West End

Pearl Cleage

After addiction and heartbreak leave Regina Burns struggling to rebuild her life, a temporary consulting job in Atlanta offers one last chance to save her family home—and confront the people and memories she left behind. As old wounds resurface and an enigmatic stranger enters her world, Regina must navigate questions of forgiveness, trust, and second chances. Set within a vibrant Atlanta community, this warm, witty novel explores sisterhood, recovery, family secrets, and the unexpected paths through which love and hope can return. Pearl Cleage’s sharp dialogue and vividly drawn characters bring emotional depth and humor to a compelling story of reinvention.

Pearl Cleage

Catherine Sanderson has built a loving, independent life with her daughter, Phoebe, while carefully guarding the truth about Phoebe’s father. When Phoebe begins searching for the man behind the silence, long-buried choices and unexpected connections draw him back into both their lives. Set against the complexities of family, identity, and forgiveness, this compelling novel explores how the past shapes the present—and whether honesty can create the possibility of a new beginning.

Pearl Cleage

In Atlanta’s close-knit West End, Regina Burns is building a life of love and purpose with Blue Hamilton, a former R&B star devoted to protecting the community, even as her pregnancy heightens her fears about the dangers surrounding him. When vulnerable women seek refuge from abusive relationships and troubling disappearances raise unsettling questions, Regina must confront the limits of trust and loyalty. Meanwhile, her friend Aretha Hargrove struggles to save her marriage, while the arrival of the charming, deceptive Baby Brother threatens to disrupt both women’s carefully balanced worlds. Blending romance, suspense, wit, and social insight, this richly layered novel explores family, friendship, community responsibility, and the complicated resilience of women.

Pearl Cleage

After three decades as a celebrated actress in Europe, Josephine Evans finds her glamorous expatriate life upended by political unrest and is compelled to return to the Atlanta home she left behind. Settling in with her granddaughter, she confronts a neglected family property, an ambitious developer, and a community threatened by displacement. Alongside an unlikely circle of friends and fellow outsiders, Josephine begins to reconsider what home, family, and belonging truly mean. Blending sharp social observation, warmth, and wit, the novel explores identity, resilience, community, and the courage required to take on the most important role of all.

Pearl Cleage

When a devastating loss unsettles her carefully constructed life, an Atlanta woman is forced to confront long-buried questions about love, loyalty, and the choices that brought her to this moment. As family tensions and old secrets surface, she must decide whether to protect the past or claim a more honest future. Set against the vibrant backdrop of Atlanta, the novel explores grief, friendship, family, and the enduring possibility of reinvention. With warmth, emotional insight, and sharp social observation, it reflects Pearl Cleage’s signature focus on the complexities of contemporary Black women’s lives.

Pearl Cleage

In a close-knit Atlanta neighborhood where Blue Hamilton has long kept the peace, an unsettling threat arrives in the form of five glamorous, larger-than-life women whose beauty conceals a dangerous secret. As the community’s men begin falling under their spell, Blue must confront a menace unlike anything he has faced before. Blending suspense, humor, social observation, and supernatural intrigue, the novel explores power, loyalty, desire, and the importance of standing up for one’s community.