Modern and contemporary fiction Books

Billionaire tech CEO JOHNNA BROWARD'S world is turned upside down when a disgruntled former employee storms into Panteon Tech headquarters in Lower Manhattan and guns down four innocent people before cornering Johnna in her top-floor office. Will Johnna...

Summer time is supposed to be an enjoyment of festivities, but in the city of Fort Pierce it's the season that brings the hittaz out. KHAFREE knows this better than anyone, so how does he get caught lacking?In the midst of rivalry with his cousins,...

Dan Davidson is as strong and sensitive a soul as one could hope to be. Incidents from his childhood, young adulthood,marriage, and career as a United Methodist minister demonstrate a truly extraordinary man. Nevertheless, as Dan's career progresses from...

Step into a world where a renowned Pakistani Urdu fiction writer Rafaqat Hayat fearlessly unravels the intricacies of small-town life, love, and the social constraints that bind us. "Rolaak" boldly challenges the norms of sexual behavior in Urdu fiction,...

Susy has made her home the little enclave of San Pedro. Through flavors and memories, the ladies of Sea Foam Lane will discover more about themselves during the holiday season.When a sports car is left in the charming cul-de-sac of Sea Foam Lane a few...

This is a book of short stories, not a how to book about writing. But I share these thoughts because I was asked, how did you write these stories? Where did they come from? What is the secret to writing? The answer is, of course, I don't know. Writing is...

Every man has transgressions, but TROY has done the unimaginable. Thus, he has major battles to overcome. Where others found love, Troy found emptiness from his sins. With his woman by his side, she is the only one that has forgiven the SINS OF A THUG...

MAURICIO and SOSA are back, with vengeance on their hearts and blood in their eyes, as they search for the murderers of their family. They know that the only thing truth and lies have in common is that every secret eventually will come to light. When...

South Los Angeles street legends, NOODLES and FILIPINO, are up against their strongest test to date. Numerous shooters from the notorious hood, Crenshaw, are gunning for their heads. Will Noodles and his homie be able to avoid being executed in the...

ZURI was CORRUPTED BY A GANGSTA and taught to be a true boss in a skirt. Using guile and heartless maneuvers, she deftly eliminated her foes with no regret. But things must change now that BRICK has won her heart completely and wants her to settle into...

Step into a world of hot, steamy, seductive, passionate and mouth-watering sex. CUM FOR ME 5: TOUCH ME, TEASE ME will take you on one sexual journey after another, wetting your appetite for the soft and soothing, as well as the rough and spontaneous...

When the impossible happens, the game changes, and the Walker sisters, FREEDOM, ANGEL and DESTINY are out to make the world shiver at the sounds of their heels clicking and their guns clacking. FATHER GOD was larger than life. He was thought to be...

FREEDOM, ANGEL and DESTINY have planned their whole lives around taking over the streets and reclaiming what was stolen from them when their father, THE BOSS MAN, was sent to prison. Now, years later, their father is back out on the streets. With the...

When it comes to love Krissett Baptiste has given her heart to the wrong men over and over again only to have it crushed, repeatedly. Reeling from her latest devastating heartbreak, Krissett sinks into a deep depression that threatens to rip apart her...

JONATHAN WALKER was a boss nigga on the streets. He didn’t have a son sitting at his knee, watching, learning and preparing to take over the streets when he stepped down from his throne, but The Boss did have three beautiful, sexy, intelligent and...

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What’s better than one cold, calculated criminal unafraid to use sex, deception and murder to get the job done . . . two. Especially if they’re as deadly as you!In Swag II Jasmine enlists the help of Swag to ensure that her plan for revenge...

After marrying her college sweetheart and building a successful drug empire, life for Taylor Washington, aka Tay Tay, looked perfect. The first few years, her husband Wayne treated her like a queen and showered her with riches that the cocaine brought...

A young mother will do anything to flee from her abusive and drug dealer boyfriend, but some other people are caught in the middle by this decision, which leads to a series of life-changing events.Dream, a once-happy girl gets caught in an abusive and...

Living in the Philippines, Yvonna Harris is doing her best to escape her serial killer persona with the help of her husband Bricks. But when her daughter, Delilah, begins to show signs of mental illness, she decides to return to America. And so the...

Akbar Smit and George Oteras are childhood friends. Over the years and as they became men, their bond grew stronger. Both men end up getting arrested for a case that ultimately sends one to prison, and the other into the folds of a dangerous dope game...

The lives of four individuals are about to be altered, FOREVER! Morgan has moved on after his marriage to Carla fell apart. Now Governor of the state of Pennsylvania he holds one of the most powerful political positions in the country. But power...

In Patricia Watts’ new novel, The Frayer, we watch an uncannily seductive Louisiana bayou man as he goes about “fraying” the inhabitants of a prosperous apartment building in Fairbanks, Alaska, and destroying the building itself. Angelo...

The Quisling is a contemporary action thriller that follows the story of psychiatrist Dr. Zack Scarlatto who becomes involved with a volatile and violent Mexican drug cartel. It’s dangerous to be even remotely associated with the gang, and to make...

From the outside Maya had the ideal life - the well-paid job, the flashy car, the big house in the country - but something was stirring within her that could not be denied.No longer able to suppress her growing need to break free from the path that...

Live For The Paper, Die For The Paper. Nothing Else Matters!After assembling his deadly crew of money hungry misfits, GOLDI finds himself and his beloved, Ericka under the gun from enemies of his own sacred bloodline. Blindsided by the attack, Goldi must...

They Told Him That He Would Never Amount To Anything. That He Was Born To Lose.After his powerful, drug dealing father skips out on him and his mother, Goldi Dawson, finds himself trapped in the deadly, unforgiving trenches of Milwaukee, Wisconsin where...

Nakia is on the verge of living her best life. She's newly divorced and making good money in her new role as a contract attorney. Everything seems to be falling into place until she runs into a handsome stranger from her past who will do anything to...

For interior designer Lisa Reno things go from bad to worse when her contractor-brother falls off a ladder and breaks his leg. Now she has to deal with the past coming back to haunt her, an old house with a corpse in the creepy cellar, and her best...

El acecho (1971) incluye ocho relatos independientes hilvanados por otras tantas viñetas que, en conjunto, componen un retablo de la víspera del último golpe de estado en el Uruguay del siglo XX. Este mosaico de cuentos, reflexiones en primera...

"Debut author Tocco delivers religious mystery, FBI informant drama, and uplifting spirituality in a story in Boston over a span of five decades." -BookLife by Publishers Weekly"...a perfect blend of action, suspense, romance, crime, and risky...

The Wisdom of Doctor James begins with a continuation of the tale of Mr Napier, a central character in the author's first novel, The Path of Peter Smethurst.A debate arises between the pivotal characters, including Doctor James, a theologian and...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST. Where You Belong is the story of thirteen-year-old Fiona, in the Bronx in 1963, who runs away from her alcoholic father and a family that's been evicted. Alone, hungry, with no choices left, she wanders into the black...

Bad Water and Other Stories of the Alaskan Panhandle is a book of short stories set in southeast Alaska on an archipelago about the size of Florida. There are not many people and most of them live in a few small scattered towns. Some live in the more...

In 409 BC, the Greek historian Herodotus described an Athenian soldier who had no physical battle injuries but suffered permanent blindness after seeing the death of a fellow soldier. It has been reported down through the ages and given a dozen different...

“The Wind and the Rain - A Book of Confessions” is a 1924 novel by Thomas Burke. A charming tale of childhood and innocence, this volume is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Burke's seminal work. Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 – 22 September...

“Dark Nights” is a collection of short stories by Thomas Burke, originally appearing in various English and American periodicals. Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 – 22 September 1945) was a British writer most famous for his “Limehouse Nights”, a 1916...

Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are all three of her published short stories; "Freedom," "The Wrong Man," and...

Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels, Passing and Quicksand. Quicksand, was autobiographical in...

Kenny "Ratchet" Walker is born into a cold world. After his mother passes away during his delivery, Ratchet is adopted and raised by his grandmother. But as he grows up in New Jersey, his life is catapulted into chaos one day after school when...

EELSCAPES (a tale of 1983) describes the movement through life at a specific time and place from eight distinct vantage points, each described in its own chapter whose title indicates what the reader can expect to encounter therein. Chapter One...

Dirty is what they call him in the streets because that's how he does niggas. Dirty!! Niggas in the streets know how he gets down so when they see him coming their way, they either tuck their chains in, hide their money, or get the fuck out of dodge...

A King's Ransom: The second novel in the Blood of a Queen trilogy picks up with our protagonist, Ruby, as she submerges herself even deeper into the hidden family secret she has uncovered. Traversing the dangerous streets of New York, she encounters...

Are some things better left unfound? Best friends Louise and Emma grew up next door to each other in a grim inner-city suburb of Dublin. Now Louise, an art conservator, is thousands of miles away in Sydney, restoring a beautiful old painting. She meets...

Mitchell Daniels' better known as MD in the streets, was born and raised in Memphis, TN, as a product of two worlds. MD's mother, Kendi, was from Germantown, TN, a suburb of Memphis. Kendi's parents tried to keep her under lock and key, causing her to...

Inside this book, you'll find an assortment of gritty New York life stories featuring unforgettable characters. New York is a city that attracts people seeking opportunities, but on High Street, you will meet lost souls whose lives are filled with failed...