Fiction - African American & Black - Women

Trail Ride With An Unhinged Cowboy by KelsiI met him by chance.Unaware of his name.Didn't care to learn it.But fate had other plans.Onyx Chromaty is arrogant. Rich. Toxic. And heartbreakingly irresistible.He embodies everything I vowed to avoid until I couldn't.His magnetic presence drew me...

Onyx got one rule: anybody touch what's his, they bleed.When Raina disappears from their bed in Saddlewood, no note, no trace, just gone, he's ready to kick in every door in the city. Every local dope boy, drug dealer, and connect better pray they...

Tierra Thompson has a chip on her shoulder and an ax to grind. She was born in the hood, and at twenty-one she has grown tired of calling it home. After hustling and being hustled by the dealers around the way, the hard truth...

Nichelle feels betrayed and alone, wondering if her man Renny has truly left her-and if her best friend Tierra is even still alive. Determined to find the brother she never knew, she sets her sights on Genesis, unaware that the ruthless Arnez may be...

She escaped the streets, but the past wants revenge... In the explosive third installment of the Trife Life to Lavish series, Genevieve O'Neal is tested like never before. Once known as Nichelle from Queens, she thinks she's built the perfect empire in Houston with...

A new novel about the enduring trauma of police brutality by the award-winning author of Mother Country She'd gotten no trigger warning. And her entire life, she wanted to scream now, had deserved a trigger warning. Early in life, Ruth survived a series of...

Three couples-the Jaspers, the Johnstons, and the Raines-are living the American dream. They have been close friends since college and now in their late forties are enjoying the benefits of their success. Corbin Johnston is a successful LA attorney, and his wife is on...

Sometimes family is found in the most unlikely of places . . .In the small college town of Troy, Alabama, amidst the backdrop of 1967, Katia Daniels lives a life steeped in responsibility. At the Pike County Group Home for Negro Boys, she pours...

LaQuette's debut sexy romantic comedy Vanessa Jared's Got a Man tells the story of a woman getting her groove back and getting a second chance at love. Vanessa Jared, a 40-something divorcee, decided that the best way to pull herself out of their post-divorce...

The critically acclaimed novel about four women who learn how to carry on while leaning on each other from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and It's Not All Downhill From Here. When the men in...

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Named a Best Book Pick of 2021 by Harper's Bazaar and Real Simple Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by People, Essence, New York Post, PopSugar, New York Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Town & Country, Bustle, Fortune,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A dedicated journalist unearths a generations-old family secret--and a connection to a string of missing girls that hits way too close to home--in this "nail-biting debut" (Booklist). "A well-written, emotionally wrenching tale."--Associated Press In the wake of her grandmother's passing, Sydney...

"Page-turning and propulsive, heartbreaking and hopeful in turn. An important and necessary book that will stay with me for a long time." --Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright CreaturesFrom the acclaimed author of Hold My Girl comes a sweeping...

From the acclaimed author of Hold My Girl comes a sweeping multi-generational story about motherhood, race, and secrets.When 24-year-old Kareela discovers she's pregnant with a child she isn't sure she wants, her struggle to understand her place in the world as a person who...

Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is startling and original fiction that raises provocative questions of power and freedom, love and dependence. An enchanting and unforgettable novel based on little-known fact, Wench combines the narrative allure of Cane River by Lalita Tademy and the moral complexities...

It was just a birthday. Then everything in her asked, what if.Simone Harris has always known how to hold it down. For her son. For her clients. For the sports agency she built from scratch. She keeps things running, keeps herself moving, and keeps...

Opal is an eighteen-year-old Black woman working as a housekeeper in a small Southern town in the 1930s--and then the Klan descends. A moving story that confronts America's tragic past, When Stars Rain Down is both heartwarming and heart-wrenching.The summer of 1936 in Parsons,...

In this soulful debut novel set in the hypnotic music scene of New York City, a young Black woman lands her dream job at a major label--only to discover just how treacherous a place made to birth stars can be. "A decibel-raising debut that...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Before I Let Go comes a powerful forbidden romance about one woman on the brink of making a life-altering decision. Kerris Moreton knows how to make things work. Bounced from foster home to foster home as...

Inspired by real-life legendary choreographer Katherine Dunham's groundbreaking expedition into the heart of Caribbean dance culture, this uniquely captivating novel imagines the experiences of three very different women who accompany her, hoping to find their destinies--yet finding themselves forced to survive a historic event...