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"Do it," I dared. "Let me die below you. Let me die looking up at heaven." Nessa I should've stayed home. It was supposed to be one harmless night. A stupid dare. Instead, I'm trapped, stalked, and hunted by a masked stranger who terrifies me as much as it turns me on. Every step I take to...

Pressure Mensah thought he had control. Four women remain—Pluto, Kashmere, Toni Roc, and his ex Ka'mari—and every one of them pulls him in a different direction. Pluto shakes him the most. When Pressure goes back home with her to see about her little sister, Zurie, he's faced with a side of...

Serenity Rose Johnson has only one hope, and that's to find a pack that will treat her kindly and maybe allow her to follow her dreams of being a fashion designer. She hasn't had it easy, but somehow, she's never given up that hope, not even after her dads sold her to omega traffickers to settle their debts. Her foolish hope helps her to escape her abusers, but she finds herself alone on the side of a deserted road in the middle of winter, in the dead of night. Headlights are the last thing she sees before unconsciousness and certain death.

Khadejah Louis did everything right—stayed quiet, stayed clean, stayed out the streets. At eighteen, she thought being good would keep her safe. She was wrong. One late-night call drags her back into survival, where danger moves faster than plans and innocence doesn't mean protection. When the...

The moment Kay'Lo discovers Toni has been on birth control, everything shatters. What feels like betrayal to him feels like survival to her, and that single truth sends their marriage into a quiet, dangerous spiral. Kay'Lo shuts down in ways Toni has never seen before, retreating into himself...

Dragon Girls roar out loud. Dragon Girls aren't afraid to take up space. Dragon Girls are ready to set their world on fire! Jasmine is thrilled to discover that she is the Shimmer Dragon! When she is transported to an amazing place called the Magic Forest, she sprouts fantastic wings, powerful legs, and gleaming scales. Being a Dragon Girl is incredible—she can fly above the treetops, make friends with all the animals, and roar clouds of sparkles.

When love, loyalty, and power collide, somebody always bleeds. Pressure Mensah built his life on control, but the night he was gunned down changed everything. Now the island is on edge, and the Mensah name carries more weight than ever. Abeni Mensah is ready to move like the queen she is, and...

Pressure thought proposing to Kashmere would finally bring him some peace, but the moment Pluto appeared with a positive pregnancy test, his world shattered all over again. He had just eliminated her from his life, and now she is carrying his child. The news drags him back into memories he has...

From the world of Certified Pressure comes Forever Certified, a raw and unhinged love story centered on Kay'Lo Mensah and Toni Roc. Toni Roc loves Kay'Lo Mensah with her whole soul, even when his love feels dangerous. Their marriage is wild, passionate, and protective to the point of violence...

Aphrodite Greer was born and raised in the bricks—projects in Jagoda Bay. She met the love of her life, Baguette, on that very soil. The ghetto goddess had her entire life mapped out for her, and just like most life plans, things took a turn for the worse. Infidelity, losing her baby girl Athena, and constant fights with her lover's mistress turned her from a rigid, dope boy's queen to a soft, put-up businesswoman. With five years between their failed relationship, Baguette and Aphrodite remain best friends, and since Baguette has moved on, his current girlfriend has also joined their circle.

McKenzie is doing all she can to move on from Malakai and what they shared. She is focusing on motherhood and enjoying the fruits of her labor while trying to make her family work with Chase. Although skeptical at first, McKenzie decides to officially give Chase a chance to prove he can be a faithful family man. With McKenzie giving him another chance, Chase finally lets Diane go and dedicates himself to being the man he knows Kenzie wants. 

McKenzie is enjoying her pregnancy and working on getting her life back together in Chicago before her babies are born. A near-tragic car accident quickly makes McKenzie realize that life is too short, and she doesn't want to waste another moment not being with the man she truly loves. Giving birth to two healthy babies and beginning her relationship with Malakai, McKenzie feels better than she has in a long time. However, it's short-lived when Malakai is notified that his life and the operations he has left behind are in jeopardy, and he must tend to them immediately.

Publicly humiliated, Marisa Banks is blindsided by the news that the man she's been dating for months is married. Being called names she wouldn't wish on anyone in front of a room full of people by her boyfriend's wife is enough to shake her identity to its foundations. In an attempt to rebuild, she makes a few questionable decisions. Asher Blaine is one of them. He's intelligent and sexy, but the pedestal he's got himself up on is unshakeable. Or so he thinks. Marisa asks for the one thing he can't deny her, even if it's the craziest thing he's ever done.

Regardless of learning about Kenzie's hectic life, Malakai refuses to give up. He sees something in Kenzie that he loves and refuses to take no for an answer, no matter how long it takes. When any other man would have run for the hills, Malakai buckles up to take the ride with Kenzie as she figures out where to turn. Whether in Miami or Chicago, Malakai is willing to wait for Kenzie. However, will unforeseen circumstances send Kenzie back into Chase's arms? Find out in the first installment of Movin' Different where the lies, betrayal, and deceit are ahead.

They are in the midst of wedding planning when a blast from the past returns, threatening to tear down everything they've worked so hard to build. They pray their relationship is strong enough to withhold the troubles, but are the actions too heartbreaking for them to bounce back one last time?

Wendy Estridon's life has been consumed by emotions, but never her own. Unable to quiet her empathic power, she's left isolated from the world she longs to be part of. Haunted by "the boy," a mental embodiment of her darkest thoughts, Wendy searches for the connection she craves in him. But when...

Nakiya Life's hardened me. A single mother to an autistic son, I learned early that love comes with lies and disappointments I can't afford. So I swore it off. Then a mistake at the doctor's office flipped my world upside down, and that's when Romari appeared. He's intense, reckless, and too...

You've heard of arranged marriages, but nothing like this… In Trill Land—better known as Da Trill—legacy is everything, and Pressure Mensah was born to carry it. Son of billionaires Kojo and Abeni Mensah, Pressure is a hood royal with gold in his blood and too much pride to chase anything...

Demari "Ignite" Savage At 36, I'm Brooklyn's Black fire chief—respected in the streets, feared in the shadows, and reckless enough to live up to my name. But Mianna? She's different. Sweet. Pure. Untouched. The kind of woman a man like me shouldn't even look at twice—but I can't stay away...

When most people hear the word "witch," they immediately think of crones conspiring over a cauldron, a force of dark and vindictive power. But to hundreds of thousands across the world, being a witch is a living, everyday reality, much more varied than the fairytale image. Witch Power follows Emma Quilty—herself a witch and an anthropologist—on an immersive journey into contemporary witchcraft, from Witchcamp retreats to "red tent" menstrual events, Voodoo priestesses running ghost tours from their vans to TikTokers casting hexes on a viral scale.