Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome
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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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