictional portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his pivotal moment in American history. Set against the tensions of Civil Rights era America, Dreamer is a remarkable fictional...