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In John Verdon’s most sensationally twisty novel yet, ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney brings his analytical brilliance to a shocking murder that couldn’t have been committed the way the police say it was. The daunting task that confronts Gurney, once the NYPD’s top homicide cop: determining...

A celibate husband and wife are the two most dangerous people on earth . . .Neil and Anya Meadows are stuck in a sexless marriage. Anya suffers from a hormonal disorder that leaves her with no sex drive at all, while Neil has a voracious sexual appetite. After one unfulfilling encounter too many,...

Longtime girlfriends Spen, Chatt and Tader live it up diva style as they love and support each other in their happiness. But when the men in their respective lives reveal shocking secrets and hidden agendas, the thread of friendship between them is suddenly pulled thin. Things get even worse when...

What happens when you get too caught up in hustling? Beautiful Taj Jenson spends her evenings performing lesbian sex shows for an all-male audience and earns big bills while doing it. But her nonstop lifestyle full of cash, partying and drugs all comes crashing down when she meets San, a sweet girl with...

Parade Knight hates her complexion. As a result, she considers herself to be unattractive and condones the misuse of her body. Sky Taylor is beautiful, fly and wanted, and loves reminding Parade of her imperfections especially after suspecting that she may be sleeping with her man, Jay Hernandez....

Queen is young, beautiful and extremely intelligent. Born and raised as Princess of The Black Mafia, an organization founded by her father, she wants for nothing except the love of her cruel, cold-hearted mother. When the police arrest Queen's father for her mother's murder, Queen's perfect life is shattered....

No one said living a double life was easy. When Raimone marries his high school sweetheart and starts a family, he’s still not satisfied. What’s more, Raimone’s wife Sasha doesn't know that her husband fathered a child right under her nose with his mistress NaTaisha. After four years of sitting...

Danielle Frazier walked into her ex’s family reunion expecting some drama. But she never could have anticipated what happened next. At the reunion, Dani meets Scottie Meadows, a smooth bad boy with a killer smile who smells like just the kind of danger Dani could get down with. And he isn’t...

Funny, Passionate, and straight from the soul, Vera Wright-Turner thinks she has it all under control until she meets and greets herself. Born on the Flip Side of the hustler's game, she is the child of a fifteen year old drug addict who places her in a trash dump, with a note that read, ''Please forgive...

Keith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking “the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder” (Audrey Niffenegger). His first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller, and his second novel, Angels of Destruction, was hailed as “a magical tale of...

Sherrice Valdez - a.k.a. The Queen Bee - is back, and this time she's the one running things. The money, power and fame are all hers for the taking. All her good fortune isn't without its setbacks, howevers. In the male dominated world of the drug trade she still has to prove her worth and navigate through...

Menage Unique Legend's life, though it continues to be filled with material possessions and easy sex, spirals steadily out of control in this action-packed, page-turning sequel to A Hood Legend. Through it all, he pretends to be in control and keeps his game face on, even after experiencing personal...

In this irreverent take on infidelity and modern marriage, newlywed topflight prostitute Nancy Chan finds herself struggling to adjust to the realities of domestic bliss. She’s honing her respectable image as the wife of investment banker Matt, cooking fashionable meals and taking his shirts to...

Fresh out of the Marines with only five grand in his pocket, Menage is looking to make his presence and his flamboyant taste in cars and clothes, felt on the extravagant, flossed-out streets of Miami. When Menage Discovers that he has a flare for flipping stolen cars into more cash then he can handle...