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Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsCalled “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia.Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life... -
![The Skye Sisters by Desirée]()
The Skye Sisters by Desirée
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe order of this series is as followed. Bambino, Opium, Delirious, and what you're about to read. The Skye Sisters. With this story...I don't know yall. I honestly have no way of explaining this. Alot of secrets are revealed, drama finally reveals itself. People aren't who they say they are. People get shot. Protest are heard. Folks marching throughout the streets of Atlanta for justice... -
![The Book of Night Women by Marlon James, Robin Miles]()
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James, Robin Miles
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they and she will come to both revere and fear... -
![Street Soldiers by L. Divine]()
Street Soldiers by L. Divine
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt South Bay High, the drama just keeps on growing... In the long-awaited 15th volume of the Drama High series, Street Soldiers picks up with a murder in front of Jayd's grandparents' house. Mama and Daddy are convinced the police have the wrong suspect in custody and have joined forces to help organize the neighborhood and find the real killer... -
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![Under Dark Skies by A.J. Scudiere]()
Under Dark Skies by A.J. Scudiere
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn NightShade nothing is as it seems . . . Eleri Eames didn’t think she’d ever be allowed to work for the FBI again, so the special FBI division of NightShade seems like an amazing opportunity. But all too soon, her chance to start over starts to disturb her... -
![Anybody's Daughter by Pamela Samuels Young]()
Anybody's Daughter by Pamela Samuels Young
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBased on the real-life horrors faced by thousands of girls, award-winning author Pamela Samuels Young takes readers deep inside the disturbing world of child sex trafficking in a fast-paced thriller that educates as much as it entertains. Thirteen-year-old Brianna Walker is ecstatic. She's about to sneak off to meet her first real boyfriend—a boyfriend she met on Facebook... -
![Apex Predator: Wolf Moon by D.A. Roberts]()
Apex Predator: Wolf Moon by D.A. Roberts
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey exist in myth and legend dating back to the earliest history of man. Different cultures have different names for the same creature, which has haunted the dark places of our collective psyche. Loup Garou, Werewolf, Lycanthropes, Rougaru, Michigan Dogman, The Beast of Land Between the Lakes, Oolonga-Doglalla, Shunka Warak'in, Skinwalker... -
![An Alpha's Claim by E. Bowser]()
An Alpha's Claim by E. Bowser
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDax Rayne swore off Hunters long ago for how they treated his kind. That is until a Hunter named Devana Okar entered his life with visions of rogue wolves and with the scent that she is his MATE.Dax wasn’t expecting the True Alpha of all Wolves to come to him with a mission involving working with a Hunter. A mission to stop a rogue wolf from killing other Alpha’s and taking control of their packs... -
![Malevolence by Smauggy]()
Malevolence by Smauggy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Pretty princess who lives in tall towers built by slaves she calls 'monsters' thinks she knows what it's like to live in fear..."~Every young faerie girl fantasizes about her dream wedding.The beautiful gown with the lace train that trails behind her as she walks barefoot across the soft grass, holding a bouquet of daffodils and baby's breath...Categorized as:
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![An Ugly Girl's Diary by T. Styles]()
An Ugly Girl's Diary by T. Styles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the opening night of his restaurant, bad boy Tye Gates finds a diary moments after being unfaithful to his fiancé'. Captivated by the words of a mysterious woman, before long, he's pulled into her drama-filled world that soon impacts his own life... -
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John by Annie Baker
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe week after Thanksgiving.A bed and breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.A cheerful innkeeper.A young couple struggling to stay together.Thousands of inanimate objects, watching... -
![Spell of Love by Auryn Hadley]()
Spell of Love by Auryn Hadley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere's nothing stronger than love, except maybe desperation. All Jade wanted was her own happily ever after. Unfortunately, it's never that easy. Being a woman and a mage complicates things. Falling for three men at the same time? At least that's working out. Everything else is a mess. And it's all the Spider's fault. That man just can't help himself... -
![Fell for a Billionaire Vampire by N'Dia Rae]()
Fell for a Billionaire Vampire by N'Dia Rae
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZion Teese was broke, frustrated and hating life until one fateful night changed her life forever. When her cousin suggests she goes to a new vampire bar in town, Zion reluctantly agrees. The bar seems normal until she is viciously attacked by a vampire and then saved by their leader, a mysterious vampire named, Knight. Knight and Zion's connection is strong, earth-shattering and fateful... -
![Mestaclocan by R. Lawson Gamble]()
Mestaclocan by R. Lawson Gamble
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen old friend Marty O'Bannon, a San Francisco Homicide Detective, calls FBI Agent Zack Tolliver early one morning with news of a third murder victim, her throat ravaged as if by an animal, Zack agrees to assist him with the investigation.But Zack's responsibilities at the Navajo Indian Reservation prevent him from leaving so he sends his friend Eagle Feather, a local hunting guide, in his stead... -
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![The World For My Zombie Kings by LeeSha McCoy]()
The World For My Zombie Kings by LeeSha McCoy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI used my mind to kill hundreds of the dead that my three-year-olds gathered in our back garden.Now, I have to tell their dads.My Kings have been bitten and now sleep peacefully while their minds and bodies strengthen. I miss them more than words could ever express, but in a matter of days, they’ll awaken.Then we’ll all be the same... -
![Ghostly Touches by Salem Cross]()
Ghostly Touches by Salem Cross
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey came to me in the dead of night.I should be used to ghosts, I’m a necromancer after all. But the three men who show up at my house aren’t the spiritual beings I’m used to. These Ghosts are part of a brotherhood so secret that they were thought to be a myth.When they ask for my help, I leap at the opportunity to aid these warriors.But none of us expected my help to come with a price tag... -
![The Other Brother by Brandon Massey]()
The Other Brother by Brandon Massey
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGabriel Reid seems to have it all - a good family, a great career, a loving fiancee. Until a man named Isaiah Battle comes into his life, claiming to be his illegitimate brother... -
![Blackbird Fly by Willow Rose]()
Blackbird Fly by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“It was just a dream.” We all say that to our children when they have a nightmare and wake up crying, don’t we? “Sh, baby, it was just a dream.” But what if there is no such thing as just a dream? What if dreams are portals to other worlds where evil lurks? When Andrew and Julia have their baby, they quickly realize their daughter is very different from other children... -
![The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim]()
The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFeminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying… yet enticing... -
![Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler]()
Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsFor 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his private breeding stock. But now a young ghetto telepath has found a way to awaken -- and rule -- her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle as she challenges her creator for her right to free her people... -
![Flight from Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany]()
Flight from Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Nevèrÿon volumes in trade paperback... -
![Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu]()
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“You should be here; he’s simply magnificent.” These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the Kaiju (Japan’s giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw...Categorized as:
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![The Unseen Blade by Ambrose Z. Adams]()
The Unseen Blade by Ambrose Z. Adams
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsValiant Minds School of Magic—a school that rewards power and teaches survival of the fittest—just allowed the youngest person ever into their ranks.Lucian Draco’s knowledge of magic is that it exists. That’s it. A lifetime of being sheltered by his father stunted his magical knowledge, but he’s eager to learn his place in the community... -
![Ancient Enemy by Michael McBride]()
Ancient Enemy by Michael McBride
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSani Natonaba's ancestors have lived in these canyons for more than seven hundred years, but they aren't the only ones. When he awakens to the bleating of his family's sheep being slaughtered, he learns that something is stalking this isolated corner of the reservation, a predator unlike any he has encountered before, one that attacks with alarming stealth and ferocity... -
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![Meet Your Maker by Matthew Mather]()
Meet Your Maker by Matthew Mather
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the Czar's Suite of Kiev's five-star Persian Palace, police discover a body jammed impossibly deep in a narrow ventilation duct. Security cameras reveal that no one else entered the supersecure room.An ocean away, Interpol rookie Delta Devlin witnesses an attempted assassination, but the bullet meant for the Ukrainian prime minister hits her father instead, lodging next to his heart... -
![The Druid Breeders by Marata Eros]()
The Druid Breeders by Marata Eros
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBaird has been captured by the powerful Druid priests after they discover what he is: A Reaper. Pure Druid females must be hidden from all vampire. Each Reaper that is eliminated, makes the available pool of Reaper Warriors smaller... -
![Savage Rejections by Salem Cross]()
Savage Rejections by Salem Cross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’ve been rejected. Twice.One tore our sacred union apart in the unholiest of ways, which led to a decade of unfathomable torment.The other saved me after I had escaped hell. He built me back up on the promises of love and a future only to walk away on the precipice of fulfilling our dreams.Both times I should have been broken beyond repair.And, for a brief moment, maybe I was... -
![The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due]()
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism “Tananarive Due is the master of Black horror, even teaching a class where Jordan Peele guest-lectured. So her new collection, The Wishing Pool, out in mid-April, is a major treat, full of major scares... -
![Tokyo Night Parade by J.P. Takahashi, Minako Tomigahara]()
Tokyo Night Parade by J.P. Takahashi, Minako Tomigahara
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpirited Away meets Where the Wild Things Are by way of yokai mythology in this enchanting picture book by debut author J. P. Takahashi and illustrator Minako Tomigahara. The night parade is about to begin . . . The ground thunders in Tokyo. A gust of wind blows. The pitter patter of paws and claws draws closer. The air is thick with swirling, swooping demons... -
![Master B-1212 by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini]()
Master B-1212 by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the death of Whitlock, a new home for horror is born…Garden of the GodsGOTG Registry Rob DelgadoMaster #: 1212 CEO, son to the Vice-PresidentSlave N/ARecruiter #: 21293721Beginner ⌧IntermediateExperiencedMain Master Rob Delgado grew up in the public eye. From being the root of sympathy for his politically driven father, to getting abused for never being good enough... -
![Moccasin Square Gardens: Short Stories by Richard Van Camp]()
Moccasin Square Gardens: Short Stories by Richard Van Camp
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe characters of Moccasin Square Gardens inhabit Denendeh, the land of the people north of the sixtieth parallel. These stories are filled with in-laws, outlaws and common-laws. Get ready for illegal wrestling moves (“The Camel Clutch”), pinky promises, a doctored casino, extraterrestrials or “Sky People,” love, lust and prayers for peace... -
![The Kindred of Darkness by Barbara Hambly]()
The Kindred of Darkness by Barbara Hambly
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen James Asher and his wife Lydia's baby daughter Miranda is kidnapped by the Master Vampire of London, the stakes are high: blindly follow the Master Vampire's instructions, keep out of the way of the human networks that serves the vampires, destroy the interloper who seeks to seize control of the London Nest, and find the key to the Nest's tortuous inner workings: The Book of the Kindred of... -
![Within the Shadows by Brandon Massey]()
Within the Shadows by Brandon Massey
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBe Careful What You Wish For At just thirty-one, Andrew Wilson has it all: close friends, a great house in an Atlanta suburb, and a successful career as a mystery writer. Only one thing is missinga special person to share it with. Then one day he meets someone new, a woman who seems almost too good to be true... -
![It Came from the Trees by Ally Russell]()
It Came from the Trees by Ally Russell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe legend of Bigfoot gets a bone-chilling update in this scary story about a young girl and her scout troop who are willing to brave the woods to find her missing friend when no one else will. Perfect for fans of Daka Hermon and Claribel A. Ortega!The wilderness is in Jenna’s blood... -
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![Nailed by Joseph Flynn]()
Nailed by Joseph Flynn
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRon Ketchum saw his share of the dark side of life as a cop in Los Angeles. Then he left L.A. to become the chief of police in the Sierra Nevada resort town of Goldstrike. One sunny morning in the mountains, though, he comes upon a crime unlike anything he’s ever seen before. He finds the body of an African American man nailed to a tree... -
![A Woman of Endurance: A Novel by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa]()
A Woman of Endurance: A Novel by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCombining the haunting power of Toni Morrison's Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory's A Respectable Trade, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history--the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade--witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear more slaves... -
![The Between by Tananarive Due]()
The Between by Tananarive Due
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Hilton was just a boy, his aged grandmother saved him from drowning by pulling him out of a treacherous ocean current, sacrificing her life for his. Now, thirty years later, Hilton begins to think his borrowed time is running out... -
![Dear Vicky by Octavia Grant]()
Dear Vicky by Octavia Grant
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDelusional /dəˈlo͞oZH(ə)nəl/ (adjective) - characterized by or holding false beliefs or judgments about external reality that are held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, typically as a symptom of a mental conditionGrocery store bag boy, Andrew, hates his job. No career growth, rude customers, and the forced customer appreciation greeting have taken a toll on his mental stability... -
![Jilo by J.D. Horn]()
Jilo by J.D. Horn
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAged Mother Jilo is wise in the ways of magic…but once upon a time, she was just a girl.1950s Georgia: King Cotton has fallen. Savannah is known as the “beautiful woman with a dirty face,” its stately elegance faded by neglect, its soul withering from racial injustice and political corruption... -
![Don't Call Me Crazy by Octavia Grant]()
Don't Call Me Crazy by Octavia Grant
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAward winning Investigative Reporter Ivory Addison has been on the scene of every Local, National, and International event deemed newsworthy. Her work ethic has a certain je ne sais quoi, that has not gone unnoticed... -
![My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due]()
My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFana, an immortal with tremendous telepathic abilities, is locked in a battle of wills. Her fiancé is Michel. But Johnny Wright, a mortal who is in love with her, believes that if she doesn’t stay away from Michel, they will become the Witnesses to the Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation... -
![Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor]()
Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies Linden Hills. With its showcase homes, elegant lawns, and other trappings of wealth, Linden Hills is not unlike other affluent black communities. But residence in this community is indisputable evidence of "making it... -
![Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden]()
Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGathering of Waters is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi--a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history following the arrival of the Hilson and Bryant families.Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was brutally murdered in 1955... -
![Birth of a Dynasty by Chinaza Bado]()
Birth of a Dynasty by Chinaza Bado
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCombining the political intrigue of She Who Became the Sun with the gorgeous world-building of Children of Blood and Bone, Birth of a Dynasty is the start of a thrilling epic fantasy trilogy centered around three families’ fight for power in Ahkebulin, a land where magic is feared, giants are real, and prophecy holds sway. We shall not forgive. We shall not forget. We will have our vengeance... -
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![The World Wasn't Ready for You: Stories by Justin C. Key]()
The World Wasn't Ready for You: Stories by Justin C. Key
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBlack Mirror meets Get Out in this gripping story collection reminiscent of the work of Octavia E. Butler, which deftly blends science fiction, horror, and fantasy to examine issues of race, class, and prejudice—an electrifying, oftentimes heartbreaking debut from an extraordinary new voice. Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R. L... -
![Papeles de Pandora: cuentos by Rosario Ferré]()
Papeles de Pandora: cuentos by Rosario Ferré
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAvailable in Spanish for the first time in the United States.From Rosario Ferré (nominated for the National Book Award for The House on the Lagoon), her first work of fiction, long out of print in any edition, in the original Spanish and including a previously unpublished story and two poems... -
![Thresher by Marata Eros]()
Thresher by Marata Eros
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHRESHER is the sequel to PLOW of the Druid Series.Rachel, Holly and Aubree now hold the future of the vampire race within their bodies as the Druid priests draw nearer in their pursuit of them. The Druid priests ultimate goal of stealing magic through brutality is on the cusp of realization. Tarrin has long sought his Exotic soulmate... -
![Sow by Marata Eros]()
Sow by Marata Eros
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a mercenary group of vampires discover there is a true Druid Queen within their grasp, they begin targeting Druid females in the region in the hopes of capturing their prize, Holly. Beau doesn't remember his past and finds out in a startling climax of protection what he truly is and how that will change his life forever... -
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Rootwork by Tracy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet in a small parish in Louisiana in 1889, Rootwork follows sisters, Betty, Ann and Pee Wee. When school lets out for the summer, the girls head off to stay with their hoodoo-practicing aunt, Theodora, an empowered woman equally feared and revered by the local townspeople. They learn how to make “hot foot powder” and the secrets of a good “black cat bone”...Categorized as:
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Elemental by Whitney Hill
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEnter an urban fantasy world where elves, vampires, weres, djinn, and others maintain a precarious balance of power in North Carolina. Welcome to Otherside. Private investigator and sylph Arden Finch is determined to come out of the shadows and practice her forbidden magic. There's just one problem: the elves have a bounty on elementals like her...
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