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	HIS TO CLAIM - Brenda Jackson The Westmoreland Legacy (Book #4) Harlequin Desire BUY Reviewer:  Brenda Larnell |  Rating: A CATAGORY ROMANCE
When navy SEAL and honorary Westmoreland Mac McRoy returns home, he discovers his wife has left. Teri has retreated to the Wyoming ranch they’d planned to visit together and is resentful when he follows. She doesn’t want a second honeymoon; she wants a marriage Mac doesn’t take for granted. But life-or-death circumstances are about to put their love to the ultimate test.

	ONE NIGHT IN GEORGIA - Celeste O. Norfleet Harper Collins/Amistad BUY Reviewer:  Brenda Larnell |  Rating:  A+ HISTORICAL FICTION
At the end of a sweltering summer shaped by the tragic assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy, race riots, political protests, and the birth of Black power, three coeds from New York City pack into Veronica’s new Ford Fairlane convertible, bound for Atlanta and their last year at Spelman College. It is the beginning a journey that will change their lives irrevocably.

MADAM, MAY I - Niobia Bryant Kensington Dafina/Fiction BUY Reviewer: Susan Plummer |  Rating: A MAINSTREAM FICTION

In the business of high-end, no-limits desire, Desdemona Dean is the best there is. This gorgeous madam can provide any sensual fantasy, ignite any insatiable hunger. She fiercely protects the women who work for her and helps them attain the lives they deserve-especially when it comes to her beautiful, troubled new protégé, Portia. But for Desi, having it all is no longer enough. She wants everything her shattered childhood denied her. And as she pursues an education and a normal life, she’s falling hard for her handsome tutor...

	GREED - Victoria Christopher Murray The Seven Deadly Sins (Book #3) Simon & Schuster/Galley Books BUY Reviewer:  Wayne Jordan |  Rating: B+ CHRISTIAN FICTION
When Zuri meets a sleek entrepreneur eager to pick her brain, she jumps at the chance to talk business with someone who has everything she wants. As he wines and dines her, Zuri starts moving in elite circles, and she faces a crossroads: Will she give up the stable, loving life she knows for one that glitters, but may not be gold?

	SWEET HEAT - Zuri Day The Blue Collar Lover (Book #4) Kensington Dafina/Romance BUY Reviewer:  Brenda Larnell |  Rating:  A CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
No one turns out luscious pies and to-die-for cakes like Marvin Carter. Few outside of the family know about his baking skills, but working as a restaurant line cook is getting old fast. Now he’ll do whatever it takes to win start-up money from a major cooking contest and launch his own dessert franchise. But his prime competition is making things hot for him in-and out-of the kitchen.

VISION - Anita Davis Limelight (Book #3) Amazon Digital Services BUY Reviewer:  Brenda Larnell |  Rating: A CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

All Dr. Shannan Johnson ever wanted to do was specialize in skin care. Her unique skin condition mixed with her love for chemistry eventually led her to creating her own makeup line, focusing primarily on foundation. What was once a quiet endeavor has become a well-known product, thanks to supermodel, Liv Summers. Shannan is living a life full of promise and excitement, but will an old flame add to her life in a way she never envisioned?

	LOST AND FOUND AGAIN - Colette Miller Watkins Love At Any Age (Book #1) Garden Avenue Press BUY Reviewer:  Janet Caldwell |  Rating: B+ CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
A spark ignited when Suzanne Fowler saw Gregory Reed across a crowded room. Twenty years later, a chance meeting gives them the opportunity to revisit the spark and find out if it can turn into a blaze. Wiser, more experienced and established in their lives and careers, will they grab this opportunity and view it as a gift? Or will they declare their time has passed and not seize the moment?

HER NAUGHTY SUITOR - Stephanie Nicole Norris Falling For A Rose (Book #1) Amazon Digital Services BUY Reviewer:  |  Rating: CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

For Eden Rose, being under the microscope, as a triplet in one of the wealthiest families in Chicago-didn’t compare to falling in love with the city’s most notorious bachelor. While one came with the invasiveness of a celebrity’s lifestyle, the other was a receipt for possible disaster, right down to the destruction of her heart. But knowing him from their close upbringing, drives a wedge between appearances and the truth.

	A SPECIAL SUMMER - Suzette Riddick Love Conquers All (Book #1) Heart 2 Heart Publishing BUY Reviewer:  Jennifer Copeland |  Rating: A CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
Summer Jackson is inexperienced when it comes to love. That’s until she meets wealthy playboy, Nicholas ‘Nick’ Stiles, who teaches her everything she’s been missing. The only problem is, Nick isn’t the settling down kind. Devastation rocks Summer when Nick walks away, leaving her to pick up the shattered pieces of her life

	TWO NIGHTS IN PARIS - Delaney Diamond Brooks Family (Book #5) Garden Avenue Press BUY Reviewer:  Cheryl McNeil |  Rating:  A CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
To prove to his mother that he can be responsible, Stephan Brooks takes a job at her firm and promises to be a better son. But one glimpse of Roselle Parker, her up-and-coming protégé, and all his good intentions disappear. All he has to do is conduct himself in a professional manner, but a trip to Paris with Roselle proves too big of a temptation.

BLACK LOVE - D. Camille The Excellence Series (Book #1) Sable SiStars Punlishing BUY Reviewer:  Brenda Larnell |  Rating: A CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Dr. Bryce Anderson serves as the town's physician as the wave continues. Moving to Grayling to establish a nice, quiet life, Bryce's past soon meets his future, as Grayling becomes the focal point of gentrification. Dr. Angel Meyers has her life in order, except for the one thing she's been searching for...little does she know that it's going to take a perfect storm to create the wave that's needed to bring the amazing power of black love into her life.

	THE BILLIONAIRE'S BARGAIN - Naima Simone Blackout Billionaires (Book #1) Harlequin Desire BUY Reviewer:  Shirley Fleming |  Rating: A CATEGORY ROMANCE
When a blackout hits Chicago, billionaire Darius King makes the most of it with an irresistible stranger. But then the lights reveal the woman in his arms is the woman he hates-his best friend’s widow! His new plan: entice her into marriage to protect his friend’s legacy. But wild attraction and explosive secrets could make that arrangement very inconvenient…

	BANKING ON LOVE - Iris Bolling The Dunning Trilogy (Book #2_ Kensington Dafina/Fiction BUY Reviewer: Brenda Larnell |  Rating: A CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
Jonathan Michael moved from London England to claim the woman who inspired him to greatness. In the course of him finding his happily ever after, she is kidnapped and held for a ransom he does not have the power to pay…control of her family’s bank.