African Fantasy

When Lena Johnson’s beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the Black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place to live. All Lena has to do is participate in a secret program - and lie to her friends and family about the research being done in Lakewood.

The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor’s surrender means little to a lowly scribe like Enitan. All she wants is to quit her day job and expand her fledgling tea business. But when her lover is assassinated and her sibling is abducted by Imperial soldiers, Enitan abandons her idyllic plans and weaves her tea tray up through the heart of the Vaalbaran capital.

With no magic, no brawn, and no pirate crew, Zala seeks to steal back the one treasure that matters to her most: Her husband. To succeed she needs a ship - and not just any ship, but the latest, secret invention by the Vaaji Empire. An airship. Zala will have to use her wits to overcome scoundrels and nobles alike on her journey through the clouds. But if she's smart enough, she may just have what it takes to save her husband - and go down in history as the first sky pirate.

With the end of Alistair Sorenson’s tyrannical reign, Dèmi has accepted Jonas’s proposal to rule as his Queen with hopes to finally free her people, the magical Oluso. Yet social prejudice, corrupt council members, and the continued distrust of the nonmagical Ajès throughout the kingdom prove seemingly implacable obstacles. To make matters worse, Dèmi struggles to control her newly awakened iron blood magic. As Ekwensi’s rebel army—led in part by Colin, her best friend and one-time lover—become more triumphant in their mission, war seems inevitable.

Ryan Johnson moves into his new neighborhood and the game is afoot.Ryan is a writer of romance novels. Stories that revolve around big black seducers and the lonely white housewives that inhabit small suburban towns. Research, he finds, is always his favorite part of story writing. Write what you know and love what you write... right? With this new neighborhood, he finds that he may have hit the mother load, no pun intended. Well... maybe intended. Desperate housewife Teresa, young college girl Missy, and even the Karen that lives right next door to him, are soon to find that Ryan has much ...

Lucas has been in the fight against the evil forces in his town since the beginning, but he is tired of feeling like an outsider. When the start of high school presents Lucas with options beyond D&D and being bullied, he wonders if he can be more than invisible. After connecting with one of the few other Black students at school, Lucas starts to learn more about himself apart from his friend group. And he begins to understand himself as a Black teen in Hawkins, which feels unlike anything—in this world or any other—he’s ever experienced.

Acclaimed novelist Mat Johnson is the winner of the prestigious Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. After being sacked, American literature professor Chris Jaynes discovers a slave manuscript that seemingly confirms the existence of an “island of pure and utter blackness” as described in Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Soon Jaynes and a rag-tag crew embark on an epic adventure to discover the truth.

The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. Once-sweet water turns foul. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. To get caught in a storm is death. To live and do nothing is death. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find. Djola, righthand man and spymaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland, even in exile.

"...he took her in his arms, and this time she didn’t reject him. She closed her eyes. Their lips met, his hands went to her waist, hers went around his neck. Their tongues met and swirled together in a deep lust-fueled dance. She moaned into his mouth as his hands gripped her *** and squeezed less than gently. Colorful blasts of colors went off behind her eyelids. She could feel him pressing against her stomach *** and *****"Jenna Laramie's bold new journey into being a hotwife takes a meaningful turn as she and Kyle attend a party thrown at the palatial estate of her husband's new boss....

In ZIGGY – CHEEKY DOGGY TALES (BOOK1), ZIGGY writes about his life with Jack aged 7 and Emma, aged 5 together with their friends, Teddy the teddy Bear, Dorothy the doll and Hammy the hamster. There are two big humans in the house as well (Jack and Emma’s mummy and daddy) but much more importantly for Ziggy, there’s a big smelly tomcat called GINGER. ZIGGY and GINGER don’t get on. There’s a lot of fun and laughter as well as naughtiness and fighting – although that’s mainly between ZIGGY and GINGER. Then everything changes. A very big and frightening stranger arrives in the ...

A. C. Arthur presents Book 3 in the Legion series. Contains mature themes.

“Do you come of your own free will?” He asked as he stood up from his chair. “Yes,” Lya said trying to keep the tremble from her voice. “How noble of you,” He said as he walked toward her. He stopped in front of her and touched her cheek. “It was not noble at all,” Lya said shocking even herself that she spoke. His hand was strangely not cold like she had imagined. **** His voice was ever so smooth…almost sympathetic. And, she was standing before him naked. He was close…so close. Lya felt a warmth gather in her belly and a strange quiver between her legs. “Did they ...

A northern white couple has relocated to the South to operate a vineyard on a North Carolina plantation. There, they pass their idle hours listening to the stories of one Uncle Julius, who has a deep knowledge of the land. These stories, however, are more than mere entertainments. They all have their time and place, and they offer not only a quiet commentary on the events of the day but also a deeper reckoning with the plantation’s disturbing past.

Burri is a fashion designer and icon with a biochemistry background. Her latest pieces are African inspired and crafted to touch the heart. They enable wearers to absorb nanorobotic memories and recount the stories of Black lives and forgiveness. Wenda doesn’t buy it. A protest performance artist, Wenda knows exploitation when she sees it. What she’s going to do with Burri’s breakthrough technology could, in the right hands, change race relations forever.

The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of Earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The deeper tale concerns, however, the way those who are "different" must deal with the dominant cultural ideology. The tale follows Lobey's mythic quest for his lost love, Friza. In luminous and hallucinated language, it explores what new myths might emerge from the detritus of the human world....

When Sarah took Marcus as her secret lover, it changed her marriage forever. Grant wrestles with the notion that to remain her husband he must allow her indiscretions. At first, he seethes with overwhelming jealousy and humiliation but realizes that its lit an erotic fire within him that he can’t seem to put out. In coming to terms with his new cuckold relationship, if that’s what he truly has become, Grant finds out that there’s more to their neighborhood than he knew. There are dark secrets in his neighborhood, passionate and sexual and fascinating obsessions. Finding out what ...

Ha dado comienzo una estación de desenlaces. Empieza con una gran grieta roja que recorre las entrañas del único continente del planeta, una grieta que escupe una ceniza que oculta la luz del sol. Empieza con la muerte, con un hijo asesinado y una hija perdida. Empieza con una traición, con heridas latentes que comienzan a supurar. El lugar es la Quietud, un continente acostumbrado a la catástrofe en el que la energía de la tierra se utiliza como arma. Y en el que no hay lugar para la misericordia.

"We'd had to be cut free of our mother's womb. Abby and I were fused, you see. But here's the real kicker; Abby had the magic, I didn't." Now adults, Makeda and Abby still share their childhood home. The surgery to separate the two girls left Makeda with what feels like an even worse deformity: no mojo. The daughters of a celestial demigod and a human woman, Makeda and Abby were raised by their magical father. Today, Makeda has decided it's high time to move out and make her own life.

Vol 2 of the Pleasurable Perils series. Brandi has teamed up with her friend girls Esmeralda and Sylvia to turn the lives of the men around them upside down.

When 14-year-old Ana, goes missing the police seem unconcerned about her disappearance and her family seems to be hiding something. Her best friend Izzy and her friends must deal with the side effects of a botched spell. But Ana is the only person able to help them. Will, Izzy be able to find Ana before the next full moon?