In Mary Monroe's "Nightmare in Paradise, " a dutiful wife explores her wild side during a Caribbean getaway, and in Victor McGlothin's "Bad Luck Shadow, " a killer on the run from the law prepares to pull the biggest heist in history.

Some prayed for my death, but I didn't go anywhere. I was a bad bitch before -- wait 'til they see me now ... In a single act of violence, beautiful gold digger Celess lost her best friend, Tina, and her good looks. She also lost her former love, Michael, when he learned her secret. Now depressed, suicidal, and horribly disfigured, Celess gets a phone call that changes her life.

The members of the Moore clan come together to celebrate the recent marriage of Myles and Marisa, while Kenya and Amir cope with their rambunctious seven-year-old twins, and Jasmine, Myles's and Amir's teenage cousin, rebels against everything her family believes, until a dark secret from the past threatens to tear the family apart.

"Curtis Black is no stranger to scandal. Throughout the decades, he has done much in the public eye, both good and evil. But what most people don't realize is that Curtis has been hiding a horrific childhood, which has affected him in countless, unspeakable ways. His buried past returns in an unwelcome visit when his estranged sister becomes alarmingly ill and his youngest child, twelve-year-old Curtina, becomes the kind of problem daughter that he...

Avery takes turns posing as three different alter egos, one a charmer with a dazzling smile, the second a millionaire, and the third a romantic poet, to make conquests and collect hearts until he meets a woman as wily as himself.

Dahlia asks her friend Nitrah to help her get revenge on the lying, cheating heatbreaker, Troyon. But things don't turn out quite the way Dahlia plans, and now her secrets are about to come back to haunt her.

"She is a woman of a thousand faces, an assassin who could be anyone, anywhere. The Trinidad contract was supposed to be simple: to make a living man become a dead man. When the job goes bad under the watchful eye of a bank security camera, there is nowhere for agent MX-401, known as Reaper, to hide from the fearsome local warlords, the Laventille Killers. Her employers, the Barbarians, send her to Barbados, the next island over, barely two hundred...

Readers first met the McBroom sisters in Eric Jerome Dickey's New York Times bestseller Naughty or Nice. In the highly anticipated sequel, Naughtier than Nice, we find out what happens on the other side of the fairy tale. The lives of Frankie, Tommie, and Olivia (Livvy) haven't turned out quite as planned. Frankie has a pair of stalkers. The life that Tommie had dreamed of having with Blue has become anything but perfect, and Olivia, despite her efforts,...