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...

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?"

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!

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 ...

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 ...

A handsome politician, a protective Secret Service agent, and the woman caught between them. Estella, the poor girl in college, never thought she’d wind up married to a prominent Senator. With her abusive husband having affairs with celebrities, she knows their marriage is not lasting. Heartbroken, she turns to the man tasked with keeping her safe. But can she really abandon her responsibilities or the power, in the glamorous world of politics, as a Senator’s wife? Award winning, international best selling saga of a dark romance involving a handsome politician, a forbidden love affair ...

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.

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 ...

He sells lies to the grieving. The other sees the truth that could get them both killed. New York City, 1925. Dorian Finch is a master of the confidence game. Under the guise of "Elliot Vance," mystic to the elite, he peddles comfort to wealthy widows using cold reading, phosphorus, and a silver tongue. To Dorian, the spiritual world is a stage, and he is the director. It’s a lucrative racket—until a stoic shadow walks into his life. Marcus Sterling is a private investigator with a limp from Verdun and a mind built for facts. Hired to expose Dorian as a fraud, Marcus is a man of logic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A collection of three interracial historical romances, from the following books, A Debt Owed, The US Marshal's Wife, and Taken by the Pirate. Book one is an regency era story of a freed slave falling in love with a duke’s daughter, book two is an old western about a black lawman, finding love with a recent widower, and book three is an adventured filled romance about a fearsome African pirate finding love with an English woman. A Debt Owed By a stroke of luck, James' life as a landowner and former slave is just beginning - little does he know he is granted the love of his life as well. ...

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 ...

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 ...

A strong-willed beauty finds herself in the arms of the handsome drifter from her past, in this second book in the sizzling series set in the Old West, from USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins. As manager of one of the finest hotels in Arizona Territory, Portia Carmichael has respect...

FROM THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF FANCY COMES ANOTHER MOST SCANDALOUS TALE, OFTEN UPSETTING AND DISTURBING. RESIGNED TO THE LIFE OF A MISTRESS OF A RICH, WHITE, SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN, WINNIE DECIDES THAT TO BETTER HER LIFE NO SIN IS TOO GREAT, NO CRIME TOO HORRENDOUS, TURNING HER BACK ON MAN AND GOD.

Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize A New York Times 2016 Notable Book One of Oprah’s 10 Favorite Books of 2016 NPR's Debut Novel of the Year One of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books Of 2016 One of Time's Top 10 Novels of 2016 “Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates...