The First Breath of Spring

Grocery owner Griffin Reed is a little hesitant about renting the apartment next to his to a nineteen-year-old young man with a two-year-old son. But from the moment he sees this blue-eyed, blond-haired angel standing outside his screened-door, Griffin feels maybe he should put his doubt aside and give Charles Martin and his equally angelic son Charlie a chance at a stable home.





Charles Martin never knew his parents and grew up in foster care. So when he accidently gets a young woman pregnant, Charles makes a promise to himself to not let his son share his fate of getting passed from one foster family to another because Charlie's mother thinks they're too young to be parents. With the help of a social service worker, his best friend's family, and a kindly landlord, Charles gets the chance to prove he is a responsible human-being.





A few months after Charles settles into his new apartment, a devastating epidemic hits the world, forcing Charles and Charlie to hunker down with his landlord, a man he barely knows who has gone out of his way to prove love can conquer all.



Shawn Bailey writes from New Orleans, Louisiana. Shawn is an avid manga and yaoi novel collector and watches a lot of Japanese anime. Shawn recently retired from working as a financial analyst and now devotes her time to being a full-time writer.



Shawn has published books with Silver Publishing, Phaze Books, MLR Press, and Amber Quill Press, but currently writes for Jaded Press, Siren-Bookstrand, Painted Hearts Publishing, and JMS Books. For more information, visit shawnbailey.weebly.com.