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EPPIE Finalist One Night in Memphis Now in Print!!

“I couldn’t put it down…”

“I had to stay up all night to finish it even though my eyes were burning and I had to work early the next morning…”

“This story is exciting, funny, scary, poignant, and heart touching…”

I loved writing One Night in Memphis! I love Ethan, the damaged but ready-to-love again hero, and Dakota, the crazy heroine who’s on the run from her even crazier ex-boyfriend. This book is a 24-hour romance, which means there’s a whole lotta action packed into a single day and night on world-famous Beale Street. That’s right, 24 chapters = 24 hours of nonstop action and love and…don’t you want to know more?

You can buy it now in print…and if you do, please drop me a line to let me know how you like it! Not that I wish sleepless nights on my readers or anything, but hey, if the story of Ethan and Dakota keeps you up past your normal bedtime, then maybe I’ve done my job :)

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In the moment before Dakota knew what was coming, Ethan bent down and kissed her. His hands moved to her face. His mouth landed squarely on hers, hot and hungry; his tongue parted her lips before she realized what was happening.

Oh wow, this wasn’t supposed to happen…was her first thought. Oh God, I want him to kiss me like this all night was her second. She leaned into him, into the solidness of him against her, and was amazed at the feeling of rightness that swept over her. A whimper escaped from the back of her throat. She let her fingers pull at his waist, drawing him closer. There was attraction, she thought, and then there was inevitability. There was the hot jolt of desire that pulled you toward someone because you liked their eyes or their smile or the way they filled out a pair of jeans. There was the want that warmed beds late at night because company was better than being alone.

And then there was something beyond the physical, beyond the way two bodies fit together. There was chemistry that created itself from bits of conversation, from skin brushing skin by accident, from the air surging between two people who were simply supposed to be together. There was a strange working of the universe that led you to someone you’d never even envisioned and then suddenly couldn’t imagine being without.