Urban Contemporary

Can a good girl find love in a thug? For Lei Fifer, that’s the hundred-thousand-dollar question. When Lei, an introverted homebody, invites her girls over for a spa day, she isn’t expecting their conversation to shift to men in prison. As an advocate for rehabilitated people receiving the love, companionship, and support those who haven’t committed crimes receive, Lei doesn’t hesitate to put her money where her mouth is and bet that she can find a good friend or great love with someone through the pen pal program her father created.

The middle child of three girls, Solána Winters, was always one to oppose her mother’s wishes for her to be the typical good girl. However, deep down Solána knew her stubbornness had sent her mother to an early grave. After tragedy strikes, she gets back on the right path and focuses solely on herself...until she stumbles upon a bewitching addiction like no other, with not a single cure in sight.

When souls are tied, it's never goodbye. A boy I was that summer evening I met you, pulling your belongings out of the truck and into your new home. I knew it was love then. A whole man I was the day that you met me at the altar and agreed to love me until death do us part. A shell of a man I've become since it did, unable to move on, move forward, or progress in any way until I discovered that not even death was permanent enough to keep us apart. A better man I'm destined to be, knowing that, at some capacity, you're still with me. Our love is one that never dies.

Tiffany, Tyrisha, and Mezzie all have one thing in common: putting up with men who don't deserve them. While demanding what they're worth, they all end up in a web of deceit, drama, and betrayal.

Everyone says beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Sheila's eyes are focused on her dreams. With her sights set on opening the hottest beauty parlor in the city and a $100,000 grant on the line, Sheila doesn't have time for distractions. Especially not from Shi'zad, the persistently charming but aesthetically challenged man who keeps popping up everywhere she goes. Her relationship with Shareef might be circling the drain, but that doesn't mean she's looking for a replacement – least of all someone who looks like a darkroom experiment gone wrong.

Be Mine for Real is a grown and emotional urban romance about second chances, healing, and the kind of love that shows up when you least expect it. Naleigh has finally found peace in her life and career, keeping her heart protected after past relationships taught her painful lessons. She’s focused, independent, and not looking for love. Kendrick, however, walks back into her life at just the right moment — patient, intentional, and ready to prove that real love still exists. As their connection deepens, old wounds, outside opinions, and unexpected drama threaten to pull them apart. Both...

LoVonna Lewis is a smart, beautiful, humble, and fierce young woman who will soon be off to college. Her parents do everything to set her up for success in her future. While she’s enjoying life and doing everything she’s supposed to, her ex-boyfriend, Musiq, tries his hardest to sing his way back into her life. It would be easy if someone else didn’t have their eyes on her. Once this stranger comes into her life, it is hard for Musiq to get LoVonna back. LoVonna, being who she is, stays clear of all the guys that seem to mean her no good. That is until someone she has never thought ...

This is a Rerelease... Do you believe you can find love in a one-night stand? Successful and beautiful, Hazel Morris is living her best life and doesn't know that she is missing anything until one lustful night changes it all. After meeting Charvez, a bad boy to the core, on the night of her best friend's wedding, she is caught up in the moment and lets her lust take over to enjoy one night with him, even though she knows it is wrong. It is only supposed to be a single night of fun but there is one problem: Hazel's emotions are quickly caught up and she wants more. Charvez was a street ...

Lance Christopher is a semi-reformed thug who was lucky enough to run into the right connection to propel him to the top. His success, of course, hasn't come without its fair share of bloodshed, problems, and disappointments. A dangerously ungrateful brother who won't shake his street mentality and a money-hungry ex who tricked her way into his heart are just some of the issues he faces that money can't seem to fix. Lance doesn't want much more, just peace and a woman who can relate to him and help him battle the demons he faces.

When love leaves 19-year-old Loyalty Wallace with nothing but a pair of bruised ribs, she finds herself with $500,000 in stolen cash from her boyfriend, Whip, and a target on her back. She plans to use that money to escape her toxic relationship, but what she doesn’t know is the money she stole wasn’t his to keep. It was a loan from the Belmonte family, one of the most dangerous families in the heart of the Big Apple.

Contains the complete Fold series: Thou Shall Not Run, Thou Shall Not Hide, and Thou Shall Not Fear.

Your prince charming will come one day. He may not ride a white horse or live in a big castle, but he will love you and only you. That was life for 29-year-old Monae, until one year into her relationship with her boyfriend Isaiah when she deals with verbal and physical abuse. As a victim of domestic violence, Monae lives in a constant state of alertness and anticipation, waiting for the next attack to occur. Every time she thinks she’s had enough, she would get charmed right back under his spell. That is until she starts cleaning for Coop, an infamous dope boy who sees all the signs of ...

Avery Castle carries the weight of a thousand moments of sorrow. Donavan Hardy carries enough anger for them both. When they were young, Donavan learned sign language so he could talk to the deaf beauty. He cared, even when Avery's influential father couldn't be bothered with her "flaw." In spite of things, the bad boy made her fall in love with sound...with music. And then, Avery's world came crashing down when the love of her life disappeared without a trace.

Book Overview Knox Carter got three baby mamas and a whole lotta audacity. Lyric cheated and broke his heart. He left her, but that betrayal changed him. After Lyric, Knox stopped trying to be a good man and father. He became reckless, manipulative, and cold. Toya got caught in the fallout. One drunk night, one bad decision. She had his son — and let him come around, hoping he’d step up. But Knox only showed up when he wanted something. Sex. Control. Access. Never fatherhood. Diamond saw the truth and walked away. No more begging. No more tears. Just a woman raising her child, stacking ...

When Zara Thompson throws herself a divorce party to celebrate her freedom from her unfaithful husband, she expects it to be the beginning of her new life. What she doesn't expect is for Marcus, her soon-to-be ex-husband, to crash the party with revelations that threaten to shatter everything she thought she knew. In one explosive night, Zara's carefully planned celebration spirals into chaos. A suspicious photo, a drunk therapist, an outspoken exotic dancer, and a series of shocking truths force her to question six months of certainty.

Among the Shadowdwellers, Trace holds power that some are willing to kill for. Without a stranger's aid, one rival would surely have succeeded, but Trace's brush with death is less surprising to him than his reaction to the beautiful, fragile human who heals him. By rights, Trace should hardly even register Ashla's existence within the realm of Shadowscape, but instead he is drawn to everything about her-her innocence, her courage, and her lush, sensual heat.

She wakes up every morning to fight the same demons that left her so tired the night before. Unique Collins grew up an orphan, passed from foster home to foster home. Still, she lives somewhat of an okay life. At the age of twenty, her focus is on school and work. She is determined to make something of herself. Dealing with the struggles of life, she finds herself wondering what her real purpose is. Just when things start to somewhat look up for her, they start to crumble right before her eyes. That is until her knight in shining armor, Chink, came running to her rescue. Only problem is, ...

In the streets of Houston, loyalty is currency, and betrayal can get you buried. Kamal “Prince” Waters is every bit the street king they whisper about, ruthless when he has to be, cold when he wants to be, and powerful enough to make a man disappear by sundown. Love? That’s the one thing he’s never trusted. Not until a caramel-thick bombshell with too much sass and a heart bigger than her insecurities comes barreling into his world. Ensi Fields has built her own lane, a plus-size boutique owner with a backbone, a mouth that cuts deep, and curves that don’t ask for permission. ...

This story began in 2005. The year Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Kanye West dropped Diamonds & the year Barack Obama took office as a US Senator from Illinois. The streets were still eating leftovers from the 90s, and Quiet Money illustrates one of the many couples caught up in the game. Trinity Jones, daughter of a Chicago 80s fly girl and Detroit's biggest Kingpin of the 70s and 80s, is a hopeless romantic. After a devastating breakup, Trinity meets Pharaoh, a local, up and coming dope boy with a never-ending flow of cash, cars, and clothes. After an unexpected robbery, life ...

As a rapper who hasn't been lost to the gimmick of autotunes and meaningless lyrics, Sinful K stays true to himself. With just sixteen bars, he can grab the attention of millions all across the world. While everyone hears what they consider dope music, Sinful is simply trying to escape past traumas by getting lost in his music. However, there is no amount of money or fame that could extinguish the pain and torture he's endured. The music only brings him peace for moments in time… what he desires is for his mind, body, and spirit to be on one accord, permanently.