Good African American Fiction Part 22
Explore Part 22 of our curated list of top African American fiction books. Discover compelling stories, acclaimed authors, and must-read novels in Black literature.
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Thug Politics
by Dutch
An up-and-coming promoter, Maurice Sebastian, aka Money Mo, has his sights set on his biggest promotion yet -- becoming mayor of Newark. With politics in his blood and the streets as his playground, Maurice has devised a plan to combine the two and have the best of both worlds, a gangsta's paradise.
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In My Hood II
by Endy
You thought there would be no one left in the hood after the horrible chain of murders that occurred in In My Hood. But the 'hood don't stop living; the saga only continues with a new breed of street dwellers to take their place. Nettie's back to wreak havoc on the city of Newark by targeting the HNIC, Leory "Big Roy" Jenkins. But she is not alone. She recruits Ishmael's old squad, along with a few people of her own and takes getting money by any means necessary to a new llevel. But there's a new cat on the block and his name is Wild. The name is self-explanatory and he has the same vision in sight: to conquer and destroy Leroy. Nettie and Wild join forces sto create the illest crew Essex County has seen in decades. Greed and jealousy rear their ungly heads amoung the crew, causing a turmoil of destruction that reveals Nettie's ultimate secret. Will Nellie trade in the blade she sucked on for years for a gun? Or will the 'hood take her first?
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Slow Burn
by Ebony Farashuu
Serafina has the blues. Her soul mate lies on his deathbed while she struggles to maintain hope and remain true. Her best friend, Ayzha, is trapped in a marriage where intimacy is non-existent and the desire to cheat is overwhelming. Sexy, hilarious, and heartbreaking, Slow Burn follows two women as they pursue love, make love, lose love, and learn what true love and friendship really mean.
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Victoria's Secret (The Cartel Publications Presents)
by Jason Poole
Victoria survives a tragic childhood to find love, but the man who saves her walks into a hell of his own. A realistic story of new age pimping, taking you from the slums of Washington, D.C., to the night clubs of Atlanta, from the gang infested streets of Chicago to Memphis, Tennessee, home of the Playa's Ball.
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Hell Has No Fury
by Keith Lee Johnson
A District of Columbia warden and his wife are found in their home, tortured and brutally murdered. Drugs and large sums of money are found at the scene. Several days later, in a Malibu mansion. Heather Connelly, her lover, and her closest friends are murdered in the same fashion. Who’s committing the murders? FBI Special Agent Phoenix Perry investigates and discovers that there are two serial killers. This riveting page turner has plenty of twists and turns guaranteed to keep you guessing to the very end.
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Bare Necessities
by Hazel Mills
Whether newly discovered or rekindled, there is no feeling in the world like pure passion coursing through our veins. It erupts at our core and allows us to be free and uninhibited. Bare Necessities: Sensuous Tales of Passion is a collection of erotica that explores passions that are buried deep in the subconscious as well as those that lie just beneath the surface and are easily exposed. The characters of each sizzling story experience passion that explodes and sends them hurling into a fiery universe of sensuous pleasure.
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Slow Burn
by Brenda Jackson
When attorney Skye Barclay discovers that she had been adopted and launches a search for her birth mother and her biological brother, her fiance Clark abruptly ends their engagement, leaving her free to enjoy a steamy affair with her brother Vincent's sexy cousin, Slade, until Clark returns to win her back.
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Final Fling
by Torrian Ferguson
Final Fling is the sequel to The S.W.A.P. Game The primary characters take a cruise and become romantically involved with another couple on the cruise ship.
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St. Louis Drama
by Bilal
The inner city streets of the STL are as dark as the night without a moon. Stories of murder, betrayal, rape, lies, kidnapping, and romance are all spray painted along the graffiti walls of the impoverished urban neighborhoods. Big time baller by night and doctor by day, Keith---- attempts to maximize his profits before he exits the game. With the love of his life, Chanell sitting tight and riding high by his side, he rolls on with the ultimate plan that will eventually allow them to retire in grand style. What Keith does not know is that his true love, has grown tired of their on again off again romance. Tired of being alone, Chanell turns to involves herself with someone who has a secret and deadly past. Unknowingly, she complicates and endangers her life and the life of the man who holds her heart. Is all this drama worth someone dying over? Gear up and prepare to ride along to see how dark hidden truths untoldat some point unfold!
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Wait for Love
by Wanda Hudson, d
Companionship. Friendship. Compassion. Patience. Caring. Sharing. These six words plus many more make up what we all as humans desire. LOVE. Some of us have been heartbroken fools more than once. Why do we need love? Why do we hunger for it? Wait For Love: A Black Girl's Story, is Lynnette Donna Lee's life. If you have ever been in love, or are longing for that special someone, you've probably experienced many of the same emotions as she. Join her on this adventurous, sometimes humorous, and sometimes painful literary romp. Lynnette bares her soul and her body many times in search of the man she'll marry. The only problem she has is with the men she chooses to give her all to. They show her they don't love her and then go to extremes to get the point across. Why does she keep holding on when the only love involved is nowhere to be found? Laugh with her, cry with her, get angry with her, and if you're waiting on him to change and settle down and marry you -- wait with her. If you've ever questioned how much women will do for the sake of a man, Wait For Love: A Black Girl's Story, is the answer.
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Spencer's Forbidden Passion
by Brenda Jackson
"YOU HAVE FORTY-EIGHT HOURS TO BE MY WIFE." Millionaire deal-maker Spencer Westmoreland would bail out Chardonnay Russell's failing Napa Valley vineyard. And in return she'd bear his children. But she shouldn't dare hope Spencer would ever fall in love with her. Her only choice was to accept the arrogant businessman's proposal. But becoming Spencer's wife--in every way--set her body, her heart, on fire. And soon Chardonnay wanted what was strictly forbidden....
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Taming Clint Westmoreland
by Brenda Jackson
In name only? The moment ex-Texas Ranger Clint Westmoreland learned he was still married, he set the limits for his wife's stay at his luxurious horse ranch. But when she arrived, Clint's boundaries began to blur. He and Alyssa Barkley had thirty days to untangle the legal knot that had bound them together during an undercover assignment years before. But this sexy, curvaceous Alyssa was different from the mousy, awestruck rookie agent he remembered. And now her every move had him wondering what it would be like if he really were her man....
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From My Soul to Yours
by Dywane D. Birch
A sequel to Shattered Souls that is a steamy, page-turning story of friendship, drama, and love tossed about in the storms of life. Readers are brought back into the lives of friends and lovers Indera, Britton, Damascus, and Chyna, all who continue to struggle with their desires and demons in life. As their lives intertwine with others, delicious and dirty secrets start to overflow, threatening the orderly world they've worked to create for themselves. Indera is learning that some matters of the heart are beyond her control, and that, rather than clinging to revenge, her path to freedom is found in forgiveness. Damascus believes he's found his soulmate in Indera, but wonders if her crazy antics will send him running. Britton is recovering from yet another failed relationship and learns the disturbing truth about the mother of his twin boys. And Chyna and Sarina, mother and daughter, come to odds as Chyna must separate from her daughter or risk losing herself to Sarina's increasingly unstable world of paranoia. Lastly is Celeste, a woman with a mysterious past who tries to manipulate events among the many friends, only to get entangled in her own trap. With volatile emotion brewing in everyone's hearts and explosive decisions being forced in every moment, From My Soul to Yours is an engrossing tale of the shelters people seek during troubled times—sure to delight, entertain, and enlighten Dywane D. Birch's fans.
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In Between Men
by San Culberson
Hope doesn't know what happened. The dream life she worked so hard for - wife, career, friends - suddenly seems like a trap. Only her colleague Anthony understands. Hope finds Anthony sexy, but is sure she can keep their relationship strictly friends - until one night of passion undoes everything. Now she can't resist him. But hope is finding out fast that too much of a good thing is not nearly enough. With her marriage shattered and her life in turmoil, she'll have to decide what she's willing to lose - and just how much she dares to risk.
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Pitbulls In A Skirt (The Cartel Publications Presents)
by Mikal Malone
Inside Emerald City (one of D.C.'s deadliest projects), there are four women who are the girlfriends of the Emerald City Squad. The Squad controls the drug game and the girls control who goes in and out. Things begin to fall apart when two members of the Squad get killed and one member gets caught with another woman on the side.
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Shyt List
by Reign
Yvonna's high school sweetheart is brutally murdered by her father. Behind Yvonna's back, people keep a secret involving her best friend and deceased boyfriend. Angry, Yvonna flees to Baltimore, but returns to D.C. four years later to exact revenge on t
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More Secrets, More Lies
by J. Tremble
More Secrets More Lies tells the sexy, erotic tale of a scorned wife with a new attitude. Secret, the wife of Tarron, a cheating business-man is out to re-claim her son, and husband who left her for Victoria, a woman specializing in seducing men. Tarron eventually finds himself caught in a web of lies, seduction and deceit. While he fights his brother in a custody battle for a child that is potentially not his, and disputes embezzlement charges at work, his sweet Victoria is up to her old tricks again. No one knows Victoria's underhanded intentions until she does the unthinkable. When her scandalous sexual agenda is exposed, she has to come clean and choose her lover, which will cause problems for everyone.
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Secrets of a Housewife
by J. Tremble
No one ever tells the real truth about their secret bedroom play. Many fight to keep their sexual escapades hush-hush. Tarron, a successful businessman and father of two, has his pick of the sexiest women in town. Between wild nights on the town and quiet nights at home, Tarron thinks he has got the best of both worlds. But his world is shattered when his wife, who is ironically named Secret, has skeletons of her own. Secret, on the other hand, handles her husbands infidelity well. When things heat up, she fulfills her wildest dreams, but the consequences are unthinkable! Hold On Tight! Secrets of a Housewife will keep you moist from start to finish!
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Payback With Ya Life
by Wahida Clark
A sequel to Payback Is a Mutha finds a pregnant Shan relocating to Detroit in the aftermath of her best friend's suicide, struggling against a revenge-minded adversary targeting her brother, and witnessing turf wars affecting her brother's efforts to reclaim his position at the top of the drug game. Original.
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Dead Broke
by Trista Russell
Thanks to a gunshot wound from her cheating ex-boyfriend, Sarai Emery wakes up after a month in a coma, and all she wants to do is eat, gossip, see her twin brother, and crawl into bed with Damian, who she thinks is still her man. But her memory is ten months behind, and her life went from fabulous to scandalous in the time she forgot. She has no clue that "high class" prostitution was her way of making ends meet. Meanwhile, Sarai's new but forgotten love, Tremel "Mel" Colton, vows to stay by her side. Though she can't remember him, he patiently waits to remind her of the long, steamy nights she spent in his arms. He romances her all over again, but just as lust and love start to blossom, shocking secrets from Sarai's past are revealed and suddenly Mel is unsure of their future together. Also, because she doesn't remember them, some of Sarai's enemies mask themselves as her friends, and Sarai has no idea how much trouble she has gotten herself into. But one thing is certain -- she will never forget her enemies again. In this seductive sequel to her sizzling debut novel, Going Broke, Trista Russell turns down the sheets and turns up the heat in a story about one woman learning that money comes and goes, but good friends, love, and sex are hard to forget.