A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood.

1930s, Hogan's Alley—a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver's East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. Junie quickly makes meaningful relationships with

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A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past...
In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin—a respected minister and civil rights leader—comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the Reverend.  
In the confrontation between the two, the young man's secret burden...

The lives of Indigo, her wayward brother Reuben, and sister Yasmin are about to intersect in dramatic, sometimes painful, and ultimately healing ways.

American-born artist Chris is forced to reconsider his conception of family during a visit to his mother's Caribbean homeland.

"Thoroughly satisfying . . . This bighearted narrative of love, loss, and family is handled with grace and beauty." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"Alecia McKenzie's tender new novel [is] an emotionally resonant ode to adopted families and community resilience."

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The bad-boy heir to the Lawson dynasty has found love!
Until his past threatens the future...
Longtime New Orleans bachelor Rafe Lawson is finally ready to tie the knot. His heart has been captured by gorgeous senator's daughter Avery Richards. Then the media descends, jeopardizing her Secret Service career—and their imminent wedding. But it's the unexpected return of Rafe's first love that could cost the tycoon everything....

They had a hot, fleeting affair Farrah Langley has never forgotten. Attorney-to-the-rich-and-famous Xavier Kane was tender, sexy, attentive—and ravished her body. Everything she ever wanted in a lover. Getting together with him again in New York is a fantasy come true. She certainly doesn't expect the footloose bachelor to change his ways. And the burned-by-love mediator isn't looking for forever.
But Xavier is.
There's something about...

A Party Girl's Work Is Never Done. . .
At twenty-seven, Marie Charles is still Charlotte's number one party girl. But when she adds a DWI arrest and a totaled Jaguar to her list of tabloid news-making escapades, her daddy is done bailing her out. Sentenced to five hundred hours of community service at My Sister's Keeper, a homeless shelter for women, Marie won't have much time left for partying. . .
Renowned chef and TV star Devon Harris...

"...a sexy romp with an undercurrent of emotion and familial devotion."
—Entertainment Weekly
The four very different Richardson sisters have one thing in common: their fierce loyalty to their family and pride in the historic bed and breakfast they own. But unexpected desire will challenge them in ways they never imagined . . .

Sportswriter Nina Richardson had the perfect...

Years after her son was abducted, a mother opens the door to a young man in this “unique and very moving novel” (Booklist).
 
Beverley Cottrell had a prestigious job, a beautiful husband and baby boy. It was all stolen from her one winter afternoon when her son, Malakay, was kidnapped from a parked car. Despite a media campaign, a police investigation, and the offer of a reward, Malakay was never found. Beverley’s...

"The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London's funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley's former students, works hard to earn a degree from Oxford and becomes an investment banker; Carole's mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about...