Love Under Quarantine

While the world is ravaged by a global pandemic, hotshot NFL running back Evan Sparks is locked in his own personal hell. With a career-ending scandal on his back, Evan hides out in his best friend's empty San Francisco home, the full city shutdown locking him in a lonely twenty-story apartment in the sky. Romance writer Sadie Walsh is having the worst case of writer's block ever...until the incredible, muscular stranger staying next door gets her muse going strong. The pair of loners, never expecting to find a friend in all the madness, meet each day out on their balconies like a modern-day Romeo and Juliet. Each new day brings unique challenges for the pair as they navigate the unknown and find solace together. They quickly figure out that as long as they have one another, they can handle anything. Even falling in love under quarantine. *** Writing together for the first time, New York Times bestselling authors Kylie Scott and Audrey Carlan team up to tell a story that not only is a beautiful escape during a trying time, but a true lesson on the power of humanity's ability to survive. Through a sexy, hopeful, strangers-to-lovers romance, the authors prove with love, trust, and faith, we can conquer anything. "Kylie Scott and Audrey Carlan weave a charming and witty romance into a confusing and stressful real-life scenario and the result is magic. Sexy, humorous and sweet, this is a quarantine must-read!" --Devney Perry, USA Today bestselling author

Love can be contagious in this infectiously fun romance by debut author Katie Cicatelli-Kuc. Oliver wants a girlfriend, and there's a girl back home who might be interested in him. The problem is, he has to spend his spring break on a volunteer trip in the Dominican Republic. Flora, on the other hand, isn't really looking for a boyfriend. She just wants to end a miserable spring break visiting her dad and her new stepmom in the D.R.The solution to both their problems? Get back home to New York ASAP. Sadly, they won't be getting there anytime soon. Their hopes are dashed when Flora's impulsiveness lands them in quarantine -- just the two of them. Now, the two teens must come together in order to survive life in a bubble for 30 days. In that time, love will bloom. But is it the real thing, or just a placebo effect? In her debut novel, Katie Cicatelli-Kuc delivers an introspective and witty story about finding love in the most unexpected place.

Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 "A timely and quirky romance novel...featuring plenty of mishaps and face masks, Six Feet Apart is a charming, COVID-inflected romance about love during an unending lockdown." Claire Foster, Clarion Book Review Passion is contagious! Love in a pandemic can't be quarantined in this offbeat, playful romance. Can social distancing turn up the heat, rather than smother the flames? Luna James, a reluctant, wanna-be influencer, unexpectedly meets a mysterious undiscovered musician, Stryker Caine. He is self absorbed, and thinks the world revolves around him. She is beautiful, yet shy, and struggles with attention. A quirky character, Luna’s voice is fresh and bubbly. There is dash of speculative fiction involved in the book and its futuristic setting. This book is an easy, sexy and fun read! Follow Luna for a fun, humorous journey making life in the pandemic a little more bearable. The story flows nicely making it hard to put the book down as the nuances and complexities of Luna and Stryker’s magnetic relationship unfold. Ultimately, who will find redemption? Featuring original songs.

Written through and inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic, this collection of poetry contains themes around love, heartbreak, abusive relationships, grief, body image, self-love and healing.

Vera never expected Coronavirus to shut down New York City. She certainly never expected to be quarantined with a good-looking stranger. Vera West cleans houses to pay her way through medical school. Her instructor is an obnoxious cretin. Her feet are sore. To top it off, she let her phone battery die during a pandemic. That’s just the beginning. The next surprise was a shirtless, tan, buff man standing in front of her. Whom she may have accidentally bashed in the head with a mop. Just her luck -- the doctor she brained is Dr. Simon Navarro, a lead physician at the hospital where she has been shadowing. Public transit has been halted, the military rolls through town, and Vera finds herself sequestered in Dr. Navarro’s apartment. They do their best to hide from the virus around them, but they cannot escape their attraction to one another. And when they are called on to work at the hospital, they are determined to perform their duties as healthcare providers, no matter the danger. When the world is driven into quarantine, love becomes more important than ever.

Under quarantine, a gripping story thanks to a dynamic narrative and the topicality of the issues involved. Paolo Cuciniello, a young Italian engineer, tells of his experience of quarantine in China, where he graduated in engineering and currently lives. The aspects of everyday life of the months spent in isolation emerge as the narrative develops: the rigour in observing the rules, the worry for the spread of the infection, but also the ability to eke out moments of happiness. In the story, the author probes the remotest corners of his soul and does so with the wisdom and sensitivity of someone who, freed from the restrictions of the mind, feels at peace and free. He is guided by Siddhartha. Paolo Cuciniello takes the reader by the hand on a trip to discover his world, his sentiments and the most profound and spiritual aspects of his nature. Coral, his great love, is part of the journey. "Coral is my family now" writes Paolo, who feels an ardent desire to take care of the people he loves from afar, his family of origin, and who continues to preserve a little bit of Italy, even in China.

Under Quarantine is the riveting story of Shaar Ha'aliya, Israel's central immigration camp. Focusing on the conflicts surrounding the camp's medical quarantine, this book brings the history of this place and the remarkable experiences of the immigrants who went through it to life.

An award-winning, multi-genre writer grapples with the pandemic, death of George Floyd, and other crises of our times in gnomic poems written from inside the purgatory (and sudden revelations) of quarantine. Writing from and toward “the endless desire / to be at home in the world,” Sarah Ruhl wrote Love Poems in Quarantine to mark the passage of time when all familiar landmarks disappeared. From the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic, to the murder of George Floyd, to months of simultaneous quarantine and protest, this is—in free verse and form, lamentation and meditation—a book of days, a survival kit for spiritual malady. These poems find small solace in domestic absurdities. Even in global crisis, there is the laundry. The dog rolls in something putrid, the child interrupts a Zoom meeting, and dinner must get made, again and again. Using language to travel and touch when bodies could not, Ruhl has drawn with great care a portrait of a year unlike any other in history.