It was supposed to be an easy job. Aoife planned to spend her days lounging by the pool reading her favorite smut, living the glamorous life of a house-sitter. Except nothing ever goes the way it should.With a murder across the street, a storm knocking out all power and two masked men breaking in, everything is thrown into chaos leaving Aoife feeling something far more dangerous than fear.Meanwhile, Elliot and Oscar only wanted revenge. There wasn't supposed to be anyone in...

It wasn't supposed to go this way...Charlotte didn't want to be stuck on a private island with her ex, Aiden, but couldn't think of a good enough excuse to get out of it.Aiden dreaded seeing Charlotte again and hoped that bringing a few friends would create a shield between him and his past.Sebastian was simply looking for a good time.None of them expected to learn lessons in temptation, desire, and release.While navigating the landmines of the recen...

Examines the rise of one of the most prolific spiritual leader of modern timesT.D. Jakes has emerged as one of the most prolific spiritual leaders of our time. He is pastor of one of the largest churches in the country, CEO of a multimillion dollar empire, the host of a television program, author of a dozen bestsellers, and the producer of two Grammy Award-nominated CDs and three critically acclaimed plays. In 2001 Time magazine featured Jakes on the cover ...

This book explicates how many films intersect black suffering and God-talk in ways that instantiate secular limitations to divine efficacy. The book’s concept of a modern God introduces a new method of analysis that reimagines theodical discourses as mechanisms of modern identities and filmmakers as skillful exegetes who recalibrate divine attributes to the sensemaking cadences of their contemporaries. Shayne Lee demonstrates how cinematic theodicy navigates a happy medium between affirmin...

Tyler Perry is the most successful African-American filmmaker of his generation, garnering both accolades and controversies with each new film. In Tyler Perry’s America, Shayne Lee digs into eleven of Perry’s highest-grossing films to explore key themes of race, gender, class, and religion, and, ultimately, to discuss what Perry’s films reveal about contemporary African-American life.Filled with slapstick humor, musical wizardry, and religious imagery, Tyler Perry’s films have insp...

Joel Osteen, Paula White, T. D. Jakes, Rick Warren, and Brian McLaren pastor some the largest churches in the nation, lead vast spiritual networks, write best-selling books, and are among the most influential preachers in American Protestantism today. Spurred by the phenomenal appeal of these religious innovators, sociologist Shayne Lee and historian Phillip Luke Sinitiere investigate how they operate and how their style of religious expression fits into America’s cultural landscape. Drawi...

Why is there no "pro-sex" contingency in black feminist scholarship? Why do so few African-American scholars expound on issues celebrating female sexual pleasure? Perhaps the answers to these questions reside within a discursive matrix of sexual repression commonly referred to as the politics of respectability, and its rein on black sexual politics.In Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture, sociologist Shayne Lee steers black sexual politics to...

This prologue from Lora Leigh's Live Wire is available for sale before the book's official release date.In the prologue to LIVE WIRE, Teyha Tamalosi, code name: Enigma, is the one woman Jordan Malone, commander of the Elite Ops, wants and is the one woman he knows he can never have. But when they share one blazingly hot night, everything changes in ways Jordan could have never imagined. . .

“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.” — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?A New York Times BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR • Boston Globe • Newsweek • Time Out New York • Oprah.com •

Can a man who resents the hand he’s been dealt and a woman who spends her days grateful for every little thing find true love in each other’s arms—or are their differences stronger than both of them? Find out in this funny, sexy, heartfelt romance, and fall in love with Grant and Jules on the sandy shores of Silver Island, home to coffee shops, boat races, and midnight rendezvous.My True Love is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today...

Getting on his knees makes him question everything…and want even more…Another failed relationship has lawyer Jamie Fielding confronting the truth—he'll never be satisfied with any woman until he admits what he needs…to submit and to be used—hard. When a friend invites him to the exclusive Blasphemy club, Jamie is stunned to find everything he ever wanted—in the fierce, ruthless hands of a man.Psychiatrist Alex McGarry will play with anyone who craves his rough bran...

From Bestselling Author, Lexy Timms, comes a billionaire romance that'll make you swoon and fall in love all over again."I love you, and I'll love you until the day I die. Even then, I'll keep loving you."With a baby on the way and a booming business, things couldn't be better—or more stressful. Between trying to find someone to help run the firm alongside Alex while Jaime is going through a turbulent pregnancy, Reid Enterprises faces the possibili...