The Blacks: Love’s Politics

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Will Malcolm Black ever settle down with his ex-mistress Cinnamon Brown or will Love and Politics get in the way?

Pre-Launch Party with Victoria Christopher Murray & ReShonda Tate Billingsley

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Now for the first time, bestselling, award-winning authors Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate Billingsley, bring their favorite heroines together in SINNERS & SAINTS: A Novel

Chris Shella – Author of Reasonable Facsimile Legal Thriller

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Can Jasper Davis pull himself from his life of loose women, liquor, and general debauchery in enough time to win a murder case and possibly save his own hide? Jasper Davis is a criminal trial lawyer in Baltimore who has slowly but surely become like the drug dealers and lowlifes he represents. He spends more time with hookers than clients and more time drinking Jack Daniels than studying the law books. Simply put, he is a shade of his former self.

In Reasonable Facsimile, Jasper is in the middle of a first degree murder trial when he becomes the suspect in the murder of a DEA agent who was set to testify against his client. Jasper is so far gone on women and liquor he sees his trial skills deteriorate right before his eyes. Jasper is confronted by the situation. Is he gonna continue to be a reasonable facsimile of a human being or is he gonna become the man he once was?

Phenomenally Me by Sarah J. Heidelberg (Author Showcase)

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PHENOMENALLY ME is a carefully crafted blend of classical and modern influences, feminism and post feminism. There is a strong sense of confidence and pure honesty felt from the very beginning all the way to the very end.

In Love and Trust by Jeanie Johnson and Jayha Leigh

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Thamesis watched Trust calmly walk away from him. He didn’t mind the back view of this woman, but there was nothing like watching her eyes, especially when they ignited with anger. No doubt Trust wanted to harm him, but he couldn’t bother with being scared when he was so busy being turned on. She tried so hard to dismiss him, not knowing how futile a task that was.

Trust was fire and ice and he wanted nothing more than to throw himself headfirst into that beautiful womanly body. Thamesis spent his nights dreaming of the beautiful, dangerous woman. He wasn’t sure what turned him on more: her beauty or her lethalness. Though she hadn’t maimed since coming here, Thamesis knew it wouldn’t take much to get her there. Trust wasn’t just talk; she was death to whomever she decided was her enemy. And damn if that didn’t make him hard.

Windows by Billy London

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“That bastard had his hands all over you. You preferred that to a moment’s embarrassment?”

“No, I…” She didn’t know what to say to make this better. Christ, he was furious; his eyes were midnight blue. “I’m sorry, okay?”

His stare travelled between each of her dark irises, searching for honesty in her words. He pulled her closer. “You’re not sorry. You put yourself in such fucking trouble to prove what? That you can take care of yourself? Or more likely that no one gives a shit about you? Why are you so goddamn blind?”

He was gripping her in the same place as Thug One had, and it was really starting to hurt. “Nick, let go,” she said firmly.

“No.”

She blinked. “What do you mean, ‘no’?”

“Exactly what the word means. No. So this is me, showing you that I give a shit.”

Time for You and Time for Me by Janet Eckford (Book Spotlight)

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Closing her eyes, Morgaine let the tears that had gathered in her eyes fall. She’d never not been liked, and it hurt to think when she actually finally cared about someone, that someone didn’t care about her. That session had been her hardest to date because she didn’t find an answer that would appease her. Each day that she began to rework the fabric of her life into the vision she had for herself, she kept reaching a snag—Leland. She couldn’t describe the pull that kept guiding her to him, but it tugged and she followed.

She resisted the urge to cry. Morgaine knew this connection she felt for Leland wasn’t a result of the trauma she’d experienced as a child. This was about the two of them, and if she could just get that stubborn bastard to acknowledge what they had, life would be so much better.

I Dreamt I Was in Heaven-The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang by Leonce Gaiter

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In the waning days of Indian Territory, the multi-racial, teenaged Rufus Buck Gang embarked on a vicious, childish, and deadly 13-day rampage that shocked even this lawless land. Based on the true story, this novel creates a turn-of-the-century tapestry of violence and innocence, butchery and grace—mirroring and chafing against the backdrop of a burgeoning US, and a disappearing American West.

Running from Solace by Nakia R. Laushaul

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“BEST BOOK I’VE READ THIS YEAR … A superbly written and cleverly crafted book. Gut wrenching reality and red raw details, reminding us of what so many choose to ignore. Your heart, soul and spirit absorb the characters. They take on their own persona in your imagination. You love them, you hate them, but throughout you sub-consciously root for their survival…” Amazon Review

Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes of the Dirty Blues – Edited by Cole Riley

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Called “the Devil’s music,” the stories of the blues goes beyond jump turns, slow drag ditties, reel, jigs, minstrel songs, ragtime, or the buzzard lope. These lyrics connected to these stories celebrate heartache, separation, distrust, betrayal, lust, but they promise a healing love of revival and renewal.