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Hope After Dark: Oakland Moon, Book One
Begin the Oakland Moon series with an adult Black romance and supernatural suspense story set in Oakland. When Dr. Candice Monroe visits Club Hope, she encounters dangerous secrets involving desire, power, money, and hidden records. Digital e-book by Darius Blackman; no physical item ships. Read the first chapter free on our website and purchase securely through Shopify.
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A Man With Direction
A man can be busy and still be lost. He can work hard, show up every day, and still have no clear plan for where his life is going. A Man With Direction is for men who are ready to stop drifting and start moving with purpose. Darius Blackman challenges men to get clear, get focused, and build a life guided by discipline, intention, responsibility, and standards. This book is not about pretending everything is together. It is about admitting where direction is missing and deciding to become the kind of man who moves with purpose instead of impulse. Stop drifting. Get focused. Move with direction.
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Captain Clean-Up and the Trash That Talked Back
Captain Clean-Up and the Trash That Talked Back is a full-color graphic early reader for children ages five through eight. It combines the forward motion of a superhero comedy with the emotional truth of a child trying to hide an unfinished mistake. The story is designed for independent early readers, supported reading, classroom use, family read-alouds, and repeat visual discovery. Its environmental ideas are carried by character decisions and comic action, not by a detached lecture. At the center of the book is a simple question children understand immediately: when something looks broken, unwanted, or out of place, is throwing it away really the only answer? Eight-year-old Malcolm Price is imaginative, energetic, and certain that his messy bedroom is not a mess at all. It is Captain Clean-Up Headquarters, a place where inventions are waiting, plans are forming, and every object might become part of a future mission.
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Built for Pressure
Pressure reveals the man. It shows whether he panics, folds, blames, runs, or stands firm when life demands more from him. Built for Pressure is for men who want to stay calm when stress rises, finish strong when things get hard, and hold the line when people are depending on them. Written from lessons shaped by Army leadership and real-life responsibility, Darius Blackman challenges men to build emotional control, mental toughness, endurance, and discipline under stress. This is not about acting hard. It is about becoming steady. Because when pressure comes, your excuses will not matter. Stay calm. Finish strong. Hold the line.
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A World We Cannot Eat
They can share a station, a mission, and a dangerous attraction. They cannot share food, medicine, microbes, or unprotected touch. When a coupled systems failure traps twenty-one adults between two biologically incompatible habitats, xenobiochemist Lenora Quinn and nonhuman treaty architect Tarei Ninefold have fifty-two hours to build a temporary bridge between mirror-image biologies. Lenora hid the anomaly that might have changed the test. Tarei wrote the law that will sacrifice the trapped to protect two worlds. Saving nineteen lives will require them to trust a chemistry neither government owns—and to decide whether a boundary can become the most intimate thing between them.
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Blood Over Oakland
Nia Carter knows what a deed can prove, what a court can stop, and how easily powerful people bury theft beneath respectable paper. What she does not know is why her grandmother left her an Oakland house that changes its own records—or why an immortal man has been chained beneath it for generations. Malachi is bound to the Carter bloodline by an oath written through violence, protection, and a century of edited history. Freeing him should be simple. Trusting him is not. The family record says he murdered seven Carter women. His scars say the same family made his body answer every command. Before Nia can decide what he is, developer Ezra Saint begins acquiring the properties connected to the house, turning forged claims and old magic into a weapon that can erase people from their homes—and from memory itself.
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After the Wire: The Predatory Spouse Series - Book 5
The wire was supposed to mark the boundary between danger and safety. But some battles follow you home. After the Wire brings The Predatory Spouse Series into its next stage with a story of survival, protection, emotional fallout, and the fight to build a life after everything that came before. A new city offers new chances, but it also brings new threats, old wounds, and the reality that peace must be defended. This fifth book is about what happens after toxic love, after trauma, after distance, and after survival. It is about the people who keep moving, keep protecting, and keep fighting for themselves and those they refuse to lose. Dark, emotional, and driven by consequence, After the Wire is for readers who want domestic suspense, military-flavored drama, psychological tension, and stories about survival after the breaking point.
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A Treaty For The Unborn
The treaty is authentic. Everyone who signed it is dead. The people forced to honor it are still alive. The Shared Passage Compact once kept three distant habitats connected. It also bound workers, machines, and future officeholders to obligations they never accepted. Now the beam corridor is failing, its scheduled shutdown is approaching, and Common Measure needs that same corridor to survive its thirteen-year journey to Lattice Reach. At Mercy, physicist Rhea Maddox builds a phase network in which local operators can refuse dangerous loads without surrendering rescue. Aboard Common Measure, her husband Julian endures sustained acceleration, a damaged body, and negotiations conducted through records that outlive the people who made them. Each reply arrives from an earlier officeholder. Each solution risks becoming the next inherited command.
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