Aya de Leon Books in Order

Photographs of children, adults, and families celebrate naturally puffy hair across different communities. Accompanying text encourages pride in hair that resists conventional expectations, offering young readers positive images of themselves and an appreciation of human diversity.

Marisol Rivera funds a women’s health clinic through an exclusive escort business that also provides cover for robbing corrupt executives. An ambitious heist promises financial security, but threatens the women and essential services she is determined to protect.

Clinic director Tyesha Couvillier plans a heist to expose criminals exploiting exotic dancers. As dangerous figures from her past and family conflicts interfere, she must protect vulnerable women while facing betrayal and threats to her own future.

Trinidadian sisters Violet and Lily lead very different lives until Violet is mistaken for a strip-club mogul’s mistress. With her reputation collapsing, she joins his furious wife and a resourceful clinic crew to recover stolen money and clear her name.

After fleeing her boyfriend, Dulce reaches Puerto Rico and is caught in Hurricane Maria. Witnessing profiteering amid the destruction, she becomes involved with Marisol’s heist crew in a risky effort to win justice for people being exploited.

Lawyer Yolanda Vance joins the FBI and infiltrates a Black activist group investigating corporate harm in her former college town. Romance and a suspicious death challenge her assumptions, forcing a choice between her assignment and the people who trust her.

A socially resonant hit transforms young rapper Deza into the headliner of an all-female national tour. As she confronts sexism, romantic complications, and her label’s pursuit of profit, she struggles to turn unexpected fame into meaningful power.

Fourteen-year-old spy Andréa passes as a white student to befriend the estranged son of a white supremacist. Her mission to stop a terrorist plot becomes harder when a crush and the strain of concealing her identity threaten her cover.

After her house burns down, fifteen-year-old Amani discovers her mother is fleeing a stalker and her father is missing. Frustrated by evasive answers, she investigates, uncovering family secrets that draw her into a hidden world of spies.

Teenage spy Amani must befriend a grieving girl who could expose the Factory’s secret mission. Infiltrating an elite music camp brings a new crush, industry prejudice, and a billionaire sponsor whose influence complicates her first solo assignment.