City Wishes & Enchanted Dreams Book 2
Once Upon a Rec Center Wish by Jessica E. Subject

I don't have time for wishes... but that didn't stop me from making one.
I need a new place to live. Due to neighborhood redevelopment, my apartment building will be demolished in a week. And I still don’t have a new home. I plan to continue my search after I get some sleep.
Then my neighbor asks for one last favor. She needs someone to take her kids to the rec center for their lessons. I can’t say no, so I’m back on the bus again with three kids in tow.
After dropping them off, I run into a strange man who hands me a card and tells me to make a wish. All I want is a place to lay my head.
That’s when everything changes.
Instead of rushing for the bus, I run smack into a brawny alpha at the edge of a meadow. Wearing only a toolbelt and a trapper’s hat, he promises me a place to stay and a mate if I agree to have shifter babies. It all seems like a dream, but what if I finally found everything I’ve ever dreamed of?
Once Upon a Rec Center Wish is the second story in the new City Wishes & Enchanted Dreams series by USA Today bestselling author Jessica E. Subject. Once Upon a Rec Center Wish is a MM MPreg shifter fantasy romance that features a man in desperate need of a place to live, a shy alpha beaver shifter who takes pride in his work, the wizard who brings them together, and many other new and old fantastical creatures from the Enchanted Forest. If you like fated mates, true love, males having babies, baby beaver shifters, and a guaranteed happy ever after, read Once Upon a Rec Center Wish. While each book in the City Wishes & Enchanted Dreams series is set in the same world, they can be read as standalones.
ARC Reviews
“What a cute and unique series… I need more like this!!! Can’t wait to see what the author has in store for us next.” — Sharon L. on BookBub
“This romance was kinda quirky but really sweet. I enjoyed reading and it was entertaining… A very satisfying HEA. I recommend.” — Latecia J. on BookBub
“This book has so much sweetness and shyness… Grab this book and enjoy another wish coming true in a wacky, fun, shifter filled magical world.” — skilgore51 on BookBub
“Miffs! This was such a good book! I found myself smiling throughout.” — Content Editor Comment
Here’s a sneak peek into the moment Falco travels to a new world…
I had completed my obligation, finished my last favor for Megan. I left the pool room then the changing room, sadder than I expected to be to leave them behind. Maybe I liked having kids around more than I’d thought.
Lost in my feelings, and not paying attention to where I walked, I smacked into something hard. A person. An older, bearded gentleman wearing a hooded robe.
I quickly stepped back. “I’m so sorry. Are you okay?”
He stared at me, his head cocked to the side. “Do you have kids here?”
“No.” I shook my head. “I just dropped off my neighbor’s kids as a favor.” I didn’t know why I told him that, but suspected him of being someone’s grandfather, probably doing the same thing.
“Ah.” He nodded. “Well then.” Reaching into his robe, he grabbed a business card then handed it to me. “Maybe you could use this. But be sure to read the back first.”
I took the card from him and quickly skimmed the back of it to understand what he meant. I saw the words Enchanted Forest, shifter, and male pregnancy. I wasn’t sure if I was dreaming or if my tired brain was playing tricks on me. All that stuff was fictional. Sure, I’d read mpreg fan fiction but never expected an older gentleman to share that type of story with me. When I glanced back up, he was gone. Not a trace of him as I spun around to catch another glimpse of the elder man. Maybe he’d been advertising a new fan fiction site.
I flipped the card to the other side. No website. Only the words Make a Wish.
My tired mind was confused, but I headed toward the front doors.
A wish… I would love a place to live, a million dollars, and a family. A real family that cared about each other. Not like my parents who had beat me in a drunken stupor, trying to turn me straight. Leaving had been the safest option, but between staying at various shelters and finally getting an apartment only to lose it again, I’d struggled ever since.
The automatic doors opened in front of me as I thought about what I would wish, truly wish for. “Right now, I simply wish for a place to live.” And sleep. The two things I desperately needed.
I walked out of the rec center, hoping I wouldn’t have to wait too long for the next bus. But instead of the concrete and asphalt parking lot I expected in front of me, I stepped into a meadow. I glanced behind me, wondering if I’d gotten lost in my sleepy daze and wandered out a back door. But the rec center was gone. It was just me in a meadow with tall grasses and little pink, yellow, and white flowers. A light breeze blew through them, rustling the stems. The sound made me even more tired. The sun had started to set, which was impossible since it was still morning. I had to be hallucinating from being so exhausted. Maybe that meant I didn’t have time to get home. My body was making me sleep. I was about to lie on the ground — I could sleep anywhere — when I heard the quick pounding of feet. Someone rushed toward me.
I didn’t have time to turn and see who before the being smacked into me. Hard. I fell over. The last thing I remembered was a bare-chested man with buckteeth, a beard, and a red-and-black plaid trapper hat leaning over me.
“Sorry! I’m so sorry!”
Jessica E. Subject
Jessica E. Subject is a USA Today bestselling author of science fiction and paranormal romances, bringing to life a wide variety of characters. In her stories, you could not only meet a sexy alien or a pop star tiger shifter, but also unsuspecting clones and feisty omegas. You may be transported to a dystopian world where rebels are fighting to live and love, or to an alternate reality where shifters live among humans.
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