Urban Violence

Women’s rights activist, Lynn Cummings, switches up churches like shoes. As soon as her anointing is exposed, she runs – that is, until she finds a pew at First Baptist Church, where Lynn is anchored by the wiles of the debonair Pastor Stewart. Lynn, becomes the woman on Stewart’s arm, and with that, becomes the target of women who are always up in Pastor Stewart’s face, namely, his quote-unquote friend Bianca, the skin-bleaching, man-worshipping teen choir director who’ll stop at nothing to become Stewart’s first lady. Even Nay, the wife of Stewart’s right hand man, Associate...

Previously titled: An Obsessed Kind of Love Jessica is more than the baby momma of Dominic... She's a social media influencer with 1.1 million followers. Many worship her for all the wrong reasons. So does Dominic. What could go wrong... Everything! The more money she makes, the more naked she gets and some of her followers want more... Dominic aint having it! He wants her to stop. He wants her back. But when he realizes that she is enamored with his rival, all bets are off. Jessica doesn’t listen and soon, things start to happen. Dominic is watching. His jealousy is heating up. He ...

The dating pool was trash... Sharla was not looking when she came across his profile... He was everything! Fine... Built... Swag... The look of a savage in a good savage kind of way. A bad boy with all the markers. What could go wrong? She swiped right. He responded. They met. And he blew her mind! Knight was everybody's dream guy. His tall perfect frame, kissable lips and eyes that hypnotized had done Sharla in. But... What started off as something wonderful, started to show cracks. The layers peeled back. And what she saw was devastating! What happened? Find out! Read along in this ...

The finale… Journi is no stranger to pain, but loving Izek almost cost her everything. His lies, his fists, and that bounty he put on her head should’ve been the end of her story. Instead, it lit a fire she didn’t know she had. With Zariah, her ride or die, by her side, Journi quickly learns that sometimes the only way out the game is to play it harder, blood for blood. But in Atlanta’s streets, enemies don’t die easy, and secrets don’t stay buried. Nasir, Journi’s first love turned champion fighter, comes back into her life just as her world spins out of control. Old wounds ...

After finding her mother dead, Vera is separated from her baby brother and carelessly placed in the care of her mom’s killer, Skip. There, her life quickly becomes miserable alongside multiple other women and children. She wants nothing more than to find her brother and run far away with him. Unfortunately, Skip isn’t willing to let her go so easy. He is more interested in using her for his own needs versus letting her be free. In attempts of escaping this lifestyle, Vera and a friend, Essence venture out in search of an escape. They find it in a man by the name of Bishop. Bishop ...

There are those who would harm America. Terrorists. Assassins. Foreign operatives. The Border Patrol tries to hold back the lethal tsunami, but at times it’s just overwhelming. At times, America needs a scalpel, not a sword. That’s Billy Gamble. Billy is a Wyoming horse breeder. Mostly Quarter Horses and the occasional Appaloosa. He is also a Super Matcher, one of five in the world and the only one in America. Better than a machine and more accurate than artificial intelligence, Billy can pick out a face in a crowd and no disguise or even plastic surgery can fool him. It’s a talent he...

The legendary urban lit author returns with a new character, a new city, a new series, as AUWA Books makes its first foray into fiction. Toussaint Batiste is returning home to the City of Brotherly Love hoping he can, for once in his life, outrun his nickname: Trouble. Toussaint has been in...

Rhylee King is one hustling ass female. But it wasn’t always that way. Trying to heal herself from childhood wounds that involved the death of her mother by the hands of her father. When she was young, the abandonment for Rhylee is real. Silence, her boyfriend, is supposed to be helping with that, but in the midst of helping him fight his own demons, Rhylee is losing herself as well. Even with all the money he has trafficking drugs throughout the city, Silence isn’t happy, and he doesn’t have to say anything for Rhylee to figure that out. He’s not perfect, but in Silence’s eyes, ...

Meet the Bloody Saints MC. These men are willing to do whatever it takes to keep the women they love safe. Follow them into the dark as they hunt, deliver, and destroy empires for the women who own their hearts.

Meet Ayesha, a young attractive girl who thinks she has met the man of her dreams in Jai. Jai woos Ayesha until she finally gives her all to him. It doesn't take long for Ayesha to realize her prince charming is actually a wolf in sheep's clothing. Unfortunately, by the time she realizes that, it's too late. She's already pregnant. Before she knows it, they're having their second child, and things really go from bad to worse. Feeling fed up with Jai's indiscretions, and abusive behavior, Ayesha decides to leave him. However, leaving Jai won't be as easy as she hopes.

Cross. Now streaming on Prime Video. Alex Cross faces two crazed killers in this chilling, suspenseful blockbuster from James Patterson, "the man who can't miss" (Time). Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the...

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black. Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a...

Baby-faced teen Giovanni Macedo is desperate to find belonging in one of LA's most predatory gangs, the Columbia Lil Cycos—so desperate that he agrees to kill an undocumented Mexican street vendor. The vendor, Francisco Clemente, had been refusing to give in to the gang's shakedown demands. But Giovanni botches the hit, accidentally killing a newborn instead. The overlords who rule the Lil Cycos from a Supermax prison 1,000 miles away must be placated and Giovanni is lured across the border where, in turn, the gang botches his killing.

• NOW A THRILLING LIVE ACTION FEATURE FILM • Once upon a time in New Orleans... Disgraced homicide detective Blaze walked into an abandoned art studio without a warrant or backup, chasing a killer who had been carving symbols into victims for nineteen years. The Sigil Slasher. He walked out branded, unemployed, and alone. Now he works as a private detective out of a warehouse loft and along with and troubled young woman who freelances as a crime scene photographer and lost her parents at the edge of the Slasher's blade. The job brings them together, the shared trauma keeps them together...

You don't want to miss this urban fiction novel about when a real one sweeps a girl off her feet and leaves her feeling like she's on top of the world! Just imagine falling for a man that's successful with BDE so good it touches your soul. Think about falling madly in love with a man only to find out that he is not who he says he is... Have you ever felt love so deep that it can touch your soul? The relationship between Cherish and rapper Kahn is #relationshipgoals. Despite what the outside world sees, they seem like the perfect couple but that's not the truth. She discovers her man is ...

Inner-city Black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. How you dress, talk, and behave can have life-or-death consequences, with young people particularly at risk. The most powerful force counteracting this code and its reign of terror is the strong, loving, decent family, and we meet many heroic figures in the course of this narrative.

From a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools...

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly...

Love me til I'm up Love me til I'm down Love me til I'm hurt Cover me Beat me Slap me Kick me Punch me Do all the things you can to hurt me Put me down Pick me up Torcher me til I break But love me til Im Bleu All of these things I have endured in my relationship and im still here... I am Bleu Burris..

When Ashley first met Keon, she thought she had met the love of her life. It wasn’t long after she cut herself off from all of her family and friends that Keon revealed his true abusive nature. Ashley quickly went from being the target of his affection to the target of his strikes and stomps. It’s not until Keon’s big move into the drug game goes tragically awry that he realizes the usefulness for Ashley again. The problem is, if he can’t get his plan to work, they all could end up dead.