Penny Hale has a lot of items on her checklist before she leaves for college at the end of the summer. The sudden and unexpected return of her childhood, imaginary best friend is not one of them. As it turns out, Leander, Prince of Bees wasn't so imaginary and the beloved town of Sugar Falls is in very real danger. On the weekend of the Brambleberry Festival, the most important weekend of Penny's summer, she's pulled away from the checklist she clings to so dearly and is thrust into a whirlwind of adventure, magic, and romance.

When college student Kasey Whitton takes a job babysitting for single dad Jian Li, she doesn't expect to fall in love with the newborn baby -- or with Jian. ***** Love is the last thing on Kasey Whitton's mind when she agrees to take an overnight babysitting job to help support her struggling family. But as her business relationship with single dad Jian Li slowly develops into something more, Kasey is surprised to find herself falling in love with him despite his hot-and-cold attitude towards her -- and the fact that she has a long-term high school boyfriend. Will her growing feelings for Jian and his newborn son be enough to convince her to risk everything stable in her life? Or will Jian's fear of commitment -- and his belief all the women in his life are cursed -- be enough to keep them apart? [[Best Diverse Story, The Fiction Awards]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

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highest ranking - #21 in fantasy! and i'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, i'd find you and i'd choose you. - in which a man with a threatening past meets the love of his life and along the way faces a dark danger that will tear their world's apart. cover by me!

*** Highest Rank #13 in Adventure Dr. Alice Hatter makes perfect human beings out of household appliances and kitchen ingredients. She calls them her Perfections because to stay alive, they need to physically feed on insecurities and what better food product has a high source of Vitamin-I? Humans. On her journey to terminate the Perfections, she realizes someone else is creating her Perfections. Someone who was once her perfect being.

BECAUSE WE ARE MORE THAN THE SUM OF OUR PARTS. [74 POETRY]