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Paris was born and raised a slave on a South Carolina rice plantation. As a young boy, he used to look up at the birds, flying freely above him. He longed to be free like the birds, but in 18th century, pre-Revolutionary times, it seemed impossible. However, when the British came seeking slaves willing to desert their masters to fight their cause, a 15-year-old Paris saw his chance, and took it.

When they get news of another couple’s impending divorce, Rumi forces a conversation that reveals simmering fears, hurt, and secrets in her and Micah’s marriage. And once they confront long overdue questions about the stability of their own family, will their friends’ relationship be the only one coming to an end?

In the murky depths of familial ties, Craven's world shatters as his parents welcome Leo, an enigmatic 8-year-old wrapped in shadows that whisper of ancient terrors. Leo's unsettling obsession with death and the chilling accidents that shadow his steps plunge Craven into a nightmare of dread, his every instinct screaming of impending doom. As secrets coil like serpents around his family, Craven faces a chilling truth: can humanity withstand the dark legacy that pulses through Leo's very being?

Nan Carrington’s life is a tapestry woven from the vibrant threads of her Caribbean heritage and the harsh realities of life in a world far removed from the island paradise of Barbados. From the white sandy beaches where she felt trapped by strict family traditions, Nan embarks on a journey to find freedom and fulfillment, far away from her tropical home.

When it comes to being a caregiver, Kym Knicely has been there, done that, and is ready to move on from that lifestyle. Then she meets Hamilton Cross and soon learns that every caregiver situation is not one size fits all. Where she was the caregiver of her elderly aunt, Hamilton is years older and is a full-time caregiver of his seven-year-old autistic granddaughter.

Desire Blackstone enjoys two things in life, cooking and doing whatever or whomever she wants. After a run-in with her ex-girlfriend, she starts to see her love life through a new lens. Her no-sex diet was designed to help her build real connections, but she hadn’t counted on meeting a hot photographer.

After the passing of her granny and with her sister in prison, the weight of the world seems to be fitting uncomfortably on Honesty Barret's shoulders. Now, her only living situation in Parkway Gardens appears to be in jeopardy as her aunt and her pimp bombard their way into her granny's home. With aspirations of moving out of the Gardens and creating a better life for herself by doing hair, unbeknownst to Honesty, her dreams are about to become a reality, but not in the way that she expects.

Ever since he was fifteen, John King has been on the run from the ghosts of his past, always drifting, never settling down in one place or with one woman, though more than one has certainly made the offer of forever-after. But every time his memories of life back in Texas start to haunt him too deeply into the night, John realizes that it's time to move on. That is, until he rolls into Denver, Colorado, grooving to Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It on," and meets Connie Rodgers, a woman who grew up on the mean streets and has the pain and the battle scars to prove it.

When Brianna Rogers joins a team of teachers who will spend their summer in a Mars simulation to win vital funds for the school library, she thought it would be easy. What she didn’t count on was Roman Major: science teacher, son of the principal, and far too handsome. Brianna is sure he’s been sent to sabotage them. But each day, she finds herself falling harder and harder. While it’s clear the feeling is mutual, she can’t shake the sense that he’s hiding something.

Daily interactions between Jacob and Daniel are a powder keg of sexual tension and uncertainty. A recent Morehouse graduate and Brooklyn transplant, Jacob fears that accepting the truth of his sexuality will disappoint the hopes his parents have for him to lead a respectable life. Grieving the death of his mother while searching for answers about a father he has never known, Daniel, an Atlanta native, has resigned himself to the reality that men who love men don’t have happy endings.

Spanning over a hundred and fifty years, Morgan Jerkins’s extraordinary novel intertwines the stories of these star-crossed lovers and their descendants. As Tirzah's family moves across the country during the Great Migration, they challenge authority with devastating consequences, while of the legacy of heartbreak and loss continues on in the lives of Harrison's progeny.

In the Nine Lands, only those of noble blood can summon the spirits of their ancestors to fight in battle. But when Temi, a commoner from the slums, accidentally invokes a powerful spirit, she finds it could hold the key to ending a centuries-long war. But not everything that can be invoked is an ancestor. And some of the spirits that can be drawn from the ancestral realm are more dangerous than anyone can imagine.