American Contemporary

Veronica Cruz has been through hell and back. After disconnecting with the world two years ago to be at the side of her dying mother, she's left alone, unemployed, overweight, and feeling a decade older than her 28 years. When her best friend coaxes her into joining the local gym to ditch her depression and rejuvenate her life, she meets Noah. What she least expected was for him to fall for her, but he has. There's just one problem: Noah is eight years younger.

Janine hasn’t always lived a life that’s on the straight and narrow. Meaning, there was a time in her life when she was a lowly sinner and her relationship with Christ was the very last thing on her mind. But that all changes, and before long, Janine becomes a sista after God’s own heart. But just because she’s beautiful, saved, and fabulous, that doesn’t mean that all is perfect in paradise. Janine has a college degree, but no matter what she does, she can’t seem to snag a decent job with it. She had a fiancée, but he cheated. When she runs into a single father who's true to ...

Savannah has awakened to the fact that she's made too many concessions in her marriage. Bernadine has watched her megadivorce settlement dwindle. Robin has an all-American case of shopaholism. Gloria has taken happiness and security for granted. But being at the wrong place at the wrong time can change everything. All four are learning to heal past hurts and to reclaim their joy and their dreams; but they return to us full of spirit, sass, and faith in one another.

In the second installment, after being drugged by Juliet, Dagger wakes up to find his pregnant wife Luvleigh lying dead next to his hospital bed. Concluding that his life means nothing without her love, Dagger makes the rash decision to place his gun to his head and pull the trigger in a desperate attempt to reunite with his wife Luvleigh. Only Luvleigh isn’t dead. After spending five years taking care of her comatose husband and their four kids, Luvleigh is in for a surprise. After being told by one of the best neurosurgeons in the world, that her husband may never wake, she walks into ...

Award-winning author Tiffany L. Warren has been celebrated by ReShonda Tate Billingsley for novels delivering “a riveting story and a faith boost.” In The Favorite Son, handsome brothers Camden and Blaine Drake sing God’s praises in their popular gospel group. But as rumors fly about one brother, a heartbreaking betrayal threatens to destroy the group—and their family.

The lovely Juanita Thompson is living a charmed life. She has a loving family and wonderful friends who always have her back. When she meets the saved, handsome, and single new pastor of her church — Joshua Ellerbee — she decides right away that he's a decent individual, who's worthy of leading the flock at Zion Grove Christian Center. However, Pastor Ellerbee unwittingly makes a decision that causes Juanita to lose her part-time gig at Zion Grove. Consequently, her approval of him changes in an instant. Because of his ill-fated move, she begins to suspect that her new handsome pastor ...

Trina had spent the last three years in a perfect relationship with Brandon. Now after planning the perfect wedding with the man of her dreams, everything she had hoped for their lives together was on the brink of coming true. That is, until the day of the wedding when a very important guest didn’t arrive... the groom himself, Brandon. Now Trina is left to pick up the pieces of her life and figure out what went wrong. Why did Brandon leave her at the altar after everything they had been through? Trina wants answers and she won’t rest until she finds them. Her heart won’t let her.

Allie Abraham has it all going for her - she’s a straight-A student with good friends and a close-knit family, and she’s dating popular, sweet Wells Henderson. There’s only one problem: Wells’ father is Jack Henderson, America’s most famous conservative shock jock, and Allie hasn’t told Wells that her family is Muslim. It’s not like Allie’s religion is a secret. It’s just that her parents don’t practice and raised her to keep it to herself.

Fifteen years ago, he left without saying a word. Now he's back. And as much as she hates it, the sparks haven't died... Jennifer Banning is happy with her life as a travel nurse. It takes her mind off the fact that she is over thirty and still hasn't found one man she shares that special spark with. The kind of spark she felt in college with Gavin Daniels. But that is now water under the bridge, and Jennifer has decided she will enjoy singlehood and play happy Aunty to her sister's children. Gavin Daniels is on vacation with his sister's family when he spots Jen Banning looking more ...

The Road Beasts: Hawk – A Gritty, Mature Romance 🔥 A Love Lost to the Past. A Truth That Changes Everything. Paul "Hawk" Woods has spent decades burying his past—until one shocking encounter brings it roaring back to life. While passing through Dallas on a routine case, Hawk makes a stop at a familiar biker bar, only to hear an impossible name: Amethyst Hall. The woman he loved—and lost—twenty-eight years ago. The woman he thought was dead. Now, she’s standing before him, very much alive and still every bit the fierce, stunning FBI agent he once fell for. But Hawk isn’t here ...

Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life. But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow's best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home.

He’s young, rich, intelligent, tall and ready to settle down. I’m Louisiana thick, curvy, and I’d like to say fine because it fits, and I keep trying to talk myself out of love. And as fate would have it, I’m stuck in his home on Christmas Day. Being an assistant, to Destiny- the owner and lead decorator at Dobrielle's-has good and bad qualities. It's one of Louisiana's largest and most sought after design firms. And I'm leaning but eager for my opportunity to shine. I get big coins, but I’m still only my boss’s assistant. She gives me the job to decorate the office Christmas ...

Asia Gates — aka The Matchmaker Diva — is the beautiful, saved owner of a wildly successful online dating business. She's a real pro at getting lonely people hooked up with their significant others. Too bad all of her talents seem to be useless when applied to herself. But all of that might just be about to change when a handsome, saved brotha from her past makes a reappearance in her life. Through prayer and perseverance, Asia might just find that God's blessed her with her very own match made in heaven.

The "construction laborer" is really a wealthy felon with too many inexplicable circumstances to fathom for her narrow worldview. Will Jas share more of his complexities? Will Ashira be able to absorb them with understanding, leaving the judgment behind? Two souls, still galaxies apart, bound by love. The unanticipated UFO has collided with her world like a ferocious asteroid.

You’re Not a Girl in a Movie is a new collection of powerful poems by Hala Alyan, winner of the Arab American Book Award in Poetry and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In these nine extraordinary poems, Alyan wrestles with the intimate themes that have driven her acclaimed body of work to date: the aching loss of homeland, the image and worth of women, and the violence of love. In Beirut, Brooklyn, and roads in the American West, she unravels the effects of decades of war and displacement on love and human worth and identity.

Synopsis: Justin Miller Jr. was a single father who had fallen on hard times. After losing everything, he doesn’t have time to wallow because he has a nine-year-old son to take care of. Just when he thinks things couldn’t get worse, they do. Leaving Justin to think of doing the unthinkable, until he runs into the one woman who got away. Hope Porter is the youngest black woman to own a law firm in Tennessee. Not to mention, one of the best and sought-after divorce attorneys in the state. Even with all her success, her personal life has become monotonous and lonely. But one chance reunion...

In Book 4, mixups, mishaps, and misunderstandings were paid with a loss of life. Lake is longing for her inner hustler. After giving birth, she finds her daughter Skylar distant and desperate for attention. Lyrica steps up to the plate while Lola is tipping and dipping. The crowns are set, and the empire is built only to find a crack in the foundation. Will the Yusef sisters trade positions with their men, or will separation tear the couples apart? *PREORDER PRICE .99 AFTER PREORDER $1.99

Nia Ali is the successful owner of a property management company in New York. While expanding her business and selling her way to the top, she realizes her love life is at an all time low. She then meets Darion Brown, a handsome contractor and blossoms a romance. But when her business relationships take a dangerous turn, she finds herself unsure if she can maintain the balance, or possibly lose everything.

Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life. But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow's best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday.

A beautiful coming-of-age story, a poignant romance, a tale of discovering one's true self... Jorja Tabu brings you: SAVOR. Ciara McKinley's mother disappeared shortly after depositing her with her father in Chicago at the age of two years old. Determined to find out more about the woman that abandoned her, biracial Ciara leaves her hometown and her father's dynastic Black family to attend the University of Washington in Seattle. Discoveries are few and far between; she knows nothing about the Snohomish culture her Native American mother came from, including where to start looking. Lonely ...