Still riding high off of the critical acclaim from For Colored Girls, Janet Jackson, 44, is fit, fabulous and finally at peace with herself. With her soon-to-be-released book on fitness and weight loss on the horizon, she’s spreading that love to girls and women everywhere.

Loraine Farrow struggles to be faithful to her husband as she’s tempted to continue an adulterous affair in Torn Between Two Lovers (Kensington, $20). Torn by love, lust and lies, this threesome’s journey captures readers’ attention from the fairytale beginning to the gripping, murderous end.

Rosalyn Story pens a sweeping tale of a jazz trumpeter’s search for his lost father in Wading Home, (Agate, $15). Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, Story takes you a memorable roller coaster of heartache and pain in this emotional tale set against the backdrop of the devastation of one of our nation’s deadliest storms..