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Through the Storm by Beverly Jenkins
Married For Money. Raimond Le Veq needed to marry to gain his inheritance and restore the fortunes of the House of Le Veq, the proud Black New Orleans family whose wealth had been ravaged by the War Between the States. Still wounded by the double-cross of the only woman he ever came close to loving, he gave the choice of bride to his mother...Categorized as:
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For Your Love by Beverly Jenkins
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsNAACP nominee and bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to Henry Adams, Kansas—an unforgettable place that anyone would want to call home—with a story of family, friends, and the powerful forces from our past that can irrevocably shape our future...Categorized as:
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![Wild, Beautiful, and Free by Sophfronia Scott]()
Wild, Beautiful, and Free by Sophfronia Scott
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsFrom award-winning author Sophfronia Scott comes the story of one young woman’s bold journey to reclaim her birthright and carve out her own place in a world that tells her she doesn’t belong. Born the daughter of an enslaved woman and a Louisiana plantation owner, Jeannette Bébinn is raised alongside her white half sister―until her father suddenly dies... -
![Chasing Moonlight by Raven St. Pierre]()
Chasing Moonlight by Raven St. Pierre
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBestselling author, Raven St. Pierre, returns with the third standalone in a breathtaking family saga filled with love, acceptance, and adversity. Jesse Peterson lives by the sweat of his brow and doesn’t hold back from defending his beliefs—even if that means getting dirty and breaking a few noses in the process... -
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Hold You Down by Tracy Brown
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsHold You Down is an edgy novel from rising star Tracy Brown about the perils of love and the ties that bind…. New York City. Late 1980s to early 1990s. Mercy and Lenox Howard have always only had each other. Growing up on the mean streets of Harlem with an absentee mother meant that they had to have each other's backs...Categorized as:
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Hold You Down by Tracy Brown
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 21 ratings'Hold You Down' is an edgy novel from rising star Tracy Brown about the perils of love and the ties that bind….Categorized as:
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![All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle]()
All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsIf you loved A Man Called Ove, then prepare to be delighted as Jamaican immigrant Hubert rediscovers the world he'd turned his back on this "warm, funny" novel (Good Housekeeping). In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Birdpaints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship, and fulfillment. But it's a lie... -
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The Musician by Tess Thompson
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFiona Barnes has a secret. One so big she's afraid it will destroy everything she holds dear. Not even her beloved music can save her. Li Wu has fought prejudice his entire life. But he's always felt safe and protected within the fierce love of the Barnes family. If only the object of his desire were free to be his, all would be well... -
![Dreams of Joy by Lisa See]()
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsIn her most powerful novel yet, acclaimed author Lisa See returns to the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy. Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father—the artist Z. G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love...Categorized as:
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![Stranded in Arizona by Olivia Gaines]()
Stranded in Arizona by Olivia Gaines
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsKevia Caplan spent her entire life as a caregiver, first to her parents and then to her spoiled baby sister. Working as a database administrator for the FBI, she came across files of the worst in human behavior. When her sister tells her she’s going to become a mail-order bride, Kevia tags along to ensure her sister’s safety...Categorized as:
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![Flawless Deception by D.M. Mortier]()
Flawless Deception by D.M. Mortier
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA lifetime of friendship…. When my best friend of almost twenty years was involved in a car accident that wasn’t an accident at all, I dropped everything in my life thousands of miles away and came to his aid. Someone wanted him dead. The wreckage of his mangled custom-built Porsche and his equally broken body were testament to that... -
![Thicker Than Water by Michael Edwin Q.]()
Thicker Than Water by Michael Edwin Q.
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen her aunt who raised her dies, sixteen-year-old Alana goes to live with her uncle on another plantation, the plantation her deceased parents lived on. After months of inquiries, she questions if they're really dead. She sets off to discover the past. .. her past. -
![An Unexpected Grace by Tracie Peterson, Kimberley Woodhouse]()
An Unexpected Grace by Tracie Peterson, Kimberley Woodhouse
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan unexpected grace lay the foundation for a second chance at love? After a decade away, Parker Bennett returns home with a traveling troupe to perform a play based on Uncle Tom's Cabin at the Kalispell Opera House. Parker has relished his life on the road, but being home awakens long-buried emotions when he encounters his first love, Johanna St. John...Categorized as:
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![Child Bride by Jennifer Smith Turner]()
Child Bride by Jennifer Smith Turner
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the segregated South of the mid-1900s, fourteen-year-old Nell bears witness to a world that embraces the oppression of women. She is fascinated with the prospect of being an independent person—but when she turns sixteen, she is married off and brought to the city of Boston as a bride. Nell is a shy girl who must quickly learn how to be a wife and mother...Categorized as:
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![Women in War by Erica Brown, Lizzie Lane]()
Women in War by Erica Brown, Lizzie Lane
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsPreviously published as 'East of India' by Erica Brown. 1939 - India. When headstrong Nadine Burton learns that the woman, she thought was her Indian Ayah was in fact her mother, she rebels against her father in a flamboyant display of disrespect and dares to dance with her two local best friends at a public party. Her father, local official, Roland Frederick Burton is furious...Categorized as:
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Double Lives by Mary Monroe
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAward-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns with an outrageous new tale of Depression-era Southern drama starring identical twin sisters with a talent for switching lives and hiding the scandalous results—until one risk too many changes the game forever . . -
![Til Death by Emery C.F. Bryant]()
Til Death by Emery C.F. Bryant
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsHudson Karlessen, one-half of the elite and covert assassin team known as “The Norwegians,” knows about safety, poise, and caution. His whole life—his whole brand—depends heavily on it. He regrets nothing and keeps to himself, never craving anything more than providing the top-notch security and intel The Norwegians have been proven to provide...Categorized as:
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With Love from Harlem by ReShonda Tate
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom The Queen of Sugar Hill author ReShonda Tate—a new novel inspired by beloved Harlem jazz performer Hazel Scott and the equal parts exhilarating and tumultuous relationship that changed the course of her life. Harlem, 1943. At just twenty-three, Hazel Scott is a woman on fire...Categorized as:
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Heartbreak Hotel by Kenya Wright
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is a steamy childhood friends to lovers romance set in the small beach town of Key West. ___________. “I would be your death wish. You should guard your heart when I’m around. ”. ___________. Yasmine’s world breaks apart when she finds her fiancé in bed with another... -
![The Rake's Insatiable Bride by Caroline Lee]()
The Rake's Insatiable Bride by Caroline Lee
She’ll do things her way, or not at all…and that includes marriage! Industrialist Jade Thacker is used to being in control of her own life...Categorized as:
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Truth Be Told by Patricia Raybon
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDenver's newest detective. A garden's deadly secrets. On a lovely June night in 1924, amateur detective Annalee Spain is mingling bravely at a high-class political fundraiser in the lush backyard garden of famed political fixer Cooper Coates, one of the wealthiest men in Denver's Black neighborhood of Five Points...Categorized as:
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![The Forty-Day Governess by Merry Farmer]()
The Forty-Day Governess by Merry Farmer
Falling in love with her aristocratic employer is just the beginning of her high-seas adventure! Kyria Kingston is competent, clever, and not to be trifled with. So when her father pushes her into serving as a governess for the new Earl of Westbrook on the forty-day ocean voyage from Jamaica to London, she considers it a step down... -
![Breakfast in Bed by Rochelle Alers]()
Breakfast in Bed by Rochelle Alers
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsBestselling author Rochelle Alers welcomes readers back to romantic New Orleans in her warm and sexy series about four very different women embarking on a new adventure . . . Sometimes you go in search of a new beginning. Other times, it finds you...Categorized as:
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![The Other Princess by Denny S. Bryce]()
The Other Princess by Denny S. Bryce
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in Victorian England—based on the real-life story of a recently rediscovered historical figure, Sarah Forbes Bonetta... -
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![Long Island Butcher: BWWM Dark Mafia Romance by Jamila Jasper]()
Long Island Butcher: BWWM Dark Mafia Romance by Jamila Jasper
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlexis stumbles home after a frat party and witnesses a murder. Before she can run for help, John Vicari, a bearded, muscular killer, intervenes. The curvy, nerdy college student falls into the lap of the most dangerous crime family in Long Island. To earn her freedom, Alexis has no choice but to give John complete ownership of her body and mind... -
![Double the Lies by Patricia Raybon]()
Double the Lies by Patricia Raybon
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWinner, Christianity Today Book Award for Fiction. In the second installment of Patricia Raybon's critically acclaimed mystery series, amateur detective Annalee Spain races the clock to solve the murder of a barnstorming White stunt pilot before she is framed by the Colorado Klan for the crime...Categorized as:
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![The Lord and the Scorpion by Shiree McCarver]()
The Lord and the Scorpion by Shiree McCarver
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a time when their love is forbidden, two people will join together and find a passion unlike any other. Sauda Mauri is a trained assassin. She has been a slave and an assassin for many years and now she has a chance at a new life as a free woman if she can complete her final mission... -
![The Flame Tree by Siobhan Daiko]()
The Flame Tree by Siobhan Daiko
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a little-known true story, from award-winning author Siobhan Daiko comes a tale of love and survival against all the odds. In the spring of 1939, dashing young William Burton and the beautiful Constance Han set sail from London on the same ocean liner to Hong Kong. Romance blossoms while they enjoy games of deck quoits and spend sultry tropical evenings dancing under the stars... -
![Summer on Highland Beach by Sunny Hostin]()
Summer on Highland Beach by Sunny Hostin
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe View cohost, five-time Emmy Award winner, and New York Times bestselling author Sunny Hostin celebrates family, friendship, and love in this third book of her Summer Beach Series. Highland Beach, the oldest historically Black beach community in America, was founded in the late 1800s along the Chesapeake Bay by the son of Frederick Douglass...Categorized as:
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![Nobody's Princess by Erica Ridley]()
Nobody's Princess by Erica Ridley
A fun and feminist Regency romp from a master of the genre hailed as "a delight" by Bridgerton author Julia Quinn. Nothing happens in London without Graham Wynchester knowing. His massive collection of intelligence is invaluable to his family's mission of aiding those most in need... -
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Buttercup by Sienna Mynx
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAin’t nothing sweeter than the forbidden. Her name is Buttercup. And he’ll kill them all before he’ll let her go. .. It is the 1930s, the era of Al Capone, John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Ma Barker, and Bonnie and Clyde. When gangsters, bootleggers, bank robbers and racketeers ruled the night and the law. Amongst them, a young bank outlaw is blazing his way to infamy... -
![An Earl by Any Other Name by Lauren Smith]()
An Earl by Any Other Name by Lauren Smith
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn earl in the streets, a rogue in the sheets . . . Leopold Graham, Lord Hampton, was never a man to let propriety stand in the way of his pursuit of pleasure. Hedonism is his only desire in life---until his father's death saddles him with debts that threaten to bankrupt the entire family...Categorized as:
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Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMeet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is "Yinka, where is your huzband? "...Categorized as:
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![The Diplomat's Daughter by Karin Tanabe]()
The Diplomat's Daughter by Karin Tanabe
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDuring the turbulent months following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, twenty-one-year-old Emi Kato, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, is locked behind barbed wire in a Texas internment camp. She feels hopeless until she meets handsome young Christian Lange, whose German-born parents were wrongfully arrested for un-American activities... -
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![Silk, Swords and Surrender by Jeannie Lin]()
Silk, Swords and Surrender by Jeannie Lin
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsBe swept away to a land of silk and swords, passion and surrender. From USA TODAY bestselling author Jeannie Lin comes a tantalizing new five-story volume. Take a journey to Tang Dynasty China and join five unique heroines as they fight, seduce and steal their way into their heroes' hearts... -
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Hearth and Home by Rebel Carter
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsCan a wealthy businessman find love as a mail order groom? Julian Baptiste was determined to find a love as epic as that of his parents. As the son of a freedwoman and a wealthy Union solider, Julian was unique among the glittering upper 400 of New York Society. Shrewd in business and discrete with his affairs, Julian was not a man to be trifled with. Until her...Categorized as:
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![A Hathaway Wedding by Lisa Kleypas]()
A Hathaway Wedding by Lisa Kleypas
This is a free Hathaway short story about Win Hathaway and Kev Merripen's wedding. It can be found athttp://media. hbpub. com/stmartins/kley. .. -
![The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby]()
The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha. In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu wrote the worldâ��s first novel, The Tale of Genji , the most popular work in the history of Japanese literature... -
![An Illicit Temptation by Jeannie Lin]()
An Illicit Temptation by Jeannie Lin
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTang Dynasty China, 824 A. D. Dao was raised as a servant, but when her half-sister flees an arranged marriage to a chieftain, Dao is sent in her place as Princess An-Ming. Such a future is better than she could have hoped for, yet she dreads a passionless union with a stranger. Taken as a virtual hostage to the Imperial court, Kwan-Li is torn between his people and his duty to the emperor... -
![The Billionaire's Slave by Stacy-Deanne]()
The Billionaire's Slave by Stacy-Deanne
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the first time Leon Falcon sets his eyes on Penny, he wants her. Usually, a gentleman of his stature would woo a woman, court her and get her father’s blessing. But Falcon doesn’t have to do any of that with Penny because it’s 1864 South Carolina, she’s a slave, and she can’t say no to him or any white man. Falcon’s plan is first, he’s going to buy her. He’s going to teach her... -
![Daughters of a Nation: A Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology by Kianna Alexander, Alyssa Cole]()
Daughters of a Nation: A Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology by Kianna Alexander, Alyssa Cole
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe fight for suffrage was long, hard, and carried out on many fronts. In Daughters of A Nation, Kianna Alexander, Alyssa Cole, Lena Hart, and Piper Huguley bring you four novellas full of spirit, hope, and, most importantly: LOVE. IN THE MORNING SUN. by Lena Hart. With the election of 1868 underway, Madeline Asher’s mission is clear: educate and enlist the freedmen of Nebraska to vote... -
![The Slave Master's Son by Tiana Laveen]()
The Slave Master's Son by Tiana Laveen
The 1800s for Black Americans was a time of forced servitude, anguish, heartbreak, and strength of faith. John, a wealthy Richmond, Virginia slave owner's son, and Hannah, the Negro daughter of a protective and loving mother, grew up as playmates, sharing their lives and dreams. Soon a sweet and tumultuous love affair began that grew so strong John would risk everything before relinquishing it...Categorized as:
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![Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah]()
Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsA provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted in a home that's on the brink of collapse? "Beautiful, gripping, and tender . . . a powerful and unforgettable meditation on love, belonging, and motherhood. "--Emilia Hart, author of Weyward. On a Spring afternoon in London, Sam hops the stairs of his flat two at a time...Categorized as:
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![The Duke and the Maid: A Rags to Romance Book by Mallory Monroe]()
The Duke and the Maid: A Rags to Romance Book by Mallory Monroe
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWilliam Herbert Thornbeck, the sixth Duke of Duncaster, had given up all hope of ever falling in love with anyone... -
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![Night in Shanghai: A Novel by Nicole Mones]()
Night in Shanghai: A Novel by Nicole Mones
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1936, classical pianist Thomas Greene is recruited to Shanghai to lead a jazz orchestra of fellow African-American expats. From being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, he becomes the toast of a city obsessed with music, money, pleasure and power, even as it ignores the rising winds of war...Categorized as:
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![A Gamble at Sunset by Vanessa Riley]()
A Gamble at Sunset by Vanessa Riley
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAward-winning author Vanessa Riley turns all convention on its head for the first in an enchanting, dazzlingly diverse new Regency romance trilogy featuring a duke, three sisters, and a tantalizing bet with a most desirable reward. .Categorized as:
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![One Night Only by Elise Marion]()
One Night Only by Elise Marion
Could one night ever be enough? Thalia Ramsey has resigned herself to a quiet life running a respectable book shop in London’s West End. Nothing exciting ever happens in her world … until Stephen Dryden, His Grace the Duke of Westerfield, begins patronizing her establishment. Her girlish infatuation is completely ridiculous, and nothing will ever come of it... -
![The Seaside Café by Rochelle Alers]()
The Seaside Café by Rochelle Alers
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSet on breathtaking Coates Island, off the coast of North Carolina, bestselling author Rochelle Alers’ new series debut brings together three book-loving women whose summer will offer a chance to rewrite their. own stories . . . For three decades, the Seaside Café has served delicious meals to locals and island tourists alike... -
![Pure Silk by Susan Johnson]()
Pure Silk by Susan Johnson
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen her father's forces fall to the imperial army, Tama has no choice but to leave Japan before her enemies find her. Disguised as a peasant boy, she makes her way to the city's fabled pleasure quarter, where anything and anyone is for sale and no request is forbidden. There she finds the one man who can take her to Paris, former gunrunner Captain Hugh Drummond... -
![Dark Princess by W.E.B. Du Bois]()
Dark Princess by W.E.B. Du Bois
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMatthew Townes, aspiring obstetrician, has hit the glass ceiling. Unable to continue his medical studies in New York City, the young man becomes disillusioned with the reality of racism within the United States and heads for Germany...
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