African Historical Fiction Romance

African American Romance Collection that includes 10 books. The Snow Series: What happens when everything seems perfect and peaceful, but all of a sudden you, your family, or your surroundings is threatened by something or someone that will rob you of what you've always know? This happens to many people, from all walks of life, each and every day. No one is exempt from the trouble that can cause one to have his or her own personal meltdown. Some are able to overcome their meltdown? Others, however, are not so fortunate. They find themselves stuck, trying hard to deal with the meltdown of ...

All her life, Winnie passed for White, using it to her advantage, and climbing the social ladder. When her child is born black, she asks Jolene to raise him. "If you can't ask your sister, who can you ask?"

Ruth’s beau died - simply because he was a slave.She is determined to help other enslaved people as she assists with the Underground Railroad. Recently freed and illiterate, Ruth is hired to bake mouth-watering delicious bread in a Philadelphia bakery. Her boss Joseph is kind, handsome, and determined to put an end to slavery. She feels emotionally connected to him as they work together for a common cause. His presence is like a fresh splash of spring rain on her parched soul. However, Joseph has plans. He’s determined to make some major changes in his life. He desperately wants to ...

Belle Palmer is finally free! Separated from her father on the harrowing escape, Belle is lost and alone until she finds shelter with the Bests, the first free family she's ever known. For the first time in her 16 years, Belle can speak her mind - except for her feelings for a certain dark-eyed young man - The Beau. Educated and handsome, at 18, Daniel Best is engaged to the prettiest girl around. So when the bedraggled girl his parents take under their wing suddenly turns into a vibrant, lovely young woman, his attraction to her is a complete - and complicated - surprise.

Ya'll, let me tell you my story!Glad you could find your way here, and I welcome you to the Sellers Plantation here in the deep south of Mobile, Alabama. I'm anxious to get started with my story tellin,' so, I'm sharin' a little bout the story that I be tellin' to ya'll down below. When I wuz born, I be given the name Gertrude Ida Rollins, but as I be growin' folks just be callin' me Ms. Gertie. I wuz born in Mobile, Alabama in the year eighteen and eighty-eight. Yes, that be a long time ago for most of ya'll, but I thinks it be good to be learnin' bout the history that be comin' before you...

From the author of BORN A COLORED GIRL and PAPPY MOSES’ PEANUT PLANTATION – By a twist of fate, a runaway slave girl and a wounded Confederate officer are thrown together, and must rely on each other to survive. Can the seed of love grow in the garden of hate?

Leah Johnson has spent years hiding her heartache. As a Black woman in a town where society dictates who she can be—and who she can love—she knows better than to dream of a future with Adam Davenport. Her best friend. Her fiercest protector. The only man she has ever wanted. But longing for him is dangerous, and giving in could cost her everything. Adam Davenport has built his life around keeping Leah safe, even from himself. He has always known that loving her openly would put a target on her back. In Bonham, a man like him can take whatever woman he pleases—except her. So he forces ...

BY A CURIOUS TWIST OF FATE, A SPOILED SON OF A PLANTATION OWNER IS LEFT IN THE CARE OF AN ELDERLY SLAVE COUPLE. UNDER THE OLD COUPLE'S GUIDANCE, HE LEARNS TO SEE LIFE FROM A DIFFERENT POINT OF VEIW. IN TIME, THE BOY BECOMES A MAN AND HEIR TO THE PLANTATION WITH A HATRED FOR SLAVERY AND A LOVE FOR A YOUNG SLAVE GIRL.

When her aunt who raised her dies, sixteen-year-old Alana goes to live with her uncle on another plantation, the plantation her deceased parents lived on. After months of inquiries, she questions if they're really dead. She sets off to discover the past...her past.

The daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, Ricki Wilde is the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. In her bones, Ricki knows that somewhere, a different, more exciting life awaits her. When she moves into a Harlem brownstone, she leaves behind her family, wealth, and chaotic romantic decisions to realize her dream of opening a flower shop. One evening Ricki encounters a handsome, deeply mysterious stranger who knocks her world off balance in the most unexpected way.

Harlem, 1949—where love is the deadliest gamble of all... Kathy Freeman Brown is dead—or so the world believes. But her daughter Sandra uncovers a trail of secrets that leads from the heart of the Mississippi Delta to the shadows of Harlem. Through her mother’s hidden diaries, Sandra learns of a legacy forged in a segregated South and a family of women who wield power in a world determined to break them. For Kathy, survival means choosing between true love and loyalty to her blood—because in the Freeman family, family always comes first. Carmelo Ricci is drowning in grief. The ...

A Legacy Unearthed. A Nation Reborn. A Love Story That Transcends Time. When Calvin Osborne began tracing his ancestry, he uncovered a powerful truth buried in forgotten records: his great-great-grandfather, William Lacy, was born enslaved, fought for freedom, and helped shape a legacy that would span generations. Contraband Hearts follows William’s journey from the pre–Civil War South to the battlefields of Westport, where he served alongside pivotal figures in America’s defining conflict. After the war, he began a new life with his wife, Lucinda, in a small Kansas town—unknowingly...

He stripped her of all she loved: Freedom, Home, Family, Friends, Husband and Child. Now, the only thing to live for is … Revenge!

From the best selling author of BUT HAVE NOT LOVE and BORN A COLORED GIRL comes a love story like no other. She was a young slave girl. He was an African warrior purchased at a slave auction with the intent he would father a new breed of stronger slave. Despite all odds, a language barrier and the disapproval of her family and friends, the two fight for a life together.

There’s a reason the assassin always wins in the end. Why her family always dies. He’s smarter than she is. A mongoose to her cobra. And it doesn’t matter how hard she fights, how desperately she bites. In the end, he’ll eat her up. "Zarina’s journey through ancient Egypt will have your eyes begging for more! 5/5 highly recommended!" Haunted by the curse that has doomed her family for millennia, the last descendant of Ra, Zarina Nefertari, has spent her life on the run in the tombs of steampunk Aegyptus with only her faithful bodyguard by her side. But the desert is only so big, ...

Waiting to enter a movie theater to see "Dr. No," the first James Bond movie, Simon sees a cute Black girl standing in a separate line that leads to the balcony, the "colored" section. A friend tells him, "You're in the South. Stick with your own kind.” Simon doesn't. It's the steamy summer of 1963. Simon Klein has moved with his family, Jews from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Pickettville, Alabama, where his father has taken a job at a nearby Army base. He is as mystified of the South as Southerners are of a Jew While gathering information for a story he is writing for his school paper, Simon ...

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 the legacy of heartbreak and loss continues on in the lives of Harrison's progeny.

From best selling author of BORN A COLORED GIRL and BUT HAVE NOT LOVE. Only one letter separates the two words Wishful is having hope for something Wistful is regret for what might have been A Love Triangle like no other.

From the best selling author of BUT HAVE NOT LOVE and BORN A COLORED GIRL comes a most scandalous tale, often upsetting and disturbing. During the slavery years, young, beautiful slave girls were sold to schools where they were taught to be perfect mistresses of rich, white, Southern gentlemen. This is the story of one young girl's struggle to remain true to herself.

FOUR RACES, ONE FATHER, ENEMY TO OUTLAWS, DESIRED BY ALL... Amidst the desolate ruins of a once mighty Arizona ranch, Allie Mastluehr stumbles upon one of the most extraordinary tales of the old west when she meets the aging Catalina Wilde, who reveals she was one of four formidable multiracial sisters who lived, fought and delivered justice in the southwest. To Allie’s astonishment, Cattie recounts a western story of adventure, romance and female family drama as the sexy quartet face constant peril amongst their steamy encounters as they seek to uncover the motive and men behind a brutal...