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Haven Banks is the deadliest man in Jersey, and he loves it. The fear and pain he inflicts on people gives him a high he can’t come down from. However; he will meet his match in the last person he expected. Never backing down from another, things become chaotic and Haven will find out not...

Detective Claudia Martinez feels eyes on her - often. Though she tries to convince herself that it’s all in her head and no one is really in the shadows lurking… waiting… watching… But once dismembered body parts are discovered on display in highly visible inner-city locations, Claudia begins to worry that someone IS stalking her cases and murdering the people affiliated with them.

From beyond the grave, a malevolent entity known as Titus has returned. His unholy purpose: to drown a town in blood and chaos. With each brutal murder, Titus inches closer to his ultimate, terrifying goal–the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Cairo Romano inherited his power from his father, and he become more powerful and more dangerous. People were terrified to be in his presence and others wouldn't dare cross paths with him if they didn't have to. That was until he met Kateri Coleman. A woman that didn't allow any man or woman to...

At the end of part two, Camarih learned a startling secret involving two men she used to love. What she doesn't know is that the messenger is harboring another shocking secret that they aren't quite willing to let her in on just yet. Feeling confused and overwhelmed, she turns to the only person who has had her back since her first love was murdered, even though unsure if he'd be willing to involve himself due to the circumstances. In addition to such a heavy weight, suspicious leeches resurface, ready to suck Camarih and her beau dry unless she complies with their wishes.

With the fairytale wedding now over and the reality of their new roles placed on their shoulders, can Gale and Odette survive the sea of politics, family secrets, and scandal that awaits them? Can they still be true to themselves and their hearts? The whole country - even the world - is watching and not everyone is happy for them.

Shockwaves are still dissipating following the tragic demise of a Pittsburgh Violent Crimes Unit Detective. However, the colleagues find comfort in their belief that the Stolen Pieces cases have been successfully solved and the depraved lunatic responsible has at long last been identified. But before anyone has time to get settled, the sudden, unnerving discovery of a new victim bearing the brutal hallmarks of The Keeper’s unique style of slaughter sends pulses racing.

In 2020 Philadelphia, amidst the upheaval of the pandemic and the racial tensions ignited by George Floyd's murder, Chauncey Johnson stubbornly clings to his Jitney, a cash-only taxi, a symbol of his defiance against corporate America.

The Ones Who Stayed follows Eliza Mae Carter, an enslaved young woman in the Deep South who becomes a quiet architect of escape along the Underground Railroad. Raised to survive through silence and restraint, Eliza learns resistance through her mother’s stories, coded hymns, and a hidden network of allies. After her family is torn apart, Eliza joins a fragile resistance movement led by free Black conductors, preachers, and singers who pass information through song and faith. When an early escape attempt fails, she learns that freedom demands patience, sacrifice, and courage.

I expect nothing. From life, from God, from men. I don't hope or want or pray. Those are luxuries I can't afford when I'm doing the desperate math of survival while walking the tight rope of life on the run in a strange city. New Haven wasn't supposed to be a fresh start. That would be asking too much from a life that took my parents from me and left me vulnerable to monsters. To be used but not loved. To be kept but not cherished. I'd accepted my fate, but then he walked into my life and released me from the prison of my past, leaving me free to hope, to want, to love.

Janae Three years ago, I had one unforgettable weekend with a man who made me forget every rule I'd ever followed. Then he ghosted me like it never happened. Fast forward to now—he's standing in front of the faculty at Hardwood High, all smug and suited up, introducing himself as our new...

Before they were the Real Housewives of Memphis, they were just five girls from Orange Mound trying to survive, dream, and find themselves in the streets of early 2000s Memphis Meet Shyanna, Jenna (Juice), Veronica, Shelby, and Juanita, five best friends who are trying to figure it out post high school, bound by loyalty, secrets, and struggle. Life in the Mound isn’t easy. Every choice has a consequence, every dream comes with a price, and every girl is fighting for a future bigger than what the hood has planned for her.

Reign’s life seems perfect if you’re on the outside looking in, but the reality is far from it. She is full of secrets. As they begin to reveal themselves, she is abruptly separated from her family. Reign was born into a life of chaos. When she loses her drug-addicted mother during her birth, her father, Montae Jackson, a well-known drug dealer in Chicago, takes her in. Reign and her siblings are being raised in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, where she meets her long-time boyfriend, Mikal, and her two best friends, Jayla and Marie.

David Copperfield was a little boy who grew up in an unfortunate family. His father died six months before David’s birth. Later his mother remarried to a cruel man who beat him up. David however fought back and bit him. This resulted in David getting sent to a boarding school which he did not finish because of his mother’s death. All in all, David’s life has been a string of misfortunes. His development from infancy to maturity happened unnecessarily fast.

Sometimes you don’t choose the streets, the streets choose you. The streets had been Omari “O” Sullivan’s playground since he was a teenager. Loyalty meant everything to him, so he kept his circle small. That along with his ruthless behavior is what kept him on top.

Monique “Mo” Williams thought she found her forever in Ryan “RJ” Lewis—charming, respected, and dangerously smooth. What started as passion turned into control. Then silence. Then bruises. Now, Mo's caught in a love story written in pain, denial, and secrets no one sees behind her smile. To the outside world, RJ is a man who loves hard. But behind closed doors, he’s a ticking bomb—explosive, possessive, and terrifyingly unpredictable. Mo has learned how to cover the bruises, silence the screams, and keep her secrets buried… until one violent night changes everything.

Obeying the final wishes of her dying mother, Bernadette Hicks travels to Denver, Colorado, to become a mail-order bride. Plagued by grief for the only man she will ever love, she doubts marriage is the right path for her. Imagine her shock when she arrives and finds her true love alive and well! Instead of a joyful reunion, Bernadette is dumbfounded to discover that Big Tom, known now as Flavius Stone, wants nothing to do her. What will it take to figure out why the love of her life says he no longer loves her? She can see it in his eyes that he’s lying.

Shanice is a Harlem-born teenager with the hopes and dreams of one day escaping the mad house in which she currently lives with her abusive mother, two sisters, and her thumb-sucking little brother. But when she is forced to fend for herself after being abandoned, Shanice is lured into a world that is unapologetic, rougher, and bigger than any of her childhood daydreams.

When a mirror breaks, it shatters into pieces, distorting our perceptions. This is Michelle's life, and the fragments reveal the jagged truths of her experiences. Michelle is single with no children, educated, financially independent, and enjoys an excellent career. Despite her success, she realizes one important thing is missing from her life–love. However, when broken promises, infidelity, and rejections poison her relationships, she finds herself asking the mirror the same question: Mirror, Mirror on the wall, please tell me that there is more to me than what you see.

Macklin, Mississippi has been rocked to its core by the death of David Moss, the son of one of the town’s most influential man. Some believe that David’s fate was sealed after many of the desperate choices he made. Can his family heal after such a devastating loss? After Linda decides to leave town again, Annie has to figure out how to live with the burden of raising the children her sister left behind.