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Writer's pictureJ.C. Hannigan

Ignite Your Soul: A Romance Charity Anthology



In just five days, Ignite Your Soul: A Romance Charity Anthology is releasing! Proceeds from the sales of this anthology will be going to support the SickKids Foundation, a cause near and dear to my heart, as I spent a lot of time at SickKids when I was a child.


I was born with Multiple Hereditary Exostoses, also known as Hereditary Multiple Osteochondromas. This condition causes benign bone tumours to grow outward from the metaphyses of long bones. It can be very painful, especially when the benign bone tumours interfere with nerves, muscles, veins, ligaments and tendons. It can also affect bone growth when the benign tumours grow on or near regular growth plates.


The only form of treatment is surgery to remove the exostoses causing pain or interfering with bone growth. As a child, I had a lot of surgeries to remove exostoses as SickKids Hospital in Toronto.


When I heard that our charity this year was the SickKids Foundation, I was so excited for the ability to help give back to the place I spent a lot of my formative years in. I decided to write a story based on the surgery I briefly mentioned a character in Riverside Reverie having.


That character, Rhiannon, has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome; a rare inherited condition that affects connective tissues such as skin, tendons, ligaments, blood vessels, internal organs, and bones. As a child, she had a major surgery to straighten her spine and put in rods. I decided to write my short story for the anthology about that surgery, as told from the point of view of her mother and the handsome anesthesiologist that puts Rhiannon under for her surgery. I called it ๐™‚๐™Š๐™„๐™‰๐™‚ ๐™๐™‰๐˜ฟ๐™€๐™.


Of course, there's one little scene in ๐™‚๐™Š๐™„๐™‰๐™‚ ๐™๐™‰๐˜ฟ๐™€๐™ that's a subtle nod to memories I had of one of my own surgeries at SickKids. Rhiannon's room overlooks the atrium, with a perfect view of the pig wearing a tutu that danced on a wire above the cow in a straw hat and I think a hippo wearing suspenders.


During one of my surgeries, I had a room facing the atrium, and the pig in a tutu seriously messed with me post-op. Perhaps it was the morphine induced dreams, but I was convinced it was trying to come into my room through the window. My mom had to close the blinds the whole time, because any time they were open and I saw that pig in a tutu, I'd start freaking out.


I'd been going to the hospital for years before that, and I'd always loved the pig in a tutu. But that's post-op morphine dreams for you, they're unexplainably weird!


Since then, they've redone the atrium and the pig, cow, and hippo on a wire were removed, but when I think about my time at SickKids, I always think about the pig in a tutu and that hilarious memory.



You can read my short story, ๐™‚๐™Š๐™„๐™‰๐™‚ ๐™๐™‰๐˜ฟ๐™€๐™, along with 16 other amazing shorts from other incredible authors in Ignite Your Soul: A Romance Charity Anthology. It's available for a limited time in Kindle Unlimited and in paperback. Remember, proceeds from the sales of this book will be going to support the SickKids Foundation, so if you'd like to support this incredible charity, be sure to grab your copy!


๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ซ๐›:

๐˜๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜๐˜จ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜š๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜Œ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด. ๐˜๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด, ๐˜ด๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜บ, ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ.


๐๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค ๐๐ซ๐ž-๐Ž๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ:


๐„๐›๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐๐ซ๐ž-๐Ž๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D28T49HS


Blurb for ๐™‚๐™Š๐™„๐™‰๐™‚ ๐™๐™‰๐˜ฟ๐™€๐™:


Suzanne Barr is unsurprised that her ex declined to show up at the hospital while their 12-year-old daughter undergoes spinal fusion surgery. Itโ€™s a living nightmare to watch her child face such a painful experience, but the outcome should improve Rhiannonโ€™s life drastically. Suzanne is using every bit of strength she has to hold herself together during the pre-op meeting. Sheโ€™s ready for anythingโ€”except for her visceral reaction to the sinfully hot anesthesiologist. Are muscles supposed to be that obvious in a lab coat?


Their connection is instantaneous. But Suzanne doesnโ€™t have time to fan those flames. Right?


Dr. Derek Watkins is entirely professional at all times, but a few serendipitous run-ins with Suzanne in the weeks after her daughterโ€™s surgery leaves Suzanne very much on his mind. He knows the last thing she needs right now is some guy she just met to hit on her, but neither one can seem to resist the pull of their connectionโ€ฆ





** Please note: this particular story of mine is NOT as spicy or steamy as my usual stories. For one, it's a short story, and for two...the setting and circumstance of Suzanne and Derek's meeting didn't allow for such spice, so please don't go into it hoping for some crazy Grey's Anatomy style supply closet shenanigans. Either way, I'm so excited for you to read this sweet story and I thank you for the support!

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