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Confederate widow, Sarah Caldwell, has lost everything. Her husband. Her home. Her fortune. And now, she will lose her young daughter if she doesn’t leave Charleston before her contemptible in-laws convince a court to grant them custody. When Sarah’s four best friends decide to answer an advertisement for brides somewhere in Montana Territory, she decides to join them praying the law won’t follow.

Kiyoko “Emerald” Simmons may be the smallest member of the GEMs team, but that doesn’t mean she can’t take care of herself. The easiest way to get on her bad side is to try and run her life. So when her grandparents arrange a marriage for her to a complete stranger, she loses her cool and cuts ties. Before she can leave Japan once and for all, the man who would marry her tells her about his true love, Mei, who has been missing for months. Kiy vows to find her, going undercover in the same facility where Mei went missing.

The short stories in Dance Me to the End of Love reflect the real day-to-day life of ordinary people of different ages, genders, professions, and ethnicities with connections to a believable world of imagined events. They take place in the former Soviet Union, the United States, and the emigration in-between.