Speaking of Summer | Solemn | Conception | Upstate | Running to Fall audiobook

Speaking of Summer

A literary thriller about one woman's desperate search for her missing twin sister, a multi-layered mystery set against Harlem neighborhoods and a postmodern, fast-paced story of urban peril, victim invisibility and the complicated truths at the heart of every family. Speaking of Summer is a Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Awards Fiction Finalist, an African-Americans on the Move Urban Book of the Year Finalist, an Audible bestseller, a Sisters in Crime Book Club Central pick, and a best book pick for over fifty media outlets including Essence, Entertainment Weekly, O Magazine, Time, Washington Post, USA Today, Lithub, Crimereads and Buzzfeed.

Solemn

Solemn Redvine is a precocious Mississippi girl who senses a nearby baby may be her half-sibling: the outcome of her father’s mistakes with a married woman who lives in their mobile home community. After Solemn witnesses a man drop the baby down a community well, she struggles to understand the event, leaving her forever changed. When her father’s next mistake – a robbery – lands Solemn in a group home for troubled girls, she meets a Chicago delinquent who wants to escape. Solemn is an Essence, Bustle, Hello Beautiful, Deep South Magazine and Citizen-Times Reading List Pick.

Conception

Told by a young mother in Chicago and her unborn child, Conception narrates the true love affairs and comings-of-ages of Black women across several eras of history. With spirits of resilience and adventure, Shivana and Conception fulfill wishes for love and rebirth. Conception is a winner of a Friends of American Writers Award in Adult Literature, one of School Library Journal’s Best Adult Books for High School Students and on the ALA’s Young Adult Library Services Association list of Best Books for Young Adults 2006.

Upstate

Upstate tells the story of Antonio and Natasha, Harlem lovers torn apart when Antonio is convicted of a crime within his family. While Antonio serves his sentence, Natasha becomes his hope. Their 10-year romantic saga lives through hopeful letters which change their lives. Upstate is a National Book Foundation “Literature for Justice” inaugural title, winner of an American Library Association ALEX Award and Audie Award in Literary Fiction, recipient of the only Terry McMillan Young Author Award given by the author for a novel, a Hurston-Wright Foundation Legacy Awards Debut Fiction Finalist, on New York Public Library’s List of Best Books for Teens, on ALA Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) list of Best Books for Young Adults, and Essence bestseller.

Tragedy Powell tries to feel she has it all– until her and her husband’s perfect life online becomes a whirlwind of spilled secrets about Tragedy’s drinking, a missing woman and their all-white town… Running to Fall is a December 2022 Amazon Book Review Editors’ Pick, Brown Girl Collective's Favorite 2022 Mystery/Suspense Novel nominee and featured in Essence, Bustle, The Root and ITW’s The Big Thrill.