Sisters and best friends, Yola and Anya are the total opposite of each other. Yola is the loud mouth, outgoing, energetic, and sassy sister with a quick wit like no other. She’s on her get money, eff these men trip, all while being a hairstylist, a social media influencer, and a businesswoman. However, her world gets flipped and reversed when a paid club appearance lands her a chance meeting with an outspoken man who matches her energy.The hottest upcoming interior designer in the Central Florida area, Anya is an introvert by choice, focusing on her career and loving on her fur baby. After being betrayed in one of the worst ways, a relationship of any kind is not on her radar until an impromptu trip gives her an unexpected opportunity to open up new doors—maybe even her mind and heart. Will Anya finally let her past go and embrace the new endeavors presented to her?Similar to the sisters, brothers and best friends Dro and Xan are the total opposites but definitely have each other’s back. Learning the business at a young age, Dro’s no nonsense mentality helps him secure his position as the plug. Of course, he has women falling over themselves for a chance to be with him. He is playing the field until a feisty, smart-mouth woman piques his interest.Personally, Xan is more chilled and laid back and has only a short list of people that he deals with. Professionally, he is a beast in the courtroom, putting his mark on the legal world as a top-tier defense attorney. When an incident at a dog park lands him in hot water with a neighbor, his eyes like what they see and his heart knows its new owner. Will he get a second chance to make a good impression?They say that opposites attract. But what happens when the person you attract carries the same energy and vibe as you? Cruise the state of Florida with Yola, Anya, Xan, and Dro and follow their antics to witness a beautiful disaster or a dangerous nightmare when identical energies collide in Crushing On The Plug Next Door.Warning: This is the first installment of a two part African American urban fiction series.

Elizabeth Underwood. Bold. Vivacious. Confident. Her life was about to be turned upside down. As far as Elizabeth was concerned, the Underwoods were the poster family for God’s blessings. She had two beautiful children and an elegant home. Her husband was the CEO of his own technical consulting firm and he truly loved her. But when the storms of life interrupt Elizabeth’s world, will she become entangled in her struggles or will she rest in the promises of God? Read, enjoy, and find peace for your soul.

“[Evaristo’s] chef d’oeuvre; a masterful dissection of the life of a 74 year-old, British-Caribbean gay man.” —The Huffington Post * Winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction* A Top Ten Favorite of theAmerican Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table’s 2015 Over the Rainbow List Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he’s lived in Hackney, London, for years. A flamboyant, wisecracking character with a dapper taste in retro suits, and a fondness for Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father, grandfather—and also secretly gay lovers with his childhood friend, Morris. His deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away? With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves. “Evaristo’s confident control of the language, her vibrant use of humor, rhythm and poetry, and the realistic mix of Caribbean patois with both street and the Queen’s English... fix characters in the reader’s mind.” —The New York Times Book Review “The novel proves to be revolutionary in its honest portrayal of gay men... and Evaristo’s writing is both intelligible and compelling.” —Library Journal “Evaristo crafts a colorful look at a unique character confronting social normativity with a well-tuned voice and a resonant humanity.” —Publishers Weekly

The inspiration for the acclaimed OWN TV series produced by Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay"Queen Sugar is a page-turning, heart-breaking novel of the new south, where the past is never truly past, but the future is a hot, bright promise. This is a story of family and the healing power of our connections—to each other, and to the rich land beneath our feet."—Tayari Jones, author ofAn American MarriageReaders, booksellers, and critics alike are embracing Queen Sugar and cheering for its heroine, Charley Bordelon, an African American woman and single mother struggling to build a new life amid the complexities of the contemporary South.When Charley unexpectedly inherits eight hundred acres of sugarcane land, she and her eleven-year-old daughter say goodbye to smoggy Los Angeles and head to Louisiana. She soon learns, however, that cane farming is always going to be a white man’s business. As the sweltering summer unfolds, Charley struggles to balance the overwhelming challenges of a farm in decline with the demands of family and the startling desires of her own heart.