Shelly Crane writes young adult and new-adult romance with paranormal bonds, hidden abilities and relationships that often extend across several books. Significance follows Maggie, a seventeen-year-old whose chance meeting with Caleb reveals a secret community of people with special abilities and an immediate supernatural bond known as imprinting. Accordance, Defiance and later books continue the same wider family and relationship network, while Wide Awake shifts into contemporary romance around memory loss and recovery. Crane's books are fast, emotionally direct and strongly relationship-led, with destined connections and recurring characters central to the experience. They fit paranormal romance, soulmate fiction and interconnected YA or new-adult series. Significance is the central entry point for Maggie, Caleb and the imprinting mythology. Significance is the required starting point for the paranormal sequence, since its imprinting rules and extended family network underpin the later books; Wide Awake is separate and better suited to readers looking for contemporary rather than supernatural romance. Read more Less