WATTYS WINNER When her fiancé ends up in a coma and his secret mistress, Halley, shows up, Mary feels like her world is falling apart. What she doesn't realize is she's actually falling in love...with Halley. ***** Eight years after a traumatizing accident that killed one of her loved ones, Mary Kincaid is about to marry her childhood sweetheart when the universe yanks the rug out from under her yet again, leaving her fiancé badly injured and in a coma. Of course this is when his secret mistress shows up, a beautiful person whom Mary should by all rights hate - so why does she find herself inviting her to stay in the spare bedroom? She soon learns that sometimes the person you're looking for comes when you're not looking at all. Content and/or trigger warning: This story mentions violence, addiction, and childhood trauma, which may be triggering for some readers. [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]

Feelings

It was never in my plans to marry a vampire. My dream was to become a doctor, marry my boy-friend, and have little children running around by the time I'm thirty. However, I never got that chance. She had rip everything from me. I couldn't marry my boy-friend and I could not become a doctor like I always dream of. Nonetheless, they say I'm the reason the world is at peace now. I'm in every history book you would ever read and they even created a holiday after me. However, I was forced to do what I did. I did not want this life but I will go down in history as the bravest person in the world.

As much as she wanted to believe she had it all figured out, she wasn't anywhere close. No one could actually get Sacha to settle down and because of her parent's divorce, she wouldn't hear anything about commitment. What happens when there's a new woman in town who turns out to be everything she wanted... and more? How will Sacha cope with knowing that her biggest erotic fantasy was about to be her Stepmother?