Across The Hall

Over twenty years ago an event occurred in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that shocked the nation as well as the world. His name has been spoken from lips of many people and continues to do so. It has never before been revealed about what it was like to live across the hall from one of the world's most evil serial killers. Imagine moving into what's considered to be one of the nicest buildings in a troublesome and drug infested area and soon after you begin to notice a horrible odor unlike anything you have ever smelled but there's no way of knowing what it is or where it's coming from? What would you do? It has never been written about how life was living in the Oxford Apartments in 1991 across the hall from Jeffrey Dahmer before now. My story tells what I did as I didn't have to imagine how it was. So come with me as I tell about my life, during a time when I lived only small steps away from the door of TERROR.

For Caitlin Gregory, life after divorce has been an exercise in getting to know herself again. Finding love is the last thing on her mind. She scorns the idea of dating because she has all she needs—a nice new condo to call her own, her best friend right next door, and a new job that’s taking her back to her professional roots. When Caitlin sets her eyes on Mallory Walker, however, she realizes she may not want to completely shut herself off from dating. Crossing paths with Mallory was not on Caitlin’s post-divorce agenda, but once she feels that unmistakable spark ignite, she feels herself drawn to the other woman despite the warnings and raised eyebrows from others. While Caitlin’s emotions are ready to jump in, Mallory’s feelings are singing a much different song. The chill emanating from Mallory should be enough to ward off anyone, but Caitlin is nothing if not persistent.

Daisi Malone lives in Newtown, Sydney Australia. Her apartment building is full of strange noises, ghosts and of course Madden, the vampire across the hall.

Elementary schoolteacher Maddie Conor spends her summer vacation walking dogs, avoiding a toxic ex-boyfriend, and listening to her favorite podcast Murder For Your Thoughts. It’s shaping up to be another long, hot Chicago summer—until a few of her wealthier clients are robbed. She should be worried about what’s going on, but it’s hard to pay attention when the hot, young lawyer in the building catches her eye. The moment Jack Delgado runs into Maddie in the elevator, he knows he’s a goner. As they grow closer, the robberies ramp up. After Maddie is framed for a hit that happens right next door to Jack’s place, the two team up to find the real culprits. Clearing Maddie’s name might be their prime objective, but neither will mind if they find love along the way.

Growing up, Reid was confused and disturbed by the radically different opportunities his best friend received. After a childhood spent together, Jamie and Reid found themselves on opposite sides of a high school hallway that separated kids based on a misunderstanding of their supposed "potential." The gap between the two friends widened as Reid's classes enabled him to pursue an elite college degree across the country studying educational opportunity and teaching. Then, Reid became a teacher at an under-resourced South Carolina high school where efforts to serve the incredible students were stymied by internal segregation and administrative ambivalence. He was disabused of the Hollywood myth that a good teacher could simply save the day, when each false start with his students forced him to reckon with how much he didn't know. After Reid assigned students a project to create a positive change, they pushed him to figure out how he, too, could make a bigger difference. While an individual's efforts are no match against entrenched systems, Reid learned firsthand that a community of people powered by data can effect change. This lesson motivated him to found Equal Opportunity Schools (EOS), a nationwide nonprofit dedicated to finding the students who were overlooked, discouraged, or otherwise missing from higher-level classes. As EOS became more successful, partnering with major philanthropies, universities, and even the White House, Reid grappled with his role as a leader. Only through the efforts of, first, his students in South Carolina, and later his team at EOS, would he come to understand, and begin to overcome, the limitations of his vision. Informed by extensive new data on educational opportunity in America, The Kid Across the Hall is a powerful story of learning and unlearning; of leading and learning to follow.

In May of 2007, a small community was rocked after learning of the murder of a young woman by a new resident in the quiet neighborhood. A few weeks prior to news breaking, Chrystal moved in with the killer. While the names have been changed to protect the innocent, this book will grant access inside the mind of a young woman that was thrust into a situation she never wanted to be in, a witness in a murder trial. After nearly 13 years of living with this, Chrystal is releasing her thoughts and feelings and reclaiming her story.