Because adulting is hard... Hot mess, Reese MacDowell is in a rut. Her friends know it. Her family knows it. Even her nosy downstairs neighbor knows it. And when her high school reunion creeps up on her, Reese wants to run and hide, but her best friend holds her to a pact made during their senior year. Making good on her promise propels Reese on a quest, full of mortifying mishaps and shifty shenanigans, to be ready in time for the reunion. After all, how hard can it be to perform a feat of awesomeness, get a grownup job, and find Mr. Right all within thirty days? Piece of cake... Or maybe an eclair. ------- This story is unedited; please excuse the typos!

2016 Watty Award Winner for Most VORACIOUS Read Sample only. This book is PUBLISHED! How do you tell yourself not to breathe? He is my mate, and she is his everything. But he chose her, against every single instinct that we both know. For that, I have been whipped, shunned, shamed, disgraced, and broken. All for one moment of madness, I could not control. After two years, I left, unable to bear the pain and loneliness anymore. That was then. This is now. I am back, and I am not the juvenile I was. I am now a fully grown female. I feel his eyes on me, but I can't. I won't. I shouldn't. Time has healed my wounds, but not the deep scars the whip seared into my flesh or his indifference to my heart. Each breath is a pain, and his scent overwhelms me. But I can smell her in it. He still will not give her up, despite his own body crawling with a deep, physical desire that only a mate can satisfy. I breathe: I exist, barely. I am a midwife. I bring life into a cruel world that haunts me every day, and the Doctor I work with is the only one in this pack who holds faith in me. He is the one person who stands up for me - and I feel light again when I am with him. What kind of life is this when two mates cannot be together, yet every part of their primal soul yearns for it infinitely? What kind of cruel moon would torture a she-wolf like this? I can't go on, but I must. Whatever happens, I must attend to my purpose and give my miserable life some meaning; perhaps I can snatch some joy in pieces, but now I see that he needs me - but he also wants her too. How do you tell yourself not to breathe?

Winter and Dan were childhood sweethearts until tragedy drove them apart. When they meet again on a cruiseship, Winter as a travel writer and Dan as the activities co-ordinator on the cruise, their feelings for each other again rise to the surface. But can they overcome new challenges and come to terms with their past mistakes knowing that the past is always present? As Winter embarks on the voyage to the South Pacific, she does not realise that it is also a voyage of self discovery....