Fiction

My name is Linda Lawson, I was born with the name of Linder Laverne Kizee on June 27, 1953 in Blairs Virginia to an uneducated sharecropper and housewife. We were dirt poor and lived off the land. I had four brothers and two sisters. In 1958, we abruptly...

The blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes--an utterly transfixing book about art and love, fame and heartbreak from the acclaimed actor/writer/director. Hawke's first novel in nearly twenty...

Carol Shavers - Six years ago, Carol, a single mother of three, had been devastated by tragedy and deceit. Wesley, her believed-to-be newfound love, had lied to her, a lie that had spiraled her to desperately find a way out of the hood and to swear off...

What happens when a dark past catches up with a promising future and love encounters deceit? Carol Shavers is a twenty-eight-year-old welfare mother of three who proves her dedication to her children invincible - that is, until her relationship with...

"A fresh new voice....Deeply-felt emotions that will keep readers turning the pages." --Susan Elizabeth Phillips, New York Times bestselling author Mili Rathod hasn't seen her husband in twenty years--not since she was promised to him at the age of...

Deeply-felt emotions that will keep readers turning the pages. --Susan Elizabeth Phillips, New York Times bestselling author Mili Rathod hasn't seen her husband in twenty years--not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has...

First ladies of the Baptist church and sworn frenemies Rachel Jackson Adams and Jasmine Cox Larson Bush are stunned to learn they may have more in common than they thought--like who's their daddy--in the scandalous new collaboration between national...

Life is good for thick-boned Keisha Jackson. With a good education, well-paying job, and supportive parents, she has everything a young woman could ask for, except maybe a healthy dose of self-esteem. But after a chance meeting with Rico, the...

Life is great for thick-boned Keisha Jackson. With a good education, well-paying job, and a promising future, she has everything a young woman could ask for, including high self-esteem. But after a chance meeting with Rico, the neighborhood "bad boy,"...

This is a journey that God brought me through and I can't do anything but praise him. We all go through trials and tribulations and our testimony is what makes us and not breaks us. Be of good courage, even when your back is up against the wall, don't...

"Funny, razor-sharp, and full of juicy tales that feel urgent and illicit . . . the author has created a singular, resonant voice, an American teenager raised by Old World Afghan storytellers." --New York Times Book Review"More than well crafted; it's...

It would seem that Randall Carter, known to his family and friends as Randy, was a target of fate. An African-American young man, he was hit by a vicious rumor that he was dating a white girl. Although it was a lie, his family's life was turned upside...