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  • White Lines by Tracy Brown

    White Lines by Tracy Brown

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jada left home at the age of sixteen, running from her own demons and the horrors of physical abuse inflicted by her mother's boyfriend. She partied hard, and life seemed good when she was with Born, the neighborhood kingpin whose name was synonymous with money, power, and respect. But all his love couldn't save her from a crack addiction...
  • Mine to Have by AshleyNicole

    Mine to Have by AshleyNicole

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Somebody is killing young boys in the neighborhood and its homicide Detective Mellina August’s responsibility to figure out who. She’s the new kid in the precinct and not everybody’s happy about her landing this case, but that won’t stop her from solving it. All she needs is a good partner and she’s golden...
  • Grace by Love Belvin

    Grace by Love Belvin

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ashira is now in the know of Jas’ complicated world—or is she? The “construction laborer” is really a wealthy felon with too many inexplicable circumstances to fathom for her narrow worldviews. But will Jas share more of his complexities? Will Ashira be able to absorb them with understanding, leaving the judgement behind?Two souls, still galaxies apart, but bound by love...
  • Deception by Naomi Chase

    Deception by Naomi Chase

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sisters can share too much. . . Acquitted of murder, Tamia Luke is on a mission to reclaim all she's lost, including her ex, Brandon. He's about to get married, but Tamia's determined, even if it means resorting to deception--a family habit. Her sister, Fiona, betrayed Tamia to save her own skin. Now the two share a scandalous secret that may destroy both their plans to start over. .
  • Anonymous Acts by Christina C. Jones

    Anonymous Acts by Christina C. Jones

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What’s done in the dark… Murderer is a title she never expected to wear. Friend? Sure. Boss? Hell yes. But murderer? Never. If only she hadn’t threatened exactly that, just before someone winds up dead, and her fingerprints are all over the murder weapon. Always comes to light… All he wanted was to live a quiet life, without all the danger and darkness of his past...
  • A Heart Divided by Iris Bolling

    A Heart Divided by Iris Bolling

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Attorney General, J.D. Harrison is the leading candidate to become Governor and eventually President of the United States. He has a beautiful wife, two wonderful children and a promising political career ahead of him. However, he has a nemesis that will go to any length to destroy the Harrison's family-including murder. A Heart Divided continues the journey towards the White House for J.D...
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    black-mc  poc-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  romance
  • Indebted by Sharon C. Cooper

    Indebted by Sharon C. Cooper

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Even when he does good, he’s bad… Detective Lazarus Dimas doesn’t play by the rules. On the streets, he’s a force to be reckoned with, a dangerous man with a badge and a gun. But he does have a soft spot — the sexy Assistant District Attorney Journey Ramsey. There is something about the woman he can’t shake. She’s irresistible and off limits...
  • Cold Fear by Susan Sleeman

    Cold Fear by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A shared past…Riley Glen’s former girlfriend, recording artist Leah Kent, is performing at a summer concert nearby and calls to tell him she’s in danger and needs his help. After the concert, he discovers her bending over a girl’s dead body, and the girl has Leah’s name freshly tattooed on her wrist. Leah claims she just found the body and didn’t have anything to do with the murder...
  • Something On The Side by Carl Weber

    Something On The Side by Carl Weber

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Meet Tammy, Egypt, Isis, Nikki, Coco, and Tiny-the bodacious women of the Big Girls Book Club. There's only one rule to being a member. You must be at least a size 14. . . BGBC president Tammy loves everything about her life-especially taking care of business for her husband, Tim. This year, she intends to top all his past birthdays by having a threesome with her best friend, Egypt...
  • The Edge of Dawn by Beverly Jenkins

    The Edge of Dawn by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The beautiful daughter of a prominent Michigan doctor,Narice has never strayedanywhere near the wrong sideof the law. Then her fatheris brutally murdered -- andsuddenly federal agents areswarming around her likeflies, making accusations about a stolen North African diamond...
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    poc-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • Second Time Sweeter by Beverly Jenkins

    Second Time Sweeter by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins continues her beloved Blessings series with a new heartwarming novel set in Henry Adams, Kansas. Malachi “Mal” July has run into trouble in the past. With a reputation as a player, he’s now a recovering alcoholic and has made progress in redeeming himself in the eyes of his family and the citizens of Henry Adams, Kansas...
  • Ruined With You by J. Kenner

    Ruined With You by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When her high maintenance boss is assaulted, manager Xena Morgan contacts the only person who can help—the sexy, arrogant, incredibly capable Stark Security agent Liam Foster. The former vigilante takes every case personally, and he's determined to find answers—particularly since he thought he'd cleared this threat already...
  • Severe : Carolina Hell Reapers by Keta Kendric

    Severe : Carolina Hell Reapers by Keta Kendric

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jade Raised by a drug kingpin, you would think that I would be intimately familiar with chaos but the roles in my life were flipped after my father’s death. Boarding school, owning businesses, and mingling with the social elite became my norm.Until one day, the chaos returned...
  • A Brother's Honor by Brenda Jackson

    A Brother's Honor by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Granger brothers left behind their family's Virginia estate—and the bad memories it holds—years ago. But their dying grandfather's request brings them home: to a failing business, a legacy of secrets and a deathbed promise to make things right...
  • A Man's Promise by Brenda Jackson

    A Man's Promise by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A man's word is his bond. His family is his strength. His heart is his own. Superstar musician Caden Granger has spent years running from love, commitment and family. Yet despite his fame and fortune, he knows the kind of respect and adoration he needs can only come from one person—the very woman who wants nothing to do with him...
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    black-mc  poc-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  drama  fiction
  • Thug-A-Licious by Noire

    Thug-A-Licious by Noire

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “Have you ever wanted something so bad you was willing to crawl over bodies to get it? I mean, fiend for it so hard it didn’t matter who you hurt, how low you had to scrape, it was gonna be yours? That’s what music and balling did for me. They were the fundamentals behind my rise . . . and the perpetrators of my fall...
  • Snapped by Tracy Brown

    Snapped by Tracy Brown

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As the pampered wife of Frankie Bingham, Camille wants for nothing. After all Frankie and their life together are her whole world. So Camille tries not to be bothered by his closeness with his coworker and dear friend Gillian. But it soon becomes clear that Camille's suspicions are correct...
  • Mick Sinatra: Love and Shadows by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra: Love and Shadows by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gorgeous bad boy Mick Sinatra is in a good place in his life. His beautiful, African-American wife has been offered a starring role at a theater on London’s famed West End. His son, Teddy, has taken over the day-to-day running of his ruthless crime family. His daughter, Gloria, has learned the error of her ways...
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    black-mc  female-mc  poc-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  crime
  • Mick Sinatra 6: Now Will You Weep by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra 6: Now Will You Weep by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gorgeous gangster Mick Sinatra has recovered from the vicious attack that nearly took him out, but the organizations that spearheaded his downfall are still up and running. His own organization is fractured and bleeding and his ability to maintain control is questioned. He knows he must trust no man, he must verify everything, and he must fight to the death to reassert his dominance...
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    black-mc  female-mc  poc-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  crime
  • Mick Sinatra 4: If You Don't Know Me By Now by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra 4: If You Don't Know Me By Now by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Heartthrob mobster Mick Sinatra is on a roll. It’s six weeks after the birth of his twins. His beautiful African-American wife is enjoying success in her business unlike she’d ever had before, and they both are looking forward to success in the bedroom after six weeks of abstinence. His grown children are all working for him, with Teddy Sinatra as his new enforcer...
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    black-mc  female-mc  poc-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  crime
  • Sal Gabrini 4: I'll Take You There by Mallory Monroe

    Sal Gabrini 4: I'll Take You There by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It should have been the best time of his life. Italian tough guy and business mogul Sal Gabrini asks his beautiful African-American girlfriend, criminal defense attorney Gemma Jones, to marry him. And she says yes. But the world around them says no. No to their happiness. No to their union. No to any peace for either one of them...
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    black-mc  female-mc  poc-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  crime
  • Fighting For Anna by Pamela Fagan Hutchins

    Fighting For Anna by Pamela Fagan Hutchins

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WINNER OF THE SILVER FALCHION AWARD Tightly plotted and fast-paced, this romantic head-scratcher dives into 80s pop culture, a reclusive religious community, and high stakes politics...
  • The Man in 3B by Carl Weber

    The Man in 3B by Carl Weber

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Daryl Graham has just moved into a Jamaica, Queens, apartment building and his neighbors, both male and female alike, can't stop talking about him. From his extreme attractiveness to his undeniable swag, Daryl is the man every woman wants and every man wants to be.Connie, an unhappy wife, turns to Daryl for help losing weight, hoping to fix her marriage...
  • Mick Sinatra 1: For Once In My Life by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra 1: For Once In My Life by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bad boy Mick Sinatra feels the heat from the Feds from without, and disloyal men from within. He has no time for love. But when a woman comes along so unlike the dull socialites and supermodels of his past, he wonders if fate is playing a cruel trick on him...
  • Black Magic by D. Camille

    Black Magic by D. Camille

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Thirty year old billionaire Jordan Black is all about handling his business, in the boardroom and most definitely in the bedroom; and his business is controlling everything and everyone around him. That is, until he meets Sage Parker, the ultimate temptation and the younger sister of his close friend and business associate, which makes her the forbidden fruit he will never taste...
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    poc-mc  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  drama  fiction
  • Life Mastered by Blue Saffire

    Life Mastered by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Yours: Life Mastered Book 3 in the Yours Series Yours Book 3 This is my family! My future the air I need to breathe. Someone really thought it wise to threaten that. Just when things are coming together the way I need them someone has chosen to come after my world. Big mistake! Before this is all over everyone will know ….I AM Nicholas Lincoln...
  • Save Me If You Can by Christina C. Jones

    Save Me If You Can by Christina C. Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Deception and betrayal always carry a price, and sooner or later, someone has to pay.For a long time, Terry King and Damien Wolfe have dodged those debts while the people around them paid – in loneliness, grief, constant fear, and the loss of innocent lives.But no more...
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    black-mc  female-mc  poc-mc  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book
  • No Longer Afraid by Christina C. Jones

    No Longer Afraid by Christina C. Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Predators.A name – a definition – that was never supposed to be triumph, but a condemnation. A reminder of a certain place in the world – of a responsibility to the other living beings in the ecosystem.As second-in-command of the Predators MC, Tatiana Tate is well-versed in both the expectations and reality of sustaining her way of life...
  • Stone Investigations : Complete Series by Harper Maguire

    Stone Investigations : Complete Series by Harper Maguire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 1 Zoe Holloway is a high-powered attorney, who has always taken financial care of her fly-by-night younger brother, Tucker...
  • Vindicated by Sharon C. Cooper

    Vindicated by Sharon C. Cooper

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s a distraction he can’t resist…A spark ignites the moment security specialist, Hamilton Crosby, meets stuntwoman, Dakota Sherrod. She’s like no other woman he’s ever met. But Hamilton never ignores his gut, and his gut tells him to stay clear of the enticing beauty.Dakota is an adrenaline junkie. Leaping off buildings and running through fire is just another day at the job...
  • A Silken Thread by Brenda Jackson

    A Silken Thread by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Erica Sanders, finding a soul mate was the easy part. Brian Lawson is the man she wants, and everyone agrees they're the ideal couple. Almost everyone. The one exception is Erica's mother, Karen, who prefers her daughter marry another man...
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    black-mc  female-mc  poc-mc  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Missing Hearts by Kenya Wright

    Missing Hearts by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two brilliant agents track one cunning psycho.FBI Agent Alexander King has a special gift for catching vicious predators. He gets inside the twisted minds of psychopaths and hunts them down. However, this case in a small Georgia town is challenging his skills. A serial killer named The Angel Maker has kidnapped and killed six little black girls...
    Categorized as:
    black-mc  female-mc  poc-mc  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book
  • Reagan's Redemption: Book Eight In The Bodyguards Of L.A. County Series by Cate Beauman

    Reagan's Redemption: Book Eight In The Bodyguards Of L.A. County Series by Cate Beauman

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Doctor Reagan Rosner loves her fast-paced life of practicing medicine in New York City’s busiest trauma center. Kind and confident, she’s taking her profession by storm—until a young girl’s accidental death leaves her shaken to her core...
  • Roots of the Wicked by Keta Kendric

    Roots of the Wicked by Keta Kendric

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jax Saint-Pierre is dedicated to building the success of her business and living life the way she mapped it. That is, until driven and charismatic Chase Taylorson stands firmly in her path with his arrogant charm. He was the first man to make her consider changing her strict no-relationship rule, but with her wicked past, she keeps him at a distance for his own good...
  • Tender Secrets by Ann Christopher

    Tender Secrets by Ann Christopher

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Investigative reporter Viveca Jackson vowed she'd destroy the wealthy Warner family. After all, the powerful clan was responsible for her father's unfortunate accident and her family's ruin. But when the feisty journalist embarked on her quest for payback, she didn't count on arrogant Andrew Warner's devastating charm, or the passion that flared between them...
  • Eyewitness by Phoenix Daniels

    Eyewitness by Phoenix Daniels

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meet Taylor Montgomery, the beautiful, but disgruntle, Chicago cop. She was disgruntled, not because she didn’t love her job, but because she was fed up with the slippery politics associated with the department. Yet, she donned her uniform every day, wearing it with pride, and patrolling the dangerous streets of The Windy City...
  • Saving Ariel by Ellie Masters

    Saving Ariel by Ellie Masters

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If they want their happily ever after, they’ll have to fight Mother Nature for it…Aiden Cole isn’t interested in love.Any romantic notions he had died with his wife, despite her dying wish that he find love again. His focus is on raising his daughter as a single dad, and keeping his offshore oil rig crew safe...
  • Starlight Dunes by Vickie McKeehan

    Starlight Dunes by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome back to Pelican Pointe.The mystery of the past, the present, the future collide ... the answers can be found in the dunes. Archaeologist River Amandez is drawn to Pelican Pointe to excavate and catalogue a long-buried Chumash settlement. She brings with her a not-so-pretty past and only one man in town can help...
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    female-mc  poc-mc  suspense  adult  book  breakup  contemporary  dark
  • Unspeakable by Elisabeth Naughton

    Unspeakable by Elisabeth Naughton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this electrifying novel from New York Times bestselling author Elisabeth Naughton, love can be a risk when it’s explored in such dark places… All his siblings have moved on from their troubling pasts, but Rusty McClane can’t leave his behind. Not even when his freedom is in jeopardy.Legal investigator Harper Blake can sense a bad boy...
  • Rare Danger by Beverly Jenkins

    Rare Danger by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A librarian’s quiet life becomes a page-turner of adventure, romance, and murder in a thrilling novella by USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins.For Jasmine Ware, curating books for an exclusive clientele is her passion. Until an old friend, a dealer of rare books, goes missing and his partner is murdered...
  • Somewhere Only We Know by Barbara Freethy

    Somewhere Only We Know by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    #1 NY Times Bestselling Author delivers a romantic, emotional and suspenseful novel in SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW. Firefighter Burke Callaway has been living in the shadows since the tragic death of his fiancée. He had no interest in coming out of the dark, until the beautiful and unpredictable Maddie came back to town...
  • No One But You by Maureen Smith

    No One But You by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ONE RECKLESS NIGHT OF PASSION… After a long absence, FBI agent Althea Pritchard has returned home to Baltimore, but it already feels like history is repeating itself. A teenage girl has been abducted—just as Althea was eight years before. The ordeal left her determined to capture such predators, and she’s more prepared than ever...
  • Carter's #Undoing by Sherelle Green

    Carter's #Undoing by Sherelle Green

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For Carter Madden, his time in the military isn’t the only thing that haunts him.For Serenity Taylor, unanswered questions can drive a sane mind mad with speculation.But a Madden man may not be for every woman. Especially when broken promises cut deep and unknown secrets whisper loudly in the dark...
  • Twelfth Sun by Mae Clair

    Twelfth Sun by Mae Clair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The hunky young PhD knows all about seduction, but what does he know about love? Reagan Cassidy is settled in her life. She has a thriving interior design firm, an upscale condo, two cats, and a goldfish...
  • Heat: A Single Dad/Hot Chef Romance by Annie Dyer

    Heat: A Single Dad/Hot Chef Romance by Annie Dyer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Steam isn’t just for the kitchen… Hot headed, no social skills and she knew more swear words than a sailor. I was beginning to think I had a thing for my boss. It didn’t matter that she barely knew the name of her employees or that she worked more hours than there were in a day running her restaurants, as soon as I knew she liked to dance, I wanted a taste of more than just her summer menu...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction  mystery
  • The Truth About Fame by Toni Shiloh

    The Truth About Fame by Toni Shiloh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My life has always been in the spotlight. Born to two famous parents and then quickly rising to "super" status in the modeling world ensured that I, Astoria "Tori" Bell, would always have my image plastered across newsstands. Unfortunately, adoring fans weren't always magnanimous and now I have a stalker on my hands...
  • Redemption Road by Amanda McKinney

    Redemption Road by Amanda McKinney

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Redemption: The act of being saved from sin, error, or evil.Antiques dealer by day, secret painter by night, Rory Flanagan arrives home to find a man, battered and bruised, sprawled out on her newly upholstered Victorian sofa. The brash, six-foot-four stranger takes an unusual interest in Rory’s vintage gold pendant—given to Rory by her mother the day she was killed...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  female-mc  contemporary  murder  mystery  dark  fiction  book
  • Gunnar by Bella Stone, Annabella Stone

    Gunnar by Bella Stone, Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    War doesn’t forge heroes, it reveals them.Former SEAL, Gunnar McKinley knows better than most that war also reveals the flaws in marriages—leading to divorce Running a multi-billion-dollar government contracting agency doesn’t exactly lend itself to happily ever after, either. He has his brothers, his business, his teams… more than any man could ask for...
  • Secret by Nia Forrester

    Secret by Nia Forrester

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Shayla has a secret. She’s very different than the person she used to be three short years ago; that woman she finally feels like she’s left behind and never wants to be again. And she’s been doing fine so far with her plan to reinvent herself. Trey Denison wasn’t going to put even a dent in those plans...
  • Tempting the Heiress by Nana Malone

    Tempting the Heiress by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One error in judgment. That is all it took.  They say don't mix business with pleasure, but I fell in love with the client and now I’ve lost her. But I would do it all over again if it meant keeping her safe. Now I’ll have to fight like hell to earn her trust again. If I don’t, it could cost both of us everything...
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