Christmas is supposed to bring snow, sparkle, and maybe one perfect kiss.A Chocolate artist Camille Laurent meets her first crush, Elias Bennett, her roommate’s older brother and a young music composer from Tasmania. He comes to New York for Christmas.Their first meeting will make you laugh out loud.Meanwhile, art student Bianca Rosetti is looking for Christmas romance, but her roommate Kai Bennett keeps getting in the way. Kai is a third-year music...

A twentieth-century descendant of the Lavinia of Random Passage, Lav rediscovers the power of her heritage and a courage she didn't know she possessed. Waiting for Time, the sequel to inte ational best-selling novel Random Passage by Be ice Morgan, continues the saga of the inhabitants of Cape Random. It also tells the story of today’s Newfoundland – a place where the past overshadows the present and shapes the future. This is the story of lonely, unplanned jou eys, of courage and pride, o...

A young woman must learn to love and trust again after experiencing the brutality of ritual servitude in West Africa.—Longlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction—A Black Caucus of the American Library Association 2019 Honor title, Fiction"McFadden, writer of great, imaginative novels for years now (including Sugar and Gathering of Waters), is back with one of her best yet. Exploring ritual sacrifice in contemporary We...

Award-winning novelist Bernice McFadden's highly anticipated new historical novel set amidst the Harlem Renaissance.— Glorious was a finalist for the 2011 NAACP Image Award for Fiction."McFadden's lively and loving rendering of New York hews closely to the jazz-inflected city of myth. . . . McFadden has a wonderful ear for dialogue, and her entertaining prose equally accommodates humor and pathos." — New York Times Book Review

A poignant account of the author's life along the southeastern shores of the Georgian Bay, Paulie and Me explores a young woman's coming-of-age with a special needs sibling. A tale of imperfection and heartbreak, emotions collide and divide a family. Yet layered throughout, like the lines of the Bay's granite shores, is a tale of achievement, courage, and determination. Paulie and Me is a story with which many families will relate. It is for siblings caring for and about their own brother ...

Following her best-selling, award-winning novel Glorious , McFadden produces a fantastical historical novel featuring the spirit of Emmett Till.—One of *Essence'*s "Best Books of the Decade"—A New York Times Notable Book of 2012— Gathering of Waters was a finalist for a Phillis Wheatley Fiction Book Award."McFadden works a kind of miracle—not only do [her characters] retain their appealing humanity; their sto...

From award-winning author and creative writing professor at Tulane University comes an intimate and powerful memoir exploring inherited trauma, family secrets, and the enduring bonds of love between mothers and daughters.On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died in a car crash near Detroit, only to be resuscitated after her mother pulled her from the flaming wreckage. Firstborn Girls traces her remarkable life from that moment up to the publica...

A long-awaited reissue of this deeply thoughtful novel about hope, forgiveness, and the cost of loving Donovan, a complex man with a shattered history"Bernice L. McFadden was one of the best writers to emerge in the post– Waiting to Exhale explosion that introduced at least a dozen Black female novelists. Loving Donovan has generated near-cult status among readers. After more than a decade since it appeared, Donovan is being reissued. How...

The long-awaited reissue of McFadden's classic novel about a young woman on a journey of self-discovery"An engrossing multigenerational saga . . . With her deep engagement in the material and her brisk but lyrical prose, McFadden creates a poignant epic of resiliency, bringing Sherry to a well-earned awareness of her place atop the shoulders of her ancestors, those who survived so that she might one day, too." —Publishers WeeklyNothing can...

Ten full-length erotic romance novels of dukes, barons, and royals who take defiant brats in hand and keep them there. Regency estates and modern offices fill with milking, breeding, denial, and correction, and every brat in this collection ends up exactly where she was always headed.This scorching hot bundle contains the following full length erotic novels:Punishing His BratShe is completely off limits, and he corrects her anyway whenever she pushes him for it....

Ten full-length erotic romance novels of mistresses, masters, and the bodies that answer to them. Leather mansions, drawing rooms, boxing gyms, and CEO offices host strict training and public correction, and every submissive here discovers that approval is the sharpest reward there is.This scorching hot bundle contains the following full length erotic novels:The Strict Man Who Keeps MeHelene moves into his house on his terms and finds her body answering his disciplin...

Ten full-length erotic romance novels about young wives who overflow and the men who refuse to let them manage alone. Arranged ranch marriages, clubhouse loyalties, and fathers' best friends who stopped looking away years ago. Husbands watch, brothers share, and nobody in these pages pretends this is decent.This scorching hot bundle contains the following full length erotic novels:Used And Milked Virgin BrideHer wedding night runs long, and her new husband is nowhere...