"Kimera Davis finds comfort in dating married men. It's easier that way. Her needs are taken care of and she doesn't have to give more of herself than she wants to. No messy feelings involved. But when the man she's seeing poses an unexpected question, Kimera quickly realizes that she's not the only woman pulled in by his charm"--Back cover.

"In a 'hood boiling over with sex, brutality and crime, three friends are at a turning point. But a tangled web of sex and violence binds the women to the very place that could destroy them."--

"Dillon hadn't been called by anyone. He'd called himself and he wasn't ashamed of it. But no good can come from . . . " A SINFUL CALLING Two years ago, to everyone's surprise, Dillon Whitfield Black, the secret son of Reverend Curtis Black, boldly moved back home, married a woman named Raven, decided he was going to become a minister, and then founded a church right in the center of his living room. Today he's pastor of a 1,000-plus-member congregation,...

Pharmacy worker Misty Heiress gets in over her head when her theft of opioids to help ease the pain of her cousin turns into a lucrative criminal enterprise and soon spirals out of control.

When their mother Ruth falls ill, quarreling sisters Tina, Tasha, and Tamera turn to a bank heist to pay the bills, and must stay ahead of law enforcement when they put the heat on.

"Fed up with her married Miami boyfriend, savvy Dulce has no problem stealing his drug-dealer stash and fleeing to her family in the Caribbean. But when she gets bored in rural Santo Domingo, she escapes on a sugar daddy adventure to Puerto Rico. Her new life is one endless party, until she's caught in Hurricane Maria--and witnesses the brutal collision of colonization and climate change, as well as the international vultures who plunder the tragedy...

Welcome to Detroit, Michigan, home of the grittiest, illest, most hardcore, crime-infested, poverty-stricken neighborhoods in the country. It's sometimes referred to as the Murder Capital because of the huge murder rate that never ceases to surprise us, the Murder Mitten, or the Dirty Glove because of the state's shape on the U.S. map. Detroit is home to many scholars, rappers, athletes, and concerned citizens, but the streets belong to those in the...

Two beloved characters from Carl Weber's most popular novels, Sonya Duncan and CoCo Brown, are brought to life by a mother-daughter team in a two tales about understanding what it means to be a part of the family business.

Betrayed countless times, twenty-six-year-old Chanel Franklin, on a journey to obtain the finer things in life, learns valuable lessons, both physical and mental, and ultimately, realizes that everything comes with a high price--and hers just may be her life.

"Kimera Davis had a plan to jump start her life and land on easy street. But a disastrous marriage has her making amends and picking up the pieces. It's a struggle to balance her new responsibilities and her ex, who keeps pressuring her for another chance. All of this has her family scandalized, and with her minister father's health suffering, trying to do the right thing is pulling Kimera and the only man she's ever really loved further and further...