Reminiscent of her captivating, scandalous Mama Ruby series, New York Times best-selling author Mary Monroe crafts a story set in the Deep South during the Depression, in this tale of a woman determined to have a respectable life - no matter what it ...

Mrs. Wiggins

Carl Weber is the New York Times best-selling author of Baby Momma Drama and Player Haters. To be a member of the Big Girls Book Club, there's just one requirement: be a size 14 - at least. Tammy, Egypt, Isis, Nikki, Coco, and Tiny are six voluptuous...

Something on the Side

The Blue-Collar Lover Series Meet the Carter brothers, five hard-working men with a lot to offer. They may not be wealthy but they're rich in integrity and loyalty--not to mention sex appeal. They just need the right women to share their world. . . A...

Driving Heat

Kazimir, the head of the Bratva, has come to New York to find the person who murdered his loyal washer. Nicknamed The Russian Lion because he's credited with over 200 kills, the death of his washer is enough to start a dark and deadly war. Unfortunat...

Dirty Kisses

Beverly Jenkins’ historical romances have earned her a Golden Pen Award from the Black Writers’ Guild and two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times.  Set in 19th-century California, Destiny’s Embrace introduces listeners to ranch owner Logan ...

Destiny's Embrace

In this thrilling new series, acclaimed author Lutishia Lovely dives into the scandalous heart of romantic obsession with a cunning, sexy seductress, and the object of her affections....  Freelance writer Jacqueline Tate arrives in Los Angeles and so...

The Perfect Affair

Nothing invigorates the five Carter brothers more than an honest day's work - and the right women to come home to at night.  Douglas Carter never expected the summer job he took at the post office 10 years ago to become his career. But now, at 28, he...

Packing Heat

Contains books one, two, and three of the Luke Brothers series. Unexpected Expectations, book one T’Air’s current way of living isn’t cutting it anymore. She wants something different, something solid! This is a stark contrast to her current lifestyl...

Luke Brothers: The Complete Collection

Best-selling author Zuri Day crafts sizzling romantic tales that leave listeners yearning for more. Love in Play finds the curvaceous and wildly successful Dominique Clark finally feeling in charge of her life - until she meets Jake McDonald, her son...

Love in Play

The love/hate relationship between Diane and Kendra Williams takes mother-daughter drama to entirely different level. Diane is a single mother who prides herself on being a master manipulator. She has no problem using anything or anyone to get what s...

My Mama's Drama

In this sexy page-turning tale of unexpected love, Zuri Day introduces the Morgan men, three fine brothers who have it all - except what their mama wants most for them: wives. As the eldest, it’s up to Michael to pave the way. If only he’d stop runni...

Love on the Run

In this darkly seductive series, Lutishia Lovely turns up the heat as a devious beauty with mega revenge on her mind takes aim at a man who has everything.... to lose.  She's smart, gorgeous, and mysterious. For business executive Nathan Carver, a ma...

The Perfect Deception

I’d found God in her eyes and a prayer in the subtle way she moaned. I found my soul, the spirit of humanity between her thighs. Devilish temptress or holy angel, I would have her all to myself.  Nothing could happen to her, ever. Not one scratch. No...

Dirty Love

One sexy Morgan man may have finally met his match in a talented and beautiful young widow. But will their ambitions come between them? When artist Anise Cartier leaves Nebraska for L.A., she's finally ready to put the past and its losses behind her....

A Good Dose of Pleasure

Three powerful African-American female executives celebrate their gender and heritage as they share their secrets for success in this effective guide for businesswomen. Ways to communicate thoughtfully, trust yourself, and exude self-esteem are just a few tactics the authors discuss for those who want to enter the workforce as confident leaders.

The Little Black Book of Success

In this sexy pause-resister from Lutishia Lovely, a conniving seductress embarks on a spectacular finale as her need for revenge - and for the object of her obsession - reaches a boiling point....  After a nightmarish two years, Nathan Carver thinks ...

The Perfect Revenge

It's scorched-earth, all-or-nothing war for Memphis' most merciless ride-or-die women, and even their survival skills are no guarantee. And once alliances splinter and explosive revelations rip apart their empire, one diva's revenge will become the u...

Queen Divas

The queen of the street lit genre, De’nesha Diamond pens tales about the toughest ride-or-die chicks ever to roam the streets of the Dirty South. In Street Divas, four powerful women vie for total control of the Memphis hood, and they aren’t about to...

Street Divas

Will this Westmoreland affair remain a secret? Find out in this novel from New York Times best-selling author Brenda Jackson!  It has been a year since Jillian Novak ended their affair - a year that left Dr. Aidan Westmoreland determined to win back ...

The Secret Affair

The most lethal ride-or-die women in Memphis now run their gangs and the streets. But the aftermath of an all-out war means merciless new enemies, time-bomb secrets... and one chance to take it all... Bullets have no names and collateral damage is th...

Boss Divas

De’Nesha Diamond scores with audiences looking for gritty, streetwise tales from the hood.  Gangsta Divas puts listeners on the streets of Memphis, where gang wars are heating up thanks to the arrival of dangerous new players - the Cripettes. Ta’shar...

Gangsta Divas

The most ruthless ride-or-die women of Memphis saved their empire by nearly destroying the streets. But as unexpected new rivals rise and brutal secrets shatter lives, betrayal means winner rules all. Putting out chaos with gasoline is one play that ...

King Divas

A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Brenda Jackson has won numerous awards for her contemporary African-American romances. In Jamaica for a well-deserved vacation, city planner Darcy Owens is stunned by the sight of a chocolate-skinned...

Bachelor Undone

Is a real man too hot for a pampered diva to handle?  For Kaitlyn Strong, life has been a fun-filled free ride, all expenses paid by her wealthy father. As for relationships, why would Kaitlyn want to give up the fabulous single life? But after she g...

Red Hot

Best-selling author Niobia Bryant draws enthusiastic praise from fans and critics alike for her unique brand of contemporary urban fiction. In The Hot Spot, 40-something Zaria Ali is diving back into the dating pool following the meltdown of her 21-y...

The Hot Spot

New York Times best-selling author Mary B. Morrison delivers a sizzling, twist-filled tale of four competitive friends, a dangerous bet-and high-stakes consequences no one can afford to win.  From childhood games to career challenges, Trymm, Dallas, ...

Head Games

The war has ended. Kazimir hopes to spend quiet time with Emily, but there are more enemies creeping within the shadows - new dangers that threaten the couple's happiness. Can the Lion and Mouse have their happy ending? Or are they destined to fight a battle that one of them may not survive?

Dirty Hearts

The romance novels of New York Times best-selling author Brenda Jackson have won an ardent following for velvety prose that can fluster any reader with the heat of her steamy tales. With In the Doctor’s Bed, Jackson writes a prescription for loneline...

In the Doctor’s Bed

Love is in the air when the Strong brothers come home and revisit their roots with the sexy story of how it all began....  Lisha Rockmon just wants a good man who respects her family values. But most of the men of Holtsville, S.C., want to get physic...

Strong Heat

The Corsican has kidnapped Emily. Lethally passionate, Kazimir will stop at nothing to get his lover back. Meanwhile, the Corsican is finding it difficult to hold on to this cunning woman.  Paris will never be the same again.  Will Kazimir save his mouse? Or will France blow up in flames?  Warning: This novel will leave you raw and restless as Kazimir and Emily face obstacle after obstacle.

Dirty Minds

Best-selling author De'nesha Diamond brings her dynamic storytelling talent to DC's treacherous corridors of power - where scandal is merely the first move in a high-stakes game that makes its own rules.  It's an offer too tempting to refuse: One nig...

Conspiracy

In her most riveting novel yet, New York Times best-selling author Mary B. Morrison delivers an emotional rollercoaster of a tale of four new friends chasing after their heart's desires, no matter the cost.... For Jordan, Victoria, Kingston, and Chan...

Careful What You Click For

Full-figured diva Desa Rae Jenkins and her lover boy, Roc Dawson, have finally agreed to make their way down the aisle for better or worse, richer or poorer, and no mess whatsoever shall keep them apart. Several weeks before the long-awaited wedding,...

Who Ya Wit'

Ava belonged to me. No one else could be with her, and no one else would do for me. It would take time and gifts, wine and listening, whatever else, but she would understand one day. She would know only me. Once I had Ava in my grips, I would never r...

Dirty Desires

Jealousy, greed, and violent revenge are all at the forefront in this addictive listen by Brenda Hampton, the queen of girlfriends' drama. Kayla, Evelyn, and Trina have been on-and-off-again girlfriends for many years, but the lines of true friendshi...

BFFs Forever

On-point dialogue and relentlessly erotic prose characterize national best-selling author Niobia Bryant’s mesmerizing novels. The third in a series starring the heartbreaking Strong brothers, Give Me Fever takes the game to another level. A quiet acc...

Give Me Fever

Delightfully mixing inspirational romance and contemporary fiction, Vanessa Davis Griggs’ novels are gripping emotional rollercoaster rides. The wedding between Angela Gabriel and Brent Underwood promises to be the Birmingham event of the year - and ...

Practicing What You Preach

In D.C.'s cutthroat political arena, revenge is the ultimate nuclear option. Framed for a high-profile murder, Abrianna Parker finds herself hurtling down a conspiracy rabbit hole in a desperate attempt to clear her name. Her only way out is to go af...

Collusion

Celebrated author Cheris Hodges pens romantic tales that hit all the right notes. In Recipe for Desire, Marie Charles’ party-girl days come to a screeching halt with a DWI arrest and a totaled Jaguar. Sentenced to 500 hours of community service at a ...

Recipe for Desire

When 16-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white.  In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the ...

How It Went Down

Paris Simmons-Holyfield is facing a dilemma - she's pregnant but she is not sure who the father is. After spending a night with Darius Connors, her ex-colleague, the baby could belong to him, but she doesn't want to ruin her marriage.  Darius has his...

The Other Side of Divine

No one is going to tear down the farmland that's been in Crystal's family since the turn of the 20th century - especially not the multimillion dollar suits behind Welco Industries. And until Welco's president meets with her, Crystal wages a fiery one...

Forces of Nature

Elite investigator Zoe Harrington isn't about to be fooled twice. She knows all the tempting by-any-means-necessary games FBI agent Carver Banks will use to close a case. So when he needs her help with a missing person case, she's happy to charge him...

Deadly Rumors

Vanessa Davis Griggs’ Blessed Trinity novels tackle tough questions of faith with humor and honesty. The sixth entry in the series, The Truth Is the Light features the return of the always-entertaining Followers of Jesus Faith Worship Center congregation. Here, the flock’s newest member is causing quite a stir, but he’s not the only one bringing drama into the church house. 

The Truth Is the Light

Nationally best-selling author Vanessa Davis Griggs helps spread the Word with powerful fiction for the faithful. In The Other Side of Dare, Paris Simmons-Holyfield finds her marriage of seven years stressed to the breaking point when she works towar...

The Other Side of Dare

Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to eke out a living in the Windy City. But when she stumbles across the dead body of a respected member of the community, it's up to her to prove a murderer is o...

Broken Places

Choosing his career over a relationship, Blake Russell left Serena Howard in Philadelphia to pursue opportunities in San Francisco. After being away for almost a year and a half, Blake is back in the city of Brotherly Love and still holding onto feel...

Stay Forever

An exciting new contemporary romance series featuring successful men and the women they're determined to win.  Xavier Whitted, CPA and city council candidate, is excited to get away to the Crystal Coast for his best friend's wedding. He is shocked wh...

Back to Your Love

A luminous figure in both Christian and African American fiction, Vanessa Davis Griggs pens gripping faith-based tales eagerly anticipated by fans. In The Other Side of Goodness, 50-year-old Alabama Congressman Lawrence Rudolph Simmons is facing an u...

The Other Side of Goodness

In Rhonda Bowen’s breakout debut novel Man Enough for Me, Jules Jackson has her life under control. There’s no man in the mix - until Germaine comes along, and she falls hard. But when Jules discovers Germaine is hiding something big from her, she starts digging for answers. Soon, everything starts falling apart, and Jules must decide to take her new love on faith or risk losing it all.

Man Enough for Me

The first in a new series chronicling the fortunes of the Brooklyn Monarchs, a fictional NBA franchise, Fast Break is another triumph for fan-favorite author Regina Hart. Here, two-time league MVP and three-time champion DeMarcus Guinn is going to turn the Monarchs around his way, or not at all. The only obstacle he must overcome is a developing rivalry with the fiery team owner, Jaclyn Jones. 

Fast Break

In Rochelle Alers’ thoughtful, heartwarming series set on a picturesque North Carolina island, one woman’s seemingly perfect life unravels - and a new chapter begins.... It’s been almost a year since Leah Berkley Kent left her lavish Richmond home to...

The Beach House

Take one heartbroken Chicago girl  Literary editor Antonia Harper had it all - the career, the man, the future. That was then. Now Antonia is jobless, alone, and at a crossroads. What better time to travel the world? A solo honeymoon on the Emerald I...

The Write Escape

In the final chapter of her Brooklyn Monarchs trilogy, best-selling author Regina Hart takes her game to the next level. NBA legend Warrick Davis has his eyes on a championship run to end his career. But his swan song is bringing unwelcome attention,...

Keeping Score

Set on breathtaking Coates Island, off the coast of North Carolina, best-selling author Rochelle Alers' new series debut brings together three book-loving women whose summer will offer a chance to rewrite their own stories.... For three decades, the ...

The Seaside Cafe

Serena Howard and Blake Russell are two driven individuals with tunnel vision when it comes to their goals. The two meet in Philadelphia, and there's instant chemistry between them. They date, have fun, and eventually fall for one another. Will the desire to achieve their goals interfere with their feelings for one another? Will they sever ties, or will their connection be too strong to break?

Stay a Little Longer

In Michele Andrea Bowen's Up at the College, Yvonne Copeland - dumped by her husband and now homeless - returns to her hometown of Durham, North Carolina. Landing a job as an adjunct professor, she begins rebuilding her life and her relationship with God. And then she meets the university's basketball coach, who's everything she wants in a man - except for a defect only God can change.

Up at the College

Regina Hart’s sizzling contemporary romance Fast Break introduced listeners to the lives and loves of professional basketball’s Brooklyn Monarchs. In its seductive sequel, Monarchs PR rep Troy Marshall is having a tough time keeping the behavior of the team captain and a troublemaking co-owner in check - a job made even harder when he goes head-to-head with beautiful sports writer Andrea Benson. 

Smooth Play

The diamonds are flawless, their drama is turned up ultra-high, and the taboo beauties from Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker's Millionaire Wives Club are back for a third season of explosive lies, forbidden sex, and scandals like you've never seen before!  Step...

Rich Girl Problems

Happy in marriage and motherhood, Sherise is back at work and ready for a big promotion to White House press secretary - until an incompetent rival gets the job instead. Something's dirty and Sherise is going to get to the bottom of it... Billie's la...

Power, Seduction & Scandal

Imagine sitting around a kitchen table with a small group of women friends asking compassionate Master Teachers - Saint Germain, Kuthumi, Sananda, Kuan Yin, Mary, and others absolutely anything you wanted . . . and getting detailed answers. Join such...

Sisters of the Flame

Author Bettye Griffin pens novels featuring contemporary women trying to make sense of a crazy world. When middle-aged divorcee Emily Yancy moves home to be with her ailing mother, she's not expecting to find romance. But Aaron Merritt is a handsome ...

A New Kind of Bliss

Having a crush on her drop-dead-gorgeous boss could get Hopewell General intern Jaclyn Campbell fired... especially with the prestigious Virginia hospital reeling from a shocking scandal. But head resident Lucien De Winter is impossible to resist. An...

In the Doctor's Bed

The one thing that True always wanted was a family that he could call his own. Growing up with two loving parents and being shown what love was, he wanted to be able to share that with someone else. He thought he had that when he met Angel, until she...

The Heart of a Bad Boy

In Tracy Clark's electrifying new mystery featuring Cassandra Raines, the former Chicago cop turned private investigator looks into a suspicious death as a favor to a friend - and makes some powerful enemies.... Sitting in cold cars for hours, servin...

Borrowed Time

The Chases are rich, powerful, and used to getting everything they want. But this privileged African-American dynasty is about to discover that even billions can't buy happiness-or keep trouble outside their gilded gates. Just when Sherise's career a...

Nothing to Lose

Former homicide cop turned private investigator Cass Raines gets the job done in this Chicago-set novel from award-winning author Tracy Clark. Chicago in the dead of winter can be brutal, especially when you're scouring the frigid streets for a missi...

Runner

Black and Blue by De'Nesha Diamond In one shattering night, Charlie Warren's fiance is killed, she is attacked-and then framed as part of a police cover-up. Five years later, with nothing to lose, Charlie is free and vengefully exposing their operati...

Justified

Diane McKinney-Whetstone, the award-winning and best-selling author of Tumbling, presents Trading Dreams at Midnight - an Essence Book Club Recommended Read. Back in 1984, 15-year-old Neena's mother left and never came back. And now Neena is following in her footsteps.

Trading Dreams at Midnight

What happens in the stacks stays in the stacks.... Professor Victoria Reese knows an uphill battle when she sees one. Convincing her narrow-minded colleagues at the elite Pembroke University to back a partnership with the local library is a fight she...

Hearts on Hold

A Meeting in the Ladies' Room is a story laced with intrigue, racial tension, and obsession that leads to murder.  Jackie Blue is a hard-working, ambitious, young black editor. She looks forward to her weekly meetings with the Black Pack, a small gro...

A Meeting in the Ladies' Room

Best friends since the fifth grade, Vaughn, Reenie, Susan, and Audrey have always been considered the most likely to write the Great American Novel, marry a prince, find fame, and run the world, respectively. Now in their 50s, they are all still chasing those dreams - which sometimes makes the "girls" collide.

Girls Most Likely

An Essence best-selling author, Victor McGlothin is praised for his African-American inspirational fiction. Sinful is a dramatic tale of love, greed, and redemption. As Chandelle and Marvin Hutchins deal with growing financial and emotional pressures in their marriage, Cousin Dior comes to visit. Beautiful but irresponsible, Dior loves excitement and will use anyone - even Chandelle and Marvin - to get it.

Sinful

J-Rite is 100 percent blackhearted. New to the city of Grand Rapids but not new to making money, she was born a straight gangster. The pint-size exotic dancer turned street hustler is caught up in living the black American hood dream. She has no "off...

The End of the Line

Los Angeles talent manager Benita Hawkins has returned to tiny Trinity Falls, Ohio, to visit her elderly great-aunt Helen - and hopefully convince her to move to assisted living. But that's not the only move Benita hopes to inspire. After years of ho...

Mystic Park

National best-selling author Angela Winters has earned legions of fans for her tempting tales of passion. This second installment in her D.C. series features the continuing saga of best friends who overcome difficult childhoods to find professional s...

Almost Doesn't Count

From Essence best-selling author Cheryl Robinson comes an uplifting novel about three sisters who rediscover each other—and themselves. After 13 years in Hollywood, Alicia abandons her dream and returns home to Detroit. Hope is still seeking the trut...

When I Get Where I’m Going

In Drama 99 FM, Janine Morris delivers a sizzling tale about three bodacious women who are living life to the fullest - and running the risk of crashing and burning. Naomi is a rising star in the music industry. Sereeta has a special talent for hooki...

Drama 99 FM

Tender, emotional contemporary romance - you'll fall in love with this band of brothers and the strong women they're determined to win.  Architect Maxwell Devers is laser-focused on winning the contract to build a new cultural arts center - his bigge...

Never Let Me Go

A Justice Hustlers novel.  Two gorgeous sisters. One plays by the rules. The other lives her wild-card dreams on blast. But in this sizzling, twist-filled tale, they must help the exploited by putting their troubled relationship - and very different ...

The Accidental Mistress

Michael's wife Dahlia seems to have it all - a successful career, a devoted husband, and a loving daughter. But something sinister troubles her tortured mind. When Michael encounters her eccentric mortician father and the other bizarre characters on ...

Chasing Sophea

In this 2009 National Book Award finalist, Rita Williams-Garcia proves that she has an “uncanny ability to project unique voices” (Publishers Weekly). Jumped is told in alternating points of view between three girls as they struggle to make tough choices when they become involved in a fight at their urban high school. 

Jumped

One morning, Felicia is startled to see police at the house of her long-ago lover, Luther. When she learns that Luther's wife and young son have been murdered in their home, she refuses to accept the police's contention that the man she once loved co...

A Person of Interest

Yesterday's Eyes is an inspirational story about three generations of women who must come to terms with the negative issues from their past and learn how to forgive one another. Yesterday's Eyes exposes the journey traveled by these three women. It r...

Yesterday's Eyes

From his small travel agency tucked away in an area of New York City known as Little Colombia, the "Godfather of Jackson Heights" does far more than make travel arrangements. Fernando Padrón is a social service fixer to many of the tens of thousands of Latino immigrants living in his neighborhood.

Las cronicas de Jackson Heights

When Darcy Owens leaves snowy New York for some Jamaican fun in the sun, she isn't expecting to meet the hero of her fantasies. But the sexy, sun-kissed man she sees on her first day on the beach comes pretty close. Until he turns out to be York Ellis, the gorgeous but supremely arrogant ex-cop who thinks she needs his protection - and his passion. But when York looks at Darcy, he knows she's the woman he'd give his life for....

Dr. Imani Grant isn't looking for love.  Between the rigors of medical school and the opening of her own dermatology practice, there is simply no room in her life. But when she's called upon - yet again - to be a bridesmaid for one of her best friend...

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