Like urban fiction, these stories feature an urban environment with a primarily African American cast of characters. They also feature romance that runs on a the racy side, with plot lines often involving crime, drugs, and other gritty topics.
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Description: What happens when a woman realizes that her ‘perfect on paper’ boyfriend can’t meet all her sexual and emotional needs? She leaves him, that’s what. And when a chance meeting with a sexy, single stranger excites her, she’s tempted into finding out if he can fulfill her most basic of desires.
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Description: Four years have passed since the events of Pleasure, and Nia’s success as a writer has grown, bringing her from Atlanta to Los Angeles. But she remains on a quest to quiet her inner storm, to draw on her well of emotions and explore them fully before leaving this season of her life and moving on to what could be the next stage: marriage and motherhood.
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Description: Fortysomething and still single, music-video exec Pia Jamison has given up her grandiose ideas on men and marriage, but not motherhood. Her biological clock is on red alert, but after years of self-imposed celibacy she has no clue how to attract the man she needs to get the baby she wants. Help comes in the form of Pia’s savvy assistant, who tricks her into attending a flirting workshop called Weapons of Mass Seduction.
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Description: Mildred Johnson is the last woman on earth that gorgeous Tony Landry would dare to be seen with. That is, until Tony wants to pull a scam on the company where she works. In order to keep Mildred signing phony documents, Tony gives Mildred a taste of romance and keeps raising the stakes until he’s eventually forced to propose.
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Description: When money isn’t enough for Brooks Kennedy, Morgan Childs, Storm Dangerfield, and Hope Andrews, the women decide to take over the governor’s house. California has never had a female governor and Morgan is determined to change that with the help of her friends.
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Description: The owner of a multi-million-dollar multimedia firm, Madison Tyler enjoys her no-strings-attached relationship with Granville Washington, but when she tries to break things off, he refuses to let her go and will do whatever it takes to make her see that he is the perfect man for her.
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Description: Kevin Lawson has a secret. This hard-charging army sergeant is drawn to seedy sex dens, adult bookstores, and kinky encounters with multiple partners. To hide his cravings, Kevin uses his wife to solicit bedroom playmates and to indulge his ever-growing fantasies.
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Description: Yuri and Drae are keeping secrets–each caught up in her own whirlwind of scandal and passion. They swore as children that they would never conceal anything from eachother, but now, as adults, they realize that not everything is meant to be told.
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Description: “Hot Box” is a baseball drill that can be played with three or more players and two to four bases. The players take turns being fielders and runners, ultimately trying to tag the rest of the players out. In The Hot Box, best friends Milena and Lydia are playing the game with Jacour, Yosef, Glenn, and Phil. The only problem: the men do not realize that they are playing.
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Description: Based on the Featured Erotica section of the website, Chocolate Flava gathers twenty-five sizzling tales from some of the most talented — and dedicated — writers of erotica working today. This is a his-and-her collection. There are stories specifically written with female readers in mind, and others written expressly for men.
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Description: Honey Flava features an erotic feast of short stories with enough Asian flava to ignite fireworks. With an African American and Asian mix of sexy characters, Zane picks the most clever and bold male and female writers to deliver a collection like no other.
See Also:
African American Romance Authors
Some titles may be available in other formats (large type, audiobook, downloadable, etc). A staff member can help you to locate other versions.
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July 2013
