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In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet Tubman is back, and she has a lot to say. Harriet Tubman and four of the enslaved persons she led to freedom want to tell their story in a unique way. Harriet wants to create a hip-hop album and live show about her life, and she needs a songwriter to help her. She calls upon Darnell Williams, a once successful hip-hop producer who was topping the charts before being outed on a BET talk show.

Stevie Bluehaven faces a tough decision: break the number one street code or stay in an abusive relationship. Choosing herself, the twenty-seven-year-old dog groomer goes against the grain and runs to a new city with her baby, best friend, and the clothes on her back. Taking advantage of her fresh start, Stevie pours all her time into building her clientele and restoring her faith in herself. However, an impromptu night out leads her to a place inhabited by a dangerous man, with broadening energy and protection the runaway didn’t know she would need.

Paris was born and raised a slave on a South Carolina rice plantation. As a young boy, he used to look up at the birds, flying freely above him. He longed to be free like the birds, but in 18th century, pre-Revolutionary times, it seemed impossible. However, when the British came seeking slaves willing to desert their masters to fight their cause, a 15-year-old Paris saw his chance, and took it.

Sometimes love comes knocking at your door. Sometimes it crashes through it. Blake Bishop wasn't looking for love, but fate had other plans. When a wounded stranger stumbles into her living room, she finds a connection she can't shake and a man who sees her soul. Emon Dowlen has always lived by his own rules, but Blake awakens something in him he never knew he needed—a desire for something real, something permanent, something worth changing for. Their connection is instant, undeniable, and completely inconvenient but together, they discover that love doesn't need explanation or ...

Careless with Our Love Affair is a romantic tale centered around Naomi, Nigel Nichols, and Camaro (Cam) Jackson. A spin-off of What's Love Gotta Do with Marriage. Love for the finer things in life motivated Naomi's grind. She vowed never to let a man, child, or woman stop her from securing the bag. She made her own, governed not to take anything less than what she deserved and wanted it all. With an appetite to explore and an adventurous personality, Naomi sought the attention of Nigel Nichols, a distinguished mogul of a Fortune 500 company. Nigel entertained the young beauty but beheld a ...

The job offer she expected after taking an unpaid internship at a major shoe company didn’t come through. The friend who’d offered her a place to stay suddenly gave her 48 hours to vacate after a misunderstanding. And when she’s forced to move back to her hometown to live with her father and his mistress-turned-wife, it almost seems impossible for things to get any worse...until she runs into her former best friend, who’s only gotten fine with time.

As young Salena started to blossom into a beautiful woman, her strict Mexican parents kept a tight leash on her. When she wasn’t with her parents, her older three gang afflicted brothers picked up the pieces, keeping an eye on her every move. When Salena finds herself falling in love with an African American male, Quincy, she knows that if her secret gets out, her family, who only believes in marrying within their race, would flip. After getting caught with Quincy, her brothers threaten him with death causing him to disappear before Salena could even break the news; she’s pregnant. ...

Sister and Brother, EUREKA and ANTON JACKSON are all each other have in this cruel cold world. With street smarts and a hustler’s ambition they manage to survive in the concrete jungle. With a willingness to do anything they have to in order to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table, they rob, steal and con to provide for themselves.Given their current circumstances, things are bad, but they’re about to get a lot worse when Anton steals the tricked out truck of a local drug czar by the name KILO. The consequences for the youngster’s actions come back to haunt him and his ...

The Day of Reckoning Judgment day came, and the gods of morality called upon everyone to account for their savagery. The law of righteousness judged the McNeil’s crimes of passion accordingly. But, to their dismay, the odds were not in favor of wrongdoings or temper tantrums. Sincere paid the ultimate price when Jewelz exposed the inside track of Sky’s life. Secrets that left Sincere heartbroken and enraged with two guns blasting his way. The dynamic duo shared a thrilling connection, but even the rich can get burned by love. Nothing could have spared Sincere from the ache in his heart ...

Meet Quintaysha’s, also known as Q; a member of the Messy Babymomma Club. When tragedy hit home, Q was left to figure out how to survive on her own. At the tender age of sixteen, she knew nothing could bring the fast cash she needed as fast as prostituting or dancing. Refusing to be like her mother, Q refused to become a prostitute and instead started dancing at her father’s Strip Club. Learning the game from a veteran dancer, Q thought she knew it all. That was until she met a trick named Tyrone. Before Q knew it, not only was she in love, she was pregnant with his child. Hoping for ...

After selling the 60 Kilo's he'd stolen he approaches his money goal. He decides to invest in a record label with his brother Future, with intentions on getting out of the dope game. Unfortunately, not everyone is supportive of his decision to run a legal business. Boss, his main man, believes he's being selfish and makes his feelings known. Jazzie's ex is about to get released from prison, because he had some vital information on a crocked cop that was after Truth and gives her an ultimatum. She has to make a choice that could end her life as well as Truth's. With everyone under pressure, ...

Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.

What would you do if you weren't getting attention at home? Crystal, devoted wife and mother, wasn't, and thought she should get it elsewhere until it backfired. Crystal and Aaron were happily married for fourteen years until he started acting strange and distant. Crystal starved for his affection, only to find her desires would be fed, but not by her husband. Caught between the hope for a change in her marriage and the newfound lust for another man. Crystal must make some hard choices, and fast, before it all blows up in her face.

For months I stood in the wings, an understudy waiting for my time to shine. I never imagined he would be in the audience that night. Canon Holt. Famous film director. Talented. Fine. Before I could catch my breath, everything changed. I went from backstage Broadway to center stage Hollywood. From being unknown, to my name, Neevah Saint, on everyone's lips when Canon casts me in a star-studded Harlem Renaissance biopic. But stars shine brightest in the dead of night. Forbidden attraction, scandal and circumstances beyond my control jeopardize my dream.

Maceo Dillinger is the second eldest son of the Dillinger clan. Being a part of his family organization means Maceo is no stranger to danger, but he as a secret that might just cost him his life. He’s taken on an unapproved caseload and has brought his girlfriend Sharina Gladden along for the ride. His already dangerous world turns treacherous when Maceo finds himself as a target. The time for keeping secrets is over as escalating threats become increasingly deadly. Maceo is forced to come clean and rely on his family to ensure both his and Sharina’s survival.

~Street Bitches Don’t Need Love~ Heather Douglas Blackmon aka Hurricane became the queen of the streets after her father was killed. She has everything a street bitch would want the cars, money, clothing, looks, and to top it off the best plug to the dope game in the world, yet all she really wants is the love her father use to give. Have you ever been in love? No! Hurricane hasn’t either up until her father’s dead. Until she thought she meet the man of her dream. She married him, they work together side by side in the street. Yeah he did normal nigga shit, lie, and cheat, but ...

Based on a true story. The Chance Series is the story of Miss Rayqelle Davis, the step daughter of a Chicago police officer, who grows up in a seriously dysfunctional home and turns to the streets as a means of escape. After some truly bad experiences with thug love, that leave her both emotionally and physically battered, Rayqelle soon grows to understand that fast life and fast love in the hood ain’t all that it’s cracked up to be. That is when she meets Chance, a very handsome and mysterious stranger whose love threatens to turn her whole world upside down.

A mercenary more powerful and skilled than anyone has ever encountered bypasses the security systems of the Jackson’s mansion and kidnaps a loved one. Now in order to get them back, it’s up to EUREKA and the rest of the family to track him down. But will their combined efforts be enough to defeat their relentless foe or will their lives come to a catastrophic end?

Those baby daddies. Boy, oh, boy. They can be a woman’s worst nightmare. But who is really to blame? Is it the fault of the women who pick them? Or is it when a woman has a baby by them they go crazy and become dedicated to making the mother’s life pure hell? In these five stories, we will visit the lives of five men, all within a small circle, and learn what drives them to do the crazy things they all do to the women who carried and birthed their children. Here you will meet twins Matt and Mike, Kevin, Ju, and Joshua. If you thought you knew a baby daddy worth hating, these five will ...

As a bear shifter, I never expected to find my fated mate in a radical human bar, but one whiff of her sweet vanilla scent and I knew she was mine. Now I'll fight heaven and hell to claim Ebony and make her see that she belongs with me in Wintermoon forever.