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Three lives are brought together by chance in 90s London, in this spellbinding story of friendship and loneliness, healing and redemption *Guardian Book to Read 2026* Jaycee finally has a room of her own in Sky City, a housing estate in north London carved out of the glow-in-the-dark sky. But...

One night. Two lines. Three lives changed forever.
 I swore off hockey players after my ex-husband's betrayal. So, when I hooked up with a cocky stranger at a party, I had a few expectations: No strings. No repeats.
Because the guy I chose was Tucker Stag—Pittsburgh Fury enforcer and my...

Charlotte Matthews, Omega Rights Activist. Remember my name. My face. I'm one of many. Broken, beaten, bought, and sold to the highest bidder—never to be seen again. Dragged into the dark, into the depraved underworld of Omega trafficking. But despite it all, I survived. Rescued. Reborn...

In five autobiographical vignettes, Charlayne Woodard tells the moving and inspirational tale of her African-American family through three generations of love, struggle, and triumph.

Can a woman on the run find herself again? The late 1960s set the newly-widowed Lily-Rose Pembrick reeling as she flees Lincoln, Nebraska, with her children. Only taking the cash from the house safe and what she can get her hands on at the family bank, she leaves the recently-inherited and successful Pembrick Transportation company behind. Exhausted from driving all night, she stops in Applegate, Ohio, and decides to start a new life on Norwood Street.

Jackson "Stacks" DeLuca is the baby of the DeLuca bunch. He's always lived in the shadows of his older brothers, but that didn't stop him from making a name for himself. His witty charm was his secret weapon, and he used it at every angle. When he uses said charm on his brother's bar manager...

Book One of the Tried in Fire Series-Shaniece Shaw appears to have it all: a billion-dollar fashion empire, a stunning Garden District mansion, and fifteen years of marriage to charismatic attorney Dalvin Shaw. But behind the polished exterior of New Orleans high society, her world is crumbling. Late-night phone calls, mysterious absences, and a husband who has become a stranger signal the death of everything she once believed about love and commitment.

Two years ago, geologist Corinthians Avery had brazenly sneaked into a hotel room to seduce Dex Madaris, head of Madaris Explorations and the longtime object of her affection. But the man who emerged from the shower to find Corinthians clad in next to nothing was handsome foreman Trevor Grant. When a smug Trevor informed her that Dex was not only absent from the trip, but at home happily married, Corinthians was mortified.

In 1985, police bombed a West Philadelphia row house owned by the Afrocentric cult known as Move, killing 11 people and starting a fire that destroyed 60 other houses. At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past and who becomes obsessed with the search for a lone survivor of the event: a young boy seen running from the flames.

"In her latest, Riley provides a fresh take on high seas adventure through the eyes of the courageous, swashbuckling, based-on-a-real-life female pirate Jacquotte Delahaye. The research Riley has done on this 1600s saga is truly remarkable, second only to her depictions of the lush Caribbean...

Defense attorney Audra Reynolds left her small hometown years ago to escape being defined as "the fire chief's daughter." Now she's back to defend a local businessman accused of arson. A case that puts her directly at odds with Maliek Coleman, her father's protégé and the fire department's lead investigator. As they reluctantly work together to uncover the truth, professional boundaries blur and old sparks reignite. But in a town where everyone has secrets, Audra and Maliek discover that the most dangerous flames aren't the ones that destroy buildings.

Fallon Lennox isn't looking for love—especially not in Lovey's Bay, her new home and fresh start. Captain Benjamin Deacon is ready to move on from a broken engagement and take a leap of faith. When Fallon joins Fire Company 143 as its newest firefighter, she and Deacon are stunned to discover...

Abandoned as an infant and raised by protective, if secretive, Italian parents, Carlotta has never quite fit in her own life as the only Black person in her neighborhood. Even when she ventures to Harlem, where jazz, community, and a man’s love await her, she doesn’t feel fully at home. But when the dynamics in her adoptive family shift, and her role grows more tenuous, Carlotta has to decide where she belongs—no matter the threats or the price that must be paid.

This dark and steamy romance collection brings together the Water and Fire signs of the Zodiac in a binge-worthy bundle. You get more bang for your buck with these bundles, and if three books at once isn’t enough, you can grab six books in the series within one juicy volume. If you crave off-the-charts spicy interracial romance, books about interracial relationships, twisted passion, high-heat happily-ever-afters, and diverse stories, this six-book saga will keep you hooked until the very last word.

A historic Upstate New York snowstorm traps Michelle's high school bully, star quarterback Duke Callahan at her house. She can't bear to look at him after what he did to her. He's cruel, remorseless and an utter sociopath...Michelle wants nothing to do with his confession of love, even from the chiseled, popular and effortlessly charming Duke.

Murder. Secrets. Sacrifice: Three women seek the truth of the empire’s past. And the truth they find will have the power to ignite a war, in the sequel to The Final Strife, the continuation of a visionary fantasy trilogy inspired by the myths of Africa and Arabia. Anoor is the first...

This era for Nina is called the Moment of Yes. She is saying yes to all things that will improve her self-love, including taking a chef-level virtual cooking class . . . with no cooking skills. Of course, she thought this would go without her nearly burning her kitchen down and coming face to...

From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize­–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and...

Trange' Moreau stands at the intersection of impossible choices: a woman whose spectacular spiritual transformation has become a flashpoint for institutional fear and personal vengeance. Her conversion from cynical executive to committed Christian created sacred space for redemption—until the church mothers decided her past was too dangerous to forgive.

In the first book of a visionary fantasy trilogy with its roots in the mythology of Africa and Arabia that “sings of rebellion, love, and the courage it takes to stand up to tyranny” (Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree), three women band together against a cruel...