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After finding out that his fiancée and father had been having a secret affair behind his back, Elijah runs off to the country to lick his wounds. There he meets - or rather saves - the beautiful Samantha Francis after a harrowing car accident! Samantha is running away from a former abusive relationship...and although there is instant attraction with her and Elijah, she has deep emotional wounds to heal.

Black women are now one of the most educated groups in the United States. However, our educational achievements haven't translated into representation in higher-level, higher-paying roles within organizations. In Leading on Purpose, Dr. Julianna Hynes shares her story of going from being aimless in her career to having crystal clear focus after clarifying her vision, identifying her goals, and mapping out a strategy to attain them.

Lauren realizes she does not have enough money to buy a stuffed unicorn. She does chores and saves her allowance to get the stuffed animal of her dreams.

In this third title in the Mesuline’s Daughters mermaid trilogy, Nerine has lived most of her life on her own terms–even though it meant being isolated and not with the man she loved. As a mermaid/lamia mix and wearer of the Stone of Love, her life is complicated in so many ways that she finds it best to handle everything herself. Especially when it comes to caring for the people who live on Azov, the island she helped create for others of mixed blood who were rejected by their communities.

Desire Blackstone enjoys two things in life, cooking and doing whatever or whomever she wants. After a run-in with her ex-girlfriend, she starts to see her love life through a new lens. Her no-sex diet was designed to help her build real connections, but she hadn’t counted on meeting a hot photographer.

Janet and Jacob have had a forty-nine-year affair—Trion High School sweethearts, a young married couple, a divorced couple who can’t stay out of each other’s bed, even when Jacob was remarried with twin girls. The glue of their tumultuous relationship is a mutual passion for each other and for the written word. Jacob, the writer, full of early success, has lost his nerve and requires the approval of Janet, his ideal reader, before he can submit his work for publication. Janet awaits his daily call, usually after midnight when both are tipsy.

The book the world has been waiting for since the death of the “King of Pop!" Author and music producer Gary Revel reveals never-before-told facts about Michael Jackson. The book takes an investigative approach toward uncovering what Revel calls the “secrets of the life, music and career of a man considered to be one of the greatest entertainers in music history.”

Marvel Keller is one of Hollywood’s best kept secrets. A P.A. by title, her sole job is to take on the most difficult cases and turn them into productive celebrities again. She’s worked with the best and the worst that the entertainment world has produced. Bram Stoker is just another name on a list of famous people who are falling apart under the pressure of the spotlight. As lead singer to one of the strongest Death Metal bands on the market, he has the world at his feet. But all that attention, and the trauma of real life, comes with a cost.

When Pearl Aster takes a receptionist job at Wolf Motor’s, all she is hoping for is enough money to get out of her parents’ smoothing hold, and away from their rule dominated life. Her upper-class status and its expectations are nothing that she wants now that she’s seen the ugliness it conceals. Yet these rough and rowdy men aren’t like anything she’s ever experienced. Brash, bold, dirty, and completely honest, but still more respectful than the man that she’s expected to marry.

After spending four years of her life getting a degree in ancient languages, she just wants a job. She doesn't expect Bronson, the CEO of Cromwell eCOM Champions, to fall for her brain. Nor did she expect him to overwhelm her with his masculinity.

In Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism, Terri Simone Francis examines how Baker fashioned her celebrity through cinematic reflexivity, an authorial strategy in which she placed herself, her persona, and her character into visual dialogue.

Former New York City police officer Jonathan Bartlett took the job at the adults-only Suadela Resort to get away from the memories of his partner’s death. Living on the island in the middle of nowhere has been perfect. He can ignore the occasional nightmare that wakes him up in a cold sweat. What he can’t ignore is Amina, first when he sees her naked on the beach and later when she turns up as a guest at the resort.

African-American computer security expert, Alayna Alexander, will do anything to have a family, including marry a man she doesn't love. But confusion in the form of tall, dark Khavon Brighton, a former computer hacker, slips into Alayna's life when she is assigned to work with him on a top-level security project. Sparks fly as the two race to thwart a desperate cyberthief who has a personal vendetta against Khavon.

My name is Jax. Well, officially it’s Jacqualina Weaver, but I hate that name. My bestie nicknamed me Jax, so that’s what I go by. Veronica (Roni) Vaughn has been my best friend and sister for the last six years, through thick and thin. She's the only one I can count on. So, when she needs me, I'm not letting her down. I'll give up everything just to make her final wishes come true.

Lilly's life was turned upside down when her beloved mother died from cancer and no one in her family was willing to take her in, not even her mother’s sister who had money. Lilly had never known her father, her mother never talked about him. When none in her family would take her in the Pastor from her church arranged for a couple to take her in Lilly is devastated that she now must live with strangers. The couple were childless and seemed eager to take Lilly into their home. Lilly soon discovers that things are not what they seem on the surface.

Harbor Wilson is home again; this time, she ain't mad about it. But she is feeling some kind of way that her mother, Elizabeth, is considering selling their family's home. She is also stuck somewhere between the friend zone and happily ever after with her ex-fiancé, Ahmad Ferebee.

Heartbreak had always been Shannon Washington's calling card. Time and time again, she had been used by men, yet she kept picking the same type of guy. Just like Shannon (Reflections), Raymond Brown II had lost in the game of love. Raymond wanted a woman to look beyond his wealth and truly see the man he was, but the women of his past only saw the surface of the man he represented.

A retired nurse, a mother of two, and a loving husband Suzanne has it all. All except a sex life. With the nest about to empty, Suzanne's attentions are on her husband and those well-earned autumn years, but suspicion is forming. Are things where they should be? Is he happy with their life? And, if not, what can they do to work on a problem that has gone undiagnosed for years?

Autumn Noble is a 27-year-old mother who focuses all her time on working and being there for her daughter, Sydney. She has no time for relationships, going out, or partying. After the rocky relationship with her ex, she believes that maybe relationships just aren’t for her. That is until she meets Winter. She’s a fun-loving, spontaneous person who is attracted to Autumn from the first time they meet.

When she walked into his life then, he wasn’t prepared for the storm that was about to ensue. Now, she was back, but what had she brought with her? Had she changed her mind on being with Cam and just came for a goodbye? Jaxon had paced that porch for what felt like forever and now, the only question he had was if she was there for him...for there forever….or if she was there to say goodbye in person. He hoped that forever was on her mind. Mia had gone through a whirlwind and all she wanted now was to be in his arms and never let go.