The Bootlegger's Mistress

The story of Moses, epically narrated by the awesome voice of Ron Garner, is the stuff of legend: A Hebrew infant slave slated for death is miraculously saved by an Egyptian queen and adopted into the royal court. One day, Moses discovers his roots ...

A Card Sharp/Con man works the Mississippi River on one of the first class steamboats and plans to relieve as many people as possible of their gold and cash. But the arrival of a wealthy planter and his slave, changes the card sharps plans.

“A MASTERPIECE OF THRILLER AND MYSTERY. Blake Pierce did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. Full of twists, this ...

RUBY STEWART is a slave living under the false pretenses of a freed black woman in New York in 1853. She abides in turmoil longing to know where she came from. This unrest has caused her to be plagued by dreams and visions of a man she calls the Bla...

CHARLES HENDRICKS flees to London after his wife gives birth to a child belonging to his younger brother. Devastated, he numbs the pain with drink. Leaving a tavern one night he stumbles upon a cloaked female figure lying in a dark alley. Charles he...

Imagine living in a world where every facet of your existence is beyond your control.Imagine living in a world where your God-given physical traits are resented and reviled.Imagine living in a world where your humanity is subject to judicial and leg...

In the 1870s, a young John Wesley Hardin is just beginning to develop his gunslinging reputation. At eighteen, he is already a killer and in Abilene adds to his legend by shooting a man for snoring. He goes on the run pursued by the town's marshal...

Freedom Lessons begins in Louisiana 1969 as Colleen, a white northern teacher, enters into the unfamiliar culture of a small Southern town and its unwritten rules as the town surrenders to mandated school integration. She meets Frank, a bl...

In this beautifuly textured first novel by the author of the acclaimed short story collection Homemade Love, the history of one slave family becomes symbolic for all slaves and slaveholders. Family is a stunning, often painfully graphic re-creati...