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Poems from a queer, black woman during the first 4 years of the 2020's. Started writing while in lock down and kept on going. Using the pen as a form of protest of the changes that have occured during the years of 2020 through 2024.

Do you often question what happens when we die, where do we go, is there life beyond this world? With my acquired knowledge and true stories, I would like to open your heart and your mind to the spiritual world, giving you a true understanding of Angels, Ghosts and Spirits, and how you can be just like me. Yes, I said it – how you can become a medium and connect to life after death!

The electric feeling of an older crush looking at you, returning your secret feelings... These are Chloe Maine's first five small town romance books, collected here in the complete Conception Ridge collection of age gap instalove novellas!Before He Was Her Headmaster (teacher/student, one night stand before she arrives at her new school where he's the principal)Above the Shop (mom's ex-boyfriend, roommates for the summer)Santa's Baby (dad's ...

My plans for a solitary weekend of hiking and hot tubbing at my family’s cabin in the mountains take a turn when I arrive at dusk, only to discover it’s been rented out. And the unexpected guests aren’t exactly strangers to me. They’re construction workers who renovated my college dorm. Who growled at any boy who dared to look in my direction while I was trying to study.I don’t need protection this weekend, though. I’m looking for a sweet kind of oblivion that it turns out only fou...

I'm the maid of honor. He's the father of the bride. Thanks to a snowstorm on the East Coast, I'm the only member of my best friend's wedding party to actually arrive in Vegas as planned. But she has a plan...her father will pick me up at the airport, and we'll take care of any last-minute wedding details together. Not in the plan is the unexpected sizzling chemistry with an older, off-limits man and being talked into sharing his suite.What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?...

Baseball's most valuable player? He has hidden feelings for me that have grown all season long, and now they've reached a fevered, possessive peak…I'm the coach's daughter, watching from the shadows as my father's best friend and star player wins the World Series for his team. Trick Lowry is almost twice my age and a bonafide celebrity, and I love him with my entire heart.It's the kind of secret, off-limits crush that feeds wild fantasies and reckless ideas...

Offering an intimate history of how small things were used, handled, and worn, this collection shows how objects such as mugs and handkerchiefs were entangled with quotidian practices and rituals of bodily care. Small things, from tiny books to ceramic trinkets and toothpick cases, could delight and entertain, generating tactile pleasures for users while at the same time signalling the limits of the body's adeptness or the hand's dexterity. Simultaneously, the volume explores the striking ...

Ford Gamble is my dad’s best friend. He’s also the reclusive keeper of the Conception Ridge lighthouse. But I remember a time when he was around more—the perfect hotter-than-sin fodder for all my fantasies.Now there’s just enough silver in his shock of sexy hair and thick beard that he looks a little bit like a hot forty-something Santa, with six-pack abs. And that’s what has me heading to the lighthouse on a dark, stormy Christmas Eve when the retirement home where I work needs a ...

I have seventeen dollars to my name and a one-way bus ticket to my new college town—two months early. Oh, and the name of a man I’ve never met scrawled on a piece of paper. Henry Wilde, my mom's long-ago high school boyfriend. But when I show up on his doorstep, he has no idea that my mom said I could stay with him. And he only has one bed.It’s eight weeks until I can move onto campus, eight weeks of living with him above his barbershop. So I’m going to make myself useful. Help him...

Covens. Cauldrons. And Curses.The witch is a complex figure. Hero? Villain? Victim? Practitioner of a nearly-forgotten faith or just misunderstood? An elder who should be respected but is instead reviled? Or the member of an oppressed ethnic or sexual minority?Witches of every sort appear in this anthology, and its companion volume, Witches Save the World: Hags, Harridans, and Hexes Gone Right. In some tales and poems, the witch embodies the primal forces of balance ...

Shayla Gainrad is a young woman raised in a splinter community of reactionary would-be settlers who abandon interplanetary society for newly discovered planets.Shayla has achieved the settler dream-a home on the frontier world Erde, surrounded by rich and fertile lands-but she is increasingly lonely, homesick, and alienated from her husband.Although Shayla has told herself to endure, events on Erde begin to push her new life into disarray. The arrival of spacers from outsid...

My one night stand? He’s sitting behind the headmaster’s desk.We met at a truck stop. The chemistry was immediate, and we both do something out of character: one night, no explanations. The next day, I arrive at my new private school. Now I’m the off-limits forbidden temptation Sebastian Craig can’t forget, and we both try our best to behave. It works for a few weeks… until our secret cravings come tumbling out in the library after hours. How will we keep our priva...