Jennifer Blaser

Inspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a person to study dance; the daily balance that dancers navigate between hardship and joy; and the dancer's continual quest to discover who they are as a person and as an artist.

I never expected my knight in tarnished armor to be an older, angry bodyguard who cares about nothing except the job. As a Juilliard graduate, my life was full of promise until a stalker shattered everything. My world ripped apart and left me with nothing but fear and uncertainty. That's when my father assigned Oliver to be my bodyguard. At first, his seriousness clashed with my yearning for a carefree existence. But as time passed, our forbidden tension grew stronger, and the desire in his eyes showed. Our worlds collided in an isolated cabin, igniting our longing for each other. But ...

Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii, but there’s a lot she doesn’t understand. She’s never met her legendary grandmother and her mother has never revealed the identity of her father. Worse, unspoken divides within her tight-knit community have started to grow, creating fractures whose origins are somehow entangled with her own family history.