From the wealth and grandeur of downtown Chicago to the lovely environs of Atlanta's Piedmont Park, Bobby "Capone" Carter, the heir to a self-made African-American millionaire, is hiding from many people, including his own family. Trading in a life of luxury, Bobby is well hidden as a homeless man in Midtown Atlanta. Having left the Windy City and his upright father and gorgeous sister, in an alcoholic rage, Bobby's life spins farther out of control down South. Everyone seems to be looking...

It's 1983. Alex Andrews is an athletically and intellectually gifted college freshman, who has enjoyed a life of wealth and accolades. He attends The University of Alabama, where his father is a football legend, as well as having been one of Hall of Fame Coach Bear Bryant's favorites. From his earliest memories, Alex has been treated like Bama royalty, the heir apparent to his father's outstanding football legacy. To top it off, a beautiful young woman has fallen madly in love with him. Mo...

Ted Turner and Arthur Blank are not Atlanta's only business giants. In contrast to their very public, attention-seeking personalities, Walker Troup prefers the life of the enigmatic loner. His peaceful life of quiet deals and world travel is savagely attacked and everything he values is in jeopardy. Blackmail, betrayal, and murder have blown the top off of his private world, leaving him unsure of anything and everything. Troup quickly discovers that he can no longer trust his top business ...

Gates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth's attorney for their rural hometown in Virginia, where he enjoys a contented life with his wife and spitfire daughter. But Mason's idyll is abruptly pierced by a wicked tragedy, and soon afterward trouble finds him again when he is forced to confront a brutal secret he and his brother had both ...

This novel of Pittsburgh, by the author of Last Night at the Lobster, "celebrates the lives of everyday people in an extraordinary way" ( San Francisco Chronicle).Pittsburgh, 1998: Chris "Crest" Tolbert is eighteen years old, a soon-to-be father, and partially paralyzed after an accident that left his best friend dead. As he navigates the challenges of new fatherhood and life as a paraplegic, Crest must also negotiate his relationships with his bo...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake“[Cupcake] Brown’s confessional . . . memoir is one you can’t easily put down. Her life is nothing short of a miracle.”—Chicago Sun-Times*There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prosti...

“Entertaining. . . . If you are up for a big helping of humor and heartbreak, insanity and intrigue, read Irish Eyes.” —Orange Country RegisterTheeighth outing in the heartwarming and hilarious mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews featuring former cop turned cleaning lady Callahan Garrity and her outrageous Atlanta cleaning crew.Callahan Garrity is the owner of House Mouse, a clea...

After years in prison for killing two children he was released to face an unforgiving public. He wants to clear his name but must find the long hidden secrets. Detective Walker is searching for another lost little child while trying to stop a serial rapist."Another great story. The children will make you want to hold them and keep them safe." DLF Review

In a quaint little town with a bloody past, a schoolteacher must face her own dark secrets as a devious killer draws near in this crime series debut.The razor's gleaming blade slices effortlessly through skin and tendon, and he relishes the final anguished moments of his prey. There's only one thing he prizes more: their long, silken strands of red hair. But these women are merely stand-ins…a prelude to his ultimate victim.Nestled in New York's Hudson Valley,...

He can read her like a book, but can he give her a happy ending?Dawn: I'd do anything to keep my bookstore. It's a safe place for all women, somewhere to let their freak flags fly. I call it sex-positive. The menfolk call it smut. That's how I met Rory Parker, the local billionaire trying to shut me down on behalf of the "moral majority." He walked in with an offer I couldn't refuse . . . except I did. Now Rory wants to play dirty. Well, he picked the wrong bookseller. Let's see ho...

Investigating a case of infidelity sounds simple—until it plunges Spenser and his beloved Susan into a politically charged murder plot that’s already left three people dead.

How Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan's signature humor, heart, and insight. More than a love story, it is ultimately a novel about how a woman saves her own life—and what she must risk to do it.Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding ...