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Dance with MeProfessional dancer Natasha Díaz is broke, overworked, and in need of a place to crash. She’s just desperate enough to move in with the one ...The Revenant RoadBestselling crime writer Obadiah Grudge has got it all: money, fame and a heavy drinking problem. But when he learns of a violent death in t...The Senator's WifeAfter a tragic chain of events led to the deaths of their spouses two years ago, D.C. philanthropist Sloane Chase and Senator Whit Montgomer...The Marriage He DemandsThis ranching heir wants it all, including the woman who stands in his way.
Alaskan businessman Cash Outlaw has inherited almost all of his...The ForbiddenHell hath no fury like a woman scorned in The Forbidden, the exciting fifth book in L. A. Banks's Vampire Huntress series.
After the destru...People Like Us**Two Black writers - with stories to tell, and some they'd rather forget.**
One wins the big prize, gets the book tour, walks into the spo...Archangels of FunkRun from your past. Hide from your future. Protect your present.
The Water Wars have scrambled the world. Flood refugees are on the run. Di...The Other WomanNew York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey presents one of his most intimate and emotionally resonant novels—a story about marriag...Before I Let GoA divorced couple confronts grief, co-parenting, and unresolved love while rebuilding trust.Everything, EverythingMy disease is as rare as it is famous. It’s a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, but basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t le...When You Are MineKerris Moreton knows how to make things work. Bounced from foster home to foster home as a kid, she adapted; when opportunity arose, she thr...Last God StandingWhen God retires to join the human race, an army of desperate deities declares war over Earth's vanishing supply of mortal faith. Now, uncom...The KnightLittle Mian Ross and the big, bad Knight didn't find their fairytale ending. Together they found war.
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Mian Ross...The Art of DesireTrouble comes in threes...
One doomed love affair after another has made lovely Alex Walton swear off men. Now, she's determined to try som...Capone IIIMy family was taken away from me.
I was too young to know what went on, but now that I know, it’s time to get it back in blood. Protecting m...Desire: The Arranged Hearts SeriesDe·sire /dəˈzī(ə)r/a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen.
Unsettled… that is the word Desire Cha...The Gravity of UsThey say some people aren't meant to be together.
That Graham and I were too different to ever make any sense. I was driven by emotion; he ...Dream CountChiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with he...Good DirtWhen ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped. And when she saw her brother, Baz, lying on the floor surrounded by the shat...The HuntedEach millennium brings a new Neteru, a vampire huntress whose mission is to vanquish evil from the world. This millennium's savior has come ...This Could Be UsA woman rebuilds her life and discovers a new chance at love after betrayal.The ThirteenthThe Thirteenth is the mind-blowing finale to the Vampire Huntress Legend series from bestselling author L.A. Banks
The entire Neteru Guardia...Second Chance ChristmasBeing known as the daughter of the Sageport’s town drunk always left Faith Stone defending her mother and herself. Her only solace was her b...Her Kind of ManWhen Mr. Right is oh so wrong
I'll never let you go . . . Allina had always dreamed of hearing those words. But when her fiance, Isaac, utt...Christmas PromisesThe Christmas Eve Bride by Lynne Graham
Rocco thought he was done with Amber after her betrayal two years earlier. But when he unexpectedly...Between LoversNicole made a bold move by dumping her fiance at the altar. From there, she's built a successful career, relocated north to Oakland, and fal...The DarknessThe Darkness descends with the arrival of the Armaggedon in the tenth novel of L. A. Banks's bestselling Vampire Huntress Legend series.
Af...Parable of the TalentsFrom a celebrated author, the thrilling sequel to The Parable of the Sower—a cautionary novel ahead of its time, perfect for fans of The Bro...DecadenceWhat Nia Simon Bijou desires, she works hard to achieve. Her accomplishments as a respected writer have not only brought her to Hollywood, b...