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Serenity, beginning a new life after the death of her lover, Sadie, meets Cass, and she feels an instant attraction to him, but she is sleeping with Cass' sister Heaven and finds herself unable to

Serenity is a young woman who has always been curious about lesbian experiences. Denying her urges, she has never acted on any of her impulses until she goes off to college.

A summer isn't enough time to get over a true love. Denise just can't shake the feelings she developed for soon-to-be-married Lena. Should she go for what she wants or leave well enough alone?

By eighteen, Alecia is married and has two children by Minke. Their life is like a fairy tale, until Minke leaves them with nothing.

Mommy and Daddy foot the bills for their little girl, Kylee Hampton, but if they looked in her closet they'd know she's living larger than her allowance, and beneath the designer clothes,

A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system--the debut of a blazingly original voice that "bursts at the

"Forever and to the end.

Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wants. The question isn't who murdered her; the question is who wouldn't?

Bonus: This edition contains an excerpt from Nikki Turner's Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife.

Yarni, a sweet and innocent girl from a well-to-do family, by chance meets Richmond's notorious drug kingpin, Des.

Shakespeare holds the fate of several black slaves in his hands.

Paige Michaels and her no-nonsense friends search for love. Paige finally broke loose from her no-good man, and she's loving the single life--until Quincy Westbrooke shows up.

Raised by a bootlegger in a bad section of town, Karim Spencer becomes a successful businessman.