A Good Catch

By Catherine Mesick

Charlotte is good-looking and has a great job—in short, she's a good catch. But she's never been lucky in love—until one day she finds herself seated next to the handsome Foster at a baseball game. Could he be the one to turn her winless streak around? (A paranormal romance short story.)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scofflaw Publishing
• Release date: Jun 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393968146

Catherine Mesick

Catherine Mesick is the author of Pure, Firebird, Dangerous Creatures, and Ghost Girl. She is a graduate of Pace University and Susquehanna University. She lives in Maryland. Visit the author’s website at catherinemesick.com and her Facebook page at facebook.com/PureBookSeries. You can also connect with her on Twitter at twitter.com/CatherineMesick.

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Bound by Love

By Catherine Mesick

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright © 2019 by Catherine Mesick.

All rights reserved. Published by Scofflaw Publishing.

Bound by Love

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I swear you’re part mermaid, Bridget. You know you weren’t born in a hospital, right? I just found you wandering on the sand.

My mother’s oft-repeated words floated back to me as I stood looking out over the beach. I loved to swim—as my dad did—but my mother wouldn’t so much as dip a toe in the water. She used to take me to the beach every week in the summertime when I was a kid, and she always used to tease me that my father and I were fantastical merpeople—or that we had saltwater in our veins.

As I looked out over the water and saw the first rosy rays of the predawn on the horizon, I felt the same old pull to the gently plashing waves that I always felt.

I wanted to run out and dive into the water.

But the ocean would have to wait this morning. I had a business meeting at 10 a.m., and I