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Remember when Harry met Sally? Oh, what a romantic New Years that was. I don’t have any New Years Eve memories like that one, but I do have a zany memory from my teen years. I was in that phase when kissing was still very scandalous and I wore pink perfume and coated my lips with strawberry gloss. My boyfriend was smart, cute, and a little crazy.

Very conveniently, my parents were good friends with his. So when the four grown ups decided to go out for the evening and leave the kids at home, I thought I’d spend a romantic New Years Eve with my first real boyfriend. The mistletoe was still up and everything. But the catch? We had to babysit our younger siblings. To keep them entertained…and hopefully exhaust them so that they’d give us some privacy…we decided to play a game. We needed some pencils, so I went into the basement to fetch them.

While I was down there, all hell broke loose. Apparently, my boyfriend and his little brother were horsing around, opened a side door, and splashed out into the mud. Then, with muddy shoes, they chased each other through the house, leaving huge muddy footprints all over my mother’s brand new white rugs.

I was a dead woman if my mother came home and found those stains. So I made everyone get on their hands and knees and scrub the rug clean. For hours! Our entire New Years Eve was spent with rags and buckets of water, frantically trying to erase the tell-tale signs.

Unfortunately, it was a lost cause. It left stains. My mother was furious. And I never spoke to that boy again. But I confess that the memory now makes me laugh.

So what’s your New Years Eve Story?

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Thanks for stopping by on your way through the Summer Reading Trail. I’m busy celebrating the release of my new Silhouette Nocturne Bite, WILD, TETHERED, BOUND. I also have a contest going.

But in the meantime, I have something a little different for you–a free e-book entitled THE KNIFE’S EDGE. It’s about an assassin who falls in love with the woman he intends to kill. It’s pretty steamy, experimental and the protagonist is an anti-hero. I hope you enjoy it! (It’s embedded below, so just click on the image to read it. If you need a pdf, let me know.)