An African-American Texas Ranger, Darren Matthews, travels Highway 59 into a small Texas town to investigate the death of a Black visitor and encounters local resistance, simmering racial tensions, and tangled loyalties.

A contemporary romance about a woman on the autism spectrum who decides to hire an escort to learn how to be intimate and comfortable in romantic and sexual situations.

Two siblings raised in an elaborate family home reckon with abandonment, parental choices, and the aftereffects of being shaped by a single place. The setup follows their intertwined lives over many years as the house — and what it represents — continues to influence decisions, identity, and family bonds.

An espionage thriller centered on a woman trained by Russian intelligence to use seduction and deception as tools of recruitment and infiltration.

A tightly focused, first-person account centered on a Black working-class family in Mississippi as they prepare for and endure Hurricane Katrina.

An ethnographic study of matsutake mushrooms and the people and places shaped by their global trade. The author follows harvesters, middlemen, buyers, and landscapes to show how a single wild commodity links local ecological disturbance, precarious livelihoods, and transnational markets.

A multi-generational family saga tracing the legacies of slavery and migration across several branches of one extended lineage. Each short chapter follows a descendant in a different time and place, showing how historical violence and displacement shape personal lives across generations.

Set in a damaged near-future world, the narrative follows humans and lifelike androids whose similarities prompt tests of empathy and legal distinction. The central pressure is whether artificially created beings should be treated as persons and how human identity holds up under scarcity, grief, and imitation.

Two strangers share the same flat and the same bed on opposite schedules without meeting in person; they communicate through notes and messages while negotiating personal lives and boundaries.