Tananarive Due Books in Order

Hilton James tries to protect his family as racist threats close in and his nightmares grow more violent and strange. The harder he fights to hold on to reality, the more he fears something supernatural wants his borrowed life back.

Jessica has the husband, daughter, and life she wanted, until a string of violent deaths exposes David's impossible secret. His love is real, but so is the immortal world closing in around their family.

This historical novel follows Madam C. J. Walker from poverty in the post-Civil War South to wealth, leadership, and fame. Due turns Walker's rise into a vivid story about ambition, race, marriage, and the cost of building something new.

Jessica Jacobs-Wolde learns that the gift passed to her daughter Fana is older and more dangerous than she imagined. As Fana's powers grow, family grief turns into a supernatural struggle over who will control a child who may change the world.

In alternating voices, Tananarive Due and her mother Patricia Stephens Due tell the story of their family and the civil rights movement that shaped them. It is memoir, movement history, and a close look at how activism lives inside ordinary homes.

After the death of her son, Angela Toussaint returns to her grandmother's home in Sacajawea, Washington, determined to learn what really happened there. Her search opens old family secrets and a battle with the evil her grandmother once held back.

R&B singer Phoenix Smalls is on the edge of stardom when a visit to St. Louis awakens a strange bond with the spirit of Scott Joplin. Fame, desire, and possession start to blur until she has to fight for her own voice.

Actor and ex-gigolo Tennyson Hardwick is barely holding on in Hollywood when his father's stroke and a rapper's murder shove him into the role of suspect and sleuth. Solving the case may be his only path to redemption.

Teenager Fana Wolde runs from the protected world of her immortal family and into a dangerous underground built around Glow, a healing drug made from immortal blood. Her rebellion sparks a hunt that turns ancient prophecy and modern disease into the same war.

Tennyson Hardwick tries to stay focused on his acting career until a football star who feared for his life turns up dead. The case pulls Ten back into danger, and his own past starts closing in around him.

This anthology gathers three horror novellas about ghosts, buried history, and the way the dead keep pressing on the living. Due's contribution, Ghost Summer, sits alongside two other stories shaped by ancestry, reckoning, and fear.

In Cape Town, Tennyson Hardwick takes a bodyguard job that seems glamorous enough, until a child becomes the center of a much darker mystery. The chase forces him to choose between love, loyalty, and survival.

Fana Wolde, born with extraordinary powers, is pulled between love, prophecy, and a violent struggle over the healing force in her blood. As old enemies close in, saving the world may cost her any chance at an ordinary life.

Abbie LeFleur comes to Graceville hoping for a clean start, but the lake near her new life has its own pull. What begins as quiet unease turns into a compact horror story about vulnerability, desire, and a threat hiding in plain sight.

A strange infection tears civilization apart, and a small band of survivors has to cross a ruined Northwest in a battered school bus. Kendra, Terry, and the others face freaks, raiders, winter, and the harder problem of learning who they can trust.

While filming in South Beach, Tennyson Hardwick is drawn into a murder case tied to missing women and a relentless killer. Soon the threat turns personal, and he faces an impossible choice involving the people he loves most.

The survivors from *Devil's Wake* reach a fortified refuge that looks like salvation from the outside. Inside, they find hierarchy, secrets, and proof that human communities can become as frightening as the freaks outside the walls.

Due's first story collection ranges from ghost tales and family horror to speculative fiction and near-future dread. Again and again, ordinary people meet the uncanny, and the emotional aftershocks matter as much as the scares.

A young boy visiting his once-famous grandmother at Bear Creek Lodge starts uncovering the pain and bad bargains buried in her past. What begins as an awkward family trip turns into a sharp piece of generational horror.

After losing her parents, young Aisha is sent to Detroit to live with her failing grandmother, who summons a dark spirit to protect her. The protector means well at first, but it can only survive by taking life from others.

In Jim Crow Florida, twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sent to a brutal boys' reformatory after defending his sister. His gift for seeing ghosts reveals horrors the living would rather keep buried, while his sister fights to bring him home.

This collection moves from haunted small towns to pandemic aftermaths and uneasy futures, mixing horror, science fiction, and suspense. Due keeps the scares sharp, but the stories stay rooted in grief, hope, family, and survival.

T'Challa tries to lead Wakanda into a more open future when the dead begin returning and the past comes back with them. As old secrets surface, he has to defend both his throne and his father's legacy.

Jones digs into the pull of horror itself, asking why fear stories matter and why readers keep returning to them. It reads like criticism and personal reflection at the same time.

In 1871, ten-year-old Lucy Freeman reaches a hidden frontier settlement founded by Black women and children after fleeing danger in Kentucky. When bounty hunters close in, her secret gift may be the only thing standing between the community and disaster.

Filmmaker Johnny Washington returns to his grandmother's mountain lodge and walks straight into the family rage and buried magic she left behind. Across generations, a dark wish and an old monster turn a homecoming into something far more dangerous.