Victoria Christopher Murray Books in Order

Kyla and Jefferson Blake enjoy a loving marriage, but Kyla's unhappy friend Jasmine wants a husband just like Jefferson. Meanwhile, single Alexis faces a romance that tests her beliefs, as friendship, desire, and faith collide.

Successful entrepreneur Anya Mitchell has built a promising future with writer Braxton Vance. After a brutal attack upends her life, their different approaches to faith and recovery challenge the relationship as Anya struggles to find hope again.

These short stories bring biblical situations into contemporary life, exploring gratitude, temptation, forgiveness, and unexpected kindness. Drawing on figures including Hannah, Samson, Sarah, and Tamar, the collection follows people confronting painful choices and discovering possibilities for spiritual renewal.

After seventeen years of marriage, Sheridan Hart learns that her husband is in love with a man. Left to navigate the upheaval with their two children, she faces judgment, questions of faith, and decisions about rebuilding her life.

Newly elected Los Angeles councilwoman Grace Monroe hopes to build her political career on Christian principles. When a secret from her husband's past threatens her family and reputation, she must confront betrayal and decide what forgiveness requires.

Jasmine moves to New York determined to leave her destructive past behind and find an unmarried partner. A romance with a preacher offers that chance, until an old relationship and an unexpected pregnancy threaten her new beginning.

Kendall, Asia, Vanessa, and Sheridan arrive at a church prayer group carrying different wounds from lost relationships. As their meetings develop into friendship, a tragedy challenges their assumptions about one another and tests the faith sustaining them.

Fifteen-year-old Diamond Winters forms a gospel singing group with three friends, hoping to win a talent competition. Between cheerleading and a captivating older boy, she becomes overwhelmed and must learn when to ask for help.

As the Divine Divas advance to a state gospel competition, India Morrow struggles with her appearance and doubts her place among her friends. Comparing herself with her former-model mother makes pursuing the group's dream increasingly complicated.

Jasmine Larson Bush fears her husband's former fiancée has returned to reclaim him, while Brian Lewis hides a betrayal from his suspicious wife. Their intertwined secrets threaten two marriages and make honesty an increasingly costly choice.

Gifted student Aaliyah joins the Divine Divas mainly to be with her friends. When a famous singer is expected at their performance, a secret involving Aaliyah's family threatens the carefully maintained story she has told the group.

Jasmine Larson Bush believes she has confessed enough of her past to protect her marriage to Reverend Hosea Bush. Then a blackmailer exposes another secret, forcing her to consider how far she will go to preserve their life.

Veronique hopes the Divine Divas' success will help her mother and brothers escape poverty. A trip to New York also offers a chance to find her absent father, but an online connection raises concerns among her friends.

Jasmine Larson Bush's life as a pastor's wife unravels when her four-year-old daughter disappears from a mall. As the search continues, desperation draws Jasmine toward the child's biological father and puts further strain on her family.

The recession threatens Adam and Evia Langston's home, family, and hard-earned prosperity. When Evia's wealthy boss offers them five million dollars, the couple must weigh the tempting solution against the consequences of accepting her extraordinary proposal.

Gospel trio Destiny's Divas wins followers through songs and testimony, but Sierra, Raine, and Liza privately contradict the values they promote. Relationship troubles and hidden scandals threaten both their careers and the trust holding the group together.

Before becoming a minister's wife, Jasmine Cox is a dancer preparing to marry her high school sweetheart. Meeting Roman at her bachelorette party sparks an attraction that threatens her plans and draws her into a dangerous secret relationship.

Jasmine Larson Bush and Rachel Jackson Adams each want their husband to lead the American Baptist Coalition. Their rivalry revives old schemes, but the organization's current first lady proves an adversary who may outmaneuver them both.

Jasmine's bid for television publicity draws rival Rachel to Chicago, where a prominent church figure is found dead. With suspicion falling on Rachel, the two women must decide whether their rivalry can survive the need to investigate together.

Sheridan, Kendall, and Asia have spent years rebuilding their lives after painful relationships. Christmas brings their former partners back into the picture, turning three holiday dinners into confrontations with old grievances and the people they hoped to avoid.

After Miriam's firefighter husband dies rescuing schoolchildren, her best friend Emily and Emily's husband Jamal offer support. Shared grief draws Miriam and Jamal closer, threatening the friendships and marriage that seemed to make her recovery possible.

Sheridan, Kendall, and Asia have formed a lasting sisterhood, but their former partners continue to complicate their lives. An unexpected engagement, a father's illness, and renewed attraction force the women to revisit relationships they thought were behind them.

Jasmine and Rachel join a reality television show featuring church first ladies, each hoping to advance her own interests. Competing cast members and threatening revelations push the longtime rivals toward an alliance as their private lives become public entertainment.

Savannah discovers a suspicious item in her husband's luggage just before he suffers cardiac arrest. While Sheldon fights for his life, she struggles with possible betrayal, questions everyone around him, and turns to a doctor for help.

Rachel's father suspects that Jasmine may be his daughter, unsettling the rival church first ladies. Rachel tries to disprove his theory while Jasmine travels to an Arkansas family reunion, where unfamiliar relatives could reshape both women's lives.

Janice Johnson seeks justice after a white man kills her teenage son and remains free. The accused man's wife, Meredith, holds information that could change the case, but revealing it could endanger her own family's future.

Actress Tamara Collins accepts a touring stage role alongside the ex who abandoned her and a resentful young co-star. Meanwhile, producer Gwen's personal entanglements threaten a production whose backstage conflicts increasingly rival the drama being performed.

Days before marrying entertainment businessman Damon, Tiffanie feels drawn to his childhood friend Trey. Recently released from prison, Trey has reasons to resent Damon, making the attraction a threat to more than the couple's impending wedding.

Years after Jasmine's betrayal nearly destroyed Kyla and Jefferson Blake's marriage, a shooting at a New York convention brings renewed danger. Jasmine tries to protect her friend as an unknown woman and lingering secrets complicate the crisis.

Gabrielle Wilson welcomes the discovery of a half sister and invites Keisha into her prosperous life. Keisha has long resented the family's privileges, however, and arrives determined to claim the advantages Gabrielle has always taken for granted.

Neglected by her workaholic husband, Angelique finds companionship through an online word game. Her opponent Blu is also lonely in his marriage, and their growing flirtation leads to a meeting that forces both to question their commitments.

Zuri Maxwell loves her artist boyfriend but longs to escape financial insecurity and an exhausting job. A wealthy entrepreneur introduces her to an appealing new world, leaving her torn between familiar devotion and the promise of greater prosperity.

Belle da Costa Greene, a young Black woman passing as white, becomes the dazzling personal librarian to financier J. P. Morgan in early twentieth century New York. While she builds a world class collection of rare books and art, she must guard her secret and decide how much she is willing to sacrifice for power, security, and love.

Chastity Jeffries and Xavier King enter a whirlwind romance carrying difficult family histories. As Xavier's charm gives way to insecurity and anger, Chastity must confront the danger beneath their relationship and the expectations that shaped her understanding of love.

Successful Houston mortgage broker Journee Alexander prides herself on trusting no one. Anonymous threats endanger everything she has built, forcing her to confront buried secrets and decide whether accepting help from an old love or a new one is worth the risk.

Spanning the years around Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency, this novel traces the unlikely friendship between educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Working together, often against fierce backlash, they push for anti lynching efforts, Black inclusion in New Deal programs, and new pathways into power for Americans long shut out of the White House.

In 1919 Harlem, Jessie Redmon Fauset becomes literary editor of The Crisis and nurtures emerging Black writers. Her secret affair with W. E. B. Du Bois threatens the reputation and legacy she works to build at the heart of a cultural renaissance.

Set in 1930s New York, A Pair of Aces pairs Eunice Carter, Manhattan’s first Black female prosecutor, with legendary madam Polly Adler. From opposite sides of the law they piece together a case against mob boss Lucky Luciano, relying on a quiet network of women whose testimony could change American organized crime forever.