Nelson and Caleb

I had my projects for this summer planned out, when MLR Press came to me and said, "We want to do a story series with some of our top authors. Will you contribute a novella?" Three guesses on whether I've learned to say no to story requests yet... and the first two guesses don't count.

It was actually particularly tempting, because I when was browsing for other covers, I happened to see a guy I wanted to write a happy ending for. This is Nelson:



There was just something about that guy... MLR decided on a story series based around a hurricane and it occurred to me that if Nelson was trapped in a house with this guy

then after a while his expression might not be quite as guarded. So I wrote "Nelson and Caleb" for MLR's Storming Love series. There are some other great authors contributing to this series, including

Kendall McKenna
S.J. Frost
Stephani Hecht
Diana DeRicci
Will Parkinson

The series is set to release one novella a week beginning September 5th. I'll keep you posted on the order and dates, and give you my blurb and cover soon. But I couldn't resist sharing my guys. It's rare that I have a face in mind before I start writing something new, but this time it was Nelson's eyes that pulled me into his story.