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Thug Lovin' by Wahida Clark
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTasha and Trae, the hood's favorite couple, are still together following the events of Thug Matrimony. Even with their relocation to sunny Los Angeles, the drama of New York cannot be escaped... -
Saturday by Oge Mora
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this warm and tender story by the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Thank You, Omu!, join a mother and daughter on an up-and-down journey that reminds them of what's best about Saturdays: precious time together. Today would be special. Today would be splendid. It was Saturday! But sometimes, the best plans don't work out exactly the way you expect... -
The Midnight Hour by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSexy, dangerous, unforgettable. . .the Madaris family and their unlikely band of friends captured readers’ hearts and souls. Now, in The Midnight Hour, bestselling author Brenda Jackson brings us another breathtaking novel featuring the Madaris family and friends. One, CIA agent Sir Drake Warren gave his heart to a woman—a fellow Marine whose death in an explosion left him aching for justice... -
Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsScientist Ada has a boundless imagination and has always been hopelessly curious. Why are there pointy things stuck to a rose? Why are there hairs growing inside your nose? When her house fills with a horrific, toe-curling smell, Ada knows it’s up to her to find the source... -
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Whore by Tanika Lynch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhoever said "whoring wasn't easy" never lied! But somebody had to do it! Working the mean streets of Detroit was getting hard on young Kamone, with two small mouths to feed... -
Dying for Revenge by Eric Jerome Dickey
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA fast-paced story about a steamy, seedy underworld of crime, 'Dying For Revenge' spans the entire globe and features hit man Gideon, a troubled character, dealing with a world of violence he can never really escape... -
Quiet Chaos by Keta Kendric
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMecca: Family. Being a member of the Evans family was a blessing and a curse. By the time I was sixteen, I had committed four murders and had been beaten to within an inch of my life. Yet, I had turned out to be the fighter, the one that had been strong enough to survive in a world of chaos... -
Dirty Cravings by Kenya Wright
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWe return for the sixth installment of the Lion and the Mouse.Kazimir and Emily hunt for the traitor in Italy. Constant threat lurks within the shadows. The more puzzle pieces are discovered the more their reality unravels.Dark and deeply erotic, this high-octane romance will lure you into a mystery with deadly twists and turns... -
Me & My Boyfriend by Keisha Ervin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHere comes a honey colored, hazel-green eyed St. Louis bombshell named Meesa. With money in the bank, designer clothes in her closet and true friends by her side, Meesa still longs for more. All of her life she's wanted for one thing and one thing only, love. When she meets the infamous Black, a street pharmacist from the North side of The Lou, finally love is in her grasp... -
Road to Love by Nicole Falls
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEmerson Parker is a walking ball of stress. Still reeling from the untimely demise of a relationship that she thought would last forever, work strain, & longstanding family drama, she is in dire need of respite. A freak occurrence coupled with a little bit of desperation to get away from it all leads her on an adventure—a cross-country road trip back to her hometown of Ragston, MI... -
Operation: Trusted Angel by Margaret Kay
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Michaela ‘Tech Goddess’ Karras went to work for Shepherd Security, she closed the door on her past life and everyone in it. It is a life that haunts her, a past she has kept secret from most. She was a loner, a natural beauty who hid behind a standoffish tomboy persona. She kept to herself until Angel joined the agency and they became close friends... -
Phantom: Her Ruthless Villain by Theodora Taylor
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsYay! This is Phantom's standalone book.Pro-Tip: Don’t agree to a fake engagement with a ruthless mafia crimelord like me after you catch your real fiancé cheating. I just might keep you.The final and most anticipated book in the Ruthless Triad series is almost here!She agreed to be mine for as long as it takes for a business deal to go through. She thinks this is a game... -
Stepping to a New Day by Beverly Jenkins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to the town of Henry Adams with a story of family, friendship, love, and second chances.In Henry Adams, Kansas, you can’t start over without stirring things up . . .Many a good woman has had to leave a no-good man, but how many of them took a back-seat to his 600-lb... -
My Forever by Tiffany Patterson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSavannahI was only eighteen years old when I thought I had found my happily ever after.After the tragic death of my mother, I married the love of my life, Ace Townsend.Yes, we were young and idealistic, but we had it all figured out. He was going to be a fighter pilot in the Air Force. I would go to medical school to become a doctor for people who couldn’t afford healthcare. People like my mother... -
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Catch Me If You Can by Christina C. Jones
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings(Catch Me If You Can is a romantic suspense novel) Diligence. Focus. Agility. For Naomi Prescott, it’s not just a cute little saying. It’s a critical mantra, words to live by if she wants to retain her freedom, and more importantly, her life... -
Knight for a Queen by K. Alex Walker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn interracial mafia romance (the international mafia series book... -
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Sin Bin by Maureen Smith
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLogan “Bruiser” Brassard and Meadow Ryan are no strangers to heartache, loss, and trauma. When they met as foster children, they both bore deep scars from the horrors life had inflicted. Although their time together at the group home was brief, they never forgot each other. Fast forward fifteen years, and Meadow is an unemployed social worker down on her luck... -
Bane by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson's last Westmoreland bachelor is a navy SEAL on a mission to protect the woman who got away… After five years, navy SEAL Brisbane Westmoreland is back home on his ranch and ready to reclaim the woman he left behind. But when he tracks her to Dallas, he's in for a shock... -
The Golden Hustla by Wahida Clark
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOnly New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark could take street lit to the next level in this incendiary tale of a hustler facing a game more lethal than any 'hood . . . THE GOLDEN HUSTLA She's the star sales associate of a profitable Atlanta "advertising" firm, WMM. She lives for top-of-the-line everything . . . and making enough money to finally reunite with her children... -
Snapped by Tracy Brown
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs 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... -
Trapped Wishes: A Genie and Her Goon by B. Love
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGenevieve “Genie” Yates has been trapped inside of her lamp for two-hundred years because a previous master, Quenton, was in love with her and she didn’t feel the same way. Anger, hurt, shame, and embarrassment caused Quenton to trap Genie and toss her out into the sea. Genie has been cursed to have every man that she encounters to fall in love with her, but she is never able to return that love... -
Heartbeat: A Courageous Love Novel by Terreece M. Clarke
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMaya Anderson only knows success: set a goal, create a plan, achieve. Everything she can control she does, down to her color-coordinated closet. Then someone tried to kill her. Now, she has a new goal: stay alive. New town. New identity. No men... -
Beyond the Badge: Nox by Jeanne St. James
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen two broken halves come together to forge one unbreakable whole… Officer Bradley Lennox, aka Nox, has been living in the shadows of his own grief since the unexpected loss of his wife. Just when he was finally on the road to recovery, they found Sadie in a motel in Ohio, causing his world to spiral back into darkness... -
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Not a Day Goes By by E. Lynn Harris
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJohn "Basil" Henderson has always played the field, both as a professional football player and as an equal opportunity lover. After retiring his jersey for a career as a sports agent, the dashing playboy is surprising everyone--including himself--by deciding to settle down and commit to his new love, Yancey Harrington Braxton... -
Mick Sinatra 1: For Once In My Life by Mallory Monroe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBad 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... -
Twisted Revelations by Keta Kendric
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeverly: For years, Laura and I sat helplessly on the sidelines while our best friend Megan ran from a deadly cartel. When Megan went radio silent, and strange men came creeping out of the darkness, we feared that we’d landed in the cartel’s crosshairs. Our fears were answered when Laura was taken... -
Hidden Agenda by Rochelle Alers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPowerful, predatory, irresistibly male, Matt Sterling has been called a soldier of fortune--and worse. But for Eve Blackwell, he's the perfect man for a dangerous job: to track down Alejandro Delgado, Eve's wealty ex-husband, into Mexico. There, he must rescue Eve's young son Chris, who has been abducted by his vengeful father... -
The Darkest Knight by K. Alex Walker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGiorgio Pozza has never been stable.Not once has he tried to be.Not once has he kept this a secret.Yet, they came for his son.They took his wife.All because they thought having a family was enough to contain a beast.But Giorgio Pozza has never...been...stable... -
Vindicated by Sharon C. Cooper
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe’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... -
Best Laid Plans by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLove wasn’t supposed to be a part of the deal…Even a famed matchmaker like Nolan Madaris’s great-grandmother can’t get it right every time. Nolan, the notorious fun-loving ladies’ man, could never connect with someone as straitlaced as tech whiz Ivy Chapman. Yet the scheme Ivy proposes is tempting—they can pretend to be a couple, just long enough to satisfy their families... -
Natural Born Liar by Noire
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat happens when beautiful, twenty-year-old petty thief and ex-stripper Mink LaRue finds out she's a dead ringer for the age-progressed photo of the missing oil heiress Sable Dominion? Harlem-born Mink LaRue makes a beeline to Dallas, Texas, pretending to be the Dominions' long-lost daughter, Sable... -
Love Like Hallelujah by Lutishia Lovely
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith infidelity behind them, Tai's marriage to her pastor husband, King, is stronger than ever. Even when King's ex-lover, Tootie, comes back to town, Tai keeps her cool. . .until she hears Tootie has a teenage son no one knew existed--a son who could be King's. Tai is determined to know who the boy's father is, and enlists the help of her best friend Vivian to find out the truth... -
My Favorite Mistake by Weston Parker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’d make a terrible father. That’s what they all said. And it’s the lie I lived for a long time, playing the field. Sleeping around and enjoying my life as a bachelor. But things change when my grandfather passes and all of his money comes my way. Life looks like a day in a theme park, with me as the big winner... -
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The Replacements: A Grumpy Boss Romance by Shae Sanders
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSoon-to-be divorced Savannah Dayne needs a job. CEO Taurus Jackson needs an assistant. But here's the problem: she's never had a real job and he's, well, horrible...Mean, arrogant, curses like a sailor, and prone to yelling fits. But in a rare fit of niceness, he gives Savannah a chance.It doesn't go well.But they're two very sexy people in very close quarters, so...sparks naturally fly... -
Obsession by S.K. Lessly
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHer…Darkness wants me. I’ve been surrounded by darkness since the day I was born. It is all I’ve ever known. It consumes me, it suffocates me, and no matter how far I run, darkness is always at my heel threatening to devour me. My darkness is… fear! I never believed I could feel anything else until the moment he touched me. He has given me hope... -
Dime Piece by Tracy Brown, Kevin J. Calloway
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCeleste Styles is a woman torn. On one hand, she has found happiness with the love of her life, Raheem "Rah-Lo" Henderson. He is unhappily married with children, and Celeste is his well-kept secret. He loves Celeste without question, proving his affection for her by financing her dream- a beauty salon called Dime Piece... -
Rare Danger by Beverly Jenkins
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA 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... -
Aftermath by S.W. Frank
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE ALFONZO FAMILY SAGA CONTINUES IN THIS LATEST INSTALLMENT: AFTERMATH: Alfonzo Volume VII "Forgive me father, for I have sinned...again!" -Alfonzo (Aftermath) The families have gathered in Palermo for a final farewell to beloved Capo de tutti, Alberti Luca. During the mourning, there is discourse and a simmering feud between cousins flares into a near fatal brawl... -
Associates by S.W. Frank
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe charismatic Alfonzo Diaz, his wife Selange, Giuseppe, Nico and the family return in this latest edition of an underground hit, many readers call 'raw' and 'addictive.' Alfonzo knows what is not spoken is found in actions. Observe, listen and often truth is revealed. “Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests... -
The Sheikh's Marriage Bargain by Leslie North
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLaila Tindall is only in Raihan to hone her pottery skills and visit her ailing grandfather. Marriage was never in the picture. But when her grandfather is tricked into signing a binding marriage contract to a man she finds repugnant, she has one choice: Run away... -
Need You Now by Ali Parker, Weston Parker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe most beautiful girl in the world, and she’s fiery mad at me. It’s not really my fault. I’m a reporter. Digging up stories is my job. Never in a million years did I expect my latest piece to create an enemy out of the one woman I’d give anything to date. She’s tough, beautiful, and tied to my past in a way I didn’t imagine possible... -
Lunchtime Chronicles: My, My Sweet Potato Pie by Sonja B., Lunchtime Chronicles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSee all of the Lunchtime Chronicles series HERE.Sweet, Smooth, and SinfulBianca MooreAfter going through a bitter divorce that left me broken and angry at the world, I needed a fresh start. On a whim, I took the advice of my best friend, Tangy, and moved to the small country town of Leesbough, where she resides. The townspeople welcome me with their southern hospitality, which I wasn’t used to... -
Scarlet Lies: Book One in the Scarlet Series by Lani Young
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLies are beautiful – when the truth hurts. Sixteen years ago, Scarlet’s family sent her away in disgrace. She’s been back once – with disastrous consequences. Now, her little sister is getting married and Scarlet's headed home once more... -
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The Sheikh’s Fake Engagement by Leslie North
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHamid Al-Qasha has been a stickler for his country’s traditions ever since his father the king died when Hamid was just sixteen. But even he’s thrown when a merchant insists on paying a debt by invoking an ancient law allowing him to use his lovely daughter Talitha as collateral... -
Waiting For You by D.M. Mortier
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSean: I’ll wait forever for her… I called her Duchess before I realized that she was everything I could ever want in my duchess. She is like a little sister to me; however, my feelings for her are anything but brotherly. I have watched her grow into this incredible woman. She is brilliant, strong, and breathtakingly beautiful... -
Ruthless Redemption by E.M. Gayle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe road to redemption is NOT paved with good intentions.It's savage, reckless and dirty AF. Houston and Izzy's story continues...Ruthless Redemption is book three in the Outlaw Justice Trilogy and concludes the epic love story of Houston Reed and Isabella Mazzeo. Savage Protector is book one (available now) and Reckless Pawn is book two (available now)... -
Fearless III by Amarie Avant
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVassiliThe mudak, my father Anatoly, raped my mother for all of Russia to see.My baby sister, Sasha, never had it any better.I went from crawling to fighting to stop Anatoly, king of the bratva. Life was a nightmare before Zariah clung to me. Now, we have a little girl and our son is on the way.But the game is changing in the mafia. Too many alphas want a taste. Somehow, I'm shoved into the chaos... -
Samurai by Harley Wylde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGrey -- Desperate times call for desperate measures, otherwise I’d never have signed a contract with Knox’s Pleasure Emporium. Selling myself for a few hours once is far better than my other option -- letting my mother’s loan shark use me however he sees fit in order to recoup his money. I can’t even be angry with Mom since she’s no longer with us... -
Twin Souls by D.M. Mortier
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe Is A Navy SEAL Devoted To The Military Life Enrique Ricardo “Rico” Zayas, known among the SEALs as Ghost, has an unencumbered life; living like a nomad. His life is all about the military, about his SEAL mates and about executing the next assignment. With dark emotionless eyes, others who come into contact with him often only encounter the cold and menacing side of him...
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