Fiction - Urban & Street Lit

A gangster hitman. A shoemaker. One shot at grace.Carrying his broken shoe, Tim Randall steps into Billy Cranny's quiet shop and straight into the shadow of a decades-old crime that binds Billy with hitman Ronnie Rhodes, who uses his sharp mind and cold instincts...

Whoever said "Revenge is sweet" is a g*ddamned liar.There's nothing "sweet" about the vengeance I want against Sophia Somerset. Because when this quick-tongued waitress with more curves than the real estate market makes off with my most prized possession-and the only item saving my...

So far you've been involved in a world where Trevor had his life in order, but what about the times before? The times he was not to be trusted? The nights he just couldn't catch a break? From learning life lessons the hard way...

Originally published in 1932 and banned by the Nazis one year later, Blood Brothers follows a gang of young boys bound together by unwritten rules and mutual loyalty.Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom...

A powerful and heartfelt coming-of-age novel that follows Martin Kelso as he grows up in 1980s New York and faces the magic of first experiences, as well as the heartbreak of hard-won life lessons. Martin Kelso's comfortable world starts to change at the age...

Stories about the collective struggle of the Irish working class--one of the world's most compelling portraits of urban life. "When you remember that Dublin has been a capital for thousands of years," James Joyce once wrote to his brother, "that it is the 'second...

The third in a series of books featuring four young women whose lives will be forever changed by WWII. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn. As the daughter of the local cinema manager, Sally Brewer has always dreamed of stardom. When she gets offered...

After losing their dad at a very young age and being separated from their family, Nora being sent to live with her uncle whom she loved and respected, Nora was raised to survive at any cost learning from her uncle and big time drug...

They could love anybody. They just can't love each other right.Zaria "Zae" Coleman built everything she has with her own two hands - a soul-food kitchen grinding toward a real restaurant, and a wall around her heart high enough to keep every man who...

May Day MaliceA divorced witch, a town being strangled by magic, and a corporate warlock who just crossed the wrong woman.Forty-five-year-old Mara Vance thought surviving a messy divorce and managing perimenopause in the misty, small town of Moonstone Cove would be her biggest midlife...

Midlife is tough. It's even tougher when your hot flashes start triggering actual magic-and your ex-husband's secrets start digging themselves up.At forty-something, recently divorced, and starting over, the last thing she expected was a second chance at life in a quirky, small magical town....

We are told to be dreamers. Chase the summit. Don't settle.Imran heard that and built - deals, towers, a name, a second flat he mentions too often. Bilal heard it too, and chose a primary-school classroom, a small warm home, and a faith that...

The Hidden Stalker of Jack the Ripper follows the story of Bob Smith, who unwittingly finds the anonymous diary of a female stalker during the reign of terror in Victorian London. It is an account with a twist, and for all those who enjoy...

There are monsters in London - and ancient magic too. In the sewers and on the marshes, in the Thames and the Serpentine, in Highgate and the Tower, in Westminster and Hampton, in the dark tunnels and in the earth. It's unlikely that anyone...

What good is an empire when the king gets sentenced to prison? The answer is... it's as good as the queen who is willing to hold it down. Amina was comfortable sitting pretty as the princess of the streets, but when her man has...

Paul, he was the only child, being raised b y a single parent, Denise, his mother. Denisedid her best raising Paul, but what she didn't know is that he had a lot of Hate buried deepinside o f him. After some years, he'll eventually...

The Silence of HillbrowThe Silence of Hillbrow is a gripping exploration of social realism and institutional decay, masterfully woven through the lens of Relational Realism. Set against the stark, shifting landscape of urban South Africa, the narrative peels back the layers of a society...

Some love stories burn out. Others smolder in the dark, waiting for a single spark to set the world on fire.Twelve years ago, Julian Mercer lost everything in a devastating warehouse fire in Lisbon-his art, his mentor, and Marlowe, the only woman he ever...

Fourth Seal and Lamb of Mayfair are the Landlords from Hell.They invest in bricks and mortar to crush bones and fill mortuaries, and they prefer the rent to be paid in blood and misery.It is only when Florence Snoutsville, a reporter for the Underworld's...

Detective Wolf Regnum has been living two lives, one as a father and Police Detective for the Richmond Police Department, the other as a member of the Vigiles, an ancient organization with only one purpose, to watch the night. But when a scream shatters...

Rusty Mandible, Twitch, and Congo have escaped the science fair, but their journey is far from over.With water-powered jetpacks and a tiny radar guiding them, the three ants race across human territory in hopes of returning to their colony. The path home leads them...

In a community where most people learn early on to survive without being noticed, Gabriel discovers in photography a way to see what the world usually ignores.The son of a healthcare worker who faces grueling shifts and marked by his father's absence, he begins...

Blackwood Creek is a town that everyone wants to go to, where everyone knows everyone. But an evil has come to the town to destroy it. A creature, this creature is difficult to catch or to find and that is he is a skinwalker.Author:...

NEW RELEASE!Forbidden Love on the Faultline - Book Three To heal the fracture, they must return to the place where the mountain meets the sea. Haifa is a city of fragile grace. Where the ancient pine forests of Mount Carmel slope down to the...

Nobody sleeps early anymore. In a modern Berlin filled with glowing phone screens, crowded apartments, late-night conversations, dating apps, temporary relationships, emotional burnout, and silent loneliness, a group of young strangers slowly drift through a city that never truly rests. Leon, Mila, Noah, Clara,...

In 1976, Bellwether needed a family to sell the future. The Kovacs were poor, photogenic, and available. For forty dollars and seven meal vouchers, they posed in a department-store window as The American Family of Tomorrow. Then the city built that future over the...

Six months after Tony Brewster's federal arrest, Khareem Denton is building something different. Legitimate work. Legal money. A relationship with Shyann forged carefully from the wreckage of everything that came before. The operation is winding down. The worst is behind them.Then a supplemental federal...

BINGE Chronicles: The GenesisSome stories aren't meant to stay buried.BINGE Chronicles: The Genesis is a raw, emotionally gripping urban memoir inspired by real experiences-exploring love, identity, validation, heartbreak, addiction, and the painful process of becoming someone new.Told through a sharp, intimate voice, this coming-of-age...

I became the housekeeper for the doctor next door.Now I'm waking up in his bed... before either of us has the words for it.Dr. Adrian Whitfield. Forty-eight. Silver at the temples, hands that haven't touched anyone outside of work in years, and a brownstone...

"The Sun in Splendour" is an evocative and immersive novel that captures the vibrant, gritty essence of early 20th-century London. Set primarily in Islington and the surrounding districts, the narrative centers on a public house of the same name, which serves as a vital...

Kash paid the debt.The streets charged interest.Marcus "Kash" Williams thought saving his brother would be the end of it. Trey is alive. Fade to Black is open. Nia is still beside him. For the first time in seven days, Kash lets himself believe he...

This story is about a cab driver who braves the elements and dangers of the city life in order to transport his passengers to their destination. Whenever he leave home, there is no guarantee that he will return. He lives a fascinating life independent...

Frank DeLuca lived by the rules. Loyalty. Silence. Family. Until he didn't. When a routine night turns into something he can't walk back, Frank makes a decision that puts him on the wrong side of everything he's ever known. The FBI offers him a...

THEY THOUGHT SHE WAS A "NOBODY" - UNTIL THE MOST FEARED KOREAN CRIME LORD CHOSE HER OVER EVERYTHINGShe wasn't supposed to matter. Then he chose her over everything.Lorraine Carter has survived things that were supposed to break her - a marriage that quietly dissolved...

"A MOODY, NONLINEAR PSYCHODRAMA.""OFFBEAT, ATMOSPHERIC.""DEEPLY HUMAN, RAW, UNSETTLING!" "Junko's decision has nothing to do with politics or religion or anything else so worldly and fleeting. It has to do with love and understanding. It has to do with death." You Can't Save Me traces...

I once believed I had everything I needed-love, marriage, a family, and a future that felt safe. I gave six years of my life to a man I trusted completely, only to discover I was living inside a carefully built illusion.The day everything broke,...

Some wars find you. This one waited.Loco is dead.Iceman executed him for refusing to reveal Ghost's location. Even at the end, Loco never broke. Not once.Now Ghost is back in Stockton, and the debt is personal.He returns to a city controlled by V12, a...

Three career criminals and two (attempted) magical murders makes for one fragile alliance.Anderson Deacon walked out of jail and into a death sentence. The Hollow Merchants want their property back - property that was locked inside Deacon's supposedly unbreakable vault. Until Frank Phantom, and...

What stories hide behind the doors of Brooklyn's historic brownstones?The Brooklyn Heights Chronicles: Mysteries Beneath the Brownstone invites readers into one of New York City's most iconic neighborhoods, where quiet streets and elegant houses conceal decades of forgotten secrets.When a mysterious letter appears on...

Her role was always clear.Stay clean.Be vigilant. Raised as the protected daughter of one of Detroit's most powerful families, she learned the rules from a distance. Watching. Listening. Waiting. Then everything changed. In a single night, her world is torn apart, leaving her the...

This is the story of my friend William Duncan-and of the day his life was irrevocably altered by the discovery that Freddie Mercury might not be dead.Everything began, as many extraordinary things do, by pure chance: a cat slipping through an open window, a...

Matt is pining for Kateryna but is back at Special Branch training new officers in psychological interrogations. For the last six months Matt has been pushed by Special Branch into doing Mixed Martial Arts training, his chief was worried he gets himself into to...

Shamus O'Donnell-O'D to the few who know him-has always lived between two identities. Born in London to Cork parents, he rose through the Metropolitan Police by keeping his head down, his mind sharp, and his loyalties unshakeable. Now a Chief Inspector, he has been...

Justice is blind. The System is broken.Dr. Matt Murray, a criminal psychologist for Special Branch, is used to peering into the minds of monsters. But when a coordinated terrorist strike levels his headquarters and kills his closest colleague, the investigation leads him somewhere he...

Shamus O'Donnell-O'D to the few who know him-has always lived between two identities. Born in London to Cork parents, he rose through the Metropolitan Police by keeping his head down, his mind sharp, and his loyalties unshakeable. Now a Chief Inspector, he has been...

Some thrones are not meant to be claimed. They are meant to be destroyed.Cass Blackwood has spent her life hunting supernatural threats - never suspecting the most dangerous one lived in her own blood. Now, marked by the silver sigils of a forgotten bloodline...

She never wanted the crown. But the crown wants her - and it's slowly killing her.Cassandra Blackwood has always paid the price for doing the right thing. Single mother, supernatural investigator, reluctant reformer - she has spent years holding Buffalo's fractious supernatural community together...

Why are there medieval knights rampaging around the Underground stations of modern London, harvesting body parts? What is the connection between the Queen of England and King Edgar, first king of England in 959 AD? And who is the mysterious woman in red who...

What's Inside?- A full-length cozy fantasy novel (384 pages)- Immortal tea witch x practical beekeeper slow-burn romance- Enchanted small town setting- Magical winter atmosphere with hearthfire, honey, and snow- Emotional journey of redemption and hope- Reading Group Guide includedSet in the quietly enchanted town...

Power no longer arrives with a knock on the door.It arrives as an update.A Bed of Red Roses is a noir novel about a world where people are not destroyed, arrested, or silenced-they are reclassified. Accounts are marked inactive. Access is restricted. Decisions are...