"Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist. This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and...

Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...

Her fairy tale future doesn't include a husband! When Maren Hargreave wins a castle and a crown in a poker game, she also unknowingly marries billionaire Acastus Diakos. Their union finally heals the wound her family inflicted on his generations before, but nothing prepares him for their intoxicating passion! It's a passion that shockingly leaves Maren with a life-changing Christmas confession... She's expecting his heirs!