Afrocentric Books presents twelve tales that will transport you from Regency England to Post-Apocalyptic Africa. From the lofty branches of a mythical tree to the depths of the underworld, Afromyth explores fantastical worlds through the eyes of characters of indigenous African descent. Meet men who transform into lions and women who transform into birds. Sea creatures, witches, falling stars, fallen gods, and a leprechaun in Alabama. Each story promises an Afrocentric theme, but ...

A straight-talking perimenopausal primer for women navigating their changing bodies as they go through the midlife hormonal roller coaster.What’s a gal gotta do to get some hormone info around here? Pubescent girls may be given books like Our Bodies, Ourselves or American Girl’s The Care and Keeping of You to catch a clue about what’s on the horizon. But women in their late thirties to early fifties have been left in the dark, with a laundry list ...

Sanura Williams and Assefa Berber are the prophesized Fire Witch and Cat of Legend. They are destined to defend humanity against ancient gods and mythical monsters. But destiny is not the same as desire. For Sanura and Assefa, a witch and a shapeshifter, they must overcome their fears, bond their inner spirits, and accept their fate. If not, innocents will die, cities will flood, and beasts will rule.In a world where nothing is as it seems, the seeds of love take root on the precip...

Afrocentric Books presents the second installment in the Afromyth Fantasy Series. This anthology features fourteen stories whose fantasy themes run the gamut from romance to horror. In the American antebellum South, an African god searches for his voice. In the far-flung future, a caravan of ships makes harbor in a Saharan sea. With the help of ancestral magic, a young boy learns what it takes to be a warrior, while a young girl learns to be a goddess. Afromyth volume 2 is an eclectic coll...

Have you heard or used the phrase: "Well-intentioned/well-meaning white person"? What about "white liberal"? What do those phrases mean to you? And what do they have to do with education in America?Before she was an author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels, N. D. Jones was an educator. In her essay, "The Danger of the Liberal White Educator," she reflects on her twenty-plus years as an educator in a field where most public school teachers and administr...

A bonus short story featuring Silhara and Martise from Master of Crows.In The Light Within, Silhara of Neith, now known as "the god-smiter," travels as the guest of honor to the winter festival of his father's people.The crow mage who destroyed one god must ignite sacred fires in honor of another. Yet the winter festival only reminds Silhara that the brightest light within him isn't the fire of a deity but the devotion of one woman.A tale of hope and celebration.

Nyandoro was born the favorite. As the only girl of her parents’ six children, she gets everything she wants without even asking for it. When the latest thing she desires is the wife of a village elder, she faces consequences she never had to before.These consequences come with the dawn of a passion she didn’t know existed, a carnal feast of flesh she can’t get enough of. But on the night she gains the ultimate satisfaction from the woman she’d always wanted, she also loses every g...

Magic complicates everything……and it was already complicated enough.Thievery. Unexpected consequences. Extreme changes.Tryssa, the thief, targets the home of a powerful magic-caster. Is she up to the task?Forbidden magic. Revenge. Fear.Millack was born with the forbidden ability to shape stone. Raised in secret and warned about the perils of being discovered, his life changes forever when the Hunters find his family.Prepare yourself for twists...

ABOUT THE SERIES:Long ago, to win a war, humans Cursed the Aelfae, fairest and wisest of the faeries… But all magic has a price. The same Curse that destroyed the Aelfae now threatens all of Faearth. One young woman and the warrior she loves must fight the Curse to prove which is stronger…love or death.DINDI desperate longs to become a Tavaedi, a magic dancer. But no one in her clan has ever passed the Test at Initiation. To violate the taboo, and dance without permission, ...

Chattanooga, Tennessee 2009Before Detective Crwys Holliard moved to New Orleans, he was a detective in the historic city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. As a bit of a lone wolf, he had his ups and downs as he made his way through life, until everything changed when a tragic part of Crwys's past makes his lover a target in a serial killer’s vendetta against women who have crossed Crwys’s path. Unfortunately, this also makes Crwys the prime suspect in their deaths.-----

#1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews once again pulls readers into the dark and dangerous world of the Kate Daniels novels in this reader favorite, previously published in the anthology Night Shift...Shapeshifting tigress Dali Harimau may be a powerful healer and magic user, but she’s far from what might be called “normal”. She dislikes the violence and bloodshed that are a way of life for most of her kind, even going so far as to be...

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or actively engineer—each crisis, ordinar...