A decolonial vacation romance between two Palestinians—one raised in exile, the other rooted on the land—searching for home in each other.Leila, a Palestinian Canadian film scholar, joins a delegation of academics on her first journey to Occupied Palestine. What begins as an intellectual pilgrimage becomes an intimate, destabilizing return to an ancestral land her family was exiled from. There, she meets Khaled—a younger Palestinian man who pulls her into a mesmeri...

Naya Greene built Magnolia Shield to protect people without surrendering control of her own life. Then a murdered witness leaves evidence that ties a corrupt councilman to Riversend's surveillance network, and the man who once broke Naya's trust returns with federal authority and a truth she cannot ignore.FBI agent Malcolm Reed never stopped loving her, but keeping Naya alive means confronting the secrecy that ended them. As threats close around her family, her firm, and Greene's K...

Imani Price protects public figures for a living, but the reform candidate under her command is the one man who has always made distance impossible. When a rifle tied to Magnolia Shield is used in an attempt on Andre Vale's life, Imani becomes the suspect and Riversend turns against the firm she helped build.Andre refuses to treat her as expendable, even as his family's compromised trust, two kidnapped witnesses, and a televised gala deadline give Victor Marrow the leverage he need...

Cyber investigator Camille Brooks trusts patterns, proof, and the systems she can control. Investigative journalist Darius Cole trusts the truth in daylight, even when revealing it creates new danger.When a contractor network weaponizes Riversend's cameras and begins hunting their sources, Camille and Darius are forced into a safe house with an encrypted evidence cache and nowhere to hide from their attraction. Their professional rivalry turns intimate while a compromised mentor, a...

To the unassuming observer, Ben Lockwood is your typical suburban dad.Aside from the fact that he's only thirty-six and his daughter is a sophomore in college. He and his wife, Jessica, had their only daughter, Hailey, when they were in high school. So you can imagine the unease Ben is feeling when said daughter brings her new boyfriend home for Thanksgiving… To stay in their house for the whole weekend.Ryan Harper, otherwise known as the boyfriend, is ever...

'Twas the night before Christmas.A secret was looming.The lust in my heart had become too consuming.Make no mistake, no blood do we share,But my guardian was the man whose cross I did bear.With his icy coal eyes, and peppermint lips,Under mistletoe I stood, no chance to resist.For it was on none other than this cold silent night,That I gave into wrong, and it felt so damn right.**Unwrap Him is an MM g...

From the world of Push and Pull comes a new unexpected forbidden romance…My name is Tate Eckhart, and I love my life. I have a great job, a sick wardrobe, drive a fancy car, and sip scotch old enough to be my Daddy.I'm fine with being known as the bad guy, the troublemaker, and the unattached harlot out of all my friends. Hey, if the Burberry loafer fits, right?Money, control… lust, no strings attached. It's how I've been living si...

So, you fell in love with your daughter's boyfriend.What happens next? I'll tell you… You finally begin to live again.You take trips, celebrate anniversaries, and attend your first Pride parade as an out-and-proud polyamorous throuple, apparently.Life isn't perfect for you now that you've had a brand new happily ever after. Far from it. But you make it work. You find your way through the jealousy and the unrest of people who don't understand your qu...

She drove north until the road disappeared. He built a kingdom on the ice so he'd never have to go back.Wren Calloway isn't her real name. The woman behind the stolen identity, the taped wrists, and the flawless ice road driving record is Maren Kirby — a federal witness who fled a violent DEA agent husband in Montana with nothing but a dead woman's Social Security number and a flash drive full of evidence that could destroy him.Two years of running brought her to the edge o...

She came to the end of the world to disappear.Dr. Wren Calloway has spent forty-seven days alone at a remote Arctic research station in Alaska's Brooks Range — a reinforced cabin bolted to a granite shelf at four thousand feet, sixty miles from the nearest human being. She's there to study wolverines. That's the official reason. The real one is buried under the snow with everything else she left behind: the man who controlled her, the bruises she stopped explaining, the university ...

Few people are aware of the injustices working women in the USA suffer due to antiquated laws and attitudes. They are often cheated in regard to Social Security benefits and get unfair treatment in divorce or child support actions because they work. Childcare subsidies have arbitrary cutoffs. Other issues include the 'pink tax,' caregiver status and the price we pay in stress.An analysis of childcare subsidies and welfare law reveal startling contrasts between the low- or even high...

In the global south, women have and continue to resist multiple forms of structural violence. The atrocities committed against Yazidi women by ISIS have been recognized internationally, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad in 2018 was a tribute to honor women whose bodies have been battered in the name of race, nationality, war, and religion. *In the Crossfire of History:*Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South is an edited collection that incorporates lit...