Last Updated: February 14, 2026
This Here is Love
by Princess Joy L. Perry
Young Bless, the only child left to her enslaved mother, stubbornly crafts the terms of her vital existence. David is a helping child and a solace to his parents, and he gave a purpose to their trials. Jack Dane, a Scots-Irish boy, sails to Britain’s colonies when his father sells him into indentured servitude as an escape from poverty.
Boom Town
by Nic Stone
When Damaris “Charm” Wilburn, a new daytime dancer, is missing for her shift at Boom Town, former headliner Mihah “Lyriq” Johanssen suspects something more than a “no call, no show.” As Lyriq’s former headline partner and lover–Felice “Lucky” Carothers–also vanished under similar circumstances, Lyriq decides she’s going to find them.
The Princess and the P.I.
by Nikki Payne
An amateur online sleuth must enlist the help of a jaded PI to clear her name while taking down a shady tech start-up in this exhilarating romantic caper.
Son of the Morning
by Akwaeke Emezi
As forbidden attraction ignites between Galilee Kincaid and Lucifer Helel, a powerful being guarding an ancient artifact, Galilee discovers her own extraordinary nature, thrusting her into a deadly struggle between Hell, Heaven, and her own family’s secrets.
The Wilderness
by Angela Flournoy
Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood-overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences-swoops in and stays.