The Broken Hearts Agency: A Novel by Clarence A. Haynes (Paperback) (PREORDER)

Fiction - Fantasy - Urban - Horror - Occult & Supernatural - Crime - Thrillers - African American and Black - Hispanic and Latino - LGBTQ+

RELEASE DATE: 6/23/2026 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE)

AN EVIL FORCE IS FEASTING ON DESIRE...

Evelyn Kendricks is having a day. An overworked manager, she’s been dumped by her toxic boyfriend while struggling to cope with the recent ghost invasion that’s shocked the world. Devastated, she is mysteriously summoned to an eerie townhouse where she meets Linda Villaneuva, a private investigator who runs a secret mystical detective agency. She’s able to sense the emotions of others, especially those suffering from heartache.

Linda would like nothing more than to help her latest client, but she soon makes a gruesome discovery: People are losing their memories and wandering DC streets in a zombie-like daze. Their eyes, demon red. Their skin, blistered, burning…and no one understands why. Panic has begun to consume the city as more folks succumb, putting Evelyn and other residents at risk.

In the biggest case of her life, Linda follows a trail of clues to unearth an evil force far deadlier than anything she could’ve imagined. And all the while, she must reckon with the tragedies of her past and the price she’s paid for her supernatural gifts.

A layered urban fantasy that serves up spicy romance, titillating mystery, and otherworldly horror, The Broken Hearts Agency is the latest page-turner from an acclaimed storyteller.

AUTHOR BIO: 

Clarence A. Haynes is the author of The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery. He is also the coauthor of Omar Epps's Afrofuturist series Nubia: The Awakening and The Reckoning and the nonfiction work The Legacy of Jim Crow. He resides in Brooklyn, New York.

"Genuinely moving... this entertaining urban fantasy builds to a poignant message about embracing one's most authentic self."-- Publishers Weekly

" The Broken Hearts Agency is bold, seductive, and unafraid to look directly at the wounds that shape us. Clarence fuses gripping urban fantasy with spiritual reckoning, crafting a story where desire is dangerous, memory is salvation, and even the most fearsome spirit carries the imprint of history. Lush, provocative, and deeply human, Haynes proves once again that he is building one of the most compelling mystical worlds in contemporary fiction."-- Cebo Campbell, author of Sky Full of Elephants

"Am I allowed to say I devoured this book faster than an eldritch shadow monster? With The Broken Hearts Agency, Clarence A. Haynes brings his thrilling New York adventure to Washington, DC, for a ride as sassy and sexy as it is shocking and suspenseful. Cleverly weaving together the lives of characters familiar and new, Haynes delivers a timely reminder that one doesn't defeat the world's greatest evils alone but in community."-- Venessa Vida Kelley, national bestselling author-illustrator of When the Tides Held the Moon