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Michelle McGriff Colored Summer Available Now! Although attitudes have changed considerably since the 50’s, finding out that you have a trait for a blood disease predominately predisposed to black people would shake up the average person. That’s what happened to Thea Fairbanks when she went for a prenuptial physical. Thea looks to her father’s family for answers. She takes her grandmother Emma Fairbanks on an outing in order to ask more questions about their family’s past. Colored Summer is taught that her looks and skin tones are curses from God, punishments for her mother’s sins of having a child out of wedlock. Hoping that somewhere the air is lighter, cleaner—blowing something other than prejudice and hate her way—Emerald starts her journey to discovery. Leaving behind her life—the good, a childhood love that will never die, as well as the bad, a life darkened by intra-racial prejudice—she comes out west, where the air is indeed blowing differently. For Emerald, who changes her nam...

Stephanie Johnson Rockin' Robin (re-release) May 1, 2007 Robin Sessoms spends her weeks working forty-plus hours as the head reservation clerk at the Gray Pearl, in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Her boss is Todd Kendricks, an undercover drug addict who is still sleeping with his drug-addicted ex-wife, the mother of his first son. He's also involved with Chanel, a friend of Robin's who is the mother of Todd's second son. Todd's life might be scandalous, but Robin has some shadows of her own to deal with. She seeks the help of a therapist, Dr. Christopher, who she visits twice a week when she decides something inside of her just isn't quite right. What she doesn't know is that she's been living with a dual personality since childhood, when her father severely abused her and her mother. Rockin' Robin, her alternate personality, is lurking just below the surface, waiting to emerge. When Nelson Bray, a powerful retired lawyer, checks into the Gray Pearl,...

Nichelle Walker Doing His Time May 1, 2007 Every girls dreams of meeting their Knight in Shining Amour and living happily ever after. But every hood chick dreams of meeting a baller so she can live happily ever “Rich!” When Emerald met Dollar, she knew she had found her ghetto Romeo and started living her happily ever rich life. Getting spoiled with the hottest whips, the finest clothes, the flyest jewels, and a unlimited cash allowance, Emerald represented a baller’s chick to the fullest. She lived, breathed, and swore by the hustlers anthem “Balling!” The night Dollar asked Emerald to marry him she knew her blood, sweat, and spit had paid off and she’d be forever fly. But when a drop goes bad and Emerald is forced to take the stand, will Dollar man up or will he leave her high and dry? Take this ride along with Emerald while she discovers the ups and downs of being a baller’s bit*h! CLICK HERE TO READ A FULL EXCERPT NOW! (must have a myspac...

Colin Channer The Girl With The Golden Shoes Available Now! The Girl with the Golden Shoes is a dazzling and picaresque novella of equal parts Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mark Twain, and Bob Marley. Set in 1942, on the imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica, it tells the story of Estrella Thompson, a 14-year-old who's forced to fend for herself when she's banished from the isolated fishing village where she's lived all her life. Her crime? Wanting to read and write. But Estrella is no victim. Neither is she an ordinary child. Prematurely ripe in body and mind, and contemptuous of the boundaries placed on her by gender, race, and social class, she takes the villagers' rejection as a chance to change her life. She wants to go to Europe, the place where everything interesting seems to happen, including the war, which she's heard about incessantly on rediffusion radio. But she has to get money for a ticket on a steamer, which...

Crystal Perkins-Stell Life Afta Cash Money May 5, 2007 The Prince Family Trilogy. In this last book Uncle Silk tells the story of his family from a ture Balla's status. Detroit has seen some heavy hittin players in its time. Raymond, Butch, Rick, Ed, Holloway, and the list goes on, and on. When you look at the current condition of the city, some playas are gon' sleep on the history and the making of the real city of Doe. Go back in time and let Uncle Silk show you his world as he introduces you to a side of the Prince family, you've never seen before. CLICK HERE TO READ AN EXCERPT NOW! CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!

Shannon Holmes Dirty Game May 1, 2007 Kenny 'Ken-Ken' Greene left his days as a hustler behind him when his wife was killed during a scam gone bad, leaving him with a baby daughter.  Now he's a cab driver, doing what he can to put food on the table and give his daughter, Destiny, everything she needs.  In spite of his past or because of it, he's willing to do whatever it takes to keep Destiny off the streets.  But when he is shot and paralyzed during a robbery while on the job, Destiny knows that she has to step up to the plate to take care of the father who has provided for her.  Allowing herself to learn from one of the fiercest street hustlers, Destiny becomes his lover and soon her skills rival his. But the longer she stays in the game, the deeper into the game she falls. CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!

  Rachee The Last Affair May 1, 2007 Every Woman’s Temptation...   He can capture your attention just by listening. He wants to know who you really are—and fulfill your most secret, forbidden desires. He can undress you with a whisper, respond to your every wish, every touch...and give satisfaction beyond your hottest dreams. But Kevin Richmond is a man as insatiable as he is successful and driven. And he never imagined that the mysterious woman igniting his fantasies would have secrets worth dying for... One Seduction Too Far...   Now Kevin is the prime suspect for a murder he didn’t commit. The only way he can clear his name is to discover the real deal behind his lover’s deception—and confront his own troubled past. But as he’s drawn deeper into a nightmare of lust and betrayal, he’ll find that the truth is a tantalizing lie—and love the most seductive illusion of all... CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!...