Join our heroine as she tries to escape the clutches of the unscrupulous Ari Kozlov. With the help of a young slave, Pura, they will go on a daring ride. What else can they do? Ari Kozlov owns the rest of the planet, and now he must own Syrah. Where can they go to be free?Prologue to The Corsican, The Gravity of the Situation follows Syrah Ceballos' adventures, and how she became a slave rescuing rabble rouser. This story introduces us to a distant world, where slavery is commonplace and not illegal. Humans have sprawled out to many planets, and each has their own system of governance. The law between the stars is much more vague, and harder to enforce. Syrah has come under the scrutiny of a rich, powerful noble, who knows that she holds the key to abilities no tech has been able to replicate. Now she must survive his plans for her.

No matter how far you run, you can't escape yourself—or outrun the love of God When her husband dies, Charlotte can't face the things she's done, things that could tear her family apart. So she drops a goodbye letter in the cookie jar and flees south to escape everything—her life, her three daughters, the mistakes she's made, and the secrets that have been eating her alive. She's desperate to find the peace she's looking for somewhere out there. Now Gracey and her sisters are alone on Chicago's South Side with nothing but their home and their belongings, not a parent to be seen. They're doing everything they can to stay together as a family. But three young girls—sixteen, fourteen, and twelve—aren't meant to parent themselves. The close-knit community gathers around them to keep them fed and clothed with the utilities on, but it isn't enough. The girls are struggling and making destructive decisions as a way of coping with abandonment. Hundreds of miles...