Choosing your next series starts with a small question: do you want to spend more time inside this story? Reading an opening chapter gives you room to answer that for yourself, before adding another book to your list. Hope After Dark: Oakland Moon, Book One by Darius Blackman has a complete first chapter available free on the publisher's website. The book is an adult novel blending Black romance, city secrets, and supernatural suspense. If that combination interests you, the opening gives you...

Try the First Chapter: Is Hope After Dark Your Next Read?

A first chapter can tell you how a story sounds, where its tension comes from, and whether you want to stay. Here are three things to notice in the opening of Hope After Dark.

Try the First Chapter: Is Hope After Dark Your Next Read?

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