F*cking Zachary Novak… His very existence irks me. He makes my blood boil with his nonchalant attitude, his smile and the way everything - like the job I want - seems to fall on his lap. I’ve worked hard to get where I am, I need that big break, the one that will make a difference yet… It’s not given to me. It’s given to HIM. F*cking Zachary Novak. That should be its own line for when you want to lose your mind. Life isn’t perfect, I know this but why is everything upside down in mine? Now, I’m stuck with him. On an assignment that should be MINE. I don’t like the way he smiles, the way he makes good conversation or anything else but then… I meet Dean. He rescues us from the cold and gives us a place to stay until the snow melts. Dean is the piece to a puzzle I didn’t know I was missing. Not only that, so is Zachary Novak. Two men, one woman… That’s all it takes for me to be flipped upside down instead of my life? I know these things for sure: I’m not hungry and I’m not a turkey. Yet… I’m stuffed.
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Francesca Penn lives in Texas with her husband and son. While obtaining her Technical Writing degree, a creative writing course and play-writing elective reawakened her desire to create stories. Her brain lives in fiction; even the songs she listens to become music videos in her head. When she is not writing, she can be found hounding her loved ones with multiple "What-if" scenarios. As a true closet romantic, she is prone to filling up her DVR with Hallmark movies. A friend once told her that she'd trained the whole 20 plus years she'd known her to write romance since her nose was always in a love story. Francesca believes that love is colorblind and plans to provide a mix of couples of different races and ethnicities because - to her - men are like Skittles, and we all know their motto.
