Soul Mates: Book #1 in the Mates Series

Jaina Wakefield was taken from her mother at three. At eleven the couple who adopted her drove her to a group home and left her on the steps with everything she owned in a black plastic bag. She's thirty-six now, working a deli counter in Sarasota with a social work degree she's never used. On Fridays she gets drunk and goes home with a woman and leaves before the woman can know her too well. She's been having the same nightmare, and it's about the brother she hasn't seen in thirty-two years. It won't stop, so Jaina drives to Champaign to find the church that handled her adoption and see what's in the file. Zane Winslow is the pastor there. She was seventeen when she was assaulted for being a lesbian, and no woman has touched her in the nineteen years since. The last one who tried called her a sexually stunted freak on her way out the door. Jaina's attracted, but Zane's baggage may be more than she can handle.