Love Rocks
I can only keep trying! This one is on its way to agents, so please wish me luck!
Addie Campbell spent her teenage years escaping her disapproving father by hiking among the rocks and fossils of the Bay of Fundy. Now she’s in Edinburgh, studying similar fossils in a PhD program and living with her maybe-gay best friend. When a mysterious book calls to her, Addie figures it’s just one more thing that makes her different from everyone else. Addie opens the book, and inhabits a version of herself in another reality. Seeing a version of herself who still struggles at times, despite advantages Addie lacks, widens Addie’s perspective. Maybe she can even have Jonah. Unfortunately, nothing can change the fact that her genes prevent her from being able to have a family. Or do they?
Paging Dr. Clueless
No agent nibbles after many months; trying with other stories, but will circle back to this eventually!
When a fiercely independent young pediatrician joins their new regional medical center, Mike Baker can’t help liking her a little too much. He and his surgical partner become two of her closest friends, along with their wives. But Mike’s wife is deeply unhappy and often absent. When she dies, his guilty feelings lead to self-destructive alcohol abuse. His friends try to protect his career and his children while he finds his way.
Just as romance is back on the table, Susan is injured in a similar accident. Mike tries to use what he has learned to guide her. The problem is, Susan doesn’t want his guidance — only his love and support.
Susan is used to being the one who is needed. Can she let this relationship be on an equal footing of both give and take? Or is she in the right, and Mike is simply not respecting her autonomy with his over-protective streak?
A Question of Souls
Very much not my usual style (which is often medical), but this one just sort of told itself. It has a lot of religious imagery, but is still a romance. Maybe even a bit steamier than my usual. Again, no nibbles.
Aidan lost his soul a hundred years ago, but before that he learned to care. He also learned to fight. Can someone dedicate his life to fighting for good without being good himself? Even if that someone is a Vampire?
Lyric is someone — or something — with the power to find out. When she loses that power, they both feel lost. Only together can they find their way back. But Aidan knows he is undeserving, and Lyric knows her presence can only hurt him in the long run.
They must find a path together to save both lives and souls.
Pen Pals
No agents interested in this one, either. It starts to get depressing, but I’m still trying!
Practical med student Margaret may have met her soulmate, but he lives halfway around the world. Danny’s architecture studies keep him both anchored to home and miserable. They try to content themselves with just being friends, writing regularly and visiting occasionally as they try to figure out life. When Margaret’s local boyfriend turns violent, everything changes. She would do almost anything to figure out a life with Danny, but does it have to include giving up her career?