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A football player returning home after twenty years looking to lay low. A veterinarian not looking to be on anyone’s radar.

Investigative journalist Nahla Avery only wanted the truth. A small-town corruption story turned into a nightmare the moment Lyle’s sheriff put a target on her back. Forced into hiding and stripped of her safety, her career, and her peace, Nahla doesn't back down—she digs deeper. That’s what she’s always done. What she’s never done? Depend on anyone... until Cannon Porter.

WHEN THE HOWELL FAMILY MOVES INTO A HOUSE on Heckler Lane, it causes quite a stir around the small town of Sunny Cove, Pennsylvania. Elise Howell, a well-known cardio surgeon, has returned home after fifteen years to fill her recently deceased mother’s position at Sunny Cove General Hospital. In a town this size, it’s big news. But it’s Elise’s new husband, Artie, who has the whole town talking.

The night that changed everything ain’t over yet, and when the smoke finally clears, three lives are left in pieces. One woman’s demons are catching up to her, forcing her to face the guilt that’s been eating her alive. Another’s sitting on a secret that could tear the hood apart, but she’s standing on all ten 'bout her business, even if it means stepping on toes. And the last? She’s back in the one place she swore she’d never return, fighting for her life while teetering on the edge of losing it all... if it’s not already too late.

For Maverick and Onyx, the flames are instant … literally. With an unexpected house fire, Maverick finds herself in the arms of the first responder who saves her. With her anxiety getting the best of her, having something or someone else keeping her attention is greatly needed. Onyx wasn’t expecting to find love on the job. All it took was one call to change all of that. Onyx lending a helping hand becomes so much more. From strangers to lovers, these two are in for a fiery ride with romance.

In the Slums, love comes with conditions. Loyalty will cost you everything. And the same ones smilin’ in your face might be plotting your downfall. Ain’t no grace in the streets, and nobody’s exempt from betrayal. One woman’s stuck chasing the thrill of what she lost. Another’s knee-deep in the hustle—until the game flips and swallows her whole. And the third? She’s holdin’ it down alone, drowning in pain while life crumbles around her. They all claim to stand ten toes down… But when it’s time to really stand, only one will make it out. The question is—at what cost?

Solè Amor Stevens is the woman who gives until there is nothing left. Not for applause, but because nurturing is who she is. As a teacher, she pours into children who need stability and someone who will keep showing up, and when the school day ends, she shifts straight into caretaker mode. Between The Pour House and looking after her grandmother, Solè stays busy on purpose, because slowing down means letting the weight of life catch her. Then Roman steps into her world, and everything she thought she could manage alone starts feeling different.

His mother didn’t want him, so much so that she named him “Him” and dropped him off on his father’s doorstep. Because his father had an affair and cheated on his wife, he wanted nothing to do with the outside son that affair created. Derrick gave Him to his grandparents to raise, and they did until he was sixteen. At that point, he was forced to live with his father, stepmother, and three brothers—one of which made sure he knew he was a stray.

Xai Watts will do anything for his brother. He’s been raising him since he was fourteen. The streets provided the means until Xai left them behind and opened his own business. Years have passed, but things haven’t changed. Because of love and guilt, Xai is still protecting and helping his brother. But after one fateful, late night, anything feels like a debt too steep to pay. Adora Mitchell will do anything for her daughters. She’s raising them while their father is away doing time. She’s been managing and doing okay but when her foundation is taken away, things change at an alarming rate.

Beckham Strong walked away from a great city, a good job, and a decent relationship, because the call of his small hometown in the rural Pacific Northwest was too powerful to ignore. Now, he spends his days doing what he loves—guiding wilderness enthusiasts on adventure tours. And his nights . . . well, he spends those alone. Collins Kingsley watched her dreams go up in smoke . . . literally.

The Slums: Episode 3 is a ghetto soap opera where surviving is only half the battle.

In the Slums, yesterday’s secrets don’t stay buried for long—they come back deadlier than before. Love turns poisonous. Loyalty flips. And betrayal? Sometimes it’s the only way out. In the hood, it’s a dog-eat-dog world—and one wrong move could cost you everything. One woman’s demons force her to face the blood on her hands. Another grinds harder than ever, until the hustle eats her alive. And the last is fighting to hold her family together while the people closest to her rip it apart. They thought surviving the first storm was enough… but this time, the storm is them.

Addison Comstock is a literary icon, known for her bestselling crime novels, razor-sharp tongue, and relentless rise to the top. But behind her polished brand lies a ruthless past filled with secrets, betrayals, and broken lives—including those of the writers she’s employed to ghostwrite her success. When her longtime editor collapses and dies during a team retreat in Jamaica, what appears to be a medical emergency soon begins to feel like something far more sinister.

For Navy Robertson, she has literally everything she wants except marriage and a family of her own. While she believes she might be able to get those things with her boyfriend, Ian, his toxic back and forth with her closest friend causes drama in their relationship that Navy is finding it harder to ignore. For over a decade, Zander Gough has been content being Navy’s closest friend. The more serious things get between her and Ian, the more difficult it is for Zander to deny his feelings for her.

The era is 1988, Detroit is the scene, and crack is the movement. It's a time when young black men can become self-made millionaires seemingly overnight by selling dope. The crack era has become to blacks what Prohibition was to the Italians - a time to get over! It's a time that inspires generations of street dreams.... Fresh out of high school, young Wink has but one thing on his mind - rollin' fresh. Infatuated by all the trappings of the game, Wink and his B-boy crew jump headfirst into the ills of the drug trade, determined to taste the good life.

At the end of Love and War, audiences were left wondering if the Hoover gang would be able to reign supreme or if they would fall at the hands of the women who were supposed to have their backs. Now, what should be the happiest day of one's life has turned into the worst. It is literally a wedding to die for, and Hoover brothers Quick, Shadow, and Babyface are awaiting news of Blaze's fate.

Bernadette "Bernie" Hunt excels in life, but love is another story. Being gorgeous, smart, and from a well-to-do family, she has no shortage of high-society suitors vying for her attention, but when measured against her father, none seem good enough. This changes when she meets Keith Davis, a hotshot lawyer recently hired at her father's firm. Being new to Atlanta from New Orleans, Keith's past is somewhat of a mystery. The day Keith proposes to Bernie is one of the happiest of her life. She has found a kindred soul who seems to bring everything to the table, including a dark secret.

This exciting collection presents two previously unpublished stories by SF legend Octavia E. Butler. A Necessary Being precedes the events of Survivor, Butler's third (famously disowned) installment in her Patternist series, and includes characters from it, focusing exclusively on the Kohn, aliens who build their social hierarchies on the blueness of their fur. In Childfinder, a black woman with the gift of identifying children with latent psychic ability refuses to share her skill with an organization of white telepaths.

For Glory Hopkins, inheriting her Aunt Lucille’s Harlem brownstone feels more like a curse than a blessing. As a restless artist struggling to find gallery representation, Glory doesn’t have the money, time, or patience to look after the aging house of an aunt she barely knew. But when she stumbles into Parkie de Groot, a savvy, ambitious auction house appraiser on the verge of a coveted promotion, her unexpected inheritance begins to look more promising. Glory and Parkie form an unlikely alliance and work to unearth the origins of a rare manuscript hidden in the brownstone’s trove.

Five years ago, Orlando Duncan created the perfect drug in HEAT. It made the Duncans more than two hundred and fifty million dollars and was on its way to making them billionaires. However, they abruptly stopped manufacturing the drug when it was proven to cause cancer in rats. When Orlando is awakened by an alarm in his old lab, he discovers that not only have all his computers, equipment, and notes been stolen, but the robbers have also taken over a million tabs of HEAT that he’d left behind for future experiments—tabs that he had sworn to his family he would destroy.