Romance Historical African

He is the ancient frost. She is the living fire. And this Christmas, the legend of Saint Nick gets a primal, deadly rewrite. Dr. Nia Abara has spent her career deconstructing the myths of the Winter Solstice. She knows the stories of the Wild Hunt and the Yule beasts are born from ancient fears. But when a mysterious research grant lands her on a private jet that crashes into the frozen Arctic wastes, Nia discovers that the monsters aren't metaphors. They are real, they are hungry, and she is on the menu. Her savior is a nightmare wrapped in muscle and fur. Niklas Vinter is no jolly old elf...

Georgina Wilcox, a wallflower with hidden musical talents, is furious when her reclusive older sister—the recently widowed Viscountess—refuses sorely needed help from the Duke of Torrance, the only gentleman who has shown kindness to the bereft Wilcox sisters. Georgina decides to get back at her sister and shock the Viscountess by kissing the first willing stranger she meets in the enchanting gardens of Anya House. Unfortunately, her sister is not the sole witness. A group of reporters and the ton's leading gossips catch Georgina in a passionate embrace with a reticent composer.

Set in 19th-century California, Destiny’s Embrace introduces listeners to ranch owner Logan Yates, who must come to terms with his true feelings for Mariah Cooper, his beautiful, headstrong housekeeper. But just as Logan decides to make Mariah his own, her former lover reenters her life. Now Logan will have to show Mariah that the passion they share has been written in the stars.

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...

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?"

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 ...

She fell through time to save history. He'll burn it all down to keep her. Amari Bell is a woman of science and order. As a museum conservator in 2025, her life is a quiet collection of artifacts and facts. But when a cursed ring from a notorious 1920s gangster's collection sends her hurtling through time, her meticulously ordered world is annihilated. She lands in the grimy, rain-slicked reality of 1925 Chicago, at the feet of the ring's original owner: Dante Rinaldi. The ruthless, possessive, and dangerously handsome mob boss known as 'The Butcher' doesn't see a lost historian. He sees a ...

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?

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 ...

Sultan Asam -has always known that to rule a kingdom, treason and war are inevitable. He also knows what he has to lose. This goes beyond a kingdom. It goes to the safety of the ones he loves the most. His two sons, wife and Sultana as well as the child she carries. He knows that if he fails, his family will be in danger, this he cannot allow... Aasil- wants the throne that his cousin holds. He is willing to do anything to become Sultan and rule. To have what he wants, he must be sure to end not only his cousin; but any heirs he would leave behind. And he means to do so. Sultana Zingae- ...

Born a Princess and widowed by age 19, Tye is now betrothed to the prince and soon to be king of a faraway land. She must now, once again, learn to love her new husband. And make him love her as well. Unbeknownst to her, she will also find she must untangle a plot of treason. If she can’t, it can cost her father, brother and new husband, their lives.

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 ...

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.

Immortality sounds romantic, right?You’ve probably heard stories about faeries, werewolves, a vampire or two. But I’m sure you haven’t heard stories of someone like me. Born into slavery. Cursed with immortality. Turned into a demon hunter. And that was just the first eighteen years of my life. Demon Hunter Hunting demons is already tough work. Finding a dead body at one of their gatherings does not make that work easier. So now I have to solve a murder and fight whatever has the demon world in an uproar. Nope, nothing romantic here.Get the first book in the Warrior Slave Series today!

Celebrated by book clubs and inspired by true events, Song of Redemption unveils a devastating mystery. In 1932, a media frenzy erupted when the body of Danielle, a gifted and enslaved songstress, was discovered hidden within the walls of an abandoned mansion on the Soileau Plantation. Through her sister, who returns to the English and French-speaking parish to identify the remains, reporters uncover the complexities of Danielle's life on and off the sugar plantation, where she was the former child companion of the master's daughter.

Natchez, Mississippi. 1843... At the age of 22, Jenny has lived a lifetime of experiences. She was a child kidnapped into slavery, and then freed. She’s been married and widowed, and she’s become a mother. But when an ambitious sheriff comes after her for an old crime, she flees the safety of her home at the Natchez estate known as Carefree and plunges headlong into dangers greater than any she has faced before. At 34, Cornelius Carson is wealthy, an important man in Natchez. He has inherited Carefree, and he lives there with his wife Euphonia, his small son Thomas, and his ward, a ...

He will kill for her. He will burn for her. In a brutal, frozen world, Winter is hidden and hunted—half-Black, half-white, and entirely alone. Ethan is married. Trapped. Dying inside. Their love is forbidden. Their touch, a crime. But when danger comes for Winter, Ethan will cross a line that will damn them both. This isn’t a love story. That would be too safe ... It’s a love watered in pain, fed by longing and reaped in a betrayal so deadly ... not even their hearts will survive.

He has lived the same deadly day for ten years. She is the only variable he didn’t predict. New York City, 2025. Investigative journalist Zadie Washington is hunting for corruption in the history of the Shaw family empire. But when she touches a mysterious prototype in a museum exhibit, the world explodes into white light. New York City, 1895. Zadie wakes up on the floor of a Gilded Age study, staring down the barrel of a pistol held by Donovan Shaw. But Donovan isn’t just a ruthless railroad tycoon; he is a prisoner. For a decade, he has been trapped in a time loop, reliving October ...

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.