For Unique, life is good until her dope-dealing boyfriend, Took, is arrested and winds up in jail. Now she’s broke as a joke’ trying to put every petty hustle into play to chase hard times away from the door. With an empty refrigerator, a stack of bills piling up, a tenth grade education, a big butt and a smile, it doesn’t take long for her to learn to pull the wool over the eyes of any fool who’s blinded by her good looks. She’s sure that one day some guy’s slip-up will be her ultimate co...

With their families torn apart by the vicious life of the streets, Sunshine and Rain find each other living with the same foster mother, who has a secret life of her own. With Rain’s stern heart of steel and Sunshine’s innocent heart of gold, they try to cope with traumatic, unforeseen circumstances that come their way. As these two diamonds hook up and shine, they go from rags to riches. Watch as Sunshine and Rain deal with death, betrayal, love, and sweet temptation. Can their newfound f...

Harlow Shaw feels naïve for believing in happily ever afters, but she craves a love that lights her up.She thinks she has it all with her boyfriend—Until his promising baseball career overshadows their relationship, and he asks her a life-changing question. It causes her to wonder if what they have is all she ever truly wanted. Harlow is yearning for more than the curated life she is living.A trip to Bali, a move to Seattle, and an alleged burned cup of cof...

Would you take your own life to save someone you love?Janelle, a freshman in college, is coping after the tragic death of her father in a suspicious automobile accident. Her grades are slipping, but she’s offered an extra credit assignment to help get back on track. The assignment? Work as a volunteer for a suicide hotline. When she receives a call from a deranged man who knows everything about her, her family secrets are brought to light. She soon discovers that her fathe...

Urban Books’ popular Around the Way Girls series is back, bringing readers more dramatic tales about the lives of some tough, resourceful women who can hold their own when things get rough on the streets.Growing up poor and biracial, Shannon never quite fit in. Not truly accepted by either side of her family, the confused teenager turns to the one thing that loves her back unconditionally—the streets. With a bottle of liquor at her side and a worthless mentality in tow, Shannon all...

Wrong. Sinful. Taboo. I know I shouldn't want him.I know I shouldn't touch myself in the middle of the night as thoughts of him run through my mind.Thoughts of his kiss, his touch, his love.I'd spent years obsessing over the man I thought I couldn't have.But as it turns out, he wants me too.And he wants me now.

Against all odds, Adirah Messa has been accepted to Billet University, a prestigious institution founded in the 1800s for people of color. Determined to excel, she arrives at the university intent on minimizing distraction and focusing on her studies. That goal is soon interrupted when she is noticed by members of the “in” crowd, who invite her to the most popular frat party on campus.Adirah finds herself smitten with someone of another race and is taken on a ride she can never ret...

After news of the attempted murder of his estranged fiancée, Gucci, Animal has two things on his mind: love and gunplay.With the help of his mistress, the deadly Red Sonja, Animal manages to elude his captors in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, and washes up on the shores of Miami, Florida. He’s one step closer to home, but it may as well have been a world away. Animal is still a wanted fugitive, and getting to New York undetected proves to be trickier than he thought. This all changes w...

Ethic has power, but love has always been evasive. After ordering the hit that mistakenly killed the love of his life, Ethic is haunted with guilt and refuses to love again. Focused on being a better man and keeping his family safe, he is raising three children, one of which is a defiant teenage girl, Morgan. No matter how hard he tries to keep Morgan away from the streets, she is determined to defy him. When Morgan finds herself in a vulnerable position, Ethic is pulled back into the dead...

Sister Girls 2 will catch you up with some old characters and introduce you to the new.Feeling unfulfilled professionally and looking for a higher purpose, Elsie has decided to leave her law firm and start a nonprofit organization. Even while faithfully attending church, she struggles between the desires of the flesh and her spirituality. She also reconnects with an old friend who may change the course of her life forever.Faith, the newly hired therapist of the org...

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon’s thrilling novel of romantic suspense, a gutsy female agent from the Bureau of American Defense encounters an elusive killer who isn’t at all what he seems.After losing her mother to a vigilante killer, Terri Mitchell has dedicated her life to justice. Working covertly as a new agent for the Bureau of American Defense agency, she’s consulting with the New Orleans Police Department to bust an organized crime ring sus...

Winner of the 2023 Best Urban Fiction Audio In Black AwardK. Renee's Gem Award for 2023 Breakout Book of the Year2024 Audiobook of the Year from AAMBC Literary AwardsFrom the moment his eyes met hers, there was something. Time stood still, the world around them vanished, and electricity... instant electricity.Immediately, she owned him in an inexplicable way he couldn't quite understand. He couldn't escape h...