African American Suspense

Trick Baby tells the story of White Folks, a blue-eyed, light-haired con artist whose pale skin allows him to pass in the streets as a white man. Folks is tormented early in life, rejected by other children and branded a "trick baby," a child conceived between a hooker and her trick. Refusing to abandon his life in the ghetto and a chance at revenge, Folks is taken under the wing of an older mentor, Blue. What happens next is unbelievable.

Jackson Bedeau is the leader of a highly skilled and sophisticated crime organization. He desperately wants to find and complete what is dubbed as the “last job” so that he and his team can retire from the street life forever. Unbeknownst to him, his employer Oliver “Ollie” Monk, London’s most notorious crime lord, is made aware of his plans, and begins to mastermind the removal of Jackson and promoting his overly ambitious, money hungry cousin Julius. 12th Ward Police Chief Devin “Finn” Finnegan receives vital information from Oliver to arrest Jackson for the murder of ...

Caren Gray manages Belle Vie, a sprawling antebellum plantation that sits between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where the past and the present coexist uneasily. The estate's owners have turned the place into an eerie tourist attraction, complete with full-dress re-enactments and carefully restored slave quarters. Outside the gates, a corporation with ambitious plans has been busy snapping up land from struggling families who have been growing sugar cane for generations, and now replacing local employees with illegal laborers. Tensions mount when the body of a female migrant worker is found in a shallow grave on the edge of the property.

We last saw Easy in 2007’s Blonde Faith, fighting for his life after his car plunges over a cliff. True to form, the tough WWII veteran survives, and soon his murderous sidekick Mouse has him back cruising the mean streets of L.A., in all their psychedelic 1967 glory, to look for a young black man, Evander "Little Green" Noon, who disappeared during an acid trip. Fueled by an elixir called Gator’s Blood, brewed by the conjure woman Mama Jo, Easy experiences a physical, spiritual, and emotional resurrection, but peace and love soon give way to murder and mayhem.

Blair Aikman a female, black anti-terrorist agent for the Shadow Agency, has to do something she has never done in her life ... run! A game of love and hate she played with Josef has erupted with startling results! Josef, the new leader of the Aryan Brotherhood Nation walks a tightrope, because death awaits Blair if his Brothers find her before he does! This book will help you gain insight into what makes each of the characters in this series tick! Josef and his grand designs and lover's games. Buford the ladies man with the obsidian heart. Tag the Giant, the Enforcer with the sense of ...

Fresh out of the mental institution, Lorraine Caine has found a new man to settle with and his name is Rage. Harbored by the loss of her son and the infidelity of her husband, Derrick, she comes to the realization that Derrick’s love for her was truly for another. Her star-crossed lover had now turned her hopes and dreams into stardust. However, it isn’t Lorraine’s first time that she has been hurt by men in her past, but she vows that Derrick would be the last. Her past makes her question if her love for Derrick is viable or unforgivable. And with unforgivable actions come rigorous ...

As Valentino pursues Sade, his lethal instincts war with something far more dangerous—his growing obsession. She is not just a target; she is a force of nature, an intoxicating enigma that refuses to be controlled. Every encounter between them is a deadly waltz.

Easy Rawlins, L.A.'s most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend, Christmas Black, left on his doorstep. Easy knows that this could only mean that ex-marine Black is probably dead, or will be soon. But Easter's appearance is only the beginning, as Easy is immersed in a sea of problems.

Widowed and officially retired, Eugeena Patterson throws herself into organizing the neighborhood association. This presents a great opportunity to reconnect with old friends and get to know new neighbors, like recently widowed Amos Jones - that is until Eugeena stumbles upon her estranged neighbor’s dead body. Eugeena’s daughter is fingered as a prime suspect, but where is she? Determined to find her missing daughter, Eugeena and Amos sort through a list of neighbors with shady or unknown backgrounds.

Alexia Dunn joins the Baltimore Police in search of a killer when the wives of defense lawyers are murdered throughout the city. Alexia may be on the target list. Will she find the killer before he comes after her?

Mia Stewart is a beautiful and successful madam with all the wisdom for her call girls, Keke and Sierra, but not using her own advice to survive in the entanglement of love with her married lover, Mario Wellington. Her so-called friends are supposed to have her back, but they have their own hidden agendas and secrets. Mia enters a world where sex can give you anything: power, money, self-entitlement. Then she realizes the fast life will get you caught up in a whirlwind of betrayal, lies, and misfortune. She mysteriously escapes death on one or more occasions. Was it luck or a curse? With ...

Speed and Seduction Collide in the Streets of Cleveland... In the gritty underground racing scene of Cleveland, two fierce rivals find themselves irresistibly drawn together. Meet Desiree, an audacious female racer making waves in a male-dominated sport, and Duke, a brash driver with a daredevil reputation of his own. Though initially at odds, their animosity shifts into overdrive when they're forced to team up for the high-stakes Midnight Run. Working side by side, the sparks between them ignite into a fiery attraction neither can deny. They embark on a secret romance that pushes the ...

Smoke Kings is a powerful and propulsive novel with a diverse and unforgettable cast of characters. Like Steph Cha's Your House Will Pay it explores decades of racial tensions through a fictional landscape where the line between justice and revenge is blurred.

In Clan MacKenzie, we fight for each other. We die for each other. And when I fell for Chevelle, those same rules applied to her. She loves me, but hates the family business. So, I hid the villain in me until today. Today, I need to do what must be done and that requires the help of the same people she would rather us keep our distance from.

Imagine living your best life, and one day, you get disappointing news that will draw you back to your hometown. While visiting your ill father, you're shocked by the sudden appearance of a handsome, charming, financially stable older gentleman. Fire sparks when you and the gentlemen share each other's personal space. You've now realized that he may be the man God ordained you to be with. Getting deeper into his world, you discover a multitude of secrets that you may not be able to fathom. You're hurt and feeling pain that you aren't used to. Realizing you were tricked into believing the ...

As a low-level enforcer in Los Angeles, Ken Swift knows danger, but nowhere does he feel it more than in his tangled romances. Divorced from one woman, in love with another, and wrestling with a strong desire to get to know a third, his life is far from perfect, and it becomes all the more complicated when his troubled daughter resurfaces on the same day as a major job.

**FULL STANDALONE** “Miki, you’ve got to stop playing with those people’s hearts and minds. Being a seer is real. You can’t play with that.” Those were the words, Miki Bell’s grandmother, Ramona warned her about repeatedly. Instead of heeding her grandmother’s advice, Miki continued to remain focused on her psychic business, Foresight. Using tarot cards and palm readings to deceive people for monetary gain, Miki convinces herself she is actually helping people. After a traumatic past, having a man was the furthest thing on Miki’s mind. However, when she met Von Adams who was...

ONE TOUCH CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING. As the subservient wife of an adulterous husband, Lady Eren knows how to hide her real feelings. Only once in her life did she feel like herself: on the night she unearthed a mysterious idol, with the help of her new stepson, Lane. Turns out Lane remembers that night just as clearly… albeit for different reasons. Eren was only twenty when she married his cheating father, and she has haunted his teenage dreams ever since. Now, ten years later, Lane’s been called home to marry… and the still-gorgeous Eren is playing his matchmaker. If that wasn’t ...

When Blanche White moved north to Boston, she believed it would be a better place to raise her kids, especially after she got them into an elite private school. But now her children are becoming elitist and judgmental, acquiring more attitude than education. So when she and her kids are invited to Amber Cove, an exclusive resort in Maine for wealthy blacks, Blanche jumps at the chance to see how the other half lives and maybe stop her kids turning into people she doesn't want to know.

Detective Houser wants nothing more than his retirement, but when a murder case involving the WMM firm lands on his desk, he can’t avoid it. All of law enforcement knows that WMM Advertising, also known as We Make Millionaires, is one of the biggest and hardest-to-penetrate fraudulent telemarketing firms in the state of Georgia. A tape recording of a man’s death may finally help Houser make a case against the firm. Calling in Alexis Greenspan, a.k.a. Nina Coles, the top sales associate in the company, Houser is determined to use her to find out the company’s secrets.