Percival Everett writes novels, short stories, poetry, and essays, and is one of the most prolific, acclaimed, yet under-examined African American writers working today. Although to date Everett has published eighteen novels, three collections of short fiction, three poetry collections, and one children's book, his work has not garnered the critical attention that it deserves. Perhaps one of the most vexing problems black and white scholars have had in trying to situate Everett's work is t...

She thought she knew what betrayal looked like until the man she loved made her feel like a secret in the world he asked her to stand beside. Nina Serrano built her life with her own hands, restoring damaged leather, protecting her craft, and refusing to let anyone decide her worth. But when the truth behind her relationship with a powerful biker is exposed, she walks away from the only man who ever made her feel chosen.Callan Rennick has spent his life protecting people with silen...

Nyla Baptiste knows how to preserve other people’s memories, but she no longer recognizes the marriage she is living in.To the world, Levi Ward is the perfect husband. Powerful, polished, protective, and devoted in all the ways people can see. But behind closed doors, Nyla has been disappearing one small apology at a time. Every time she says she is fine, every time he accepts it, every time his silence leaves her lonelier beside him than she would ever be alone, another piece of t...

Ten years ago, Mara Vance walked into an Iron Hollow MC clubhouse carrying dinner for the man she loved and found him with another woman.She left that night with her heart shattered and never looked back.Now forty-one, fiercely independent, and running the auto body shop her father built, Mara has created a life where she answers to no one. Especially not Jace Mercer, the man whose jealousy, betrayal, and one unforgivable choice destroyed seven years of love.But whe...

In this emotionally charged second chance romance set against the rainy, atmospheric streets of Philadelphia, a marriage once built on love is tested by silence, ambition, and betrayal hidden in plain sight.Maren Ward believed she and Elias had already survived the hardest parts of their life together. But when she begins to uncover how her work, her voice, and even her place beside him were quietly minimized in rooms she was never invited into, the foundation of their marriage fra...

Amara Vale agreed to an arranged marriage to save her family’s name, but she never agreed to lose herself inside a billionaire’s world. Callum Hawthorne was supposed to be a cold transaction, a powerful husband with a signed contract and no room for love. Then he noticed her pain. Defended her dignity. Kissed her like the marriage had become real. For the first time, Amara let herself believe she had been chosen, not traded.But Callum’s deepest fear was being made a fool of, and je...

Serena Marlowe-Ashford thought the worst thing a husband could do was cheat. Then Damon’s ex-wife walked into their anniversary gala, filled the ballroom screens with secret photos, messages, and money transfers, and taught her there was something worse than betrayal: being the last wife in the room to know. In one glittering night, Serena’s marriage, career, and dignity are dragged into the spotlight, while the man she still loves insists the truth is not what it looks like.Damon ...

I built my life around one rule: my son comes first.The Mesa Star Motor Court was supposed to be our fresh start. My business. My home. The one place no man could take from me. Then a stranger in a fake county truck started watching my security cameras, and by sunrise, someone had slipped a warning beneath my door.SELL THE MOTEL.NO SECOND WARNING.I should have called the police and stayed far away from the Crownless Kings Motorcycle Club.Instead, dang...

Imani Noelle Brooks-Caldwell built the perfect room for her husband’s glittering Chicago gala. Every flower, every photograph, every breath of beauty carried her name in silence. But when Sterling Caldwell stands beneath the chandeliers and lets the world praise everyone except the wife whose hands made the night unforgettable, something inside Imani finally breaks. She walks out of the ballroom, out of his perfect billionaire life, and back to the Bronzeville studio where she can still re...

Eight years ago, Laurel Quinn walked away from Copper Hollow, her marriage, and the motorcycle club that had once felt like family. Jonah Mercer had betrayed her trust, and leaving was the only way she knew to survive what he had broken.She built a new life in Nashville, a successful career, financial independence, and enough distance to believe the past could no longer reach her.Then her daughter calls.Second Mile Garage, a vocational program connected to Cinder Ri...

A first-hand account of life as a Japanese prisoner during the Second World War which reveals how Mitchell was taken to Japan as part of an overseas force and set to work levelling agricultural land for an airfield, before being moved to work at the furnaces of a foundry, and then to a coal mine.

Soapbox Hero follows the journey of Toby, a young Venice Beach surfer whose life is upended when his mother tragically passes away. Forced to move to Akron, Ohio, to live with his estranged biological father, Toby struggles to adjust to a new life in a small town far from the ocean he loves. Feeling out of place and burdened by grief, Toby is disconnected from his father and the unfamiliar surroundings.In Akron, Toby unexpectedly discovers soapbox derby racing—a local tradition wit...