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WOC LIT contemporary romance fiction by and about women of color |
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by Robyn Amos
Cara Williams had left a career -- and a controlling fiance -- to become a fitness trainer at a health club in Washington, D.C. She was ready to return to the computer field, on her terms, with a software program she'd created. It looked like clear sailing until AJ Gray came on the scene.
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by K. L. Brady
She's a savvy, successful real-estate agent with a quick wit, a low tolerance for BS, a gorgeous size-14 body, and a thirst for top shelf vodka. So why do all of her ex-lovers belong in the Losers Hall of Fame?
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by Connie Briscoe
Just when she thinks things can't get worse, Lenora wins the jackpot in the Maryland lottery. As her life starts to come together, the things Lenora holds dear begin to fall apart. Has her world really changed for the better, or does fortune come with a heavy price? |
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by Ernessa T. Carter
Treated cruelly at school and abused by her mother, Davidia stopped talking while still in kindergarten, remaining mute until age 15. She escapes into reading, doing homework, and watching Molly Ringwald movies.
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by Alyssa Cole
Orphaned grad student Naledi Smith is juggling too many jobs and a tough course load when she meets a trust-fund hottie named Jamal. When she finds out that he is supposedly (actually?) an African prince, and that she was betrothed to him at birth, she is suspicious … and intrigued.
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by Virginia DeBerry
From the time they were young, Gayle and Patricia were raised like sisters. But they each had dreams that would take them far away -- and far away from each other. When they realize that dreams can be hollow and love has its cost, they learn the most important lesson of all: to never given up on the people who love you, and that it isn't just blood that makes two people sisters. |
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by Jasmine Guillory
Writer Nik Paterson is, reluctantly, attending a Dodgers game with her model-actor boyfriend when suddenly her name, spelled wrong, is on the Jumbotron and he's down on one knee. A stadium full of people witness her rejection of the proposal.
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by K. M Jackson
Olivia "Liv" Gale loses her job and her boyfriend (and her TV) in one weekend, and there's a family emergency in Georgia, so Liv gladly leaves New York City behind for Sugar Lake, reluctantly allowing her directionless younger sister to join her.
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by Norma L. Jarrett
Five women met during law school in Houston and used Sunday brunch as a way to unwind. Since graduating, they have maintained the tradition and remained close.
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by Claire Kann
Winnie is a big, fiery Black girl who loves herself, her family, and her granny's diner in the little town of Misty Haven. It's her last summer before college, and everything in her life seems perfect until she unexpectedly becomes Misty Haven's Summer Queen.
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by Benilde Little
Aisha Branch McCovney is a beautiful and stylish woman with Manhattan at her feet. As she prepares to marry her fabulously rich - and white - fiance, her mother, Camille, and grandmother, Geneva, reminisce about their own lifelong struggles with love and pragmatism.
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by Nana Malone
Two novellas about love lost and found and the unexpected joys of Christmas.
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by Alexa Martin
Single-mother Poppy Patterson moved across the country when she was sixteen and pregnant to find a new normal. After years of hard work, she's built a life she loves. It's all hers, and nobody can take that away. Well, except for one person.
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by Mary B Morrison
Mercedes Crystal didn't sweat it when her rich businessman husband had a down-and-dirty ego-boosting affair. But she's not going to stand for him falling in love with luscious Arizona Remington. And Mercedes' take-no-prisoners ways are just what her siblings need to take down all those out to game them.
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by Kayla Perrin
Never again, she vows. Now that her abusive ex-husband is in prison, Tamara Jackson has finally found some peace. Life can be sweet -- as long as she remembers not to lose herself in another relationship. She pledges to remain strong, independent and single.
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by Katee Robert
The rebel. That's how Samara Mallick has always thought of Beckett King. And he's absolutely living up to his unpredictable ways when he strides into her office and asks for help after inheriting his father's company. She can't help wondering if it's a legit request or just a ploy to get her into bed. |
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by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Befriending Traci Calloway Cole is the best thing Simone Phillips has ever done. Traci is the kind of woman Simone wants to be -- in every way possible. She begins copying her role model. Not because she wants to be Traci. She just wants to be exactly like Traci.
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by Erica Simone Turnipseed
Before meeting him, Noire shunned the "bourgie" world of black monied cosmopolitans like Innocent, opting instead for socially conscious -- but economically challenged -- artists and urban intellectuals.
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by Omar Tyree
Charts the rise of Ivan Davis, an accountant who decides to promote networking events among his rich, famous and frivolous clients.
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by Carl Weber
A pair of sisters, Jasmine and Stephanie, have enough man trouble between them to last most families several generations. Jasmine's gig as a postal supervisor in Richmond, Va., gives her the edge in stability over her younger sister, Stephanie, but she happens to be dating Derrick, a drug dealer who is serving out a jail term
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