Fiction

Part epistolary novel laced with flights of magic realism escapist fantasy, part bellettrist polemic debating a shopping list of culture war topics, Last Refuge of a Scoundrel is an unusual, multifaceted and densely textured book meant to linger on your...

Marriage isn't easy--especially without honesty. In this exploration of love, intimacy, guilt, and infidelity, two people learn what happens when their feelings get in the way of the truth. For Sydney Holmes and Brandon Carter, love is losing its...

Not even death can kill you...Dare should be dead.You don't get hit by a high voltage power line in a freak accident and live. Unless the Second Chance program wants you for its own ends, that is. A second life, one last chance, but at the cost of...

Step into the dark and mysterious underworld of the crime-ridden streets of California as Les Plesko's striking and hip debut novel follows a young drug addict through the streets of Venice. Stuck in the daunting and mindless routine of drug use, a young...

After Dr. Nicole "Nikki" Phillips gets dumped by her fiancé, Dr. Winston Thorpe, she seeks revenge and her life spirals out of control. She heads home to mend her broken heart. Along the way she runs into a fence owned by the RFK Ranch. She meets cowboy...

Keshari Mitchel the most powerful woman in the American music industry--but also one of the most powerful women in organized crime, and she's determined to finally extricate herself from the game. Beautiful, Wharton-educated, recording industry mogul...

Two years ago, aspiring model Devyn was on the on the fast track to success and living her best life as D'Morgan, engaged to a rising hip hop star, mentored by one of the world's biggest supermodels, and the center of attention for thousands of adoring...

Born and raised in the treacherous streets of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, Frost didn't have a chance to choose the streets. They chose him. Frost had been a small-time jack boy while his right-hand man Homi chose music. Homi always tried to get Frost to...

A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise...Elouise Norton is the best new character you'll meet this year. --Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author, on Rachel Howzell Hall's Land of Shadows Along the ever-changing border...

It's 2003 and the streets of South Central Los Angeles are at war. Elijah "Lil 9-Lives" Hassahn has put his gangster life behind him and is thriving with his family in his newfound wealth; but the past keeps coming back to haunt him. After four years in...

Elijah "Li'l Nine" Hassahn born into the gritty environs of South Central Los Angeles in the late 1970s, is ripe to be molded by the first generation of the Crip movement. As a product of the first family of the Rollin 90s Neighborhood Crips, Elijah is...

A critically acclaimed debut from an award-winning writer--an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule, and an important ship sinks...

Sacrificing yourself is easy ... compared to seeing those you love perish. In search of his friend Jade, Miguel encounters an evil presence avid for what he would give: his life. Marooned in Kreh-ursh's world, Jade needs the stranger from the sea more...

It's up to a famous rapper, a biologist, and a rogue soldier to handle humanity's first contact with an alien ambassador--and prevent mass extinction--in this novel that blends magical realism with high-stakes action. After word gets out on the Internet...

What happens when your career is your entire identity and it's suddenly taken away from you?It's October 2009 and thirty-five year-old Mia Lewis is an independent woman at the top of her game. Sharp, attractive and the only senior female executive at...

Each of the Cates sisters had felt for a time that their husbands should be put away where they wouldn't have to take care of them anymore--it's time to make some changes. So begins the powerful, empowering journey of three women who decide to get a...