Five years ago, Iris Bennett was nineteen â a sophomore who enrolled in Dr. Helena Mercerâs Introduction to Contemporary Literature course because it fit her schedule.
When Mia, a guarded sophomore who has learned to survive the foster system by never getting attached, is placed with the Adams-Foster family after being quietly homeless for months, she expects another temporary stop â rules, polite smiles, and an eventual goodbye.
Assistant coach Jordan Harper knows exactly what she wantsâand from the moment she meets guarded head coach Ellen Brooks, she realizes Ellen is the most interesting challenge sheâs ever faced. The only problem is Ellen has spent twenty years convincing herself she doesnât deserve to be wanted.
After her husbandâs sudden death, Maggie, a structured and reserved woman, sits in the hospital waiting room with his young, passionate former lover, Lana. Though their first encounters are fraught with tension and unspoken truths, the two women gradually form an unlikely bond â one built on shared grief, honesty, and the fragile remnants of the man they both loved. Over time, trust and intimacy grow where heartbreak once ruled.
Distraught over the presidential election results, college student Rachel Taff becomes hell-bent on making a difference in her community. She decides to take a internship with the office of California Senator Jennifer Abner who is seemingly gearing up to enter the presidential race next term.
12 year old Devin goes thru hardship after her mother gets deported and banned for illegal use of her visa, entering the foster system living in multiple foster homes until Mrs. Rachel notices Devin and helps her and adopts her into her family.
An foster kid who has become a skating prodigy reaches the news and trains soon gets to train under eteri the Russian skating coach when she finds out media exposes it at one of the later competitions eteri eventually takes her in and adopts her
Five years after graduating, Kyle Monroe crosses paths with her former literature professor, Dr. Michele Laurent, at a university alumni reunion Michele has always been an ice queen â brilliant, cold, and distant â but something about the wild card Kyle creates a subtle, almost invisible soft spot.
A faded seaside town in northern France, post-WWII, 1951. Quiet, grey, and clinging to old values. A town where everyone knows each otherâs business â or thinks they do.
A story about a woman who âhas it allâ yet feels sheâs lived too cautiously â and what happens when desire reminds her that life is still moving, even if she isnât fully participating.
After her husbandâs sudden death, Maggie, a structured and reserved woman, sits in the hospital waiting room with his young, passionate former lover, Lana. Though their first encounters are fraught with tension and unspoken truths, the two women gradually form an unlikely bond â one built on shared grief, honesty, and the fragile remnants of the man they both loved. Over time, trust and intimacy grow where heartbreak once ruled.
Twelve-year-old Addie Walker has spent most of her life learning how not to get attached. Foster homes taught her that rules change, people leave, and nothing that feels safe lasts very long. The only constant sheâs ever had is her grandmother, June, who raised her in a tiny worn-down house and made even hard days feel survivable.
After weeks of seeing each other through a window and never talking, the two finally meet at the fountain between both schools. A student and professor at a different university begins a relationship at first really friendly then it becomes more.
During a brutal winter storm, two strangers traveling on the same overnight train are stranded in a nearly empty lakeside town when service shuts down indefinitely. With hotels fully booked, they discover a booking error has assigned them both the same remote Airbnb â the last available lodging within miles.
Youâre a rising indie actress who built a reputation on raw, emotional performances â messy characters, quiet intensity, the kind critics call âdangerously honest.â
Fully lesbian soccer coach and gym teacher Jordan forms and unexpectedly intense connection with a heterosexual mom of Chloe, Kate Holloway â forcing her to confront desire, identity, and the grief of realizing she may have misunderstood herself for decades.
Mrs. Evie Woodlands married to prof woodlands loves to host his students throughout the year they always pick a few students a year to come to literary events and dinners. He picks one and she picks one sometimes innocently and every now and then someone special slips through the cracks.
A secluded Catholic convent on the Northern California coast â foggy cliffs, old stone architecture, gardens maintained for centuries. The convent is known for accepting women seeking refuge or second lives, not only lifelong religious devotees.
When reserved graphic designer Emma joins a new friend group after a messy breakup, she expects casual friendships and emotional safety â not Riley, the effortlessly magnetic woman everyone gravitates toward. Riley is warm, funny, and openly queer in a way that both intrigues and unsettles Emma, who has always considered herself straight.