Category: Cougar Connections

  • From Picnic to Pops

    Cougar Connection #4

     I waited for him to sit across from me. “In fact, everything is very good. I just…” I sat there, mouth open, searching for words. Everything sounded corny or horny, and I didn’t want either one. Finally, I said, “I want you to stay. Tonight.” I looked at him. “That’s supposed to be an invitation. I know it didn’t sound like one, but…”

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    Dr. Renee Whitaker is turning fifty, and she isn’t sure that’s something worth celebrating.

    Her life is already good: a successful pediatric practice, a comfortable home, and the independence she worked hard to build. What she doesn’t have is someone to share it with. On a friend’s suggestion, Renee reluctantly tries Cougar Connections—and meets twenty-nine-year-old Evan Mercer.

    Their first date is just lunch in the park.

    Then comes an old-film double feature. Thai takeout. Long kisses. A troublesome maple tree. And the growing realization that neither of them wants this to be just a fling.

    Renee knows what twenty-one years between them might mean. Evan knows what he wants.

    And when Renee finally works up the courage to ask who should join her for a long-planned birthday night at the Boston Pops, she discovers that turning fifty might be worth celebrating after all.

    Some connections aren’t planned. They’re felt.

    From Picnic to Pops is the fourth standalone story in the Cougar Connections series—an open-door age-gap romance about taking chances, unexpected intimacy, and finding something worth holding onto.

  • Between Nothing and Everything

    Cougar Connections #1

    “I’m not opposed to having a family, and I’m definitely not opposed to sex. But there’s got to be something in between, right? Like maybe just having a nice meal, like this. Or watching a movie. Just picking up the phone and saying hi. Not everything should have to mean everything or nothing, you know?”

    I looked at Eric and really listened to what he was saying. He wasn’t looking for all the answers. He wasn’t even looking for all the questions. He just wanted something in between the times when he had to figure out where everything was going. I could understand that. I was kind of there too.


    Megan wasn’t looking for forever.

    At fifty-one, divorced for a decade and comfortable with the life she has built, she isn’t even sure she’s looking for a relationship. Then a dating app introduces her to Eric, a twenty-six-year-old man who is easy to talk to, impossible not to notice, and very clear about wanting to spend time with her.

    Dinner becomes an afternoon together. An afternoon becomes kissing. And somewhere between bookstores, pizza, and evenings on Megan’s deck, something that was supposed to be casual starts feeling unexpectedly real.

    Neither of them knows what to call it. Neither is ready to make promises.

    But Megan knows one thing: this isn’t nothing.

    Between Nothing and Everything is a short, open-door contemporary romance about unexpected attraction, honest desire, and two people giving themselves permission to enjoy something good without knowing where it will lead.