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The Shade Under the Mango Tree Featured
Gold Medal, Contemporary Fiction, 2021 Global Book Awards (formerly New York City Book Awards) Finalist, Multicultural Fiction, 2021 International Book Awards After two heartbreaking losses, Luna wants adventure. Something and somewhere very different from the affluent, sheltered home in California and Hawaii where she grew up. An adventure in which she can also make some difference. Lucien ...
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Cooking a wonderful meal is an art. An act of love. An act of grace. A gift that affirms and gives life—not only does it nurture those who partake of the meal; it also feeds the soul of the creator. These are lessons Gina learns from her mother, daughter of an unfortunate French chef. Gina is a young woman born to poor parents, a nobody keen to taste life outside the world she was born into. A wor ...
A jaded mage-hunter. A mystery that's better left unsolved. And a choice that tests morals against codes. For years, Tracker’s life has had two facets: Hunting spellsters and entertaining strangers in his bed. Few doubt he's good at both, although only one is considered acceptable amongst the King's Hounds. His trip to Toptower should be just another task in an endless string of routine. Take d ...
Dario has had a rough year full of angst, anxiety, and depression. After years of trying to be the son he thought his parents wanted he is finally free to be himself, but he doesn't know who he is. Dario is used to the structure his false yet perfect life brought, and his new freedom puts him far out of his element.
Still, he has ...
Read the award-winning sequel in The Colors Trilogy! If at first you don't succeed, then try, try again…right? Only two things matter to Lance, protecting his girls and football. After almost losing the girls, Lance is more determined than ever to safeguard them and fulfill his dream to become a professional athlete. With the NFL draft looming, will his promiscuity derail his dream and endanger th ...
Stepping out in borrowed shoes has never been so dangerous. Stripped of her inheritance as a child by a greedy stepmother, Alla’s future hovers between drudgery and slavery. Having spent years toiling in the mansion that was once her happy home, tending to her stepmother’s every whim, she has long since put aside any thoughts of a better future. When a chance encounter in the marketplace leave ...
Someone is out to murder his husband and he might just be the reason they succeed. Imperial Crown Prince Darshan knew his journey home wasn’t going to be the modest one he hoped for, especially not after eloping with Hamish, a former prince—and now exile—of Tirglas. When he thwarts a clumsy attempt on his husband’s life during a soirée hosted by his long-standing rival and half-sister, he figur ...
Is this widower cowboy prepared for the feelings stirr ...
“Powers like Bleach. Worlds like Supernatural. Vibes like Legendborn."
Fifteen-year-old Maleek Warden's high school life was normal... at least before three strange things changed his world forever.
- Strange thing #1: Finding a dying angelic being impaled to a tree.
- Strange thing #2: Said angelic being delivering to him a message from another realm.
- Str ...R.J. Wilson4.9915.99
Gavin is helping one of his best friends, Dario, navigate through depression with the help of another friend, Rayland. The three did everything together until high school ruined the bond. Something happened to Gavin that puts his friendship with Dario at risk. When it came down to the choice between their friendship and his own feelings, Gavin chose himself. Was it ...
Detective Alexis Adams is thrust into a murder case the second she moves back to Tate Valley. She's intrigued when the case leads her to billionaire Grant Copeland, the most powerful man in town who she's sworn revenge against for destroying her mother's life. Alexis faces another challenge when she reconnects with Kevin Reed, her first love. Now super-rich and Grant's right-hand man, Kevin is ...
After a traumatic event in his childhood, Dana decides he's going to change his name, move across the country, and start all over. Forgetting the past seems like a good idea until he meets someone. Suddenly he's in love, his past catches up with him, and he's forced to face the truths he struggles to hide. Will love win, or will the trauma of his past ruin any chance for happiness?
Determined publicist Lovie Whitfield is on the brink of a career-defining moment—organizing an exclusive book tour for an author whose controversial relationship book is taking social media by storm. The catch? Saxon Mitchell, the enigmatic owner of Kentucky's prized Book Barrel, must agree to host the tour's debut. Sparks fly immediately in the grumpy sunshine small town steamy romance.
How can he win with the odds stacked against him? Prince Hamish has no interest in fulfilling his duty of marrying. Not to a woman, at least. That doesn’t stop his mother, Queen Fiona, from presenting him with every eligible noblewoman that enters their castle. He’s certain it’ll be no different with the representative of the Udynea Empire. So when they do arrive, Hamish is relieved the imperia ...
Having been raised in the system, Louis never envisioned he’d have the life he had: A loving partner, his dream job bringing music into the world and three children, four if you counted Dario; a shy, anxious and extremely talented student who didn’t recognise his worth. Louis stepped in to be his father when Dario’s own had failed him.
IN THIS SECOND BOOK of the series, Glory Bishop has finally broken free of her mother's oppressive grasp and is offered a new life by a seemingly altruistic Chicago socialite, but there may be more than good intentions at play. Against the advice of trusted friends and family, Glory chooses the protection of Malcom Porter, her adoring, much older, bad-boy-turned-minister fiancé. Thrust into a gild ...
Dario suffers from anxiety and depression mixed with a toxic desire to please his parents. Although an overachiever in all things, he can't get the approval he craves; Never believing he could be good enough for them. His friends try to help him realise he's okay as is, but nothing they do works. Eventually, something beyond his control forces Dario to the conclusio ...
A bwwm interracial suspense romance between confident twenty-five-year-old Natalie and Business owner and former detective Eric Dormer.
Natalie has learned one or two things about how an investigation works.
Her ...
Anxious, nervous, and a bit on edge, Dario is stepping into his new normal. Trying to embrace his true self is a daunting task: his non-relationship with his father goes further south; he can’t seem to get past the walls he built to hide from himself and his parents, and the closer he gets to the goal the harder it seems to attain.
We Are All the Color of God tells a beautiful and true message. No matter who or what you are, no matter what color skin you have, no matter what color eyes you have, no matter what color hair you have, no matter where you go or where you have been: you are a divine being. We are all unique, but we are all the same. We have a lot in common - a lot more than meets the eye. In fact, we have the most ...
In the shadow of an old Bacchus Hill, bricks and stone were the only things standing from a time long past and only a handful of men could recall its former glory. Among them were his bestfriend Alistair, ‘The Lion” Bacchus. Lennox Marshall was always his trusted confidant for all things related to ‘the hill.’ For them, past events carried both fond memories and haunting secrets, a time when men s ...
Orin believes he isn't worthy of love and spends his life trying to be what he perceives as the perfect and most desirable human.
Orin decides he needs to accept himself as is before someone else can. All seems well until one momnet of loneliness has him on a dating app and quickly into a flirty banter, undoing months of hard wor ...
Read the award-winning, #1 Amazon Bestseller in the US, Coming of Age, and African American categories! True friendship endures all obstacles…right? Three college friends search for true love, NFL fame, and a successful engineering career. Will one friend’s quest for happiness endanger all three of their lives? Naïve, romantic Melody Wilkins aims to find true love at college just like her paren ...
If you are reading this, then it is already too late. You’ve been drawn in... to a world filled with things you can’t escape. Darkness, evil, treachery and betrayals of the worst kind lay within these pages. I’d tell you to put the book down, run while you are still safe, your mind unscathed, your world unshattered... but it would be futile. You want to know what ha ...
Nothing’s going right in Melody Carter’s life right now. She’s broke, unemployed, and living in the shadow of her successful fashion-model sister Sahara. But that ain’t even the half of Melody’s problems, the biggest one is Keith Taylor, Sahara’s new boyfriend who’s slowly worming his way into the sisters’ lives. Keith’s perfect to everyone else: successful, gorgeous, and at 35 he’s the co-CEO ...
Rayland has big dreams of broadway superstardom and the spunky determination to get her there. Sometimes feisty and aggressive but that's part of her charm. Her two best friends, Dario and Gavin, have their own opinions about this charm. Chasing her dreams comes naturally. The harder task is dealing with Dario's depression and helping him realise his worth. But when ...
He’s unleashed, unprepared and thoroughly screwed. Dylan's life in the spellster tower has everything he should want: magical knowledge, safety from the King's Hounds and frequent clandestine affairs with women. All at the cost of his freedom. So when the chance to leave the tower—even as a leashed weapon for the King's Army—arises, he seizes it. When his first scouting mission goes awry, Dy ...
What happened to her father, and why was her family forced to flee? For years, these questions plagued Leilani. Eighteen years ago, her mother whisked her children from their privileged life on a Pacific island, without their father and without explanation. Now, all Leilani wants is to dedicate herself to healing people, like her father did. But the past is impossible to run away from. Taught how ...
Kevin's life was fairly standard and hectic. The fifth out of nine children there was never a shortage of excitement in the house. But his real joy came from building things. If he could describe heaven, it would be a place with unlimited access to power tools filled with the smell of sawdust and metal. Confident in his sexuality and sometimes a bit aggressive his j ...
Read the award-winning finale in The Colors Trilogy! They are supposed to be there through thick and thin. However, when tragedy strikes, can you depend on your friends? Imani Cabrette, strong and proud, never asks for help. But when an accident changes her world forever, can she overcome her stubborn pride? Sweet, dependable Melody Wilkins owes her life to Imani. Now that the tables are turned wi ...
Still grappling with the loss of his home, Dylan has no choice but to head for Wintervale. His one solace is in travelling the same direction taken by the enemy. But the truth behind the attack on the spellster tower suggests things aren’t as clear-cut and the enemy may well be closer than they thought. Crossing the kingdom also means remaining in the presence of Tracker, the King’s Hound who Dyl ...