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After fifteen years of marriage, Adrian and Steph Wall’s relationship is in crisis. But their troubles multiply when their teenage daughter falls under the spell of Scarlett, a charismatic teen with a knack for shoplifting, joyriding—and secretly triggering tragic “accidents.” Steph worries from the start about Scarlett’s negative influence on their daughter. But when Adrian discovers the girl’s connection to a powerful figure who could make or break his career, he’s torn between ambition and protecting his family from Scarlett’s growing menace.

No one is more shocked than Eric Newton when he discovers he has an adult daughter. Happily married, a successful business owner, and a dedicated father of two young children, Eric vows to make up for lost time with his newfound child, Destiny. He'll do whatever it takes to be the perfect dad and invites Destiny to move in with his family. But Destiny, 20 years old, has her own ideas about Eric's role in her life—and after a nasty argument one night, Eric wakes to find that she's vanished without a trace.

When Cam and Desiree Woodson find the luxurious rental home in a quiet, suburban Atlanta neighborhood, they believe they've discovered the perfect place for their growing young family—and for their tight budget, the price is too good to be true. But what starts as a bargain soon turns into a nightmare when the landlord's unusual lease terms become more suffocating than they ever imagined...

South Haven is the premier mixed-used community in metro Atlanta - a vibrant place where old-fashioned country living gets a modern update. There’s the town square where residents watch family movies on the lawn on warm summer nights. The corner market stocked with organic foods. The bakery with fresh coffee and Wi-Fi. The stately homes on shaded, gently winding streets. The water park where children splash, laugh, and run. There’s also something deadly lurking.

Twenty-five years ago, a jealous ex-boyfriend murdered Mallory Steele's mother. With no close family to take in Mallory and her older sister, the girls became wards of the state and were soon ripped apart, sent to live with different foster families. Taken in by loving parents, Mallory went on to a successful career as an investigative reporter at an Atlanta newspaper.

The Langston Brothers are New York's best prime real estate. Niles and Noah are the handsome and sexy identical twins of a wealthy investor. They are poised to take over their father's lucrative financial firm. Life is good, and they have the world at their fingertips. What could go wrong? What the Langstons want, the Langstons get! But when one brother asks the unimaginable, the scandal opens the doors to a steamy love affair.

Dr. Tiana McGuire, a reclusive academic, has always found solace in her books and research, shunning the bustling social scene. Her quiet life shatters when she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time, cursed with the haunting gift of sight. Now, pursued by malevolent forces, Tiana and her loved ones must flee for their lives.

I was born a BASTARD of southwest Philadelphia and raised in a rundown row house in one of America's most notorious GHETTOS, Camden, New Jersey. My upbringing was marked by a resilient mother, an inconsistent father, and the harsh realities of a city that claimed several of my immediate family member's lives, the youngest among them being a victim of police violence. I found myself embodying the archetype of an American stereotype.

Discarded in the woods as a newborn cub, Alonzo Andino was raised by wolves...A shifter! A powerful curse was cast upon the men of his family. They have until their 30th birthday to gain the love of a woman or be doomed to live out the rest of their lives in wolf form. He has a love. A love that doesn’t know he exist! She lives in a world he wouldn’t fit in. She’s a wealthy executive and her structured life is set. Alonzo is determined to seduce her. To win her. The question is will he?

In 1862, Andrew “Andy” Jackson Smith, son of a white landowner and enslaved woman, es­caped to Union troops operating in Kentucky, made his way to the North, and volunteered for the 55th Massachusetts, one of the newly formed African American regiments. The regiment was deployed to South Carolina, and during a desperate assault on a Confederate battery, the color bearer was killed. Before the flag was lost, Smith quickly retrieved it and under heavy fire, held the colors steady while the decimated regiment withdrew.

The Isling brothers are living in exile! The sons of a man who should be king. But Reidel, Saint, and Dallon Isling are supreme kings in their own right. They're wealthy, successful, and highly sought-after men. They love women. And women love them. There is a problem, though. A curse forbids their kind from mingling or getting romantically involved with humans. And those who break the law are dealt with swiftly.

B082MTZ24TSandy and Xavier are young, accomplished, and happily married, living their American dream. Xavier, a police sergeant, sees himself as Sandy's protector, while Sandy's professional ambitions and work as a surgeon inspire her husband. Together they've forged the perfect life together. Or so they thought, until a tragedy in the couple's affluent suburb causes a ripple effect that will forever change their world. The aftermath of the incident spreads to DC's halls of justice, threatening democracy as we know it - and the relationship Sandy and Xavier once thought they had.

What seemed an ordinary homework assignment turned into a life changing adventure for Shar, Terrence, Ebony, Akiya, Marcus, and Chase as they take a scavenger hunt through town finding the contributions black Americans have had to our everyday lives in the areas of science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Things are moving well until one phone call sends a cascade of things in motion that results in the frightening wail of sirens screaming down the street. How will the STEAM Chasers get out of this mess?

The STEAM Chasers are back with another exciting adventure into the world of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math. This time they are headed to Space Camp for an action packed journey into space exploration. While there, Shar, Terrence, Ebony, Akiya, Marcus, and Chase learn about the contributions Black Americans have made to space science, human space flight, astrophysics, astronomy, and aerospace engineering.

A gang of roaming gunslingers down on their luck cross paths with a mysterious one-eyed preacher. When the priest offers them their long sought after "honest work", they will jump at the chance. But this strange encounter was no mere coincidence, something these outlaws will soon find out. Their destination? Hollow Canyon, a place thought to be more of legend than of fact. Inside the looming, towering stone walls, an ancient evil awaits. An evil that has set its sights on finally freeing itself from the confines of the wicked pass.

God sees everything...but who’s watching him? The time period in which these events took place is not disclosed. Five very talented and ambitious scientists asked themselves an age-old question: Where do our souls go after we die? The question was posed, not in the esoteric sense, but in a geographical one. They committed themselves to find out the exact physical locations of “Heaven and Hell”. However, their research gave them more than they bargained for.

Between Fathers and Sons: An African-American Fable was called "Potent. . .threaded through with morals and sobering life lessons without heavy-handed moralizing" by the Los Angeles Times. The novella tells the story of 13-year-old Miles Johnson and his mystical quest to become a black man. He is joined on his adventure by an unlikely trio of companions: a riddle whose answer will take Miles's life in an unexpected direction, a moth-eaten strip of Kente cloth, and a mysterious neighborhood shopkeeper.

After a deadly domestic dispute nearly takes both parents away, his mother’s self-sacrifice is followed by a sudden move to Philadelphia to Camden, New Jersey which offers an opportunity for a new life and a clean slate. Then he comes face to face with the family “business”...integrating mainstream business principle and integrity with the raw rules and politics of the street don’t come easy. At lease, not without a little dirty work to ensure problems disappear and their enemies can’t draw another breath.

Summer and A’Zaya are far from strangers, but an untimely incident from their past ripped their once picture-perfect friendship completely apart. The world becomes much smaller than they think when one of them is about to become the wife of one of Atlanta’s most successful men. The Dupree men are amongst the most influential families in the city of Atlanta, but even for them, is life truly what it seems? In many cases, enemies hide in the shadows, but an enemy of a different sort can be hidden in plain sight.

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