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A Guide to the Work of Eric Jerome Dickey

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Celebrate the life and work of Eric Jerome Dickey, the beloved author of twenty-nine novels. Dive into his acclaimed stories that have resonated with readers over the years. For more great reads by Black voices, explore the All Ways Black book guide, then follow @AllWaysBlack on Instagram to join the conversation.

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    The Son of Mr. Suleman

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    From Memphis to L.A. and back again, Eric Jerome Dickey takes readers on a powerful and intense journey as Professor Pi Suleman deals with sexual assault and racism in this unflinchingly timely novel about history, hearts, and family secrets.
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    The Business of Lovers

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    All is fair in love and lust in his tale of two brothers, four women, and the business of desire.
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    Before We Were Wicked

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Before We Were Wicked reveals how one chance meeting can change everything in this engrossing, sexy tale of star-crossed lust.
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    Bad Men and Wicked Women

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    With the strong characters, heart-pounding action, and intense passion he is known for, Eric Jerome Dickey lays bare a tale of lust and angst that will leave readers breathless.
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    Finding Gideon

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Gideon is more than a hit man. In a world of money, violence, women, and love on the run, he’s the master of the game. Finding Gideon, the latest novel in the Gideon Series, stirs up a whirlwind of sex and violence that spans the globe…and leaves no moral boundary uncrossed. Find the full series here.
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    The Blackbirds

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    They call themselves the Blackbirds. Kwanzaa Browne, Indigo Abdulrahaman, Destiny Jones, and Ericka Stockwell are four best friends who are closer than sisters and will go to the ends of the earth for one another. Yet even their deep bond can’t heal all wounds from their individual pasts, as the collegiate and post-collegiate women struggle with their own demons, drama, and desires.
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    Naughtier Than Nice

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Eric Jerome Dickey revisits the scene of his sexy holiday romp Naughty or Nice, as the McBroom sisters’ romantic adventures make for a white (hot) Christmas.
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    One Night

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    A pair of strangers has twelve hours to relish the night of their lives in a novel that “has taken the anonymous one-night-stand relationship into the realm of art” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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    A Wanted Woman

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    The assassin called Reaper is a woman of a thousand faces, and just as many accents.  In the blink of an eye, she can become anyone.  Some desirable.  All dangerous…
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    Liar’s Game

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Dana left New York to escape a roller-coaster relationship. Vincent is living in Los Angeles, trying to forget his own shattered marriage. They want to plan a future together—but first they have to stop running from their pasts. Eric Jerome Dickey, a rising star on the bestseller lists, delivers a boldly honest novel—about love that starts with a lie.
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    Decadence

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Born in Trinidad and living in Atlanta after a relationship gone bad, Nia Simone Bijou is an ambitious writer who has it all. Except for the one thing that’ll give her the control she craves-and the power she deserves: absolute, uninhibited sexual satisfaction. In Pleasure and Decadence, she will open herself up to experiences she never dared before. And as her fantasies begin to spin out of control, she’ll discover the unexpected price of the extreme.
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    An Accidental Affair

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Discover this tantalizing tale of a high-profile marriage rocked by scandal, obsession, and murder.
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    Tempted by Trouble

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    It’s love and bullets—Dickey style—in this blistering novel about a couple who say yes to big time risks when playing it safe stops paying off…
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    Chasing Destiny

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Billie is as notorious for her beauty as she is for the hot yellow Ducati motorcycle she rides down L.A.’s meanest streets. Tough and talented, she does things her way. Until an unplanned pregnancy spins her life out of control.
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    Genevieve

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Genevieve is brilliant and beautiful. Her husband has a thriving career. Together, they have a beautiful home in Los Angeles. Together, they’re crazy in love. Then one day a family tragedy brings Genevieve back to her Alabama hometown, back to a past she hoped her husband would never discover, and back to secrets shared by her sister Kenya-mysterious, teasing, and dangerously irresistible. Soon, Genevieve’s husband will discover the truth about his wife and her family. Something he was never meant to know-and a desire he was never meant to explore.
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    Drive Me Crazy

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    His explosive novel follows the reckless desires that bind an irresistible woman to a desperate man-and the one wrong move that could destroy them both.
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    The Other Woman

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    This intimate and emotionally resonant novel is a story about marriage, infidelity, and sweet and savage revenge.
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    Thieves’ Paradise

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Follow grifters and con artists, brothers and sisters, all looking for love and making ends meet—on the wrong side of the law.
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    Between Lovers

    by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Nicole is playing with fire, not to mention the feelings of the two people who love her most in the world, but Nicole lures her former fiancé back into her new life, opening the floodgates of anger, passion, pain…and refreshing honesty.
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