Bree Apollo is an average fifteen-year-old girl: she loves chocolate, baking cupcakes, and her neighbor, the hunky and all around popular seventeen-year-old Foster Quinn. Except Foster is clueless about her feelings for him, instead treating her like a kid sister and begging for her homemade desserts. As a fellow chocolate lover, he should be Bree's for the taking, if it weren't for his oh-so-perfect girlfriend.
After she overhears Foster making fun of her to his friends, she's devastated. And not even chocolate can take away the pain. She intends to wallow in grief for a boy that was never hers to begin with, but Austen, her eccentric new neighbor has other ideas.
The strange boy down the street always wears a black fedora, walks barefoot, and focuses all his energy on building a treehouse in his backyard. For some reason, he's elected Bree to help him. At first, she turns him down because he acts too awkward and takes everything she says literally. But after learning of his autism, she decides to help with his construction (forgiving him for not being a chocolate fan), even though she doesn't know a think about power tools.
As Bree and Austen grow closer, Foster notices Bree no longer worships the ground he walks on. He wants her to go back to that doting version of Bree, but Austen has become more important to her than she's ready to admit.
Austen may just be the one to help her move on from Foster.
Like two pieces of a puzzle, they fit together perfectly.
Makeena Hawk is a mateless werewolf, who also happens to be jobless. Her parents kicked her out on her eighteenth birthday, after discovering she was still mateless.
After filling out what seemed like hundreds of applications she is finally hired as an at home maid.
But once she gets to her new house of employment she quickly realizes her boss is her mate, and he makes it obvious he doesn't want a mate. But with nowhere to go she has to stay there.
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Terrence White is a 23 year old alpha. He doesn't want a mate. So when Makeena comes into his life and messes up what seemed like a never-ending bachelor party, what will he do? Will he give into the whole mate thing or just send her back where she came from? He decides to make her hate him, hate him so much she'll be begging to leave, and he'll have no problem letting her go, right?