Black Fiction Addiction

13/01/2025

13/01/2025

A Cold Heart for Hire
Olivia Renee Wallace

Restaurant owner, Maximilian LeReux, was through with love. After losing his wife, he swore he would never give his heart to another woman.

But he was a red-blooded man with needs, so when Breaux St. Maartin approached him with a job offer to become a lover for hire, he’d thought he’d found the perfect solution. His needs could be taken care of without the emotional commitment, and as a bonus, he’d get paid for it.

However, things don’t always go as planned and sometimes love comes even when one tries to fight it. With clients vying for his attention and affection, his daughter pushing for a stepmom, and the unexpected happening in both his business and his personal life, will Max be able to keep the vow he made to himself, or will he give in to the possibility of a love that can melt his frostbitten heart?

https://amzn.to/3DOTgBO

12/01/2025

Home and Away
Rochelle Alers

Spanning more than eighty years, from Memphis in the 1930s and 1940s to present-day Chicago, this sweeping novel draws on the turbulent history of the Negro Baseball Leagues, as the great-granddaughter of a former player sets out to tell her family’s story—and redefine her own.

Harper Fleming is done with being passed over. As a journalist for a Chicago newspaper, she’s been refused a shot at the sportswriter position she longs for. And her on again/off again relationship is going nowhere. Leaving both behind, she heads to Nashville, Tennessee, where she plans to interview her widowed grandfather, Bernard Fleming, for a book about his father Kelton Fleming’s time in the Negro Baseball Leagues.

When Bernard reveals health issues within days of her arrival, Harper assumes responsibility for taking care of him. And when she mentions his father playing baseball in the Negro Leagues, Bernard gives her a trove of letters, journals, and clippings encompassing Kelton’s career. But some stories are too personal to print without dishonoring the memory of her great-grandmother. Instead, with Bernard’s approval, Harper begins weaving them into a novel, telling her great-grandfather’s story through the eyes of the fictional Moses Gillian.

Chapters flow effortlessly as Harper breathes life into each memory. Particularly intense are Kelton’s recollections of the Green Book, an annual guidebook that helped African Americans navigate the segregated South. Negro League teams relied on it as they traveled between games, hurrying out of unwelcoming towns before sundown to avoid the Klan.

As Harper delves into Kelton’s past, a piece of her own resurfaces in the form of Cheney, the childhood friend of her brothers’. And as Harper honors her great-grandfather’s life, she finds the inspiration to take her own in a bold new direction . . .

https://amzn.to/3DQtXiQ

11/01/2025

This week on Black Fiction Addiction, author Ann Michelle Harris talks about her debut release, North, and author Tiffany L. Warren discusses her latest book, The Unexpected Diva.

11/01/2025

Love Delayed
Anna Black

A second-chance love connection for book romantics in which former college sweethearts reunite at an airport counter upon their flight cancellation, sparking a night of reflection and what could have been.

When Zamora Hill decided to follow her childhood dreams of being a chef, she didn’t know that losing the love of her life would be the price she’d have to pay. Excited about going to culinary school, things took a crazy turn with her boyfriend, Marcus, who doesn’t support her decision and calls things off, leaving Zamora not only bewildered but also heartbroken. Defeated, she moves out and moves on.

Hotel and business owner Marcus Coleman is a family man and is very close to the ones he loves. Hospitality was all he knew, being a fourth-generation hotel owner, and he did all he could to please his parents. Accustomed to making sacrifices, Marcus was blindsided by the news that his college love, Zamora, would go away for thirteen months to attend culinary school. Driven by ego, he ends their entire relationship before thinking it through.

Ten years later, as fate would have it, Zamora and Marcus are both in Las Vegas heading back to Chicago on the very same flight that gets delayed and eventually canceled. They have one night to catch up, and one night is all it takes for them to realize that they still harbor old feelings for each other.

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10/01/2025

Somebody’s Husband
Robbi Renee

A grieving doctor and a nurturing professor join forces on a potentially groundbreaking medical study that sparks a profound connection neither saw coming in this unconventional romantic drama from the author who brought you the book club favorite Somebody’s Wife.

Dr. Dresden Xavier moved his family back to his hometown of Monroe City after an unfortunate tragedy. Searching for an escape from the reality of grief and depression, Dresden buries himself in a grueling medical research project that could yield life-changing results. What was supposed to be a short-term partnership with the professor of nursing at Monroe University quickly morphs into a case study of love . . . or maybe just an experiential error.

Harper Kingsley, a loving wife, mother, and professor, sought tenure and a little peace and happiness in her fast-paced life. In the public eye, Harper is a poised perfectionist, but behind closed doors, she desperately fights to mend the broken threads of her feeble family. Lies, sickness, and secrets that could destroy her family permeate her soul until the healing touch of Dr. Xavier changes her trajectory. What was supposed to be a clinical research assignment evolves into something much greater and beyond their control.

https://amzn.to/3PsKgok

09/01/2025

09/01/2025

Bemused
Farrah Rochon

Living in a quiet seaside village with their overprotective mother, teenaged sisters Calliope, Clio, Melpomene, Terpsichore, and Thalia are talented performers with no audience. If Calli had her way, she'd pursue her dream of writing epic stories in the city of Thebes. But family comes first, and as the eldest, she'd never leave her beloved sisters behind.

Then, following a disastrous public music performance, their mother reveals a shocking secret: she is Mnemosyne, the Goddess of Memory, and for nearly two decades, she’s been on the run from the gods of Mount Olympus, desperate to keep her daughters safe from their machinations. Before she can share more, she is kidnapped . . . and though the girls don’t know it yet, the villain pulling the strings is none other than Hades, fiery God of the Underworld.

Under Calli’s leadership, the sisters embark on a journey to save their mother and to learn more about their own divine origins. But the path ahead is filled with mythical trials and tribulations, and they’ll need to rely on both their individual talents and the strength of their sisterhood to ensure that they ascend from "zeroes" to "heroes"--or more accurately, heroines.

https://amzn.to/3VZo09n

08/01/2025

A Lifetime in 30 Days
A.C. Arthur

Savannah Carlson has one month before she hits the big four-oh. With her best friends, Jamaica and Ronni, she’s making every weekend toward that milestone count—party-wise. Vanna’s plans go awry when her shady, no-good, unreliable, estranged husband, Caleb, dies in a boating accident. The real sucker punch lands when Vanna is arrested for embezzlement at his funeral. Her man certainly is the gift that keeps on giving.
Talk about mixed emotions. Grief over good years wasted with the wrong man. Rage at her vindictive mother-in-law. Fear of that unjust felony hanging over her head. And even some bliss given her long-simmering attraction to an old acquaintance that’s coming to a sweet boil. Amid the chaos, Vanna refuses to spiral. She has her faith, her cheerleading, gun-toting Granny, and her besties to help her through the most trying times of her life.
Freakin’ forty and still fly? Vanna has to believe in that now more than ever.
https://amzn.to/4gz885O

07/01/2025

The Unexpected Diva
Tiffany L. Warren

Before the Civil War, Black opera singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield reigned supreme on Northern stages—even performing at Buckingham Palace. Novelist Tiffany L Warren brings this remarkable but forgotten diva’s remarkable story to life for modern readers.
Born into slavery on a Mississippi plantation, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield has been raised in the safety of Philadelphia’s Quaker community by a wealthy adoptive mother. Sheltered and educated, Eliza’s happy childhood always included music lessons to nurture her unique gift: a glorious three octave singing voice that leaves listeners in awe. But on the eve of her twenty-fourth birthday, young Eliza’s world is thrown into a tailspin when her mother dies.
Eliza’s inheritance is contested by her mother’s white cousins, leaving her few options. She can marry her longtime beau, Lucien, though she has no desire to be a wife and mother. Or she can work as a tutor for rich families. Her mother’s dying wish was for Eliza to pursue her talent and become a professional singer, but that grand vision now seems out of reach.
When a chance performance on a steamboat to Buffalo, New York, leads to a surprising opportunity, fearless Eliza seizes her moment. Within a year she is touring America, singing to packed houses, and igniting controversy wherever she goes. In a country captivated by “the Swedish Nightingale” Jenny Lind, Eliza is billed by tour promoters as “the Black Swan.” An unlikely diva, Eliza is tall, dark-skinned, and robust of figure compared to the petite European prima donna, but even the harshest critics can’t deny Eliza’s extraordinary gift. Menaced by racist crowds, threatened by slave-catchers who kidnap free Black people, Eliza lives a public life full of risk, but one which also holds the promise of great riches, and the freedoms those buy.
From the churches of Philadelphia to Queen Victoria’s salon in Buckingham Palace, Eliza Greenfield will blaze her own path—with a voice that no listener will ever forget.

https://amzn.to/40gfSUs

06/01/2025

New Releases (Week of December 29, 2024)

06/01/2025

North
Ann Michelle Harris

A boy who can heal from any injury is destined for a lot of suffering. Kai is orphaned and illegally trapped in slavery. As someone who' s lost everything, nothing is as annoying as the spoiled rich girl who walks into the path of his crossbow when he' s trying to hunt. A girl with a murdered father and absent mother has a lot to deal with, especially when Cara is a princess whose uncle wants to trap her in a political marriage. But Cara is a fierce warrior determined to prove her worth as she helps her kingdom defend continuing attacks from the North. Kai' s sharp weapons skills and rapid healing power make him just the fighter Cara needs. In the beautiful South Kingdom, Kai' s chance encounter with the royal children leads to a very different kind of fairy tale. Life at the palace means danger, prejudice, and political intrigue. But when Kai suddenly disappears, will Cara risk everything to save Kai, and her kingdom, from the queen of the North?

https://amzn.to/3Ph3ixN

05/01/2025

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05/01/2025

My Sugar in Sugar Land
Dee Osah

A dream role with his dream girl. What could possibly go wrong?
When Nollywood actor Silas Harry seeks refuge in Houston to escape a scandal, he never expects to land the role of a lifetime.
Aspiring screenwriter Ibelema Pepple is about to realize her filmmaking dreams, but a missing lead threatens to derail her movie submission to a film festival.
Silas steps in to fill the role, and their undeniable chemistry sets the stage for an improbable romance that could change their lives forever.
But as they navigate the blurred lines of reel and what’s real, can Ibelema find the courage to embrace this unexpected future? Will Silas finally break free from his past roles and become the leading man in Ibelema’s heart?
https://amzn.to/3ZYk5L5

04/01/2025

Lost Love: My First Boyfriend
Rachel Moulden

Shy, reserved Nadia did not expect to meet a cute boy in her Summer art class, but Aiden just seems to be everywhere she goes. Is fate trying to tell her something? Could Aiden (and his cute dimples) finally be Nadia's first boyfriend?

https://amzn.to/4fAHZCg

03/01/2025

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03/01/2025

Stuck in the Country with You
Zuri Day

Good fences make good neighbors—except when a scorching shared past makes things complicated—in this delightful city-meets-country romance from Zuri Day.

She’s packing her bags—and her baggage.

Ten years ago, Genesis Washington made a very poor decision. At the time, it seemed great. Fantastic. Explosive. But the truth is, your one-night rebound should never be your younger brother’s rival. And he definitely shouldn’t be someone who allegedly only slept with you to gain the upper hand—even if the s*x was amazing.

Now Genesis is blindsided when the farm she’s inherited just happens to be right next door to Jaxson King, the regrettable one-night stand she’s still painfully attracted to. This man has aged like the finest of wines, and what’s worse, he’s now a thoughtful and responsible father. Good thing Genesis has a (*cough* long-distance *cough*) boyfriend. Well, sort of. It’s complicated.

Jaxson and his hotness should be easy enough to ignore. But when city-girl Genesis discovers there’s a serious learning curve to her humble new home, it’s Jaxson who’s there to lend a very skilled helping hand. With every problem that arises, Jaxson is seemingly making all the right moves—both on the farm and when things heat up behind closed doors. But, surely, that doesn’t mean he’s right for Genesis, does it?

https://amzn.to/4fD2RZv

02/01/2025

The Weight of Silence
Zelda Oliver-Miles

Zariyah Ellis has always kept it together, but the tiny cracks in her seemingly perfect life are widening, and the silence she’s clung to can no longer hold back the pain. As buried truths resurface, Zariyah begins to question the choices that shaped her life. An unexpected betrayal forces her to reexamine her closest relationships, while the fragile connection with her husband teeters on the edge of collapse. With everything she’s worked for hanging in the balance, Zariyah must confront the past she’s tried to forget and decide if she has the strength to fight for her future—or let silence claim it all. The Weight of Silence is a gripping tale of love, resilience, and the courage to find your voice when it matters most. The Weight of Silence is gripping tale of love, resilience, and the courage to find your voice when it matters most

https://amzn.to/3ZQoEXS