Below is a list of the African-American books on sale during the month of APRIL 2023. Click on the title for our review of the book. Click on BUY to purchase.
April 2023
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THE RANCHER'S BABY - Kathy Douglass
Aspen Creek Bachelors (Book #2
Harlequin Special Edition

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Reviewer: Brenda Larnell | Rating: A
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
Unexpectedly named guardian of a baby girl, rancher Isaac Montgomery gamely steps up for daddy duty. Fatherhood keeps him on his toes, but luckily new neighbor Savannah Rogers offers to help. Savannah’s beauty isn’t lost on this ladies’ man, either. Yet she’s reserved even as their feelings heat up. Are Isaac and his baby too painful a reminder of her heartbreaking loss? Or do they hold the key to healing?
THE SECRET HEIR - Zuri Day
The Eddingtons Heirs (Book #5)
Harlequin Desire
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CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
In Chicago, Abe Baiden is a janitor—and an incredibly good-looking, self-assured one. Here, no one knows about his soccer stardom, his billions or his royal family. He likes it that way, until he meets sexy, driven Reign Eddington. Reign is everything he’s running from: she comes from wealth and works in PR for her father’s business. The very same company that hired Abe, the janitor! Now Abe’s family says he needs a wife, and Reign is the woman he wants. Fiercely. Unequivocally. Hungrily. He just has to convince the savvy business exec to fall in love with him…before she learns who “Abe” really is.
AFTER HOURS AGENDA - Kianna Alexander
404 Sound (Book #4)
Harlequin Desire
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Reviewer:
Shirley Fleming | Rating: A
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
Atlanta record executive Pierce Hamilton needs a bold move to prove he’s ready to take over his family’s legendary studio. The biggest gamble? Revisiting a merger with rival studio 404 Sound. That means wooing CEO Nia Woodson, who’s never shown signs of being wooable.
SINFULLY SWEET CONFESSIONS - Sherelle Green
Naughty Season
Coffee'd Pink Creative
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Reviewer: 
Cheryl McNeil |  Rating: A
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
When she asked me if I liked them thick, I didn’t know she was talking about an actual milkshake. I didn’t make it any better either when I went on a rant about how much I love cake. Now, she thinks I can’t hold a conversation that doesn’t revolve around food. I mean, I do like to eat. And if she lets me, I’ll show her exactly how I like my sweets.
CATCHING THE CARLING LAKE KILLER - K.D. Richards
West Investigations (Book #5)
Harlequin Special Edition
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Reviewer:
Wayne Jordan |  Rating: A
ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
Journalist Simone Jarrett and Carling Lake sheriff Lance Webb have kept their casual affair clandestine to avoid gossip. But as his feelings for Simone deepen, Lance is troubled by the knowledge that she’s hiding something. Then, after twenty years, the Card Killer strikes again. And Simone’s secret puts her in the killer’s sights. Now the two must team up to find the murderer…and save Simone’s life.
HER BEST KEPT SECRET - Niama Simone
Harlequin Desire
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Reviewer:
Shirley Fleming | Rating: A
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
After the crushing end of her engagement, event planner Nore Daniels is through with love. Except her plan to throw herself into work ends with landing in the bed of sexy former motorcycle racer and CEO Joaquin Iverson. Now he wants Nore to work for him—and it’s a business arrangement that may require a decidedly personal touch…
HER ALASKAN RETURN - Belle Calhoune
Serenity Peak (Book #1)
Love Inspired Romance
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Reviewer: Brenda Larnell | Rating: A
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE (Inspirational)
Moving back to her Alaskan hometown was an easy decision for soon-to-be-single mom Autumn Hines. It’s the perfect place to raise her baby. When her path crosses that of her old flame, widowed fisherman Judah Campbell, new sparks are ignited. There’s just one thing standing in their way: Autumn has a secret. Revealing it could set them free, but can she find the courage to speak the truth?
NOT SO PERFECT STRANGERS - L.S. Stratton
Union Square & Co.
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Reviewer:
Brenda Larnell | Rating: A
MYSTERY
Tasha Jenkins has finally found the courage to leave her abusive husband. Taking her teenage son with her, Tasha checks into a hotel the night before their flight out of D.C. and out of Kordell Jenkins’s life forever. But escaping isn’t so easy, and Tasha soon finds herself driving back to her own personal hell. As she is leaving, a white woman pounds on her car window, begging to be let in. Behind the woman, an angry man is in pursuit. Tasha makes a split-second decision that will alter the course of her life: she lets her in and takes off.
RETURN TO HUMMINGBIRD WAY - Reese Ryan
Holly Grove Island (Book #2)
HQN Books
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Reviewer:
Brenda Larnell | Rating: A
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
Ambitious real estate agent Sinclair Buchanan is ecstatic to be her best friend’s maid-of-honor—until she discovers the best man is Garrett Davenport. Sin and Rett’s mutual hate crush ignited when they were teens and hasn’t let up since . . . except for that one extremely hot (and extremely regrettable) night they shared five years ago.
COLD CASE DECEIT - Jacquelin Thomas
Cold Case Collection)
Love Inspired Suspense
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Reviewer:
Jennifer Copeland |  Rating: A
ROMANTIC SUSPENSE (Inspirational)
Cold Case Unit supervisor Phillipa Stevenson is willing to investigate an unsolved murder for her ex-fiancé—without his help. Detective Kyle Rossi broke her heart years ago, but she’ll find justice for his sister-in-law. Only, the victim isn’t who they thought she was. And working with Kyle becomes Phillipa’s best chance. As they follow a decade-long trail of betrayal and murder, Phillipa must put aside her heartache to uncover the truth…about the victim’s past and their own.
A LUSTFUL CRUSH - Angela Seals
Zodiac Love (Book #2)
Independently Published
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Reviewer:
Brenda Larnell |  Rating: A
PARANORMAL ROMANCE
Journalist Simone Jarrett and Carling Lake sheriff Lance Webb have kept their casual affair clandestine to avoid gossip. But as his feelings for Simone deepen, Lance is troubled by the knowledge that she’s hiding something. Then, after twenty years, the Card Killer strikes again. And Simone’s secret puts her in the killer’s sights. Now the two must team up to find the murderer…and save Simone’s life.