Fourteen-year-old Gabrielle Jones has always lived in the shadow of her older sister, Aliya. Now that Gabrielle's starting high school, and is away from her sister, she's determined to start anew. When she unexpectedly passes several magical trials, and is accepted into the Hale Academy, a magical historically Black boarding school, she thinks it's the perfect opportunity to prove herself. But there's a horrific magical war taking place and her sister attends the academy too.

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Based on the animated short film entitled, The Hale Academy (available on Amazon's Prime Video), The Hale Academy: A Trip to The Kalunga follows sister duo Gabrielle and Aliya near the end of their journey at their magical Historically Black College. Gabrielle Jones, a junior campus tour guide, begins her plot to save her missing sister and former school sweetheart, Aliya Jones. Throughout the narrative, Gabrielle engages with various forms of magic and magical beings on her mission to find Aliya. This novella is a work of fictional prose that focuses on illuminating the rich and often forgotten spiritual history of enslaved African populations and their descendants in America. 

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Avelynn Crimson is a young slave in the Underworld. This makes her a gentry; and, her role as a gentry is to be a fighter. She fights using the weapon of black ink in order to enter the realm of human minds and get them to submit to the power of temptation, silencing all voices of hopes and aspirations. Slaves are pretty much immortal, except when entering the battlefield within a human’s mind, a human’s safe haven. But what happens, when Avelynn is wounded on the battlefield and almost meets death square in the face. How does she return to the Underworld completely unharmed? Why does Hades suddenly want to see her? And how many consequences must she face for that one incident on the battlefield? 

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Most people need to be able to multitask, especially if they are parents who are employed outside of the home, if they are involved in church activities, service organizations, civic undertakings and social engagement. But certain activities need to be downplayed when others require immediate attention. Raquel Moss experienced a stroke on September 25, 2015. After leading an extremely busy lifestyle, Raquel’s life came to a halt. Dive into her mindset as she explains the struggles that she faced on her recovery road. Learn about her supporters, discover her epiphanies, and understand her journey. 

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Aqua lives in a world, 1500 years into the future, which separates the failures and the achievers. Aqua is the sibling and guardian of her younger brother and sister, who are twins. She is also a failure, thanks to her ancestors. So she finds a way to provide for her family, risking her life by pretending to be an achiever and taking an achiever's job. Soon her little perfect scheme falls apart and, before she knows it, both the achievers and failures dislike her. In a search for a place to belong she somehow teleports to a place in which she finds out that she was never human after all. So as she tries to adjust to her new life, she soon realizes she doesn't belong there either. If this is true, where does she possibly belong?

The protagonist has many experiences and undergoes several transformations as she seeks to find herself, her reason for existing and her place in life. 

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