Dangerous Engagement (Wedlocked Trilogy Book 1) by Charlotte Byrd

Author:Charlotte Byrd [Byrd, Charlotte]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781632251091
Publisher: Byrd Books
Published: 2020-03-16T18:30:00+00:00

We officially move in together two weeks later.

Well, I guess not officially, since my parents don't know that Henry is now living in the apartment that they are paying for, but he sublets his place for the semester and starts commuting to work from mine.

My semester begins and I enjoy being back in the flow of things. It's hard to explain why I like school so much, but I just do.

I like learning new things. I like challenging myself. I like to read and graduate school is nothing if it’s not a lot of reading.

What's good about graduate school is that, unlike undergrad, I only take classes that I am interested in. Most of them require a lot of research and writing, and I like that, too.

This year, I will be mainly focusing on my thesis. I developed my PhD program from scratch, given that there was no PhD in popular fiction available at the department. But with a lot of hard work and cooperation from my professors, I was able to design and put together my own individualized research plan.

Romance and thrillers are the most popular genres and yet critics seem to pay very little attention to them. There is very little analysis and very little interpretation of what the popular genres say about our culture. This is what I am particularly interested in; how they influence culture and how they impact shifts in culture.

For example, the Me Too movement and talking about consent when it comes to sexual harassment and abuse has been a huge cultural shift in 2019. And immediately, these topics have started to appear in the books that have been independently published during the year by some very prolific and very popular self-published writers.

Most romances are written by women and consumed by women and because there are no barriers to what these authors put in their books, besides the market itself, many authors have been incorporating cultural shifts like the Me Too movement into their work. In fact, there are many instances where the Me Too movement is mentioned directly, something that has yet to happen in traditionally published books.

After starting school, I come home every day excited by all of the new things that I’m learning and that are making an impact on me as a researcher.

Henry, unfortunately, is not so lucky.

He is miserable in his job and all he wants to do is quit. Teaching is not his forte. He’s not particularly patient and he isn’t very interested in it at all.

“What do you want to do today?” I ask him while I make dinner on the stove.

Usually we order takeout, but this afternoon I was eager to make something from scratch. Of course, my enthusiasm wore off halfway through the meal, but at that point, I was already too invested.

Walking over to me, Henry flips me around and presses his body against mine. Running his hands up and down my hips, he looks at me with hunger in his eyes.

“No, no, no.” I force myself to pull away.

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