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.
After college graduation, youâre invited by your best friend, Evelyn (23), to spend the summer at her family home. Evelyn recently had a rough year and wants someone she trusts close to her â thatâs you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
A brilliant but aloof literature professor, Professor Lillian ward, is used to maintaining control â until a clever and curious graduate student, Clara Monroe, begins staying late in her office under the pretense of assistance and needing help.