Words We Cannot Say
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Labor and delivery nurse, Penelope, is an expert at her job, but a complete mess when it comes to her personal life. Despite avoiding relationships in the past, now all she wants is for her boyfriend to leave his wife. But soon after he dumps her in favor of his marriage, Penelope discovers sheโs pregnant. Suddenly, she doesnโt feel like such an expert anymore.
Jesenia, a first-generation American, made her mark as a model, then quit the business in favor of a nine-to-five and wedded bliss. After three years of fertility treatments and pressure from her family, trying to become a mother is her full-time job. But when her past mistakes threaten her chances, Nia will have to confront her youthful choices and over-involved familyโs opinions on bloodlines if she wants to become a mother.
If choosing a homebirth and nursing a toddler donโt make Lotus unconventional, then growing up in a commune and choosing a polyamorous marriage certainly do. After her grandfatherโs unexpected death and the inheritance of his Victorian home, Lotus just wants to run her business, take care of her family, and live peacefully in her version of normal. That peace is threatened by her husbandโs former lover, the end of his sobriety, and a new love interestโall of which will turn her world upside down.
What happens when women tell the truth about themselves, their desires, and the sacrifices theyโre willingโor unwillingโto make?
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Sita Romero spent fifteen years in womenโs health, teaching childbirth classes and attending hundreds of births before finding her way to writing full time. Now, Sita teaches academic writing at a local community college, where she serves as the faculty advisor for the student creative arts journal. She is a graduate of Queens University of Charlotteโs MFA program and a member of Womenโs Fiction Writers Association and Science Fiction Writers of America. Her writing has been published both online and in print literary journals and anthologies.
Kyla Garcia is an AudioFile Earphones Awardโwinning narrator. Born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, she discovered acting at the age of eight when she played Lady Macbeth in a childrenโs adaptation of Shakespeareโs tragedy. She made her off-Broadway debut at fifteen when she played Dorothy in Oz: A Twisted Musical. Eleven years after she discovered her passion for acting, she would go on to play Lady Macbeth once again in London at the Globe Theatre, where she studied Shakespeare during her third year at Mason Gross School of the Arts. She received her BFA in acting from Rutgers University.
