Partridge Up a Pear Tree (and Dragons)

She loves him. He loathes her, and rightfully so. Not even time heals wounds this jagged and misaligned.

Eighteen-year-old Joey Partridge lost everything when she lost drummer-boy Slade Alder. He was her best friend, teenage obsession, and ground-beneath-her-feet. Or at least he was right up to the moment she completely screwed him over and his evil stepdad kicked him out of his family.

Apologies didn’t help.

Begging made things worse.

Joey can’t even complain. She deserves every bit of Slade’s ire and knows it.

She still wants him back.

Release Date: August 2025

"“You freaking spelled me into the car!” I put ten-waiting-minutes of pent-up frustration in my voice.

Aristotle gazed at me from his prone position in the passenger seat with utter confusion, like someone who’d been deeply asleep and had woken to a furious girl yelling at him. (Basically.)

“What’s wrong?” He sat up, bringing Annie-pup with him like a football crooked in his arm.

“Every time I think I can trust you, you do something like this.”

“I’m reasonably certain you don’t trust me.” He quirked a corner of his lip.

“And I shouldn’t. Why are you helping me? Why?”

“Perhaps it’s because I genuinely like you, Sasha Beth Clems.” The other side of his lips went up into a genuine smile. The first one he’d ever given me. His eyes lit and his cheeks dimpled. (Unfair. Unfair. Unfair!)

My mouth went dry."

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Extras

Fleetwood Mac: Everywhere

Free Novella set in the same world as Feather and Blade (and lightly linked):

Rho's Tale

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Only One Can Win
Dragons

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