
When she saw him outside the prison gates in exactly the right place at exactly the right time, she was still pissed at him for leaving. How will she deal with the new and unfamiliar feelings she has as a result of his return?


After a breakup with his girlfriend, Daryl Dixon is left with nothing except a broken heart and their once-shared chocolate Lab, Louis. Swearing off women for the rest of his life, Daryl is more than ready to be alone forever. But Louis has other ideas when he has a run-in with a porcupine and has to go see the new vet in town, Dr. Beth Greene.
1st Place Best Multi-Chapter for 2016 Moonshine Awards
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Beth Greene is trying to adopt Judith Grimes, but the social worker wont allow the baby to go to a home that doesn’t appear steady and balanced. In other words, Beth needs to find someone to be her boyfriend otherwise she may lose Judith forever. When her friend Rosita hands her a number of a friend hard up for cash Beth knows it’s all sorts of bad but she really has no choice. Could this deal prove to be too much or just what she needs to really and truly find herself?
Daryl wants out. Out of his job, out of his apartment, out of his life. Could the deal with little mysterious Beth Greene provide him that out or will he find himself sinking too deep too quickly?

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Daryl decides he likes kissing as much as Beth does but maybe they are ready for something more. He isn’t sure but he’s ready to try even if all this restraint between them breaks and they drown in all their desire for one another; she’s the anchor for him to this world and together they’ve etched out a perfect corner of it just for the two of them.


Beth gets a Holidays for Heroes card from her local church and decides to send a care package off to a deployed service member in Iraq. Daryl never got care packages from anyone when he was deployed, so when a box comes with his name on it from New York, he doesn’t know what to think.
