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Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Dafina Books is the leading publisher of commercial fiction written by and about people of African descent. The word Dafina, which is Sw...
Dafina Book Executive Editor Selena James and Abiola Abrams
Dafina Book Executive Editor Selena James and Abiola Abrams Book Spotlights For more information visit https://aalbc.com/authors/imprint.php?imprint=Dafina Dafina Book Executive Editor Selena James an...
Games Women Play (Dafina Fiction)
Games Women Play (Dafina Fiction) Zaire Crown 9781617739897 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this fast-moving, gritty debut novel, one woman learns that even the strictest rules are made ...
Body By Night (Dafina Contemporary Romance)
Body By Night (Dafina Contemporary Romance) Zuri Day 9780758228826 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Zuri Day sizzles with a seductive story of one woman’s quest to take control of her life...
Better Than (Dafina Contemporary Romance)
Better Than (Dafina Contemporary Romance) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780758213303 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Book by Esdaile, Leslie
Kensington Publishing Corp.
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Mary Monroe
Mary Monroe 0000000029010860 Mary Monroe, a sharecropper's daughter and the first in her family to graduate high school, returned to the literary scene with her novel “God Don’t Like Ugly”, which sol...
Abiola Abrams
Abiola Abrams NONE Abiola Abrams is a renowned speaker, life coach, author, columnist, and media personality known for her heart-centered lifestyle advice. She is the creator of the “Passionista Play...
Bad Decisions
Bad Decisions Mary Monroe 9781496761958 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this drama-filled Roaring ʼ20s and World War II novel from award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Mo...
Notes from Beale Street
Notes from Beale Street Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496758804 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. When their family matriarch dies in 1980s Memphis, two very different sisters battle over her legacy—o...
Kensington
Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. is the last remaining independent U.S. publisher of hardcover, trade and mass market paperback books...
Kensington - Teen
Kensington - Teen Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. is the last remaining independent U.S. publisher of hardcover, trade and mass market paperba...
Erewhon Books
Erewhon Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. is the last remaining independent U.S. publisher of hardcover, trade and mass market paperback b...
Kensington Cozies
Kensington Cozies Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. is the last remaining independent U.S. publisher of hardcover, trade and mass market paperba...
Touchdown in Brazil
Touchdown in Brazil Omar Tyree 9781496762894 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Amid the landmark NFL game in the electric city of São Paulo, Brazil, three very different family men cross path...
Blood Rising
Blood Rising Markus Redmond 9781496753199 Nonfiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In a brilliantly terrifying blend of supernatural horror and alternate history for fans of Ryan Coogler’s Sinner...
Bad Seeds
Bad Seeds Mary Monroe 9781496743213 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. A warm-hearted, generous businesswoman discovers her dark side when she’s betrayed by both the younger man she thought wa...
Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider
Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider Stacy Spikes 9781496739575 Nonfiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. At the intersection of power, technology, and race, Stacy Spikes, award-wi...
Forgotten Souls: The Lost Tuskegee Airmen
Forgotten Souls: The Lost Tuskegee Airmen Cheryl W. Thompson 9781496750778 Nonfiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. NPR investigative journalist and the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman, Cheryl W. T...
Burn Down Master’s House
Burn Down Master’s House Clay Cane 9781496759146 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Inspired by long-buried true stories of enslaved people who dared to fight back, this powerful novel offers ...
Between Good and Evil
Between Good and Evil Rochelle Alers 9781496742766 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In the tradition of Studs Lonigan and A Stone for Danny Fisher, a transporting historical saga about three...
God Don’t Make No Mistakes
God Don’t Make No Mistakes Mary Monroe 9781496756282 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. The New Edition of a Modern Classic by New York Times Bestselling and Award-Winning Author Mary Monroe! ...
Where the Boys Come to Die
Where the Boys Come to Die Porscha Sterling 9781496741974 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. On New Orleans’s darkest, most seductive streets, obsession is a game two can play—but only one can...
Amber Alert
Amber Alert Kiki Swinson 9781496746870 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. An explosive portrait of Dirty South revenge, triple-dealing, and crimes of passion as a suburban mom’s high-end crimi...
Lost in the Garden of Eve
Lost in the Garden of Eve L. Divine 9781496749994 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Nancy Drew Meets P-Valley in a Unique Blend of Thrilling Crime Fiction, Timely Social Commentary, and the P...
God Ain’t Blind
God Ain’t Blind Mary Monroe 9781496756275 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Originally Published in 2009. “Monroe is a masterful storyteller.” — Philadelphia Inquirer There are some thi...
Hunting Ava
Hunting Ava Kiki Swinson 9781496746894 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In an unforgettable portrait of Southern scheming, greed, and brutality, a high-end criminal turned suburban mom in hi...
Blood Slaves
Blood Slaves Markus Redmond 9781496753168 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. For fans of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and readers of Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, and Colson ...
Something in the Water
Something in the Water Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496754196 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Buried secrets, environmental disaster, and a legacy of corruption hit too close to home when a Califor...
Whispers of the Lake
Whispers of the Lake Shanora Williams 9781496745842 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. A peaceful North Carolina lakefront cottage sets the scene for this twist-filled thriller about the treac...
God Don’t Play
God Don’t Play Mary Monroe 9781496756268 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Originally Published in 2010. From New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe comes the story of two lifelong ...
Bent But Not Broken
Bent But Not Broken Mary Monroe 9781496743183 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Brimming with unpredictable twists and scandals, the latest Depression-era Alabama novel from award-winning, Ne...
Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers
Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers Joseph Holland 9781496743268 Nonfiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Now Available in Paperback! One hundred and twenty...
A Taste for More
A Taste for More Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496743138 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In a breathtaking saga spanning the final three decades of the Great Migration - from the Jim Crow south in r...
The Bitter Truth
The Bitter Truth Shanora Williams 9781496745828 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. An upstanding political candidate. A determined stalker. A shattering lost weekend. Amid the clashes and intr...
Control
Control Omar Tyree 9781496748041 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Six talented but dangerously toxic personalities in the entertainment hotbed of Atlanta push their psychologist to her own v...
Undefeated: Changing the Rules and Winning on My Own Terms
Undefeated: Changing the Rules and Winning on My Own Terms Shaunie Henderson 9781668012222 Nonfiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Shaunie Henderson—wife, mother, entrepreneur, producer, and cre...
Double Lives
Double Lives Mary Monroe 9781496743152 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns with an outrageous new tale of Depression-era Sout...
Mama Ruby
Mama Ruby Mary Monroe 9781496739179 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. The new edition of a modern classic by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Mary Monroe! An enduring ta...
Intermission
Intermission Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496743114 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Dreamgirls meets Waiting to Exhale by way of Destiny’s Child with a nostalgic 90s twist! As glittering as thei...
The Other Mistress: A Riveting Psychological Thriller with a Shocking Twist
The Other Mistress: A Riveting Psychological Thriller with a Shocking Twist Shanora Williams 9781496731128 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. “Shanora Williams expertly drops hints and clues a...
Wifey’s Next Come Up
Wifey’s Next Come Up Kiki Swinson 9781496743572 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this sizzling, high-octane new series, the national bestselling author and urban lit superstar brings back...
Madam X
Madam X Niobia Bryant 9781496730725 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. By popular demand, national bestselling author Niobia Bryant brings you the sizzling, sexy, twist-a-minute follow-up to M...
Burning Season
Burning Season Kiki Swinson 9781496738998 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. National bestselling author Kiki Swinson’s novels set it off with killer plot twists, merciless characters—and an u...
Love, Honor, Betray
Love, Honor, Betray Mary Monroe 9781496732644 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe delivers the latest thrillingly scandal-filled nove...
Empty Vows
Empty Vows Mary Monroe 9781496732620 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this scandalous follow-up to the Depression-era saga Mrs. Wiggins, the New York Times bestselling and award-winning a...
Beats and Blow
Beats and Blow Shaun Sinclair 9781496728685 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. With an exceptional voice that combines the explosive drama of Kiki Swinson and the lyrical writing style of Devo...
Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider
Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider Stacy Spikes 9781496739568 Nonfiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. At the intersection of power, technology, and race, Stacy Spikes, award-wi...
That Dangerous Energy
That Dangerous Energy Aya de León 9781496740328 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Two-time International Latino Book Award-winning author Aya de León brings her unique blend of commerc...
Public Enemy #1
Public Enemy #1 Kiki Swinson 9781496729774 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. National bestselling author and urban lit superstar Kiki Swinson amps up the action and suspense with unpredictabl...
Behind Her Lives
Behind Her Lives Briana Cole 9781496738752 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From bestselling author Briana Cole, an enthrallingly suspenseful new story of secrets, sibling rivalry, and a wom...
The Upper Room (2022)
The Upper Room (2022) Mary Monroe 9781496739162 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. An instant classic, beloved New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Mary Monroe’s debut novel The...
Wifey’s Next Deadly Hustle
Wifey’s Next Deadly Hustle Kiki Swinson 9781496734761 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this sizzling, high-octane new series, national bestselling author and urban lit superstar Kiki Swin...
The White Allies Handbook: 4 Weeks to Join the Racial Justice Fight for Black Women
The White Allies Handbook: 4 Weeks to Join the Racial Justice Fight for Black Women Lecia Michelle 9781496738370 Nonfiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. You’ve read White Fragility and How to Be...
The Wife Before: A Spellbinding Psychological Thriller with a Shocking Twist
The Wife Before: A Spellbinding Psychological Thriller with a Shocking Twist Shanora Williams 9781496731111 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Fans of Verity will be engrossed by this unpredic...
Playing Their Games
Playing Their Games Kiki Swinson 9781496734129 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this this page-turning spin-off prequel to the Playing Dirty and Notorious duology, national bestselling au...
Payback Is a Mutha
Payback Is a Mutha Wahida Clark 9781496732910 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. This hot, gritty first installment in Wahida Clark’s iconic New York Times and USA Today bestselling Payback se...
Empty Vows: A Riveting Depression Era Historical Novel
Empty Vows: A Riveting Depression Era Historical Novel Mary Monroe 9781496732613 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this gripping follow-up to the Depression-era saga Mrs. Wiggins, the New ...
Wifey’s Next Hustle
Wifey’s Next Hustle Kiki Swinson 9781496734754 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Nearly 15 years after her real-life inspired, blockbuster Wifey Series launched nationally bestselling author ...
Miss Pearly’s Girls
Miss Pearly’s Girls ReShonda Tate 9781496735393 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this captivating family drama from award-winning, bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, four estra...
Couples Wanted
Couples Wanted Briana Cole 9781496729576 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Acclaimed author Briana Cole delivers a page-turning look behind-the-scenes of love and marriage in this sexy, suspe...
Playing with Fire
Playing with Fire Kiki Swinson 9781496734112 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. National bestselling author Kiki Swinson never lets up with relentless characters, unpredictable twists, and a m...
Blindsided
Blindsided Trice Hickman 9781496709356 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Blindsided is my 10th novel (I still can’t believe it). I feel incredibly blessed by God’s grace, because believe me...
Dance Theatre of Harlem: A History, a Movement, a Celebration
Dance Theatre of Harlem: A History, a Movement, a Celebration Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel 9781496733603 Nonfiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From its modest beginnings in the 1960s in a Harle...
Justified
Justified Briana Cole and De’nesha Diamond 9781496711496 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. BLACK AND BLUE by DE’NESHA DIAMOND In one shattering night, Charlie Warren’s fiancé is kil...
Once in a Lifetime
Once in a Lifetime Mary Monroe 9781496730633 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Beloved award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe delivers a hopeful and heartwarming stor...
Queen of Urban Prophecy
Queen of Urban Prophecy Aya de León 9781496728623 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Stardom crashed like an avalanche onto this female rap artist. Now getting justice, real power, and true re...
The Perfect Ruin: A Riveting New Psychological Thriller
The Perfect Ruin: A Riveting New Psychological Thriller Shanora Williams 9781496731104 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. A thrilling new novel of lies, deception, and revenge from the bestsel...
Thug Matrimiony (2021)
Thug Matrimiony (2021) Wahida Clark 9781496732903 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark has always had her finger on the pounding pulse of the stree...
Blind Ambition
Blind Ambition Lutishia Lovely 9781496724458 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Gripping, explosive, and timely, Lutishia Lovely’s latest novel is a tale of one woman’s shocking discovery—and ...
All the Things I Meant to Tell You
All the Things I Meant to Tell You Tiffany L. Warren 9781496723710 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From award-winning, Essence® bestselling author Tiffany L. Warren, the warm, relatable...
Public Enemy #1
Public Enemy #1 Kiki Swinson 9781496729767 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Praise for KiKi Swinson "Pitch-perfect dialogue, juicy sexual trysts, cold-blooded betrayal, and ruthless violence...
Mrs. Wiggins
Mrs. Wiggins Mary Monroe 9781496732583 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns to the Deep South Depression-era town of her scandalous Mama Rub...
The Marriage Pass
The Marriage Pass Briana Cole 9781496729552 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In a smart, sexy spin-off from her Unconditional Series, Briana Cole continues to explore unconventional relation...
A Spy in the Struggle: A Riveting Must-Read Novel of Suspense
A Spy in the Struggle: A Riveting Must-Read Novel of Suspense Aya de León 9781496728593 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Praise for A Spy in the Struggle The author of the four Justice Hustl...
Dirty Music
Dirty Music Shaun Sinclair 9781496728654 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. THE CRESCENT CREW SERIES He built an empire from his infamous Dirty South crew’s street riches. He’s an unstoppabl...
The Deadline
The Deadline Kiki Swinson 9781496729729 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. National bestselling author Kiki Swinson always ups the ante with shocking twists, relentless characters, and a hard-...
Surviving the Chase
Surviving the Chase Lisa Renee Johnson 9781496707970 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this page-turning follow-up to Dangerous Consequences, a serial killer wants revenge—but two surpris...
The Other Sister
The Other Sister Donna Hill 9781496723802 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. When it turns out your life is built on a lie, how do you even start to find yourself? In this stunning follow-up t...
Careful What You Click for
Careful What You Click for Mary B. Morrison 9781496710918 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In her most riveting novel yet, New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison delivers an emot...
The Seaside Café
The Seaside Café Rochelle Alers 9781496721860 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Set on breathtaking Coates Island, off the coast of North Carolina, bestselling author Rochelle Alers’ new seri...
The Stolen Daughter
The Stolen Daughter ReShonda Tate 9781496724144 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley delivers a poignant, page-turning novel about the power—and fr...
A Hustler’s Queen
A Hustler’s Queen Saundra 9781496712028 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Urban lit star Saundra ignites a sizzling tale of a good girl turned drug kingpin’s lady in a standalone novel perfec...
Dead on Arrival
Dead on Arrival Kiki Swinson 9781496712783 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Kiki Swinson delivers startling twists, unforgettable characters—and a stark, portrait of life in the South. Now s...
Across the Way
Across the Way Mary Monroe 9781496716170 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Neighborhood tensions reach a breaking point in the finale of New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe’s captiv...
The Essence of Perfection
The Essence of Perfection Nita Brooks 9781496721945 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Wickedly entertaining, insightful, and always surprising, Nita Brooks delivers a delicious new novel abou...
Saving Her Shadow
Saving Her Shadow Lutishia Lovely 9781496724434 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Lutishia Lovely is back and it’s a matter of life and death in this witty, wise new novel where family, fanat...
Here and Now
Here and Now Kimberla Lawson Roby 9781496725134 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this powerful classic by New York Times bestselling author Kimberla Lawson Roby, two sisters as different ...
The Inheritance
The Inheritance Rochelle Alers 9781496725721 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. "A novel that resembles female bonding romance series like The Bride Quartet by Nora Roberts… . Capitalizing on ...
The Hearts We Burn
The Hearts We Burn Briana Cole 9781496721983 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Getting your life back can be killer … Kimera Davis thought she was finally free from marrying-for-money—and l...
Over the Fence
Over the Fence Mary Monroe 9781496716156 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this page-turning novel set in the Depression-era South, New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe transports...
Property of the State
Property of the State Kiki Swinson 9781496720061 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Kiki Swinson’s novels crackle with breakneck triple-twists, no-limits characters, and an unforgettably bruta...
All the Things I Should Have Known
All the Things I Should Have Known Tiffany L. Warren 9781496723697 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. "When I read a Tiffany L. Warren novel I know I’m going to get two things—a riveting story...
Owner of a Broken Heart
Owner of a Broken Heart Cheris Hodges 9781496723840 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. For the three very different Richardson sisters, continuing their family’s renowned bed-and-breakfast leg...
Snapshot
Snapshot Camryn King 9781496702241 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Before delving into the world of suspense, intrigue, and inconvenient attraction, Camryn King was the senior writer and ma...
Every Thug Needs A Lady
Every Thug Needs A Lady Wahida Clark 9781496724250 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. "Every Thug Needs A Lady" is the spellbinding sequel to Wahida Clark’s "Thugs And The Women Who Love Them"...
The Bridal Suite
The Bridal Suite Rochelle Alers 9781496721846 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Rochelle Alers has more than eighty titles and nearly two million copies of her novels in print. She is a regul...
Schemes
Schemes Kiki Swinson and Saundra 9781617733673 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. DEVIL IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING KIKI SWINSON Karlie Houston hasn’t seen a raise in forever, but the payday loan of...
A Sister’s Power
A Sister’s Power Cydney Rax 9781496715418 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. CYDNEY RAX became obsessed with becoming a writer after reading Terry McMillan’s Disappearing Acts. Her author drea...
The Final Play
The Final Play Shelly Ellis 9781496724670 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Three best friends from the streets found success—in very different ways. But with a crisis detonating around them,...