Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome
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  • Reads 440
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  • Parts 6
  • Time 1h 15m
Ongoing, First published Jun 26, 2020
How do you come back from it? How do you lose everything you thought your future would be in an instant, and move on? How do you learn how to breathe again? How do you just...how do you go on?

I'll tell you, you pick yourself up by your bootstraps, you look at that ultrasound photo of your son and you inhale.  You just have to do it. You can't just stop. Not when there is a tiny little life dependent on you. Despite your desire to crawl into a little ball and never unravel again, he needs you. 
So you do it.


Amara Gray Parker lost her best friend, her husband, the father to her unborn child. She always knew it could happen, as he was serving overseas, but she never let herself dwell on the possibilities. He never wanted her to. 

She vows to devote her life to her late husband and their beautiful son, Liam Austin Parker.  He is all she needs. His perfect little smile and eyes, blue like his daddy. He is everything.

Everett Jacob Masen, spent his life serving, protecting and helping others. First as a marine, now as a firefighter. Raised by a single mom with his younger sister, Everett was never the type of guy to 'play' women. He always had a goal; he wanted to fall in love and have a family. He began to lose hope of ever doing that as he was now twenty-nine and the last girl he dated, well she was just horrible. 

One chance meeting changes everything for the three of them. Everett isn't shy about what he wants, and what he wants is Amara and Liam.
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SLOW BURN

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"I don't know why but every time I'm around you, all I want to do is grab you and kiss you." When Josh Andrews finds himself falling for his brother's girlfriend he puts time and distance in between to shut off whatever the hell he is feeling for her. There's nothing time can't make people forget and nothing distance can't disappear. Eight years later, he sees her again and it's as if he's back to square one. It's as if time and distance are laughing at him. He loves her skin, her smile, her hair, and most of all, her lips. They say the best things are forbidden and there's nothing more that Josh wants than to have a taste of that forbidden fruit... Natalie Garcia has been with Brad Andrews since Junior year in high school. Eight years later, she finds herself single for the first time since then. It's not easy to just forget about everything she went through with Brad...just like it hasn't been easy to forget about the time Josh kissed her the last time she saw him. Imagine thinking about a single kiss for eight years and then seeing the person that kissed you again. Natalie doesn't understand what it is about Josh that makes her skin burn with desire. Her body yearns for his touch whenever he's near. She knows it's wrong. Hooking up with your ex-boyfriend's brother has to be breaking some kind of rule but it's beginning to get harder and harder for her to fight against the fire... Josh and Natalie find themselves in a SLOW BURN romance that is wrong but feels so right at the same time...