(Completed) 'I knew better than this. Sometimes I thought he did too. But still, we kept doing it...because. Full stop. Maybe because I made him feel young. Maybe because he made me feel special. Maybe because of a million different reasons or none at all. I'd tried, but there was never a satisfactory explanation that I could conjure in my head. There was no true because. It was just because.' Julia Kingsbury is an early-20-something bookstore owner who can barely keep up with her bills. Jordan Knight is a late-30-something accomplished musician and composer with money to blow. She's single. He's...well, complicated. Julia and Jordan have absolutely nothing in common besides their initials and an intoxicating affair that neither of them seems able to shake. Will anything come of this mutual attraction or will it eventually fade...because?

Moving to a large city from a small midwestern town Matilda (Mattie) Leman is away from her overprotective family for the first time with the paid internship of a lifetime that is until she meets her elusive and obnoxious boss Not sure if she can the suffocation of a large city on top of a boss who hates her Mattie wonders if this was the right move for her Tyrannical , perfectionist Jordan Knight has been at the helm of the top privately owned forensic lab in Boston, Knight Forensics A company his father started from the ground up for six years Hiring another intern was not in the plan and he certainly never thought it would be a naïve timid female from some middle of nowhere town in the Midwest. Memories haunt Jordan regrets and bitterness have taken over to create the emotionless man. Can the same naïve intern break through the barriers Jordan has constructed to shut out emotions or will she return to her small town broken This story takes place in the present although Jordan is only twenty eight Jordan and Jon Knight are not famous in this story STATUS : COMPLETED

(Completed, Watty's 2018 Longlist) Jordan Knight and Lia Andrews are from two different worlds. He's an embattled pop star from the beloved boyband, New Kids on the Block. She's a no-nonsense pre-law student from a struggling working class family. He's a dreamer that's looking for happiness and love in all the wrong places. She's a realist who believes men are only trouble. Both have an obsession with perfection that has left them disillusioned and broken. After an encounter that leaves their lives permanently intertwined, Jordan and Lia are forced to realize that they are more perfect and more broken than they ever could have imagined. "There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness." ― Shannon L. Alder