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- Payback is a Mutha by Wahida Clark
- Using sex to get cars, expensive clothes, and anything else she desires, Brianna, a spoiled and selfish hustler, must make a tough decision when one of her schemes goes too far and her best friend Shan is caught in the crossfire.
- Just Short of Crazy by Nina Foxx
- Her efforts to remake herself into a stronger, more independent woman halted when she breaks the arm of a fellow martial arts student, Alexis finds herself unexpectedly attracted to the man she injured, a nightclub owner with a volatile ex-wife.
- I Say a Little Prayer by E. Lynn Harris
- Chauncey Greer, the bisexual owner of a thriving card company in Atlanta, is inspired to pursue his old dream of a musical career, a career that had ended in scandal thanks to a teenage love affair with a fellow band mate in a popular boy band.
- Fever by Geneva Holliday
- For a single mother and her friends – Chevy, a diva turned personal assistant to a radio personality; Crystal, who has adopted a conservative, celibate lifestyle since her heart was broken; and Noah, their confidant – it is a summer of lust, flirtation, and upheaval.
- Video Cowboys by Yolanda Joe
- Taken hostage along with her partner when they stumble into a bank robbery, reporter Georgia Barnett negotiates for their freedom by promising to air the gunman's story about his missing daughter, an agreement that is compromised by an overzealous team of police officers and downsized cameramen.
- Eve by K'wan
- When her best friend ends up dead after being caught in the tactics of the De Nardis, one of the most powerful drug suppliers in the city, Eve Parnell, a young woman whose only family is the infamous Twenty-Gang, launches her own campaign to seek revenge on those responsible.
- Nowhere is a Place by Bernice McFadden
- Having struggled throughout her life for an understanding of her identity, Sherry wonders at an uncharacteristic display of anger on the part of her mother and digs into her family's past throughout the course of a cross-country journey.
- Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin
- Reveals the complicated relationships of mothers and daughters in the lives of three generations of women, including Grace, a self-made woman determined to avoid the errors of her mother, who had sacrificed her own needs for her children.
- Satin Nights by Karen E. Quinones Miller
- Regina Harris resumes a relationship with a former boyfriend, struggles to choose between the boyfriend and her congressman ex-husband, and becomes embroiled in the personal crises of her three best friends.
- God Don't Play by Mary Monroe
- When the person who has been destroying her reputation and threatening her family challenges her to a personal meeting, Annette Goode finds her life and the lives of those closest to her forever changed when the identity of her tormentor is finally revealed.
- Fear of the Dark by Walter Mosley
- The arrival of his lowlife cousin, Ulysses S. “Useless” Grant, spells trouble for Paris Minton, and his friend, Fearless Jones, as they become embroiled in a bizarre case involving mysterious women, desperate blackmail victims, cheating business partners, and murder.
- Changing Faces by Kimberla Lawson Roby
- Whitney, Taylor, and Charisse have been best friends for years, but they are about to face an unexpected wave of troubles when Charisse's husband threatens to go public with a secret that she has been desperately trying to hide from her mother.
- Divas of Damascus Road by Michelle Stimpson
- A family of Christian women battles issues of unwanted pregnancies, overeating, mental illness, and traumatic childhoods, hoping that – like Saul's encounter with God on the road to Damascus – their lives will turn around.
- Dirty Red by Vickie Stringer
- Having tricked her boyfriend into believing she is pregnant, Red enjoys his lavish attentions until she becomes pregnant for real by an ex-boyfriend who is in jail, a situation that leads her into a new career.
- Riding Dirty on I-95 by Nikki Turner
- Her life forever transformed by the murder of her father over a gambling debt, Mercy takes a job at a disreputable hotel, until she gets the chance to make a lot of money working as a drug runner.
- What They Want by Omar Tyree
- Loving his life of carefree travel and insecure women, male model Terrance Mitchell experiences profound guilt when his insensitivity induces a young woman's instability, causing him to rethink his priorities
- At the Court's Mercy by KaShamba Williams
- Determined to lead a normal life with his new fiancé, Nasir Johnson finds himself at the mercy of his son's vindictive mother, who has teamed up with his own mother to regain custody of the boy, and his girl on the side has turned into a vicious stalker, threatening to destroy everything.
- Girls Most Likely by Sheila Williams
- This powerful novel about friendship captures the dramas, triumphs, problems, and love that bind together four women from the fifth grade through their thirtieth high school reunion.
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