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Sing It Back
It takes three strands to make a rope
For Libby, an unhoused busker with PTSD, and Michael, a former cop with a saviour complex, ending up roommates made a certain kind of sense. Ending up in shibari classes together is workable. Ending up falling for the same guy? Really could mess things up.
Because Ray is perfect. Handsome, compassionate, fun, and attracted to them both. They just don’t know it yet. And when Ray discovers the true nature of their relationship, he might not let them find out.
Content advisories for rejection by family, near-starvation, and PTSD, as well as references to degenerative illness and suicide.
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A Fistful of Lollies
Simon Jeffries met Josefina Rutherford in first grade when she stole his Halloween candy — at least that’s how he remembers it. Nobody disputes that he escalated the candy war that Christmas with a fiendish plot involving a hollow chocolate Santa, soapy dishwater, and a Sharpie. Twenty-some years later he’s moving back to their hometown, about to deliver the final blow in a lifelong battle.
They’d done some horrible things to each other over the years, she can admit that, but this is far worse than even the dirtiest tricks they came up with in university. But the connection they forged through rivalry still exists, and even blossoms as they meet again.
It all comes to a head on Halloween, when Josie lets a freezing Simon into her home and the world gets a bit more interesting.
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What’s Next
Finding Balance
Contemporary f/m romance
Sophie does it all — she’s a stunt performer, a trick rider, and a horse trainer in Vancouver BC. Horses are expensive and she works all the time, but she wouldn’t do anything else.
Jet is a 90s child star relegated to minor film roles until he moves to Vancouver and gets everything at once — starring roles, a home of his own, and a close friendship with his child crush, Sophie Bloom.
But age, circumstances, goals, and stardom might come between them before they ever get started.
The Cherry Tree, The Apricot Tree
Slavic fantasy with strong f/f/m romantic elements
Two women enter a contest to become co-ruler of their kingdom. Ashvi, from a clan of travelling artisans, wants only to help her ravaged town. Sorina needs to get away from her mother, the Court Witch, so she can make her own life. During the contest they develop a bond, but the most important test of each woman happens after, when they settle into their new lives.
How to Prevent a Metaphysical Holy War
TTRPG
Magicians hate Mad Scientists, Mad Scientists hate Magicians, and we’re just stuck in between them.
About
Cheryl has lived in twelve cities in three countries and has worked as a research assistant in computational linguistics, a stable hand, a special needs teacher, and a film extra, in that order. She now enjoys her role as author and village crone. She currently lives in Ontario, Canada with a former software developer and two cats.
Said cats. Their names are Boris and Chester.
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