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  • Ethic by Ashley Antoinette

    Ethic by Ashley Antoinette

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 28 ratings
    Ethic has power, but love has always been evasive. After ordering the hit that mistakenly killed the love of his life, Ethic is haunted with guilt and he refuses to love again. Focused on being a better man and keeping his family safe, he is raising three children, one of which is a defiant teenaged girl, Morgan...
  • A Mayhem Love by Bianca

    A Mayhem Love by Bianca

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Whoever said that the quiet ones are the most are deadliest had Mayhem Bailey in mind. According to everyone in the Windy City, Mayhem has an icebox in place of his heart and no lady has ever been able to penetrate it. That is, until he meets Xenobia Bell. Mayhem falls fast and hard for Xenobia, and in his eyes, their relationship is picture perfect...
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  • Too Much of a Good Thing by Kimberla Lawson Roby

    Too Much of a Good Thing by Kimberla Lawson Roby

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In the sequel to the enormously successful Casting the First Stone , Kimberla Lawson Roby brings back a character readers love to hate. Curtis Black might be a man of the cloth, but with his irresistible looks, seductive charm, and charismatic personality, he's particularly beloved by his female parishioners––and almost every other woman he's ever met. The trouble is, Curtis is married...
  • An Insane Love by Bianca

    An Insane Love by Bianca

    Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the outside looking in, one would never guess that Franklin Wade has suffered through his share of traumas at the hands of life and circumstance. From a young child up until his teenage years, Frank struggles to find love and was lucky to find it in Alexandria Ware...
    Categorized as:
    black-mc  fantasy  length-short
  • Falling For A Black Billionaire 2 by Bianca

    Falling For A Black Billionaire 2 by Bianca

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lawrynn: Trevor makes me sick to my stomach. He thinks that women are supposed to grovel at his feet, but not me, Lawrynn Barksdale, Esq. Sure, we may have gotten drunk and had a one-night stand after my best friend's reception, but that was a first and last time thing. However, I do have eyes for his cousin, and surely, he can take my mind off the arrogant billionaire...
  • Thicker Than Water 3 by Takerra Allen

    Thicker Than Water 3 by Takerra Allen

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Brick City's sexiest divas are back, stirring up trouble from Jersey and Atlanta to Jamaica. But wherever they are, they're ready to put loyalty to the ultimate test, push boundaries to the edge, and risk it all for love--if they can survive. .
  • Joanna by Katrina D. Hamel

    Joanna by Katrina D. Hamel

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    She's bound to the infamous Herodian dynasty, but her bold faith will carve her name in the gospel.Joanna must pay the price for her brother's crime. Claimed as a hostage, she's forced from the verdant slopes of her beloved vineyard to serve Herod Antipas' neglected wife. In an opulent palace where Roman culture supersedes the commands of God, Joanna struggles to express her Jewish faith...
  • Dreamers by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Dreamers by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Tuya came as a teenaged slave to Potiphar's household, a personal gift from the Pharaoh. Tall and slender, the young girl had eyes that shone like a stream of gold. She knew nothing about her past, except that she had always been a slave...
    Categorized as:
    christian  historical  ancient times  fantasy
  • Dreamers by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Dreamers by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    In the exotic land of Pharaoh, Tuya, a slave girl, is sold into servitude as a playmate to a wealthy child. Betrayed and cast out as she ascends into womanhood, Tuya finds herself belonging to Potiphar, captain of Pharaoh's guard. Yet she soon gives her heart to handsome Joseph, a man sold into slavery by his own brothers...
  • Little Black Girl Lost 4: The Diary of Josephine Baptiste by Keith Lee Johnson

    Little Black Girl Lost 4: The Diary of Josephine Baptiste by Keith Lee Johnson

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Revealing the roots of Johnnie Wise's family tree, the author takes readers to Nigeria where a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, preparing to marry a much older man, escapes with her young lover on the night before the arranged marriage is to take place on a Dutch slave ship bound for America where she becomes Josephine Baptiste...
  • Lilly V by Tiya Rayne

    Lilly V by Tiya Rayne

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The Finale to the Epic Story...AssassinEverything I've done, I've done it for her. I would die for Lilly. Now I might have just made the biggest mistake ever. When she needed me the most, I turned my back on her.LillyHe took me away from my sons and the man I love. I should hate him. Yet, something is different. I think I may be falling for the Dark King.The time has come. A decision will be made...
  • The King's Seer by L.S. Bethel

    The King's Seer by L.S. Bethel

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 9 ratings
    Wake up. Check. Take shower. Check. Get car fixed. check. End up in an ancient feudal society where kings and warlords run the show. Wait. What?Serenity has no idea how she ended up in this place or how to get back home. She’s already made enemies of the most powerful men in the country and the threat of death is a very real concern...
  • Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola

    Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 38 ratings
    "Perfection in short story form, I am in love with every single word Bolu Babalola has written. So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully." --Candice Carty-Williams, international bestselling author of QueenieA vibrant collection of love stories from a debut author, retelling myths, folktales, and histories from around the world...
  • I'd Rather Be with You by Mary B. Morrison

    I'd Rather Be with You by Mary B. Morrison

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In this sizzling novel from New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison, two friends make a provocative bet that forever changes their lives. . .I'm the wife Madison's husband really deserves. Nursing wealthy businessman Chicago DuBois back to health was the least Loretta Lovelace figured she could do...
  • Deserve Me by Nia Arthurs

    Deserve Me by Nia Arthurs

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    They say fame comes with a price.But losing my wife is too high a cost.A rising star. Award-winning musician. A fanbase of millions.My life was perfect until my wife walked away without warning, leaving me in pieces.At first I’m angry enough to let her slip away.Then I see Jaz with another man and I realize letting her go is not an option.I’m winning her back...
  • Beast by Cambria Hebert

    Beast by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A tale as old as time…A charismatic man cannot see beyond his ownbrilliant reflection, never learning that true beauty lies within.His selfish behavior draws the ire of a witch with enchantment on her wicked tongue.A fiery curse is unleashed, engulfing the self-centered man’s entire existence...
  • Bound by Elise Marion

    Bound by Elise Marion

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    She bound him in chains … he repaid her in kind … now she is bound to him, in more ways than one. Caden Maignart must choose a wife and sire a son—a burden weighing heavily upon him as the firstborn son of a high lord. Weighing even more heavily is the notion of impending war, which has become a near certainty thanks to the volatile feud brewing between two families entrenched in hate...
  • Chained by Elise Marion

    Chained by Elise Marion

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    House Toustain … House Maignart … two royal houses once embroiled in a bloody feud … Twenty years of peace now broken in an instant … Sir Caden Maignart has been captured, beaten, locked in a dungeon, and wrongfully accused of kidnapping and oath-breaking...
  • Never Going Back There by Ahmad Williams

    Never Going Back There by Ahmad Williams

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Preston Brown has gone through more than enough and not to mention that he created the whole thing himself. This final book in the trilogy is the epitome of what humility can do to healing in any man’s life. Preston suffers eviction, lost bank accounts, and total disconnect from the ones that truly love him...
  • Spellswept by Stephanie Burgis

    Spellswept by Stephanie Burgis

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    "A niftily done short romance in a satisfyingly gender-role-reversed world." – K.J. Charles, author of Spectred Isle In the world of the Harwood Spellbook, 19th-century Angland is ruled by a powerful group of women known as the Boudiccate - but in order to become a member of that elite group, any ambitious young politician must satisfy tradition by taking a gentleman mage for her husband...
  • Something Real by J.J. Murray

    Something Real by J.J. Murray

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Thanks to her black mother and her Irish father, Ruth "Penny" Borum is the color of a new penny. Big-boned and notoriously sassy, Ruth is nonetheless the organist and a member in good standing of Antioch, Virginia's most prominent black church--or at least she was until she dragged the popular Reverend Jonas Borum into an ugly divorce...
  • The Spy in 3B by Nana Malone

    The Spy in 3B by Nana Malone

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Sometimes, romance is (also) hiding in plain sight.It’s hard to fill out a dating profile when everything you write is a lie. But in her line of work, Lyra can’t exactly tell the truth. And she’s determined to get over the man who broke her heart by moving on, so here she is, lying on a dating app. Then again, so is he.Lyra is no marketing consultant, but a plucky undercover operator...
  • The Millionaire Mistress by Tiphani Montgomery

    The Millionaire Mistress by Tiphani Montgomery

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Chasing money is all Chloe has ever known. Just when she thinks she’s got it all, times get tight, and her body is put to work in the bedroom. Between sexin’ married men for hire and searching for the man who would get her out the game; her life is shattered when her cousin Oshyn, pulls in a drug dealer with deep pockets...
  • Hoodwinked by Desiree M. Granger

    Hoodwinked by Desiree M. Granger

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All her life, Jasmine has been groomed in Atlanta’s high society to be the perfect woman of wealth. Soon to be married off to Percy Hugo Milton to keep money circulating between black families, she realizes she’s stuck in a dead end relationship where he basically, “ain’t shit”. Money matters most, marriage is nothing but a business deal, and love is nonexistent in Percy’s eyes...
  • Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco

    Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A loud clap of thunder booms, and rattles the windows of Grandma's old farmhouse. "This is Thunder Cake baking weather," calls Grandma, as she and her granddaughter hurry to gather the ingredients around the farm. A real Thunder Cake must reach the oven before the storm arrives. But the list of ingredients is long and not easy to find . .
  • Immortal Games by Lauretta Hignett

    Immortal Games by Lauretta Hignett

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Immortality sucks.Just ask Imogen Gray: Over two-hundred thousand years old and teetering on the edge of total insanity. Strong as a shifter, faster than a vampire, Imogen's walked the earth forever, always alone, never growing, never changing.Never learning, either. Her smart mouth and quick temper get her into trouble far too often.When that happens, she gets hurt...
  • Drama High: Pushin' by L. Divine

    Drama High: Pushin' by L. Divine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    If only there was a potion to make all Jayd Jackson's troubles disappear. . . Even though Jayd's finished with the AP exams and finally has some space of her own at her mother's house, she's got to deal with the drama all around her...
  • Saving Jacob: A Dark Paranormal Romance by Tessa Stone

    Saving Jacob: A Dark Paranormal Romance by Tessa Stone

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A witch destined to save her fated mate and their supernatural community from an ancient evil must embrace her hidden powers before it's too late. JacobAfter suffering alone in wolf form for a thousand years, unable to shift back to human, I thought my existence was over. But then the mysterious Hazel showed me that my true mate was out there and gave me hope again...
  • The Seeker by Elizabeth Hunter

    The Seeker by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He’s a scribe looking for answers. If only a cagey—and frustratingly attractive—singer will let him help. Summoned to the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Rhys of Glast, Irin archivist and scribe of Istanbul, must convince a legendary Irina singer to trust him. His success could shift the balance of power all over the Irin world and give singers an important key to their past...
  • Aaron's Gift by Tiffany Patterson

    Aaron's Gift by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    This Christmas, I’m wishing for a present that money can’t buy…Aaron Townsend has given me a life beyond my wildest dreams. But not even a billionaire can prevent cancer.Now that I’m in remission, this Christmas I’d like a present that is priceless—spending time traveling with my five beautiful children and my husband by my side...
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