Jennifer Morgan

Irene Schroeder was an armed robber who was the first woman to be electrocuted in the state of Pennsylvania for her role in a grocery store robbery that led to the shooting of a policeman. She and her boyfriend went on the run, Bonnie and Clyde style, until they were finally arrested after a long shootout. But what led Irene, once a sweet and doting waitress, to take on a life of crime? This is her story.

Libby's world is rocked to the core when her business partner Alexis-working late one night-is attacked by an intruder at their spa. JJ shows up in full cop mode, terrified that his wife has barely escaped the serial rapist who's been plaguing the city in recent months. But Lexi isn't convinced. Too many seemingly unrelated incidents occur before they realize a decades-old murder and pact between two then-juvenile delinquents could be tied to everything...

In Reckoning with Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic. From capture to transport to sale to childbirth, these women were demographically counted as commodities during the Middle Passage, vulnerable to rape, separated from their kin at slave markets, and...