Afterlife is getting back to normal- as normal as it's ever been, anyway. Things are settling down, both literally and metaphorically. Anna is safe and living with Lydia (for as long as she can handle an unemployed, restless, and very loud roommate), and Theo is exactly where he belongs; with Daniel. A night of carefree (i.e.careless) debauchery aimed at proving nothing has changed raises concern when it starts Lydia looking for a little entertainment. A secret uncovered and a show of force by the government raise more alarms. If only something (or someone) would come along and give Lyds a reason to reel it in. Being undead is complicated enough, but now simply surviving can land you in hot water. "Life" has to be put on hold, but when the freedom of not only your best friend, but your entire species is at stake (no pun intended), you suck it up (pun absolutely intended) and do what needs to be done. Promising somebody you'll be together forever means something altogether different when you're immortal, and nobody gets to get in the way of that. Ready Series #2 (the first installment, the Watty Award Winning "Ready", is complete and it's a good idea to read that first.) cover by the lovely @Bluebell84 Please note: blood, blood, murder, M/M, F/F, some smut (mxm), blood, sass, and blood. NOT a teen/YA novel.

{{Watty Award winner-"The Breakthroughs"- 2017!}} "Theo and I have been together for one hundred and fifteen years. You and your best friend have matching tattoos? Cute. My best friend and I have matching emotional trauma from every time we've had to leave people we'd grown to love behind. And also from when handlebar mustaches were en vogue. Hipsters, I beg you, let that go. It was bad then, and it's worse now." Lydia and Theo have been friends practically forever. For more than a century, they've managed their lives just fine. Until recently, they've done everything in secret, everything in the shadows; simply starting over when things came into the light that shouldn't. Thirty years ago they found Anna on the verge of turning and since then it's been just the three of them. They've never needed anyone else. Sure, there have been lovers here and there, one night stands, and the occasional boyfriend or girlfriend, but at the end of the day (or night), three was the magic number. Lydia's most recent relationship, with the beautiful but cold Amara didn't end well, Anna was unattached (for now), and Theo...Theo had never been much for spending more than one night with anyone. Until there was Daniel. And it turns out he'll be around for awhile. Complications arise, and this time, there's no running from them. Somebody is leaving a trail of bodies. Anna finds herself at the center of some very unwanted attention. Nobody is as human as they pretend to be- -and there's more than one way for blood to make a family. {{Featured story summer 2017}} Cover by Wattpad! YouTube trailer: https://youtu.be/rZ2aR5_HqVc Please note: M/M and F/F, some mature content (M/M and F/F scenes), death/murder, blood, blood, and blood. This is NOT a teen/YA novel. It's marked mature for a reason.