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...

"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...

Young Brawly Brown has traded in his family for The Clan of the First Men, a group rejecting white leadership and laws. Brown's mom asks Easy to make sure her baby's okay, and Easy promises to find him. His first day on the case, Easy comes face-to-face...

From New York Times bestselling author Shanora Williams comes an emotional page-turner about two people still reeling from tragedy who look to each other for the strength to move forward.It's been months since her dreams of forever were brutally...

Translating a popular song from Luganda into English, Moses spins a fictional story of housework and domestic labor across 40 years of Ugandan historySerubiri Moses' Judith Namala: A Novella, the author's fiction debut, is an experiment in adaptation,...

The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga--as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, The Turner House, and The Love Songs of W. E. B. DuBois--that explores three generations of a family...

Author Virginia Black burst onto the queer speculative fiction scene with her powerful debut, Consecrated Ground. Now Joan of Crows returns to Calvert in this high-octane thriller that pits good versus evil in a penultimate showdown.War witch Joan...

When obsession meets revenge, no one is safe in this gripping new sequel to The Loyal Wife by national bestselling author B. Love. A dangerous obsession. Simmering tensions. Twisted vendettas . . . Detective Jones is back on the scene, obsessed with...

One impulsive act can set events into motion that lead you down a path you never knew you needed to walk. Avion has the weight of the world on her shoulders. Everyone relies on her to hold it together and keep the family moving, but when she seeks a...

A marriage on the rocks, a missing friend, and a tangle of shocking lies converge at a peaceful North Carolina lakefront cottage in this irresistibly twisty new psychological thriller from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shanora Williams...

When a kingpin is betrayed by his friend, the whole city will turn upside down as they go head-to-head. When he was young, Curtis Griffin, a.k.a. Cane, formed a clique called the CMB. As a young boy, Curtis Griffin, a.k.a. Cane, had street knowledge...

How do you beat a trick at his own game? You become the treat. Amber Halloway is what some would call "forbidden fruit" because she is so stunning. When her father is murdered by the local kingpin's mob, she uses her beauty to her advantage. Step 1:...

"A gracefully told and sharply observed debut." -Kiley Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age and Come and Get It "The Tiny Things Are Heavier is a profound, lasting debut, and it's also just such a sincere blast to read." -Kaveh...

A vivid firsthand record of the struggle for legal equality and dignity in the face of segregation and racial terror from 1919 to 1976 W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified "the problem of the color-line" as the defining issue in American life. The powerful...

Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right, now with an updated preface adding additional context about the author's incredible...