Fiction

Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths...

After overcoming the shock of her lottery win, things finally begin to turn around for Lena. As her life comes together, Lena notices that the things she has held dear are beginning to fall apart and she wonders if her life really has changed for the...

Award-winning author Olympia Vernon's third novel, A Killing in This Town, is a taut, poetic masterpiece that exhumes a horrific epoch from the annals of the American South. There is a menace in the woods of Bullock County, Mississippi, and not only for...

In her long-awaited fifth novel, acclaimed writer Marita Golden takes another unflinching look into the face of family, race, love and identity.For twelve years Carson Blake inhabited a world of his own creation. Scorned by the father who was incapable...

Robyn and Aries are The Murder Mamas, contract killers taking no prisoners in Los Angeles. It doesn't take them long to link up with Hollywood's biggest drug kingpin, who hires them to take out a snitch and a judge. But the plans backfire and they only...

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction As teenagers in complicated circumstances, each of Gautier's characters is pushed in many directions. To succeed may entail unforgiveable compromises, and to follow their desires may lead to catastrophe. Yet...

Locke returns with a heart-pounding thriller that interweaves two murder mysteries, one on Belle Vie, a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana's Sugar Cane country, and one involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier. "The...

The Cartel has come full circle with this fast-paced, groundbreaking novel, the finale to the hit series by New York Times bestsellers Ashley & JaQuavis. Miamor is fighting for her life in the belly of the beast. She's been kidnapped, and she's staring...

"Warm and intimate. . . . An accomplished novel, with sharply drawn characters, exuberant prose, plenty of period detail and a wise, forgiving outlook on family life." -- Los Angeles Times Book ReviewTumbling is the beloved bestselling debut novel that...

The beloved #1 Essence bestselling authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made now deliver a novel in which you'll meet their most unforgettable characters yet. Carmen, Jewel, and Regina could not be more different. When they meet as freshmen at...

In a pursuit for love, happiness, and monogamy sometimes mistaken for sex, Chante encounters an array of men, just not the perfect man. Just as she is ready to admit defeat in her quest for love, in walks a caramel Adonis who offers the potential for...

Filled with kidnapping, murder, deception, and seduction, here is the highly-anticipated sequel to "The Cartel" from the dynamic author duo of street lit.