A voice recording and a Caribbean black cake to be shared when the time is right. This was the inheritance left by Eleanor Bennet to her two children, Byron and Benny, who’d lost their once close connection. Can Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor’s true history, and fulfill her final request? Will their mother’s revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever?

On his deathbed, Jacob writes letters to his gay son, Isaac. He means to apologize for his past actions, but also to provide context to their family, his upbringing, and their shared trauma.

When Ray McMillian’s violin—a Stradivarius passed down from his great-grandfather—is stolen just before the International Tchaikovsky Competition, he must deal with both members of his family—and of the family that once enslaved his ancestors—making claims to the violin.

This coming of age novel is told from the eyes of 11-year-old KB growing up and trying to find herself after her mother sent her and her teenage sister, Nia, to be with their previously estranged grandfather in the wake of their father’s death.