Special Thanks

First, I have to give a shout out to my beta readers, who went above and beyond to help me polish up this story. Sara, your emoji reactions and critical eye had such a great impact on both this story and my confidence in it. Harriet, your tough love helped me take note of my questionable writing habits and made me a more conscientious writer. Thank you both.

To my husband and daughters, you guys will forever by my endless source of inspiration and encouragement. I’d be nothing without you.

Lastly, with all of my books, I always choose a theme. My chapter titles always have some sort of connection that helps me to craft a story, start to finish. With a lot of my books, I’ve used music. For this one, you probably noticed The Offspring mentioned a few times. If you’re not familiar with their music, all of the chapter titles are their songs. I chose them for inspiration for this book because, as Holden mentioned, the lead singer obtained his PhD, and one of the original members is a gynecological oncologist. That similarity to my characters made them a perfect choice. So, as I always do, here’s a master list of the songs used for inspiration.

*Please note, I do not have any association with The Offspring and make no claims to their music or lyrics. I’m simply stating where I found inspiration for this story.*

Cool to Hate

The Blurb *

Special Delivery

No Reason Why *

Gotta Get Away

Can’t Get My Head Around You

Days Go By

So Alone

I’ll Be Waiting

Autonomy

Next To You

Disclaimer

One Fine Day

Amazed

Change the World

Get It Right

Feelings

Session

She’s Got Issues

Spare Me the Details

Want You Bad

Bad Habit

Denial, Revisited

Time to Relax

Leave it Behind

Fix You

Long Way Home

The Meaning of Life

Something to Believe In

Living in Chaos

Fire & Ice

Come Out Swinging

Have You Ever

Take It Like a Man

Hurting As One

Let’s Hear it For Rock Bottom

Intermission

Kick Him When He’s Down

Let the Bad Times Roll

Burn it Up

Hopeless

Behind Your Walls

It’ll Be a Long Time

A Thousand Days

Rise and Fall

All I Want

We Are One

Special Mention

Pretty Fly For a White Guy

Why Don’t You Get a Job?

*Indicates song is not available on Spotify Canada at the time of publishing