Blake Karrington Presents is back with a collection that’s all about grown-man energy—strength, wisdom, and heart. A High Value Goon delivers stories of men who know the streets but live by a higher code. These aren’t boys chasing clout; these are real men who protect, provide, and stand tall with character.Every tale is penned by Blake, bringing you drama, passion, and the kind of love-and-loyalty choices that hit home. These goons may have street ties, but they’re not st...

After seeing the man she’s been dating post an engagement announcement, Jahnae Greer is devastated. With the advice from her friends, she goes out and has a drunken one-night stand with a handsome stranger. Months later when she finds out her ex-boyfriend isn’t the father of her child, she has no idea how to get in touch with the man from her one-night stand. She vows to raise her daughter alone until two years later when she sees him on a news report that he’s been arrested.Footba...

Zuri Sweeting, a modern-day witch with a quirky and sassy personality, has sworn off love after a painful breakup. She packs her bags and flees from Chicago without a city in mind to move to. She comes across a charming little town called Langston Township, hoping to heal her heart and find peace. However, her plan to avoid love is disrupted when she crosses paths with Leo Monroe, a handsome and charming owner of a local bakery, whose decadent pastries and warm personality begin melting he...

After going back to the man that she was to marry, Brynlee finds herself having to face something she never thought she would ever go through.Now totally sunken into a dark place, everyone wonders will she be able to pull herself out of it, especially with help from a man that was only trying to help her blossom in the first place.Dive into this finale to see if Brynlee gets snatched up once and for all by bad boy Sawyer, or if she settles and accepts Troy’s infidelities and...

Four gay men struggle to find a balance between their work lives and their club personas before the nightlife consumes them.It is said that all work and no play makes life dull. Justin, Keith, Marcus, and Evan love to do both. These young guys are four hard-working professionals who also have an addiction to club life.Keith is in the banking field, trying to rise to the top as easily as possible, but it is not happening as fast as he would like. Justin is a caregiver with a...

Even though Brynlee is a hood girl at heart, getting out the hood has always been number one on her to-do list. Now at the age of 25, she has done just that. Big house, dream job, and even engaged to her college boyfriend. She has it all, but she is consistently left wondering, am I really happy? Is my life complete?After getting into it with her fiancé Troy, about the one thing she desires so desperately, she decides that it is time to let her hair down and escape reality for a wh...

The distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems individually in 1920 in the Atlantic, the Journal of Race Development, and other periodicals. Reflecting the author's ideas as a politician, historian, and artist, this volume has long moved and inspired readers with its militant cry for social, political, and economic reform. It is essential reading for all students of African American history.

Sultan Drake.Nyx Scott.She has a passion for fashion …He has a passion for her …“With Nyx things were different. The type of different where I wanted to be so connected that she would never again question why I was here or if she was enough.”One week was the arrangement and how it all began, but the true question was how would it end …

New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber and Essence bestseller La Jill Hunt return with a story of love, money, power, and respect in the next addition of the popular Family Business series.Five years ago, Orlando Duncan created the perfect drug in HEAT. It made the Duncans more than two hundred and fifty million dollars and was on its way to making them billionaires. However, they abruptly stopped manufacturing the drug when it was proven to cause cancer in rats. Yes, even as...

Heavy is the head that wears the crown of a kingpin. Mardi gras and crawfish aren’t the only things poppin’ on Bourbon Street. The Big Easy is turned upside down when Freeway is faced with lies and drama, and loyalty is called into question as he battles demons from the past and present. Cal “Freeway” Moore, a well-known hitta and kingpin, knows all too well that running his New Orleans-based empire comes at a price. “Shoot first and ask questions later” is his motto as he fights to hold d...

Keep up with the Duncan family down South as we travel to New Orleans in The Family Business 7.Operated by the same family for more than a century, Midnight Blues may be fun for the locals and the tourists, but as of late, the club hasn’t been fun for its owner, Big Shirley Duncan, or her son Tyrese, descendants of the original proprietors. The pair finds themselves in the middle of a turf war between local politicians, developers, and a ruthless underworld boss, Jean LeBlanc, who ...

Somya Hilton has known nothing but a life of ultimatums. From a young age, it was her and her sister Eliza against the world. When both of them find love and start families of their own, Somya finally feels like she has the life she deserves.Then tragedy strikes, leaving both her sister and brother-in-law dead and Somya to care for her niece Jazlynn, who is ten at the time. For Somya there is no question that Jazzlyn should be with her. Her husband, however, has a difference of opi...