Unwritten Between Us

Unwritten Between Us A Contemporary Romance Series by Bree Joyce Brianna spent years learning how to survive. Now she has to learn how to live. At thirty-six, Brianna has built the kind of life that once seemed impossible. She is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, published writer, poet, doctoral student, innovative program developer, and devoted single mother raising seven-year-old twins. She is intelligent, ambitious, beautiful, quick-witted, and fiercely independent. None of it came easily. Years earlier, five months pregnant with twins, Brianna made the terrifying decision to leave an abusive relationship. She knew she could not allow her children to grow up believing control was love, fear was normal, or cruelty was simply something women learned to endure. So she left. Then she rebuilt. Degree by degree. Job by job. Page by page. By the time Brianna begins working at a respected psychiatric practice, she isn't looking for anyone to rescue her. She has already rescued herself. What she doesn't expect is Dr. Daniel Mason. Daniel is a successful psychiatrist, practice owner, and widower who has spent years quietly grieving the wife he loved and lost. Mature, reserved, ethical, and almost impossible to read, he recognizes Brianna's potential immediately. He sees beyond her credentials to the mind behind them, encouraging her to take an addiction-treatment program she developed and imagine something much bigger. Working together brings them closer. Too close. Their attraction grows in late-night work sessions, private jokes, lingering looks, and conversations that become more personal than either intends. But Daniel is Brianna's employer, and the very power that allows him to support her professionally makes pursuing her personally dangerous. Then Daniel introduces Brianna to Marshall. A veteran music superstar with more than seventeen years of sobriety, Marshall understands addiction from a perspective Brianna's textbooks never could. His musical prime may have begun decades ago, but his fame never disappeared. He still records, performs, commands a fiercely loyal fanbase, and gets photographed doing something as ordinary as buying groceries. Daniel believes Marshall's lived experience could add another perspective to Brianna's addiction work. He also knows Brianna writes poetry. What none of them anticipate is what happens when Marshall reads it. He doesn't just see poetry. He hears music. A poem becomes a lyric. A lyric becomes a song. And Brianna discovers that the words she has spent a lifetime writing may belong somewhere she never imagined. Marshall opens the first door, but Brianna's talent carries her through it. Soon other artists want her lyrics. Her romance-author pen name, Embree Lovely, becomes her songwriting identity as well. A woman who never wanted celebrity suddenly finds her words traveling farther than her face ever needed to. Meanwhile, her professional career is exploding. The addiction program she created attracts university attention and major funding. Her work expands into trauma treatment, clinician education, research, and multidisciplinary training. What begins inside one psychiatric practice threatens to grow across multiple treatment sites, forcing Brianna to reconsider what her career could become. She doesn't want to abandon patient care. She wants to transform it. She wants groups. Teaching. Research. Program development. Writing. A doctorate. Music. Motherhood. Financial independence. Time. And maybe, finally, love. But wanting a large life and actually living one are very different things. When months of suppressed attraction between Brianna and Daniel finally cross the line during a business trip, Daniel is forced to confront the consequences the following morning. Brianna earned every opportunity placed in front of her. He refuses to let their relationship give anyone reason to claim otherwise. So he steps away. Or does he?

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