10 | August | 2026 | McKenna Jeffries

Welcome to 2026 Book Birthday On My Birthday Tradition!!!!! *I might be a little excited and hyper. ROFLAMO*

This is a Page Brief that’s new and never posted anywhere else. Yep new and never posted anywhere else. It’s being posted for the first time as part of the 2026 Book Birthday On My Birthday Tradition!

Join me daily here on the blog for next Page Brief. There’s also something special for the last day of August 2026 as a wrap up for the 2026 Book Birthday On My Birthday Tradition. 🙂

*holding up a glass of champagne* Wheeee…onto today’s 2026 Book Birthday On My Birthday Tradition Page Brief!!!

Today’s Page Brief features characters from Worth Every Risk, Rowan, Book #1. Enjoy!

From time to time there’s multi-part Page Brief’s that go together. I think of it as a Page Brief Serial and I name them. The below Page Brief Serial Chosen by You features the books at the time I wrote these Page Brief’s that were available in my Rowan series. Eventually when books are released in the Rowan series an Page Brief might be written and if it is it will be added to the Chosen by You Page Brief Serial. So this Page Brief Serial is a continuous one (at my discretion/time permits).

Chosen by You is a multi-part Page Brief Serial and best read in order for the most enjoyment. They are usually in order of the Rowan series for which they are written about (unless otherwise noted).

This might be a rough draft so excuse any typos and so on.

Never be the Same
A Rowan Page Brief
By: Taige Crenshaw & McKenna Jeffries
August 2026
Featured Characters Book: Worth Every Risk
Genre: Contemporary
Series: Rowan
Page Brief Series: Rowan Adventures
Page Brief Serial: Chosen by You, Part 1.1
Length: Page Brief

“Yep I’ve lost my mind. There’s no other explanation for why I’m up this early getting ready to host the monthly day of fun for the Kincaid sisters and their siblings, as well as Cassandra’s other siblings.” Calhoun glanced around at the setup he was making. “What happened to me?”

“Someone’s being dramatic.” Cassandra patted him on the back as she passed with more snacks.

“I blame you.” Calhoun crossed his arms over his chest and frowned. “You’re the one who’s done this to me. Made me this social person.”

“Don’t act like you don’t have things you do.” Cassandra turned to him and matched his pose. “Do we need to talk about the last time we hosted game night? After you volunteered us to be added to the rotation without consulting with me first.” She tapped her finger against her lips. “Also doing the same for movie night. What were you thinking man?”

“I got swept up. It’s not my fault. They suckered me into it.” Calhoun ran his hands through his hair. “You do one thing and then they suck you in.” He made the motions with his hands. “You know they are really competitive with the game night. And let’s not get started on the movie night folks.”

“Hmmm… I have no idea what competitive on a game night would look like.” Cassandra rolled her eyes.

“Okay okay I’ll give you the game night one.” Calhoun thought of the past days of fun they had hosted, attended or heard about. He shuddered. “I’m not even going to go there about your family.”

The monthly day of fun they had was all about connecting as a family with lots of fun things, eating and just being together. Many times….all the time it dissolved into competitiveness and many vowed never to take part again. But whenever they had one at whoever was hosting for the month people who could attend showed up. It grew as people became involved and became a couple like he had with Cassandra

“You better hope where we fall in the rotation doesn’t overlap in the same month. Or we’ll be hosting a few things in the same month.” Cassandra narrowed her eyes. “And one of those would be the movie night.”

“Fine. I should never let myself suckered in to the movie night. You think it would be the game night where they would get rowdy.” Calhoun sighed. “They do get rowdy for the game night. But it’s nothing like the movie night.” He shuddered again. “Some of the stories we’ve heard can’t be true can they.”

“It goes according to what you’ve heard. I know what we heard together and dude it’s… Wow.” Cassandra walked over to him and poked him in the chest. “There’s even a few video someplace around about the epic debates they’ve had about movies.” Cassandra blew out a breath. “What happened to me? I blame you.”

Calhoun stared at her as she returned his look. Then they started to laugh and held onto each other.

“Oh my God were an interesting influence on each other.” Cassandra wiped her eyes.
“We are. We’ll never be the same.” Calhoun smiled. “And I’m good with that.” He kissed her.

Cassandra retuned the kiss then pulled back. “Me too. Don’t volunteer us for stuff without discussing it with me first.” She warned.

“Ummm….starting from now.” Calhoun winced.

“What did you do?” Cassandra growled.

“I love you so much Cass. You have until the Christmas to come to terms with it.” Calhoun walked away quickly.

“You didn’t. I love you too but that’s not going to help you.” Cassandra words and tone spelled doom for him.

Although it did Calhoun couldn’t help but snicker. They would never be the same but at least they’d be together. In all the interesting moments of life.

This Page Brief Serial is part of the Chosen by You a multi-part Page Brief Serial and best read in order for the most enjoyment. They are usually in order of the Rowan series for which they are written about (unless otherwise noted).

This Page Brief is part of Rowan Adventures – to read more of this Page Brief Series go here. For more on info about Page Brief. Enjoy!

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