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Talking with influential women of high power places on how their journey brought them there.

Conversation is a lost art. Therefore, a couple of my friends have joined me to revive it! Join me, Belle Woodz, and my friends for episodes of probing questions that provoke thought, laughter and other emotions. We talk about everything from relationships to personal growth and our thoughts on community development. Let's get into these conversations.

Is the American West truly a place of opportunity where a man can become anything he wants? Even a blind man? Dot and her brother, Dash, are about to find out. As immigrants to South Dakota, they discover that the west is full of possibilities, but they come at a cost. They live in an era of progress, of technology, of the telegraph.

When a shocking mutation of the super-virulent coronavirus starts changing healthy, adult men into fully grown women, America goes into a panic and locks the country down, but not before 90 percent of the male population has been transformed! Justin Watters is just an average guy who was one of the lucky 10 percent that managed to avoid the strange new plague which experts dubbed FEMVI-1, and the newly-established FEMPOL government agency pays him handsomely to do his part to repopulate the country. But when a jilted ex knowingly exposes him to the virus, everything changes for him....

Belinda Hamm has been running her father's print shop since his death, but she has often dreamed of a more exciting life. When a stranger with a gunshot wound collapses at her front door, things begin to take a turn that you only read about in the papers. A train robbery, a gunshot man, and a curious reporter will challenge Bel to use her wits to stay out of danger as she finds out that love isn't just something you read about.

Nate Dodge is working for the Western Union Telegraph Company when a vandal continues to cut the telegraph lines. The Company suspects that its competitor, the Pony Express, is the one to blame. When Nate begins to investigate, he finds a much more complicated situation than he had imagined. Nate meets Betty, a beautiful woman who is the station manager for the Pony Express. While Nate is captivated by Betty, he is tasked with remembering that they work for competing companies. But Betty is more than just a rival in the communications war in the west.

Any fantasy can become a reality when magic is involved...Jimmy Calavan’s greatest passion in life is the World of Magic, a hyper-realistic online game where he spends hours slaying monsters and seeking treasure as a beautiful, magical warrior named Fae. He’d give anything for the chance to actually live there, even though he knows that’s just a silly fantasy...But when a limited-edition replica of a magical scroll from the game appears at his door one night, Jimmy discovers that sometimes fantasies come true...

Boone is working as a lone telegraph operator in the sleepy town of Infierno, New Mexico when mysterious love letters start to arrive at his telegraph office. Unable to find the recipient, Boone keeps the telegrams, wondering who the sender might be. While he is trying to solve this riddle, a rowdy gang of outlaws shows up in town with a beautiful woman who appears to be their captive. Entranced by the beauty and moved by her plight, Boone decides he must find someway to help. In this action-packed western romance, Boone learns that love isn't always easy to decode.

Sultry and sensual adventures to warm your cold winter nights or steam up your long summer days. Set in a fantasy world where nothing is quite what it appears, an old book and a strange golden mask bring power and pleasure. This is the first installment in the Tales of the Golden Mask series.

Aaron Jones is a hard-boiled detective who's been hot on the trail of Lady X, the mysterious leader of the all-female gang, the Jasmine Vixens, for years. Thanks to anonymous tip, they finally have a lead on her - she's running drugs right under their noses, out of Harmony Falls penitentiary. Aaron is the only one with the skills to infiltrate the gang and crack the case, but a man can't go undercover in an all-female prison! When special agent Sean Turk tells him about an experimental nanobot technology that can transform him into a gorgeous, 18-year-old inmate, Aaron sees his chance.

The residents of Swan Mirror Tower live in the lap of luxury. Along with fortune and fame, the residents have their fair share of affairs, lies, and deceit. The haunted lake behind the tower is legendary but often times underestimated. The legend of the lake has often been dismissed as a story to frighten children, but older people know better. They remember the devastation. The lives of the residents in the tower are forever changed when a woman is found floating in the mysterious Shadow Lake behind the tower.

Back on the job as a cold case detective, Sutton has the chance to delve deeper into the only case of his career he's been unable to solve. As boundaries blur and the difference between truth and lies becomes indistinguishable, Detective Sutton finds himself in a race against a ticking clock. Only one thing is certain: if Sutton doesn't stop him, the monster will keep on killing, and another innocent woman will be lost forever to his darkness. But Sutton is not about to let evil win this time.

His ex-wife has screwed him. Now, his friends are treating him to a brothel hook up to help him forget. But vampires? Really? Newly out of the undead closet, vampires are now members of the 21st century. But can one special vampire help John forget the horrible pain of his wife's affair? He's going to get schooled in the ways of vampire pleasure even if it's the last thing he does. Natasha was looking for a way to forget her ex-boyfriend. She found a vampire.

Brooke never meant to survive, hoping that the suicide attempt would end all of her suffering. After years of rejection, pain, and heartbreak, she feels as though she's not good enough for anyone. Now she's stuck in a hospital, being forced to take antidepressants and is getting therapy for her issues.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Marriage Lie comes a riveting exploration of grief and guilt in the wake of one family’s shocking loss. When former DC journalist Abigail Wolff attempts to rehabilitate her career, she finds herself at the heart of a shocking conspiracy...

My name is Catarina. Or, that's who I was christened to be, anyways. I live in a convent. I am a nun in training. A postulant. I am 18 years old. I am a predator. No one is safe from me. I am protected. No one can get to me. By day one way, by night another. They call on me.

My name is Catarina. Or, that's who I was christened to be, anyways. I live in a convent. I am a nun in training. A postulant. I am 18 years old. I am a predator. No one is safe from me. I am protected. No one can get to me. By day one way, by night another. They call on me.

Between 1929 and 1974, more than 7,600 North Carolinians were sterilized, sometimes without informed consent and frequently under coercion. The victims, poor men and women from around the state, were never compensated for losing the ability to conceive children. Nearly 40 years later, during a rancorous 2013 legislative session in which severe restrictions on abortion, voting rights and funding for public education were passed, the state got another chance to right one of its most shameful acts.

Travel back in time to the boyhood of one of the most popular poets of the early 20th century. Author of "Little Orphan Annie", "The Old Swimmin' Hole", and hundreds more poems, "Bud" Riley spent his childhood in mid-nineteenth century Indiana, where stagecoaches were a common sight, rope swings were the only thrill rides, and telling spooky stories by firelight was the best entertainment of all.

Maggie Gerber - one of the founding members of the Good Buy Girls - loves her quiet life in St. Stanley, Virginia. But all that changes when Sam Collins, her old flame, moves back to town as the new sheriff. On top of that, Claire Freemont, a librarian and the newest member of the Good Buy Girls, starts acting utterly strange. When Maggie goes to visit her the next day at the library, she finds the body of a very dead man. Turns out the man is someone from Claire's past.