You know we haven't done a read along in a long time so long and as I was rereading this book I was like this is the best way to get back into it.

Yeah, I mean this is you know the full banana as we would say. The full banana. I had totally forgotten how full of a

banana it was. I mean I remembered some of the stuff but then there's more. I mean look when a book begins the way this

one begins I mean there's so much to unpack if you had just had me read this book

cold and then asked me to guess its publication date. I would have said

1987. Yes, that is part of its joy I think. I think so too.

This is Fated Mates. I'm Sarah McClain. I read romance novels and I write them.

And I'm Jennifer Prokop, a romance reader and editor.

And when we say we deep dive books sometimes and read them and talk about them, this is exactly the kind of thing we're talking about.

So this book is Stealing midnight by Tracy McNish. This is her only book?

No, there are four. Oh, there are four. This is her last, her final book.

Got it. It was published in 2008, came out from Kensington, and then, as far as I can tell, she disappeared.

Well, because she broke this like perfect thing and was like,'ve ascended to a higher plane but like I'm

not wrong that it was clear there are clearly other books set oh yes I'm very

upset like where okay the brothers in love with someone who the hot sexy cousin

yeah there are plenty of people out there are twins I'm sorry we did a twins

episode but the I don't make the rules.

If you write a hero who is a twin, his brother gets a book.

That's how it goes.

Anyway, Tracy McNish, we are here for you here,

faitemates.

And if you decide you want to write that other book,

...