Sizzlin African American Fiction
Explore sizzling African American fiction books with our curated list of must-read titles. Dive into captivating stories, vibrant characters, and powerful narratives by top Black authors.
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Naughty by Nature
by Brenda Hampton
Scorpio Valentino, a sexy-diva who owns a beauty salon, is used to having her way with any and every man that she meets. Eventually, her behavior leads to her staring down the barrel of a gun, wielded by the scorned-wife of one of the many men that she's seduced.
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Change Don't Always Come
by Brenda M. Hampton
Jaylin Jerome Rogers is back to take his final journey. After embodying a true player in "Two's Enough, Three's a Crowd" and "My Way or No Way," he's now faced with a choice: make some critical changes or get played.
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Serpent in My Corner
by J. Daniels
Hennessy Cooper, an FBI agent, finds her life forever changed by her dangerous attraction to Tristan James "T.J." Jackson, the prime suspect in a rash of high-profile robberies and the subject of her undercover investigation, forcing her to choose between love and honor. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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Shades of a Chameleon
by J. Daniels
While investigating the disappearance of a fellow agent, Kimberla Bacon, known in the FBI as the Chameleon, enters a world of prostitution, political intrigue, and corruption where she must deny her attraction to undercover agent Jacob White. Original. 15,000 first printing.
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The Criss Cross
by Crystal Lacey Winslow
Nikki Ling is half black and Japanese. Shes independent, street-smart and the daughter of a prostitute. Living in the mean streets of East New York and Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn shes forced to make a living the only what she knows how. When a wealthy, South African diplomat asks for her hand in marriage things seem to get brighter. Until she realizes that the soft-spoken, reserved, gentleman is pathological, kinky, and sadistic. One day she meets a mysterious stranger who approaches her with the Criss Cross. Is the Criss Cross her ticket to a better life? Or will the Criss Cross ultimately become the double cross? Wait! The Criss Cross isnt done yet! The old gang from Life, Love Loneliness have some unfinished business to resolve. In this page-turning novel see how the drama unfolds for Lyric, Lacey, Madison, Joshua, and Estelle.
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Caught Up!
by Winston Chapman
When Raven Klein, a bi-racial woman from Iowa moves to Atlanta in hopes of finding a life she's secretly dreamed about, she finds more than she ever imagined. Quickly lured and lost in a world of sex, money, power-struggles, betrayal & deceit, Raven doesn't know who she can really trust!A chance meeting at a bus terminal leads to her delving into the seedy world of strip-clubs, big-ballers and shot-callers. Now Raven's shuffling through more men than a Vegas blackjack dealer does a deck of cards. And sex has even become mundane -- little more than a tool to get what she wants.After a famous acquantance wind-up dead -- On which shoulder will Raven lean? A wrong choice culd cost her life!There's a reason they call it HOTLANTA!
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Be Careful What You Wish for
by Cheryl Faye
This novel introduces the reader to two unlikely friends and the conflict that ensues over a man. At first glance, roommates Jamilah Parsons and Sabrina Richardson appear to have nothing in common except the same address. Jamilah is a thick, brown-skinned, confident sista, while Sabrina is a light-skinned, model thin, insecure woman. Yet the two have been best friends since they were young. Their friendship is put to the test when Sabrina brings home Darius Thornton, a handsome, upwardly mobile attorney.
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The Velvet Rope
by Brenda L. Thomas
Life is a party, but be careful who you invite. When Tiffany Johnson, a street-smart publicist at Platinum Images, decides to launch Teaz Entertainment and open a club, she's setting out to be the queen of Philly nightlife. Keeping it in the family, she partners up with her fiancé, Malik, and her sister, Kamille, and counts on her friend DJ Essence to bring the noise. Investors seem to be lining up and the buzz is gettin' loud. When Tiffany finds out that Malik and Kamille had an affair—and that it might not be the only secret they share—she spirals downward and gets swept up in two unexpectedly erotic affairs of her own. Awakening to a new kind of sexual freedom and reeling from betrayal, Tiffany is raw and vulnerable. So vulnerable that she doesn't realize that her new lovers are involved in more than kinky sex, and that they might take her new club down with them...unless she takes them down first.
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Lace
by Giselle Carmichael
Having never experienced real love, romance author Lacey Avery spent her days composing her fantasies into the pages of best-selling novels. Injured in an automobile accident, Lacey is rescued by the undeniably gorgeous Fire Captain, Damien Christoval. When Lacey begs Damien not to leave her side, he finds himself comforting her through the entire ordeal.
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Swimming with Swans
by Carla Diane Ellis
Swimming With Swans is a Women's Fiction, that provides a window into the lives of three marriages in the Amos family, two daughters, their mates and their parents.This story not only provides a platform for the views of women, but men are given a voice to express their perceptions of marriage as well. This story demonstrates the frailty of commitment to marriages, that are challenged by abuse, control, adultery, addictions, immaturity and the deception of men Living on the Down Low.
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Crave
by Darnella Ford
Sharply written, combining humor and subtley, "Crave" ascends in a heroic effort to touch those who have ever craved the need to be loved.
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The Great Pretender
by Millenia Black
"For over six years, Reginald Brooks has managed to pull it off. Having two families, leading two lives. Now, the pretending must stop. But how? THE GREAT PRETENDER is an electrifying tale of how one man tries to untangle his life, setting a full-fledged arena of wife against husband, lover against lover, friend against friend, and family against family. Once you begin this engaging tale, you will witness how one man's decision to pretend ricochets through the lives of several people. For some, escape could seem to be a most welcome solution. Reginald Brooks is a polished marketing VP who shrewdly built a dual life around his work. But without warning, that life begins to come apart at the seams and Reginald makes a decision that could threaten his very future and the lives of those he loves most. Tracy Brooks is Reginald's wife of nearly 20 years. While the cat's away, the mice will play. She's got secrets of her own to protect. Renee Jameson is the younger woman with the killer body who managed to turn Reginald's head long enough to become pregnant. From the plush streets of Miami to the glamour of New York City, follow the families of Reginald Brooks as their lives of sex, love, hate and surprise unfolds to an agonizing climax! This debut novel by Millenia Black is anticipated to spark a tantalizing blend of emotions, and may even leave you wondering if perhaps you know someone who might be THE GREAT PRETENDER. "
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Portrait of Deception
by Janette McCarthy Louard
Thirty-something multi-millionaire Sam Trahan has accomplished more than most men. But his most important goal remains - to fulfil his grandmother's last wish that he recover a stolen family heirloom, a painting called The Black Madonna. The mesmerisingly beautiful work is priceless, but its sentimental value is far greater. Sam enlists the thief's former fiancee, the only person Sam believes can track him down. Little does he know that in doing so, he will end up realising his grandmother's even greater, unspoken wish...that he know love.
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Insatiable
by Allison Hobbs
Two women are desperately vying for the same man, but when they discover he’s been unfaithful to both of them, one woman hatches a scheme that ends in disaster. Two women from entirely different backgrounds who have more in common than meets the eye. Life has dealt Terelle a dismal hand: a rough childhood spent in and out of foster care, an unexpected pregnancy, and an unfaithful man. But she's determined to change all that. All Terelle ever wanted was a home and a family to call her own and the stable environment she never got in foster care. Terelle works long hours as a nursing assistant to pay for exorbitant collect phone calls, care packages, and to generally help support Marquise, the incarcerated father of her child. She expects to be compensated with marriage and is devastated when upon his release he refuses to settle down and resumes his philandering ways. Kai regards sex as sport until she meets Marquise. Feeling that she's fallen in love for the first time, wealthy and well-bred Kai expects street-savvy Marquise to leave his family for her. When she discovers that he is maintaining a relationship with both she and Terelle, Kai resorts to schemes that lead to disastrous results for all involved.
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The Million Dollar Divorce
by Rodney Marcus Johnson
The "Essence" bestselling author of "Dating Games" and "The Harris Family" delivers a provocative new novel about the lowdown schemes and broken dreams that follow a fractured marriage.
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The Edge of Midnight
by Beverly Jenkins
Blackboard bestselling author Beverly Jenkins launches her first contemporary romantic suspense with this exciting sizzler. Sparks fly when Mykal Chandler, the head of a covert government agency, fights to protect the woman he has fallen in love with. Sarita Grayson is desperate. That's the only explanation for her late night rendezvous with a bag of stolen diamonds. But then a handsome stranger stands between her and a clean getaway. In the struggle for freedom, she accidentally shoots him.Mykal Chandler, head of a covert government agency NIA, can't believe he's been shot. He's shocked, he's furious, but he's also attracted to this sassy woman. Unfortunately, Sarita has stumbled unto a smuggling plot and he'll need to protect her, even if he has to kidnap her to do it. But Sarita isn't one to go quietly into the night...
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The Edge of Dawn
by Beverly Jenkins
The beautiful daughter of a prominent Michigan doctor, Narice has never strayed anywhere near the wrong side of the law. Then her father is brutally murdered -- and suddenly federal agents are swarming around her like flies, making accusations about a stolen North African diamond. But before they can interrogate her, she is wrested from their grasp at gunpoint by a shadowy figure -- and Narice Jordan is on the run. But is this dark, good-looking stranger who calls himself Saint her kidnapper or her savior? Narice knows nothing about any missing gem, yet there are two things she knows for certain: Only at Saint's side can she find her way to her father's killers. And she'll have to trust this dangerous, ruthless, and deadly mystery man ... if she wants to keep breathing.
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Black Lace
by Beverly Jenkins
The last thing Lacy Green needs is trouble—and handsome Mayor Drake Randolph has "danger" written all over him . . . especially when "His Fineness" accidentally runs her off the road. Despite Drake's sensuous charm, irresistible magnetism, and unwavering determination to make amends, she's thinking it might be smart to play it safe and keep her distance . . . if only his lips weren't so inviting. But trouble comes from a different source when Lacy, as the head of Detroit's Environmental Protection Department, launches an investigation into the activities of a ruthless developer. Suddenly, Lacy becomes a target, dragged down into a swamp of greed, corruption . . . and murder. Now Drake Randolph might be the only one in Motown who can keep Lacy alive . . .