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Dr. Cypress Boone recently ended a relationship after a two-year engagement. He’d given his all to Emery, but she played him for a fool. Although disappointed, he hasn’t given up on love and is ready for a fresh start. Emery, however, isn’t ready to let go and refuses to accept that they are over. In an effort to make a clean break, he accepts a job at the prestigious Black Elm University, over two thousand miles away from his current residence. With a new job in a new city, Cypress has high hopes that a new woman will soon be added to the equation.

Dominique Dom Pickens is an NFL player looking for a home in Atlanta. Wren comes highly recommended when it comes to realtors in the area. One look at Wren, and Dom is already picking out wedding venues. But what seems like the perfect match doesn't come easy. Wren has been hurt in the past, and she knows how professional athletes are, so she's not willing to put her heart on the line again.

Ella Amoure has her whole life ahead of her. As a soon-to-be college graduate majoring in marketing and minoring in international business, she has plans to see the world, which includes going to Paris, France, to complete her graduate degree in a few months. However, after falling in love, she begins to question her well-thought-out plans.

For the past several years, Jahzara Franklin has had the weight of the world on her shoulders. Her mother suddenly passed away from a brain aneurysm, making her the sole caregiver for her teenage sister because their father wasn't in the picture. When she's unable to find a job that pays enough for her and her sister to live comfortably, she swallows her pride and does something she never thought she'd do. When she meets a man who appears to have good intentions, she gives him a chance, only to find out six months later that he's a fraud.

I shouldn't have felt this way about her. She's my brother-in-law's first love. She was forbidden fruit. Ain't shit ever been forbidden for me. I take what I want, and I want her. I shouldn't have these strong of feelings for a woman I just met. I wanted to lay every man who even thought about looking her way… including my brother-in-law. Erin was mine before she even knew it. Our paths were meant to cross, our futures to intertwine.

You can find out a lot about yourself during the course of a single day.

Kamille appears to have it all. As the owner of a successful business, her funds are unlimited. However, her professional life is the only thing that seems to be working in her favor. Aside from her Ari, best friend, Kamille's social life is nonexistent. As her family vacation nears, Kamille is excited until her cousins point out that she's going solo. Kamille doesn't have a problem with being single, but she gets tired of it being thrown in her face. Ari suggests Kamille uses an upscale escort service. Kamille isn't sold on the idea, but eventually takes her advice.

Siyanna Cassidy was overjoyed to find that she was pregnant only one month behind her twin sister, Summer. The two had done life together on so many levels, including marrying twin brothers. However, in a brutal twist of tragic events, Siyanna is forced into early labor on the heels of the shocking loss of her sister. As if she hadn't been heartbroken enough, the shooting death of her husband follows swiftly. Suddenly a single mother and widow, she partners with her brother-in-law to raise their children.

Spanning two decades and moving through the hotbeds of the African diaspora, They Dream in Gold is an epic yet intimate exploration of the migrant hunger for belonging and a powerful, intergenerational testament to our shared humanity, for lovers of Tara Stringfellow's Memphis and Abi Daré's The Girl with the Louding Voice.

Their chemistry is undeniable. Their timing... might be inevitable. The Heights is on the brink of change, but not everyone’s ready for it—not without grabbing their piece of the pie first. Camille Monroe knows the Heights deserves more than the scraps it’s been given. She’s here to fight, to make sure its people finally get what they’re owed. Duke has spent years protecting the Heights, carving out a space where its community can survive and thrive. Outsiders? He doesn’t trust them—especially not ones with polished smiles and political connections. But Camille isn’t just anyone.

Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in the wake of the Great Migration. Braiding fact and fiction, it is a remarkable, character-rich tour de force exploring the ties that bind three generations.

After years of mourning his late wife, Kross is finally ready to open his heart to love. There is only one man standing in the way of him having the freedom to love without worrying about looking over his shoulder. Fortunately, he happens to be in the right place at the right time. In order to live happily ever after with the woman who captivated him at first glance, this bad boy had to leave his past life of crime behind. Unfortunately, he has to resort to his old ways to ensure both their safety.

Bulkhead Confessions is raw, hilarious, and quietly devastating—told with the kind of sharp, honest voice that sounds like your funniest homeboy whispering secrets in the dark. Set inside the tight, messy quarters of Navy life, this novel dives headfirst into temptation, loyalty, heartbreak, and the chaos of trying to stay grounded while everything around you floats. The author, Al Bazz, writes with a razor-edged wit and a storyteller’s soul—mixing inner monologues that read like stand-up comedy with quiet moments that hit like therapy.

Sade was supposed to have it all: A degree in finance, a loving family, and a promising future. But life had other plans. While her husband worked hard as a mechanic, content with a steady but limited income, Sade’s dreams of more grew restless. Struggling to make ends meet, waiting tables, she feels the weight of unfulfilled potential and the pressure to provide a better life for their children. Then, a mysterious stranger leaves a cryptic note, an invitation to an opportunity that could change everything.

Former poet laureate of Belfast, Maine, Afrofuturist/Oro-shamanic poet and bass clarinetist Toussaint St. Negritude dazzles with this debut collection of poems, featuring an ensemble of cosmic tones the late Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks once called “full of sweet sounds and surprises.”

Every family has its secrets. Every love story has its troubles. Everyone struggles with their self-esteem. Lena Joi Timmons is an ambitious and beautiful African American Psychiatrist who seemingly has it all. She comes from a successful and loving family, is well-educated, and is seemingly satisfied with her personal and professional status. However, behind the outward "picture perfect" persona is a woman who is broken and battered. Her childhood wounds never healed. A college romance nearly ripped her apart.

It’s the night of November 4, 2008. America's first Black president has just been elected. And fifty-three-year-old Hollis Montrose—a Black ex-police officer from the suburbs of Chicago—has become the latest victim of a brutal and explicitly racially-motivated attack. He was shot thirty times in cold blood by four resentful white men . . . with police badges.

Miles is hoping to move on from the heartbreaking loss of his former lover. But when a casual fling with a co-worker spirals into another emotional whirlwind, the life he’s fought to rebuild hangs in the balance. Can Miles finally learn from his mistakes, or will his choices keep dragging him under? Don’t miss the gripping second installment of Casual Encounters With Women From Work.

What if the greatest love of your life belonged to your best friend? Charles, a loyal and disciplined lawyer, never expected his heart to betray him. After the death of his best friend, Michael, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to Nicolette, Michael’s widow—a once-vibrant artist whose grief has dimmed her creative spark. As Nicolette struggles to reconnect with the art that once defined her, she turns to Charles for solace but finds a connection that feels startlingly like home. What begins as a friendship born of shared loss transforms into a connection neither can deny.

When Emira is apprehended at a supermarket for ‘kidnapping’ the white child she’s actually babysitting, it sets off an explosive chain of events. Her employer Alix, a feminist blogger with the best of intentions, resolves to make things right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke and wary of Alix’s desire to help. When a surprising connection emerges between the two women, it sends them on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know – about themselves, each other and the messy dynamics of privilege.