High Public

Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, America’s most...

My fiancé and my best friend. The two people I trusted with everything. Six years. That's how long I spent building Jason's career alongside my own — writing the strategies, developing the frameworks, watching him take the credit. I told myself it didn't matter because we were a team. Because love means sacrifice. Then he didn't show up to our wedding, and the photos started circulating online. Him and Lexi. My maid of honor. Walking into a hotel together on the morning he was supposed to marry me. I stood at that altar in a twelve-thousand-dollar dress and told two hundred and forty ...

He left me pregnant for his mistress, but he forgot whose money he'd been spending. I came home from my twelve-week ultrasound to find my husband loading suitcases into his car with the dealership’s client relations manager. By lunch he had frozen our accounts, canceled my cards, and emailed me a “fair” settlement. By that night, I was sitting in a hotel lobby with six dollars and two suitcases. My husband thought I’d sign whatever he slid across the table. Instead, I hired a lawyer and an accountant who read every line, and I found every dollar. Now he’s going to lose the ...

My hockey star husband cheated on me with the woman filming his documentary. Then she made me watch the affair on television. With a camera pointed at my face. Six and a half years of marriage. Eleven years of sacrificing for his career. And sixteen million people watching my husband destroy it all. The worst part? He knew the episode was coming. And he let me find out alongside everyone else. I watched him enter another woman's hotel room at one in the morning. Heard him tell the cameras he didn't want to come home to me. And the woman sitting beside me, pretending to comfort me? She was ...

Four million people heard my hockey star husband joke about divorcing me on live television. The worst part? I gave up my career to make him a star. Ten years of marriage. Four cities. One championship ring. And a career I sacrificed so he could have his. I was the woman who taught Deacon how to make it through his first interview. I was the wife who walked away from a national news anchor desk when his career took off. I was the one who stood beside him through every trade, every injury, and every victory. The whole world thought we had the perfect marriage. So did I. Until a microphone ...

In 1992, the deadliest year in Chicago’s history, seven-year-old Dantrell Davis was shot and killed in front of his elementary school inside the public housing complex Cabrini-Green. What happened to Dantrell led to a truce among Chicago’s gangs, but it also ignited a national panic about poverty and violence in America’s cities. Dantrell’s name would soon be used to demolish all of Chicago’s high-rise public housing, displacing tens of thousands of low-income families.

My cheating husband told me I couldn't afford to fight him. By the time I was done, I had the house, the savings, the retirement, and the better man he never wanted me to meet. Gregory didn't even try to hide his pregnant mistress. He said she was carrying his son. That this was his chance at a real family. He actually said I should find somewhere else to stay while he figured out what he wanted to do with my house. He forgot whose name was on the deed. One phone call to my lawyer, and I evicted them both. Then his estranged brother started calling. Cameron. Quiet. Steady. Honest. He didn't...

He chose my best friend. I chose better. Ryan Mullens didn't even try to hide it. He said they "just made more sense." That our six years together had gone stale. He actually said it while sitting at a candlelit table with my best friend. I left my engagement ring on the table and never looked back. Then his older brother, Luke, starts showing up. Calm. Honest. Steady. He doesn't send grand gestures or rehearsed speeches. He just brings turkey sandwiches to my hotel room, tells me the truth about his brother, and remembers how I take my coffee from one conversation months ago. Ryan said I'd...

I ran his company. I managed his reputation. I saved his career. Then I found him in bed with my sister. Chase Kinsley didn't even try to apologize. He said he'd been unhappy for years. That I made him feel managed instead of admired. He actually said he wanted me to resign, train my replacement, and walk away quietly while he gave my sister a corner office and a new title. As if the company would survive a single quarter without me. I blocked his bank transfer that night and called a divorce attorney by morning. Then his older brother comes around. Bobby Kinsley. Quiet. Disciplined. Self-...

My sister showed up to tell me she was pregnant. Then my husband walked in and said the baby was his. Brett Cane didn't even try to look sorry. He handed me divorce papers with a hundred thousand dollars of his debt assigned to my name and told me to sign fast so we could all move on. He said the family trust would cover everything. He said it like he believed it. I spent six years doing his job, investing my savings, and building his life. He spent eight months sleeping with my sister and buying her jewelry with my money. I found every receipt. Then his older brother asks to meet. Adam ...

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My husband cheated with the nanny. I took the house, the savings, and the carpenter down the street. I came home early and found him with the nanny in our bedroom. He told me to take the guest room. He said the waterfront house, the accounts, the life I’d built for eight years while he contributed nothing, all belonged to him. He forgot whose name was on the paperwork. Then the neighbor down the street starts showing up. Caleb Barnes. Woodworker. Widower. Quiet. Kind. The one who restores broken things for a living. He doesn’t make promises or grand gestures. He shows up with a dining ...

I booked a honeymoon suite in the Bahamas. My fiancé took my sister instead. Pierce Carson didn't even try to be subtle about it. He drained our honeymoon account, flew my younger sister to the resort I picked, and proposed to her with a ring he bought using my dead mother's inheritance. He actually thought I'd be too humiliated to fight back. Then my father hired a forensic accountant. River Golden. Patient. Honest. Steady. He didn't treat me like a victim or talk down to me. He saw the evidence I already organized and asked me to work the case beside him as an equal. Pierce said I'd ...

She thought she was there to teach. Turns out, she was there to learn. Emily Carter has spent her life being the perfect professor—published, polished, and completely invisible. Then Blackwood University offers her a tenure track position, and she thinks she's finally getting the career she deserves. What she doesn't know is that at Blackwood, "free use" isn't just a theory. It's a tradition. Perfect for fans of Evelyn Wild, Madison Faye, and Jade West who crave scholarly seduction, academic power plays, and getting schooled in pleasure. ⚠️ 18+ only: Explicit content, strong language,...

In this audio book you will discover a sure way to remove public speaking from your top 10 fears. This audiobook will guide you through delivering a successful public speech with the comfort that you have always wanted. Public speaking, a skill that could provide you a great advantage in today’s competitive world, is no longer a foreign and scary concept. This audiobook will teach you the pervasiveness of public speaking and how we incorporate it in our daily lives. Public speaking is an art that involves the delivery of a message in front of an audience.    

I was seven months pregnant when he broke up with me at our favorite restaurant. He said he wasn't happy. His assistant's perfume was still on his collar. Derek Wellman didn't even try to make it convincing. He said he felt held back. That we wanted different things. He actually said this while I was carrying his child and he was already sleeping with someone else. I drove to my mother's house and never went back. Then my landlord's handyman shows up to fix a leaky faucet. Russell Brooks. Quiet. Steady. Good with his hands. He doesn't make promises or grand gestures. He just keeps coming ...

My husband hit the jackpot in Reno. Then he told me his mistress is pregnant with his baby. Derek called it a guys’ weekend. He took his mistress, the seasonal girl I hired and trained myself. He paid for the trip with money from the fund I spent twelve years building to buy the land under our lakeside rental business. Then he came home with a settlement offer. He keeps the jackpot. He keeps half the business. I keep running it for him, and in exchange, I get a salary. He forgot who keeps the books. Every receipt he buried in the accounting software is about to surface. There’s the ...

My husband and my sister. The two people who were supposed to love me the most. Four months. That's how long Daniel and Chloe had been sleeping together in hotel rooms booked under a fake name. Daniel told me he wanted a divorce. Told me to pack a bag. Told me the house — the one I designed down to the last tile — was his now. He forgot one thing. I'm an interior designer. I notice what doesn't fit. And nothing about Daniel's finances had been fitting for a long time. Hidden accounts. A shell company. A secret condo. Over eight hundred thousand dollars tucked away where he thought no ...

I came home to an empty closet and a note that said he was leaving me. He married my sister that same afternoon. Chris Porter didn't even try to explain in person. He packed while I was at work. He left a note on his pillow saying something was "off between us." Then he flew to Turks and Caicos and eloped with my sister. My parents told me to be reasonable. To move forward. To not force anyone to choose sides. Because I've always been the easy daughter, and my sister has always been forgiven. Then his best friend shows up at my door. Jason Henderson. Furious. Honest. He doesn't ask me to ...

From a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets. "A fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience." —Publishers Weekly, starred review Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the...