BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Nikki Turner's Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife.
The high priestess of the hood, Nikki Turner, is back with the novel fans have been feenin’ for: the sequel to her #1 bestselling novel, A Hustler’s Wife.

Des, Virginia’ s slickest gangsta, is about to become a dad when he is charged with the murder of his own attorney. But with Yarni, his gorgeous wife (and a brilliant...

Author of the mega–best seller B-More Careful (350,000 sales) is back with an irresistible hard-boiled crime story.

"Holmes . . . is a noted pioneering street lit author. His smooth-flowing narrative mixes crime, sex, and sassy street language, giving his protagonists a true life-in-the-streets feel. This will more than satisfy serious readers of urban fiction." —Library Journal (Starred Review,

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Amina "Mimi" Washington was born in poverty and raised on the south side of New Orleans to parents who were not capable of raising a child. From a very young age, she has had to fend for herself.

Young Mimi wants more out of life, and she wants a way out of the ghetto. Fate intervenes on her behalf when she meets one of New Orleans' biggest dope boys. When she falls in love with the mysterious stranger, everything in her life changes for

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Born into poverty in New Orleans, Mimi seeks a way out of the ghetto and finds it in one of the city's biggest dope dealers, but being a gangster's wife soon catches up to her and she moves to Atlanta where she finds new struggles and a past that won't stay behind her.

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Nikki Turner's Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife.
The reigning queen of hip-hop lit, Nikki Turner, takes on the music biz in this tale of a young woman who risks everything to be a superstar.

Fabiola Mays was born to sing. She has a voice like honey and a body to match, but one heartbreaking setback after another threatens to derail her dreams of a recording deal. To make matters worse,...

Monique got it all-money, class, and a bright future. But all that changes when she crosses paths with Rob, Richmond's most notorious drug dealer. Their love is hot and heavy, but it ain't nothin' like the fairy tales. Monique's world flips upside down, pulled deep into the gritty streets, where danger and betrayal lurk around every corner.Rob's enemies ain't playin'-they want blood. The feds are closin' in, and Monique finds herself caught in the...

Justice Chanel Vaughn is the daughter of notorious drug king pin, Rowland "Roe" Vaughn and the high maintenance Karen Vaughn, his ride or die beauty. After the Vaughn empire is taken under and Roe gets hauled off to prison all of the luxuries that come with being a hustler's wife is taken away and Justice and her family are forced to move into the projects. It isn't long before her mother succumbs to the pressures of the ghetto and becomes a heroine...

The undisputed queen of hip-hop fiction, #1 Essence bestselling author Nikki Turner unwraps a talented new collection of writers with raw urban stories to jingle your bells this season.
Christmas in the Hood presents fresh talent alongside shining stars such as K. Elliott and Seth “Soul Man” Ferranti–all writing gritty tales that reveal what the holidays bring for the naughty and the nice who live by the code of the street....

"In the waning days of the 1970s, the lives of several residents of Detroit and its affluent white suburbs are drawn together following the disappearance of yet another child. Hannah, a wife and mother, begins an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger; Mikey, a young street hustler, finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice; and then there's the child serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and elusive figure at the periphery...

"Postwar newlyweds Chic and Diane Waldbeeser are determined to carve out a life for themselves and their son, Lomax, in Middleville, Illinois, but when ten-year old Lomax dies, Chic and Diane take refuge in religion, haiku poetry, doll collecting, food, and bowling as they try to make sense of their overwhelming grief and guilt. Paralleling their story is that of Chic's older brother Buddy. Haunted by the suicide of his father, Buddy struggles to...