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  • Published: 11 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9780593472828
  • Imprint: Plume
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $39.99

Groove

A Novel




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The first of two steamy and entertaining novels, published under the award-winning author's real name for the first time as part of a publishing program celebrating her body of work

The first of two steamy and entertaining romance novels, published under the beloved and distinguished author’s real name for the first time

You never know what’s going on behind someone’s groove.

New York City, April 2002: Geneva, Crystal, Noah, and Chevy, a close friend group, are all mid-thirty, flirty—and ready to embrace the heat of the summer.

But behind closed doors, each of them has struggles of their own: Geneva keeps accidentally falling for the charms of her good-for-nothing ex-husband; Crystal is a high-flying executive with a picture-perfect life and a boyfriend who might just be too good to be true; Noah is attempting to keep the spark alive between him and his European boyfriend, but the flames of temptation keep catching fire in the most unexpected of places; and then there’s Chevy, who couldn’t care less about love and only wants a life of champagne dinners and designer bags, no matter the cost.

But as the city heats up and tensions keep bubbling under the surface, Chevy gets entangled with a hot and mysterious stranger. The group must come together to save their friend before it’s too late—and before secrets break their forever friendship.

  • Published: 11 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9780593472828
  • Imprint: Plume
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $39.99

About the author

Bernice L. McFadden

Bernice L. McFadden is an associate professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University and the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Sugar, The Warmest December, Loving Donovan, Nowhere Is a Place, GloriousGathering of Waters (a New York Times Editors' Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012), The Book of Harlan (winner of a 2017 American Book Award and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction), and Praise Song for the Butterflies (long-listed for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction). She is a four-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of three awards from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.

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Praise for Groove

Praise for Bernice L. McFadden and her novels

“A literary explosion...McFadden reveals amazing talent.”
—The Chicago Defender on Sugar

“Riveting . . . so nicely avoids the sentimentality that swirls around the subject matter. I am as impressed by its structural strength as by the searing and expertly imagined scenes.”
―Toni Morrison on The Warmest December

"Simply miraculous... As her saga becomes ever more spellbinding, so does the reader's astonishment at the magic she creates." 
―Washington Post on The Book of Harlan