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Oakley Charles has two priorities. She is a mom first and an actress second. Being completely consumed by her passions, a beautifully baby girl, and a blossoming career, Oakley has no plans to fall in love unless it was with a role. Westwood Brooks falls in love with Oakley Charles the very first time he lays eyes on her. Unfortunately the timing isn’t right, forcing him to regrettably fall back.

Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning White boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes she's been given a challenge.

Billie has always advocated for the people over the powerful. But when her son gets in trouble, her silence can make it go away. With her son’s freedom at stake and mounting tensions threatening her marriage, she’ll need all her resources and skills to save her family and expose the corruption…if a conspiracy doesn’t drown her first.

Sylvia Blackwell has it all, or so she thinks. She and her handsome husband, Garrett, are the epitome of success: an immaculate house of their dreams, a beautiful and talented 17-year-old daughter, flourishing careers, and nearly 20 years of perfectly wedded bliss. Just as they are making plans for their vow renewal celebration, a call in the middle of the night interrupts their picture-perfect lives. Now Sylvia has to deal with the reality of Garrett's dead mistress and a love child she never knew about.

At the age of 12, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti - to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.

Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratves’ novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present.

In this riveting domestic thriller for listeners of Jeneva Rose, Kimberly McCreight, Kimberly Belle, and Shanora Williams, one woman’s seemingly perfect marriage is shattered by a shocking revelation. Now, how far will she go to learn the whole truth—and will it be enough to outrun the lethal consequences?

Hayden is faced with a troublous dilemma, irrevocably changing her life as she once knew it. She’s homeless. And with funding insecurities, the future of her entire non-profit organization is also at stake. Pregnant and preoccupied, Hayden has serious, calculating decisions to make. After the blowup with Hayden, life goes on for Ishaan. It’s business as usual. There are still resorts to run, nefarious people to immobilize, and a son to raise without the support of said son’s extended family. But is that all his life now consists of?

Kabrina Kenneth had no complaints when it came to her life. She had the career of her dreams and the man to go with it which was something she deeply coveted coming from her particular background. But when her dream life turns into a nightmare literally overnight, Kabrina's anger and hurt causes her to make a huge mistake. Feeling like she can't catch a break and is doomed to pay for the sins of her mother, Kabrina does whatever she can to hopefully rectify what that one night of betrayal, anger, and sadness has caused.

Sometimes, a girl’s first enemy isn’t the world, it’s her own mother. The verbal jabs, the mental manipulation, the physical torment—each blow chips away at a young girl’s sense of worth, until there's nothing left but silence and survival. That was Aria’s reality. A life of emotional warfare that left her feeling invisible, unloved, and broken. But everything shifted when she tasted the sweetness of Gucci’s love.

I ain’t never met a girl like her. She was more than just someone I wanted to bed and leave. From the first time I saw her, I knew my attraction to her was beyond just us sharing our love for music. She was the calm that settled my storm. She was destined to be mine. He was the light I saw through the darkness. The one that held the cards to my future. What I thought would break me turned out to be what saved me.

The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama - and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he desperately needs to stay hidden. And Maggie's unexpected charm, elegance, and religious devotion makes her the perfect partner in lies....

She was once the best luxury car thief in the game. But Ava Frost paid a high price when her children were stolen. Forced to confront her ruthless ex-boss, Nick, she uncovered his devious silent partner in the kidnapping: her seemingly loving, seemingly wealthy husband, Kevin. Now Ava is making a new life with her children several states away from her former suburban life. She's also struggling to help her young son heal from their traumatic ordeal. So, when her soon-to-be ex-husband pressures her to return his part of the ransom, Ava pushes back . . . hard.

Join us on this emotional roller coaster as Sevyn struggles with her heart and mind, secretly in love with a man who is off-limits: her best friend, Wave. Her busy life isn’t enough to keep her happy, and she’s fed up with having to hide who she is to meet the standards of someone else's lifestyle. The tough Chicago girl is faced with depression and hard decisions when confronted with choosing between what she needs and what she wants. Will she let herself drown in her sorrows, or will she emerge stronger?

Flight attendant Makenna Akins has received a text from the man she loves every year for eight years, but they haven’t spoken a word to one another. Distraught over a harrowing decision that she made at a critical time in her life, Makenna has become a fraction of her former self. When she sees the man who once held her heart on a busy street one night in Vegas, Makenna wonders if she’s losing it.

One final fling was the gift her fiancé had given her. One wild weekend in Vegas was what her friends planned. A hidden identity and four hot nights were what she gave a stranger in Vegas. Then how did social media influencer London Pharr become a runaway bride? He was a player who didn't do relationships. She was a temporary escape for the weekend. Then why did MLB player Carter Lockwood find himself crashing the wedding of a woman he could not forget?

Kaos Montgomery is one of four managing partners at Montgomery, Pierce, Walker, and Gough Law Firm. He handles the organized crime unit, defending mafia leaders, drug lords, and assassins. Though Kaos spent his younger days in the underworld, he thrives and takes pride in the legit life he lives now . . . though some people in his past and personal life wish they could bring back the old him.

Honey Hix is a renowned chef who travels the globe bringing Southern cuisine to different countries. Her love for Southern meals derived from sitting in the kitchen with her grandmother, mother, and aunts. Not only did they pass down recipes, but their opinions on men as well. Marquise Kent was dealt a rough hand in the game of life. The streets raised him and made him a ruthless man. With a notorious reputation, it was only a matter of time before the law caught up to him.

Two former camp counselors whose hearts remained entwined reunite to face their unspoken feelings and the secret that divided them in this soul-stirring second-chance romance about finding the courage to claim what fate had always intended, from the bestselling author of Somebody’s Husband.

When a series of events hurl Tiana and Justus together, they can no longer ignore their undeniable chemistry or the way fate keeps seemingly tossing them together. Taking a chance on themselves might be worth more than Justus or Tiana bargained for when famed R&B singer Jessi James shows up wanting to reclaim her spot in Justus’s and her twins’ lives, and when Tiana finds herself jobless. Find out what happens when what was supposed to stay in Vegas doesn’t remain in Vegas.