This edited collection highlights how people connected with friends and family, students and colleagues, and leaders and communities, in their quest to persevere during the pandemic. The chapters describe how people enjoyed their passions for the arts in new and unexpected ways, given the restrictions of COVID-19 safety protocols, and how scripted and reality television programming helped them escape, however briefly, from the traumas of the pandemic, the racial injustice, the political ma...

***WARNING: This 4,800 word erotic story is about one possible dystopian (depending on who you ask) future, when a female can get anything she wants, and use males however she wants. It is fiction that is NOT for the faint-hearted.***"Back when I was known as Jim, I was a big, masculine man, and there was nothing effeminate about me. Things changed when I got married.”Honey, we need to talk,” Stacy told me about a month into our marriage.What husband wants to hear t...

Lucy refuses to bike. Aidan vows to not give up on her. Will she choose the right trail to find healing?Dealing with survivor’s guilt, Lucy has let her life fall to pieces. Until a crash, she was at the top of the youth mountain biking scene. When Lucy’s best friend, Ava, dies because of the crash, Lucy withdraws from everything in her life. Eight months later, during the summer before her senior year, Lucy is a dark shadow of her former self. Now Lucy’s parents are forcing her to ...

In a world where magic is controlled, suppressed, and feared, power is not something to be wielded freely—it is something to be contained.Seraphina has spent her life bound by the Circle, her Ash Magic sealed beneath ancient runes etched into her very skin. Locked away in the depths of Obsidian Keep, she is treated as both a threat and a weapon—too dangerous to release, too valuable to destroy. But something within her is changing. The magic she was meant to lose is not fading… it ...

Shadow & Silver:A Secret Agent Werewolf Romance BOOK 1She was sent in to uncover a threat.She never expected to become the target of fate.Elena is a highly trained secret agent with one mission: infiltrate Blackwood Estate, investigate its mysterious owner, and uncover the truth behind a suspected supernatural danger. Calm, disciplined, and always in control, she knows better than to let emotion interfere with duty.Bu...

This book presents interdisciplinary empirical studies about the COVID-19 pandemic’s complex influence on the professional, personal, and family lives of mothers in academia or “MotherScholars”. It calls attention to how the COVID-19 pandemic and higher education's responses to it highlight the historical, societal, and cultural inequities between diverse groups of MotherScholars.The volume represents diverse ethnicities (e.g., Black, Pinay, Asian American), an assortment of discip...