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Urban and African American Fiction October 2020
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The Business of Lovers
by Eric Jerome Dickey
While a father struggles to reconnect with his estranged son and spiteful ex, his bodyguard brother is invited by three women escorts to consider a job as a male prostitute. By the NAACP Image Award-winning author of A Wanted Woman.
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Addicted to You
by Porscha Sterling
When pampered heir Sage McMillian helps tattoo artist Dom “Ink” Richardson with his defense after his wife is murdered, Ink begins to think she may have ulterior motives.
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Trouble is What I Do
by Walter Mosley
Detective Leonid McGill is forced to confront the ghost of his felonious past when a nonagenarian Mississippi bluesman is targeted by an infamous assassin. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Down the River Unto the Sea.
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His proposal is a deal she can't refuse. Cruelly rejected by the Stewarts after revealing herself to her birth family, Morgan Young turns to Jared Robinson for comfort. The reformed bad boy proposes they pretend to be a couple to show his own family he's settling down. And before long, they aren't pretending! Yet just as Morgan begins to feel accepted, secrets and all, a vicious rumor about Jared's past threatens them both.
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Love's Broken Vow
by Honey
Embarking on a forbidden affair with Royce Phillips, Catholic priest Nicholas Gregory, leading a double life, is forced to choose between the church and the love of his life and decides to take a leap of faith that leads to his own happily ever after until tragedy strikes.
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Jamaica
by Racquel Williams
Rising to become one of Jamaica's wealthiest kingpins after an upbringing in the projects, Gaza unexpectedly falls for Catherine, the federal agent who is intent on bringing him down, while young dancer Camille resolves to claim him for herself.
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The Wright Kind of Love: Toby and Niecey
by Genesis Woods
Newly engaged to Tobias Wright, the man of her dreams, Niecey Taylor questions her love for him when her ex-boyfriend comes back into the picture causing trust issues between her and Tobias.
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Surviving the Chase
by Lisa Renee Johnson
Abandoned by her mother as a child, Payton wants no reminders of her past and no commitments, but when she uncovers a shattering connection to a serial killer who is hunting her estranged mother, she teams up with her best friend's husband, who almost became a victim of the killer himself, to stop her.
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She Said It's Your Child
by Sherene Holly Cain
Desperate to have a child, Danica and Dolan Rogers find their marriage put to the test when the solution to their problem turns out to be their worst nightmare.
For fans of: urban fiction author's such as Ashley Antoinette's The Prada Plan and Brick's Hood Misfits.
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Blood Ties
by Shaun Sinclair
A father and son team begin working for a powerful, international cartel as a cleaner and an assassin until a mysterious woman turns up and, exploiting their hidden weaknesses, turns the pair against each other.
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Never Again, No More
by Untamed
Born and raised in Atlanta, Lucinda, LaMeka, Charice, and Trinity are best friends who all have suffered the perils of teen pregnancy. With their dreams and ambitions on hold, they struggle to find themselves and survive this game called life. Despite their efforts, the decisions they make create more trouble, and the consequences prove to be costlier than they ever could have imagined. They'll learn that to win in life, sometimes you have to lose. Journey with these ladies as they try not to fall victim, Never Again, No More.
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Don't Mess With the Carter Boys
by Desirée
When their sister Olivia reveals an explosive secret, the Carters find their drama-prone rivalries and affairs further complicated by surprise proposals, unexpected pregnancies and a tension-riddled family dinner. By the best-selling author of The Return of the Carter Boys.
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The Coldest Love She's Ever Known
by Leo L. Sullivan
Sunday Kennedy walked away from her first love, Malik "King" Shields, when he was arrested for a crime he swears he didn't commit and moved on to street hustler Caesar Jones, who is now the father of her child, and though Sunday's heart tells her to trust Malik, she doesn't want to destroy the family she's created with Caesar, causing her to be caught in the middle of a war between them that can only end in tragedy.
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John Woman
by Walter Mosley
A young man reinvents himself as a professor to share his late father's wisdom at an unorthodox university, only to encounter fellow intellectuals who have insights into his father's hidden past.
Reviewers say: Versatile, masterful Mosley is a reader magnet, and this collision of crime and academic jousting will incite special interest. (Booklist)
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Married to the Shooter
by Michel Moore
Despite pleas from her mother, the upper-middle-class teenager Kapri James is addicted to "slumming" and living the fast life with hardcore criminal Nolan White, known citywide as a shooter, acting as a hood Bonnie to his gangster Clyde, and together often causing the streets to run red.
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The Good Life
by Dorian Sykes
In 1988 Detroit, Wink and his crew jump into the drug trade, determined to taste the good life, but as they pay their dues and the unforgiving streets harden their hearts, they learn that all dreams aren’t worth living.
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His Final Deal
by Theresa A. Campbell
One of Jamaica’s biggest drug lords, Raymond Brown is near his breaking point and refuses to go down without a fight, making a deal with God to eradicate his enemies once and for all in exchange for giving up his drug empire.
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Long Live the Queen: Long Live the Queen
by Brandie Davis
Having turned their backs on one another, Renee's once strong circle is now dismantled, and each individual is after what ripped them apart--Carmen. Carmen's making it hard for them to capture her and doing whatever she must to survive. Renee wants revenge along with everyone else, but will she achieve it, or will she die in battle without the help of Julian and Dane?
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Diamond Mafia: How a Good Girl Set it Off
by Genesis Woods
For as long as Bobbi, Lucci, Diamond, and Kay Kay have been in each other's lives, they have always had one another's back. When Bobbi presents her girls with a plan that would eliminate their financial burdens and have them set for life, one by one they jump on board. Never in a million years would they have imagined that this perfectly planned heist would be the very thing that put their lifelong friendships to the test.
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Down the River Unto the Sea
by Walter Mosley
Framed by corrupt enemies within the NYPD and forced to serve a decade in prison, private detective Joe King Oliver receives a confession from a woman who helped set him up, a situation that compels him to investigate his own case at the same time he assists a black radical journalist who has been wrongly accused of murdering two corrupt cops.
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