Finding Us Series by Noelle Marie

When Wisp wakes up in strange, oversized clothes, in a strange, oversized bed, in a strange (not-so-oversized) cabin that all belong to an even stranger (also stupidly handsome, bound in rippling muscle, and slightly cantankerous) man, she doesn’t know what to think. Especially because she has no idea who she is. She doesn’t know where she came from or how she got there, and the man – Derek, she quickly learns – is no help in the matter. Even her own name is a mystery... moreWhen Wisp wakes up in strange, oversized clothes, in a strange, oversized bed, in a strange (not-so-oversized) cabin that all belong to an even stranger (also stupidly handsome, bound in rippling muscle, and slightly cantankerous) man, she doesn’t know what to think. Especially because she has no idea who she is. She doesn’t know where she came from or how she got there, and the man – Derek, she quickly learns – is no help in the matter. Even her own name is a mystery. (Although she is happy enough to take on the one Derek unknowingly bestows upon her in an offhanded comment, calling her a “wisp of a thing”.) Circumstances being what they are, Wisp is grateful when Derek agrees to shelter her until they can figure out who she is. Something innate – something other – tells her she can trust him. Even if Derek does seem more comfortable communicating through grunts and eyebrow raises than actual words. The attraction that buzzes between them doesn’t hurt either. In fact, it’s almost enough to make Wisp wish that she won’t ever remember her past, and that she could just stay with Derek – and his affectionate chocolate lab, Thane – forever. Well… if she could shake the feeling that someone – someone nefarious – was after her, anyway. * * * When Derek finds a half-drowned girl clinging to life on the shore of a river that runs through his land, he reluctantly brings her home with him, planning on being rid of her as soon as she gains consciousness. A proverbial wrench is thrown into his plans, however, when she wakes up and claims to have no idea who she is. Her lack of memory certainly makes her hard to return, and against his better judgement, Derek takes her in. From there, it doesn’t take long for Derek to find himself drawn to Wisp: to her ridiculously wide, doe-like eyes, to her honey-scent that seeps into every cranny of his cabin – of his life , to her innocent nature that simultaneously makes him want to hide her away from the world and wrestle her down into his bed and just… But he can’t. Because her identity isn’t the only thing Wisp’s in the dark about. She has no idea who, or what , he really is. Secrets, though, have a way of coming to light. Who would have ever guessed that Derek being a bear shifter wasn’t the most arduous one he and Wisp would have to overcome to be together? Finding Derek is the first novel in the series, Finding Us. The second installment, Finding Wisp, is due to be released December 2017. less

“I don’t love you.” The words had been like a knife through the heart, the pain spreading to her lungs and ribboning around them so tightly that the simple act of breathing hurt. But the fact of the matter was… despite the ache in her chest, Wisp could still breathe... more“I don’t love you.” The words had been like a knife through the heart, the pain spreading to her lungs and ribboning around them so tightly that the simple act of breathing hurt. But the fact of the matter was… despite the ache in her chest, Wisp could still breathe. And if she wants any chance at all of navigating her new life as Sloane – the daughter of a Washington senator who is engaged to some rich playboy she has never even met before – she would have to do her best to forget about Derek. Forgetting is the one thing she seems to be good at, after all. (And anyway, the stubborn werebear who refuses to acknowledge his own feelings was Wisp’s problem. She’s Sloane now.) And Sloane has her own issues. Namely, Felix Rutherford: the man who her father claims to be her “handler”. Otherwise known as the man she had jumped off a cliff to get away from. Of course, it would probably help if she could remember why . Or, you know, anything at all. (Or even if she could get through just one day without thinking of the man she is supposed to be wiping from her mind completely.) * * * “I don’t love you.” Words weren’t supposed to sit in your gut like shrapnel, digging into your innards until you wondered how it was you weren’t bleeding to death. Especially not when they were words you had said. Maybe it was because they had been a lie. Regardless, Derek is determined to live with his decision to send Wisp away. He had done it in a bid to protect her, after all – the first selfless act he had ever committed in his life. Who cares if missing her causes his every muscle – every bone – to ache? Who cares if he – the bear – is in a constant state of agitation, continuously seeking out the remnants of Wisp’s honey-scent that cling stubbornly to his cabin, his bed, the insides of his nose like it’s a damn drug? Derek can live with that. What he can’t live with is finding out who exactly it is he gave Wisp away to. When Derek discovers that instead of protecting Wisp as he had intended, he unknowingly thrust her into danger’s arms, he will do anything – even if it means enlisting the help of his reclusive neighbor, who seems to have his own unhealthy obsession with the girl – to get her back. less