Rashid Darden

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Darden crafts a story that will make you laugh, shout, and cry.

MARCUS H.

Rashid Darden paints an exquisite portrait of college life, urban youth and the secrets we all hold from the world.

ROBERT DENSON, III
Sunpiper Press

All of the characters come to life in a way that makes you think you know them personally or have met them somewhere in your life.

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Lazarus

ADRIAN is handsome, brilliant, and devoted to serving others. Under the cool exterior, however, he is tormented and unfulfilled. Abandoned by his father and emotionally distant from his mother, he feels alone – adrift on campus – until he meets SAVION.

With rhymes dripping from his lips like honey, Savion has just what Adrian needs: stability, maturity, and love. Although their friendship is filled with peaks and valleys, their relationship is threatened by Adrian’s biggest challenge: BETA CHI PHI.

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Covenant

Who will be the first to break?

ADRIAN is on a mission to heal himself from his emotional wounds. Though he is fresh off the “burning sands” of Beta Chi Phi, he suddenly finds himself alone. He sets himself to the task of reconciling with his parents while forging his own path as a newly “out” man on campus – no easy feat when some fraternity brothers still harbor animosity toward him.

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Epiphany

ISAIAH is head over heels in love with his boyfriend and isn’t afraid to let the world know it. His unwavering love threatens his future as a professional basketball player. Though he is being forced to choose between the love of his life and his career, it appears that he could be making a decision which could irrevocably affect his future.

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Birth of a Dark Nation

Justin Kena never knew his own strength. He was an average guy stuck working at a mediocre nonprofit in Washington, DC, unsure exactly where his next professional steps would take him. He was awkward, bored, lonely, and bordering on depression. With nothing to lose, he accepts a proposition from his friendly neighborhood corner boy that forever transforms his life.

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Time

TIME collects twenty years of some of the best writing from Rashid Darden, including never-before published poems, favorite blog entries, the award-winning play Message from ‘The Legba’ and the short story “Smith & Jones: Young Americans.”

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Yours in the Bond

Eustace Dailey has a Harvard degree, an artist’s eye, an active social life, and more money than he knows what to do with at his age.  He should feel on top of the world, but instead, he constantly second-guesses his choices–especially when it comes to Jeremy.

Jeremy Jacob Carter has confidence, charisma, the perfect girlfriend, and only a year left in law school.  He is supposed to have it all, but a chance connection with Eustace threatens to undermine everything he worked so hard for.

Along with their fraternity brothers Miles Johnson, Ian Kenney, and Adrian Collins (from the Potomac University Series), the men stumble through their adult years in search of brotherhood, friendship, love, and purpose.

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Latest diary entries

And the title is…

The title of my next novel is Children of Fury (Dark Nation, Volume III)! Children of Fury is the third installment of the Dark Nation series, which begins with Birth of a Dark Nation. Yes, there is no Volume II as of yet. Relax. Even Star Wars began with Episode IV. The Dark Nation series [...]