Rhoshell Baker

She survived the operating room. Her attacker was allowed to disappear. Elena Vasquez remembers the woman beside her trolley, the instrument in her hand, and the porter whose arrival saved her life. Her account was dismissed. Months later, she recognizes her attacker in a news report. The woman...

Her patients trust her with their lives. She decides whether they deserve to keep them. Dr. Stinnetta Thomas is a celebrated heart surgeon with exceptional skill and a reputation few people dare to question. Behind the operating-room doors, she keeps a private account of insults, complaints, and...

The surgeon is dead. Someone is finishing her work. Two years after exposing Dr. Stinnetta Thomas, Detective Maya Cruz has left homicide for cold cases. Her former partner lives with a permanent injury, and the people they saved believe the danger has passed. Then a package arrives: a scalpel, a...

It appears without warning. A black book with a silver title: The Book That Reads You. No barcode. No publisher. And inside, a truth you never told a soul.Clara Bennett has spent twenty-two years trying to forget the night her fifteen-year-old sister, Elise, vanished. As a literary critic, she...

Reyanna OConnor is in her mid-fifties, and she has a perfectly good life: a husband who makes her laugh, a grown son who calls on Sundays, a job, running shoes, and a basement bar her husband built with his own hands. So why is she writing a love letter to a green bottle in the refrigerator?...

A Political Novella of Memory, Migration, and Pan-African UnityWhen Ghanaian carpenter Kweku Badu and his eleven-year-old daughter Abena are forced to flee their home in Johannesburg after a xenophobic attack, they return to Ghana with nothing but a single suitcase—and a story that will travel...

What if you're not losing your mind? What if the world has been trying to talk to you all along? Mara is thirty-two, overworked, under-rested, and dangerously close to having a meaningful conversation with her coffee maker. Her neighbor believes in auras. Her boss communicates exclusively in...

Rhea Mowatt is thirty, broke, and exhausted. She works two jobs, counts nickels like prayers, and names the crack in her ceiling. In a moment of desperate dark humor, she posts a plea to the universe: "Punish me, please. Hurt me good." She asks for one million dollars, believing that the weight...