Russell: 3438 books

Faith's ex-boyfriend, Rick, broke up with her the summer after high school because of his best friend's lie.  By the time Rick discovered the truth, it was too late.  Now it's been two years, and he's standing on her grandma's front porch asking for a second chance.  Will he get one? My...

'Leigh Russell is one to watch' - LEE CHILD DI Ian Peterson investigates a series of gruesome and brutal murders. With a madman on the loose attacking women with a deadly, but unusual weapon, all of York is on alert. As the body count rises, the case demands all of Ian's ingenuity, because the seemingly random murders are all but clueless. 

First Floor on Fire centers around Nevaya Briggs, a troubled young African-American woman and her struggle to survive in inner-city Philly. Her story has a passionate anger and emotional intensity akin to Sapphire's Push. Navaya is a strong, wounded, complicated teenager who must...

Police Chief Justin Westwood is content to escape his big-city past in sleepy East End Harbor, but the brutal murder of a Wall Street shark is about to change all that--not least because Westwood was in bed with the victim's wife at the time. National bestselling author Russell Andrews returns...

Trista Russell, author of Going Broke and Dead Broke, turns up the heat in this erotic urban tale featuring a powerful attraction between a fugitive and the woman he is holding captive. As Audra Lopez watches news reports about the infamous “Turnpike Cop Killer” at her favorite after-work...

Nominated for the 2015 Giller Prize. Nominated for the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Among the National Post's 50 Best Books of 2015 One of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015 Among NOW Toronto's Top 10 Books of 2015 In the stories of Confidence,...

As the son of famous Black Jack Valera, the best whaler on the eastern seaboard, thirteen-year-old Lucky Valera led a charmed life at sea, until his father dies and his estranged older half-brother, Fortuna, kidnaps him. Lucky’s hopes of joining the crew of the whaling ship, Nightbird, are dashed...

Cameron Barnes, formerly of New York City, lives in a small town in upstate New York. After having nearly succumbed to AIDS, he's recently regained a measure of his health but his long-term lover has moved away and faces the daunting prospect of learning how to live with the idea of a future in mind...

In September 1865 Eli Calhoon, Lieutenant Colonel, Confederate States Army, returns to his war-ravaged plantation, Camellia Creek, outside Port Gibson in Claiborne County, Mississippi, resolved to begin again. But Mississippi, like the rest of the South, lies prostrate in the wake of a devastating...

First Floor on Fire reveals the life of a young African-American woman and her struggle to survive adolescence in a rough inner-city. The story has a passionate anger, raw tragedy and emotional complexity that could appeal to audiences who loved Sapphire’s Push.The story centers around Nevaya...

The extraordinary life and times of advocate and agitator Wendell Phillips is vividly represented in this comprehensive biography. Tracing Phillips’s beginnings in Boston, Russell details the work of the “Soldier of the Common Good” as an abolitionist, his later efforts on behalf of freed slaves, and his advocacy for Native Americans.

Mel just got dumped by her boyfriend of four years.  She might cry for a little while, but she's determined to find Mr. Right because she's got to get some use out of her infamous birthing hips.  So what happens when she's found Mr. Right and her ex-boyfriend shows back up?  Love, Life, and Chicken Pot Pie is a sweet, contemporary romance short story (5,000 words).

"Drunken Lee” Is a short story about a guy named Lee who lost everything; all of his savings, his wife, his home, and their dog, due to his uncontrollable gambling habit. He got drunk one night and was feeling good, he was on a roll, until that last roll of dice…CRAP! It was over! Left for...

Angelina Heart is a sweet kindhearted girl who goes above and beyond for others. She has been through so much in her young life, but she never loses her faith or hope that life will get better. She over comes challenges from her past, and her future looks bright, but she is haunted by the death of...