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Two ministers. One pulpit. One soul up for sale. Lawrence Case and Marcus Price grew up three streets apart in Cincinnati’s West End, ordained together, and arrived at Greater Deliverance Baptist Church side by side with the same dream: to one day stand in the pulpit of the most powerful Black church in the city. But when the legendary Dr. Hezekiah Malone refuses to step aside, the two men choose two completely different roads. Marcus walks away. He plants Cornerstone Community Church in a storefront on McMicken Avenue with twenty-seven folding chairs and a calling that is completely his own.

Sometimes one moment can be monumental… For Sunjiya Daniels, one call leads her into the arms of an assassin who is hired to track her twin sister. She finds herself in another bad situation that she has to get out of and like every other time in her life, she will do whatever is necessary to...

He wasn't born a King. But he carries their blood—and their curse. Cannon Price came from nothing. The son Tessa King was forced to give away, he grew up fighting for every scrap of respect he ever got. Framed by the crew he once called family, he did five brutal years in prison and came out...

The weight of the world and the frustrations from her past drive Ciara to take a drastic action that could change her life forever. However, when things don't go as planned, she turns to the one man in her life whom she hopes can save her. Hov faces one challenge after another on his journey to...

In the gritty streets of Chicago where loyalty is everything, Brandon "Bigs" Lowe finds himself torn between the life he's built and the love he can't let go. As the eldest of four brothers, Bigs has always been the protector, but when his baby mama, **Asia**, goes down for a drug charge, their world shatters. She takes the fall to shield him, but the price is steep: two years apart from their son and from each other. Now, Asia is back on the streets, and she's not the same woman Bigs remembers.

'So brilliantly, unbelievably good I have a burning in my heart from gulping it down too fast' Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich and Wreck Val and Milly fell in love with France at the same time they fell in love with each other, bonding as the only Black students...

Bloomsbury presents On Witness and Respair written and read by Jesmyn Ward The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay. Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after...

Every faith is inherited. So is every wound. Elias Carter was raised at his father’s altar—inside a church where belief was certainty, obedience was love, and legacy was everything. His father, a revered pastor, built a sanctuary that shaped generations. It also shaped the silences between them. Now grown, Elias serves people in quieter ways, far from the pulpit. But when his father’s health begins to fail, he is called back to the aging church—and to the man who expects him to carry what he can no longer hold. The building is deteriorating. The congregation is shrinking.

L-Trey and his crew are just kids playing ball, laughing, and growing up together. But when life starts to test them—with pressure, choices, and the weight of the world around them—they begin to realize something powerful

A heartfelt, interracial, contemporary romance debut--and a love letter to K dramas--featuring a single mom whose chance to turn her neighborhood restaurant into a household name is upended by an unexpected spark with a swoon-worthy Korean business magnate, for fans of Kennedy Ryan, Tia Williams...

Four lives connected by one secret. Paige spent nearly a decade working through then overcoming the traumas of her childhood. Now as a beloved Elder in her church who values her relationship with God above all else, she has learned to love herself and looks forward what life has in store for her. Still, she finds herself unprepared for the challenge she's faced with when a door from her past is flung open, spilling secrets even she was unaware of. Elder Brandon Tatum is looking forward to his new ministerial career in the City of Angels.

From a powerful new voice in fiction comes a stunning multigenerational epic, spanning from 1920s Haiti to 1990s New York, centered on the disappearance of a little girl from Brooklyn's J'ouvert celebrations Brooklyn, 1998. Serenity Marcelin and her six-year-old daughter, Jouvay, have spent the...

From the author of the acclaimed novel House of Cotton comes an electric, haunting new Southern noir following the residents of Better Tomorrow trailer park in the aftermath of a gruesome murder. When the body of hated landlord Joe Candle is found nailed to a cross in the middle of Better...

A second chance with the single dad might seem like fate—but he’s exactly what I should avoid. I’ve loved Ethan Bishop since freshman year— the day we met at a high school basketball game. Those five years together? Unforgettable. He was my first love, my one and only. But while I was wild at heart, his presence kept me grounded—until his family decided I wasn’t good enough for him.

In 1934 St. Louis, Missouri, Pamela, outwardly a young, white socialite (but inwardly an unsettled late adolescent), is about to give birth to her first child. To assist in the delivery, she searches for the 'colored' midwife, Miss Minnie, who attended her own birth in 1911. She and her...

She thought she had lost everything. Turns out, she still has so much left to lose. In the aftermath of the raid in Ana, Dr. Raya Xander discovers that her life has changed dramatically. What seemed like a local criminal group is actually part of a larger international crime ring that’s...

Two college roommates. Four hidden secrets. One semester that will change everything. Rose thought she'd found love online until a devastating truth turns her world upside down. Veronica's carefully constructed walls begin to crumble when her past catches up with her in ways she never expected. And Nae Nae's dreams of a peaceful life with her new family are threatened when someone from her history refuses to let go.

The Occasional Poet is a collection of odes written & performed by Angela for special people on special occasions.

Book #14 in the Shepherd Security Series. Shepherd Security field engineer Laura Lee ‘Lah-lee’ Saxton declined Operator training. She also voiced her opposition to working in the Operations Center as an analyst. She failed to complete and submit her required coursework to earn her FBI Credentials. Although she is a top-notch electrical engineer, she was the first person at Shepherd Security to ever be placed on disciplinary probation.

When Bubba walks in on the love of his life with this best friend, he think it's history repeating its self. Upset and hurt by what he uncovers, he turns cold. Beto had done the same exact thing to his cousin, and now he was doing the same thing to him. The only difference is that Beto and Milan...