But guess what? The heroine was not a nurse. I get how it's like to admire a surgeon especially with his dexterity while operating. I'd been a scrub nurse in the OR for years. So that’s our story, who we are … just add AUTHORS to the list! Good thing we share a brain and can pretty much complete each other’s sentences (definitely weird, we know), otherwise it might have taken us two years to write Beautifully Awake rather than one. It’s completely overrated (yet so AMAZING) and delirium makes everything funnier. Needless to say, we realized fast that something had to go, so we opted for sleep. Oh yeah, did we forget to mention our careers in medicine? Soccer, lacrosse, golf, swimming, dance, gymnastics, football, chess, baseball, basketball, skiing, ice skating, school, homework, and more school. When we are not working on our book or reading the latest angsty romance on our kindles, you basically name it and we have it going on.

And guaranteed if we bump into you, literally, it’s only because our iPhones are glued to our hands (totally out of our control) either writing or editing our next novel (and yes, it is possible to do from your iPhone, we mastered it … damn those straight quotations). So you can easily find us at 4 o'clock on Bank Street beach with a glass of cold Prosecco brainstorming.

It only took twelve years, two husbands, five kids, two dogs, and a two-week vacation in Cape Cod later to decide the romance world needed a splash of medicine. But it’s hard to trust the sources since they married us. And if we’re being totally honest, one or two people might have, on occasion, used our names and ‘dramatic’ in the same sentence. We definitely laugh A LOT and we’re a tad sarcastic. Shockingly, we never (we mean never) run out of things to say. No, really, we do-about everything and nothing. We can safely say that thirteen miles of water does not get in the way because we talk or text, no exaggeration, at least 150 times a day. We’re East coast girls separated by Long Island Sound who met in Physician Assistant School and have been besties ever since.

Beautifully awake by riley mackenzie