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While restoration is still taking place in everyone's lives, marriages, and relationships, three married ones and former sidelines turn their scorned love into obsession that results in deadly consequences, and leads to life altering decisions for everyone else. Enjoy part sixteen of the seventeen-part series...the next to last book in the finality of the Sidelines series.

The Vegas celebration caused more damage than intended, and the aftermath of everyone's actions on that trip hit hard, affecting all relationships and marriages. It felt like deja vu for the married ones who had been unscathed this entire time when they had their sidelines, and were married to others. Regardless, Vegas did more than cause damage, but made many of the former sidelines realize that what they had wasn't as stable and happy as they thought. Enjoy part fifteen, and find out how many marriages are broken, on thin ice, and over, after an innocent birthday celebration in Las Vegas.

'Tis the season to be jolly, unhappy, secretive, and suspicious. As special occasions approach, including the holidays and birthday celebrations, many of the former/current sidelines and friends, decide to take a trip to celebrate the birthday of the good girl of the group, and the most obedient, put together, former sideline of them all...that not only has been the good girl, but the only one on the shortest leash since the beginning...Valerie. She is not the only one, and many others decide that being away from the married ones is their chance to let loose, and be their own person. Find out what happens when good girls and guys go bad, because what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas...or does it? The countdown continues...3 more books to go before the finale of the Sidelines series.

"Kansas poet Ruth Maus returns with her sharp wit and wry humor in Puzzled, her second full-length collection of poetry. The poems in this gorgeous, full-color volume are accompanied by the paintings of Katja Weiss, a German painter and Ruth's distant cousin. "Throughout Puzzled, Ruth Maus's skillfully-wrought poems abound in delight and wonder, her curiosity and playfulness on full display. These are fun and memorable gems, with lines like 'the mud mush slops and bitter blasts pitted the // voltage of longing,' and keen observations such as 'There is breadth in happy here, just breathing.' Her poem 'July' is exemplary, cataloguing summer's festive bounty in words exploding with sound; while in 'Parent,' her brilliant love letter to the craft of poetry, she hopes 'perhaps // one of two will light up the world.' She's written an entire book of poems which will do just that." -Jonathan Greenhause, author of Cupping Our Palms, winner of the Birdy Poetry Prize (Meadowlark Press, 2022), Secret Traits of Everyday Things (Encircle Publications, 2017), and Sebastian's Relativity (Anobium, 2011) "Reading Ruth Maus's poetry in Puzzled is like solving a jigsaw puzzle: one examines each poem to see where it fits and realizes each has its place. But being 'puzzled' also has the connotation of seeking answers, and her poems do that. Sharp, no-nonsense, crackling, they bring the reader to some hard truths. "Katja Weiss's art provides counterpoints of quiet, restful, yet mysterious places to contemplate the poems. Puzzled is synergy in its purest form." -Barbara Waterman-Peters, artist, author, and illustrator with articles in multiple magazines; co-author and illustrator of Ting & The Caterbury Tales; a Pushcart Prize nominee for "Winter Guests," and recent winner of the Editor's Choice Award in the 50th Anniversary issue of Inscape for her painting C19: One Crow Sorrow"

America's schools are currently being impacted by several key forces. First there is the browning of our country and therefore a browning of our student body. Next, there is a persistence of an achievement gap produced by a change in student demographics all in tandem with the maintenance of stratified power (often advantaging those with racial and socioeconomic privileges). Finally, there is a movement to vilify any recognition of education as political (as is the case with critical race theory); thereby demonizing anything that challenges traditional interpretations on what knowing is, who the knower has been and what knowing is intended.With these three forces influencing how we currently experience school, a teaching philosophy (and practice) is needed that will disrupt traditional stratifications of power and imagine teaching and learning to ensure that all students, even affluent white learners, achieve within and beyond their political context. Pragmatic Progressivism, as profiled in this book, is that philosophy (and practice). Through it, America's principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be those experienced by every American (and not just those who have been historically privileged).

In the early 1850s Gideon Deshler, distraught over his wife's and baby son's deaths, falls in love with a turfman's evil daughter, Elvira Sturgis. Blaming her former fiance for deserting her at the altar, she feigns a mutual love, but he's a pawn in her plans to exploit and destroy him, the first victim in her vengeance crusade against all men because of what her fiance did to her. Joe Quarles, a bitter rival of Gideon's friend Owen Washburn, accuses Owen's late father of killing his horse farm's champion, Green Legs. To regain the farm's status and keep a promise to his dying father, Joe's hope lies in an ornery Thoroughbred named Johnny Boy and a big match race against Owen's champion. If Johnny Boy loses, Joe risks falling into depression and killing himself. Only Gideon can discover Green Legs's real killer and save Joe from suicide, but Elvira's tricks and his sufferings may prevent this, especially if she destroys his life and his soul.