"With ample heart and emotion, Marchel Denise takes her readers beyond cheating and beating into the true complexities and high cost of domestic violence in the African American community." - Omar Tyree, NY Times best-selling author

Kissed by Madness 

Kissed by Madness chronicles the cost of domestic violence. Honor Ellis, the prodigal daughter of the South, is trapped in her marriage nightmare. With frayed nerves and a broken spirit, she is inches away from insanity—completely unraveling after the birth of her son, Day. Sasha Ellis is trapped in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend. Barely six-years-old at the time of her mother’s incarceration, she is a drug addict who will do anything for a hit, and to keep from being hit. Carmen Ellis, the born-again mother, shares her words of wisdom from behind prison bars. Through her letters to her children, she seeks their forgiveness, the one thing she wants most. But she may be too late as another Ellis woman faces prison time for doing the unspeakable. At the center of their struggles is Ranford “RJ” Ellis, Jr., who witnesses his mother, Carmen, shoot and kill his abusive father at age eleven. RJ overcomes the depths of poverty in the Wayne Miner projects of Kansas City, although the memory of that fateful day haunts him as he takes his anger out on those he loves the most. The Ellis women live in pain. They face emotional traumas and fistfuls of hurt.​

Savor the Sweetness 

There is an old adage; "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." But what happens when your closest friend becomes your greatest enemy? Celeste Gray and Terri Hunter are best friends who seemingly have everything, lavish homes, luxury cars, designer labels, beautiful children and doting husbands. At the center of their friendship lies a private orange grove where the twosome secretly meet to share their innermost thoughts and partake of the delectable fruit. Though they are spoiled rotten by the sweet life, what they possess is not what they desire. For Celeste, it is an escape from the mundaneness of her life as a homemaker. For Terri, it is the attention she desperately seeks from an online romance. When a tragic hit-n-run accident kills Celeste's husband, Jayland, both their lives are left in ruins, and the only desire that remains is to turn back the clock. However, in the aftermath of the crash, guilt forces the duo on a downward spiral of events. Terri searches for a deeper connection on the Internet, while Celeste solicits sexual favors from Rowan, Terri's barely legal son.
​ Grief has never turned so bitter as secrets are discovered and deception is unearthed in the lives of the women and the sacred orchard that connects them.

Painted On Souls 

​Heartache is truly color blind. Holli, Charles and Kasha Matthews set out on an explosive journey in this multiracial family saga that begins in the bitter cold of 1970s mid-America. They must fight the "fleshes" of the world and the skeletons of their past on their quest for love. Charles, a black hustler, clings to the streets, his love affair with lust, and the memory of the mother who abandoned him. Holli, a former stripper who grew up within the white confines of an abusive father, must battle her own childhood scars. Once they divorce, the estranged lovers take separate paths that lead them to turmoil and addiction-leaving Kasha, their biracial daughter, to raise herself. A gifted artist, she must face molestation, promiscuity, an identity crisis and her mother's vices. Can Holli and Charles come to grips in enough time to save their daughter?