African Urban

Can a Single Mother Find Love with the Office Player… …Who's also a Secret Billionaire? In Cleveland, a single mother working as an office cleaner gets swept up in a forbidden romance with the wealthy CEO concealing his true identity. Meet Keisha, struggling to provide for her daughter, and Darnell, the powerful but jaded executive who is known as the office playboy with a past. Though from opposite worlds, their undeniable chemistry leads to stolen moments and a steamy office affair. As rumors spread through the grapevine, Keisha and Darnell's budding relationship is threatened from ...

Bella was born into wealth and raised by strict parents. She is green to the hood life. On the other hand Jayceon was born in the hood and raised by parents who robbed banks for a living. His father taught him the game and now he runs it. To the streets he's Blockka Leader of the infamous Ski Mask Mafia. A group of professional bandits that includes his friends Tristan, Dominic , Rashad, and his baby momma Fatima. Regardless of his street life he loves Bella with all his heart. He's just too ashamed to tell her who he really is so he keeps that part of his life separate from the life he ...

In part 2 of this urban chick trilogy, Yazmeen decided to move forward with her aspirations of building an empire after a significant blow and setback. When an opportunity presents itself to make major money moves, she pounces it on it like the lioness that she is. A new man, new home, and new money threaten the sisterhood she has with Aminah and Tiffani. Will she stay focused on her goals or give up to stand by the ones she loves? Aminah experiences betrayal in the form of a media frenzy while trying to have Yazmeen's back. Tiffani's secret is finally exposed and brought to the forefront. ...

A Harlem Kingpin meets a Plus-Sized Single mother. Hood Love is in the air! Life in Harlem has never been easy for Shaniyah. The product of a broken home, she’s always had to fend for herself. And she’s always searched for the love that her parents never gave her. Maybe that’s why she fell into the arms of her trifling baby daddy. He made her promises and sold her big dreams. But he hasn’t delivered on any of them. She works a barely above minimum-wage job. While her baby daddy is in and out of jail and can never hold down steady work. She doesn’t know how much longer she can ...

The fast-paced, hood drama concludes in BBW Hungry for Love 5. Kalisha is desperate to get out of New York. It's her only hope. Her baby daddy is after her and so are the police. The only person she can turn to is Keon. But she hasn't been able to get in touch with him. Will he be able to save her before it’s too late? After being released from police custody, Keon tries to contact Kalisha. But she's not picking up her phone. He fears the worst. If something happens to her and he's unable to save her, he’ll never get over the guilt. He's got to find her before it's too late. Kalisha's ...

Working a minimum-wage job and raising a son has never been harder for Jayla. Each day she feels more and more beat down by life's trials and tribulations. Watching her ailing mother waste away after a serious stroke, makes things even tougher for her. The love she has for her man Keenan is what gets her through these troubled times. Together, they plan on getting out of the projects in Harlem. But unfortunately, that journey won't be an easy one. A traumatic event at her workplace shatters her fragile mental state. She doesn't ever want to go back there. There's got to be a better way to ...

When Bianca and her girls first stepped into Presidential's world they had one thing on their mind...money. They had one philosophy about money. Grab as much as you could quick as you could and then disappear without a trace. Not in the wildest imaginations were they ready for the level of prestige, treachery, and danger surrounded around obtaining and then maintaining a luxurious lifestyle. In Presidential 2 Bianca finds herself absorbed inside of a powerful love affair that pulls tightly at her heart and weighs heavy on her mind. All of her life she wanted to be rich, successful, and well...

The Finale. In this intense explosive finale, we find the Conglomerate fighting for their reputation, money, and legacy. Yazmeen finds the strength to remain solid to the team. Aminah writes out her will. Tiffani discovers her breaking point. Milcah starts anew. Hadiyah finds true love.

Sunni Sanders grew up believing a woman should sacrifice everything for the sake of her family. She saw her mother do it, now persuaded to follow in her footsteps. Sunni repeats a cycle passed down by the cream of the crop. A generational curse from women who believed they had no choice but to be barefoot and pregnant. A time when women bickered against each other just for the sake of the man picking/choosing them. After a problematic marriage of her own, Sunni considers she wasn’t given a good example to live by when it comes to marriage. She finds herself going against the grain, the ...

Picking up where Essence best-selling author La Jill Hunt's Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda left off, Too Close for Comfort follows Paige Michaels and her no-nonsense friends as they search for love. Paige has finally broken loose from her no-good man, and she's loving the single life - until Quincy Westbrooke shows up.

At the height of the Bloods gang epidemic of the 1990’s plaguing New York City, Spade meets Sue Blue, a female Crip from the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Forging a tight bond, the two eventually create an epidemic of their own, adding to the city’s already existing gang problem. As Sue Blue completes a short stint in the city’s notorious juvenile lockup, Spofford, Spade becomes a dominant force in his neighborhood, a leading figure. However, he never forgets his friend, Sue Blue, and, outside of her presence, places her at the top tier of a gang he organizes in Brooklyn, giving ...

Four years ago Yvonne was a 'womon' on the edge... of love that is. Caught between head & heart, she found herself at the mercy of both Dorian & Corrine, having inexplicably fallen for them both. In the end, Yvonne is forced to choose. This time around she is back with a vengeance & remains firm in her decision. It is only when adversity strikes, testing the solidity of her relationship, that she begins to ponder if love is enough. She soon discovers that one bad apple does indeed spoil the bunch as all of her relationships become affected in one way or another. In trying to salvage the ...

A Million Dollars Worth of Fat by Mona Love: Keisha Long is cute, funny, and is always the life of the party, but she is also 320 pounds and lonely. She's tried dating apps, blind dates, and everything else, but nothing changes until she buys a winning lottery ticket. Complications by Katt: Secret Johnson has been slim all her life, but since she had her second child and turned 38, she has gained almost 70 pounds. She can see it’s affecting her marriage....

BOOK ONE of The Collide Series Sometimes love comes unexpectedly... Lauren is a spoiled daddy's girl, brought up under the protection of Miami's elite black society. With a law professor for a mother, and a state attorney for a father, she has been raised to understand the law down to its most fundamental form. She's what they call, in every sense of the term, a Good Girl. As her father prepares to take on the biggest case of his career--going against Miami's most notorious kingpin, Silas Montgomery--tensions begin to rise, and our Good Girl becomes Silas Montgomery's newest target. Now on ...

The couples you fell in love with are back and the drama continues. In this highly anticipated finale Ni’Yoka and Sheik are trying to build a life together. That’s pretty hard to do with Zuri lurking in the shadows trying to dismantle everything. Being with Sheik is everything a woman could want but it’s hard looking toward the future when your past won’t let you go. Now that she’s the mother of his child the bar has been raised. She’s no longer the chick that risked her life to save his without even knowing him. She’s now his woman. He wants her to show and prove that she’s...

Meoshii “Jett” Cándida is known for being a self-absorbed and often inconsiderate human being. Raised by one of Brooklyn’s most notorious and ruthless kingpins, she’s always had this outlook that her needs and wants are above everyone else. After all, she grew up spoiled. But when her father dies and her mom is admitted into a mental facility, her entire world changes as she knows it. Thrust into the dismal world of poverty, Jett has no choice but to take care of herself—with the help of her best friend’s boyfriend, of course. Somehow, she finds herself in a stressful and ...

In the final episode, LaLa finds herself in the land of the beautiful people with a bounty on her head. With her family intact and in tow, LaLa proves to her new employer why she deserves to be the QueenPin of the West. Life in Los Angeles reveals Leilani's real roots, strengths, and determination, but the dangers of her new lifestyle close in on her. Will this new family of five navigate the fiery hells of LA, or will they burn to a crisp in the constant untamed blaze?

A bored housewife… A string of affairs…. And an end result she never saw coming! How could she… The intense pillow talk had her open! It was supposed to be a break from her regular life at home. She’s wifey! Mother of three! Her life feels like it’s no longer hers. Get up… Feed the kids… Get everyone together… Rinse and repeat! It was a life that had lost its sparkle but it was still a great life. Her husband is hot. Sexy. Stable in his nine to five. Sex with him is intense. Passionate. It’s a life anyone would have traded for. But not Bianca. She is a woman who takes ...

Harmonie and Cairo's love story came to a crashing halt when they both faced tragic circumstances. Harmonie went away to college, while Cairo was sentenced to six months in jail. As time wore on, they both were headed on a downward spiral as a result of the pain they endured from their families and church. Is all hope lost for redemption? Or is God the Restorer that the Bible claims Him to be? This is the heavily anticipated finale to Harmonie and Cairo's story. Twists and turns come from every direction, and shocking secrets will be revealed.

Life in the ghetto produces some of the most provocative character types known to man. A young kid afflicted from birth, misguided, beaten, and drugged through life on his face. Nobody ever loved him. Not in this life did he expect to get a break. Born into the wrong family and situated around negative circumstances. He had two options: Survive or perish