She pushed and her daughter was born, emerging in a rush and landing in Matt’s big hands with a plop. The newborn looked around with big expressive eyes. She had Matt’s eyes, Mina saw, and started crying. Matt handed the little one to her and she took her daughter in her arms for the first time. Her daughter had the same warm brown skin as her and a happy little face that looked up at her and laughed in a delighted whisper.
Matt cradled Mina in his arms while she held their daughter.
“We still haven’t picked out a name yet,” he said.
“I was thinking we could call her Joy,” Mina grinned.
“Mazel tov,” Joannie said. “Who needs a drink?” Allison and Saturday raised their hands, followed soon after by Michael, who entered the bakery as a bear, scaring the bejesus out of everyone.
Epilogue
Joy Brooks Morrissey was born on May fifth, two thousand and sixteen. She was eight pounds even and twenty-two inches long. She was in perfect health and possessed a very impressive head of hair for an infant.
She shifted for the first time at only eighteen months, which Matt assured everyone was a new record even though it wasn’t.
A prophecy uttered at the time of her birth by Shawna Killdeer went something like this.
“On this day, Joy has come to Bearfield. She will bring happiness to all she meets until the day of her nineteenth birthday, when her heart will be stolen by a thief and locked away in a distant land. For a year and day, no one will smile or laugh in the great town of Bearfield, not until her heart is found and returned by her fated mate.”
But that’s a story for another time.
About Jacqueline Sweet
Jacqueline Sweet is the USA Today bestselling author of the Bearfield paranormal romances. She lives in Oakland, California with her fated mate.
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Also by Jacqueline Sweet
the Dragon’s Heart books
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Dragon shifters, a missing father, a haunted mansion and secrets long thought buried
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Chained
Book 2 (coming May 2016)
Book 3 (coming June 2016)
The Bearfield Books
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Strong Bears, Curvy Heroines, a Sleepy Town Full of Magic and Mysteries and Good Food
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A Slice of Honeybear Pie
A Taste of Honeybear Wine
Honeybear Halloween
A Honeybear Christmas
Fake It Til You Mate It
The Honeybear Alpha (coming Summer 2016)
The Penrose Magical Academy series
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Stand-alone stories set at a magical university full of witches and wizards and shifters and sex. Co-written with Devon March.
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Tutoring the Wolf (coming Fall 2016)
Reckless Romance
In the darkest corner of an alpha's broken heart, fate ignites a flicker of hope. From lusty wolves and burly bears to decadent dragons, these alphas hunger for inner peace which can only come from finding their perfect mate. Seven best-selling authors each bring you a series of standalone books filled with redemption, love, and reckless desire — not to mention a whole lot of primal growling as these alpha heroes claim their fated mates.
Check out RecklessRomance.com for more!
The Reckless Desires series include:
Blue Moon Saloon by Anna Lowe
Dragon’s Heart by Jacqueline Sweet
Dark Wolves by Elianne Adams
Alpha Protectors by Olivia Arran
Dragon Mates by J.K. Harper
Norseton Wolves by Holley Trent
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