One Magic Night
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“A solution that you may not care for. Not in the long run, anyhow.” He traced a finger across her chin. “And a lifetime is a very long time.”
Anticipation left her breathless. The reality she’d dreamt of for as long as she could remember—finding a love of her own, a lasting love for all time—was standing in front of her. Shay had walked into her life tonight and she never wanted to lose him. She smiled at his uncertainty. “You could…ask and find out.”
He hesitated, and Katrina knew it was not because he lacked the desire, but because his need for her was so great. He was weighing the future against the present, and trying to find the best way to ask for it.
“Will you marry me, Katrina? And not because your father made his threats. Not because of my earlier stupidity in putting you into a position you feel there is no way back from—but because of the love we found together on this magic night.”
Katrina smiled at the questioning in his eyes and stepped forward into his strong embrace. “Yes, Shay. Oh, yes.” She raised her lips to Shay’s as the first flare of the fireworks display streaked into the summer sky and exploded in the distance.
Love had come for her this summer night. And it was every bit as magical as she’d dreamed it would be.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cheryl was born in Duncan, OK, and grew up in Seminole, OK. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and holds a B.A. in English. Cheryl lives with her husband in Oklahoma City, OK, where she has been for the past 29 years. She has two grown children, ages 24 and 27, and a Great Pyrenees "granddog", Embry.
Website: www.cherylpiersonbooks.com
Writing is so much a part of her life that recently, she and long-time friend Livia Reasoner, decided to open a publishing house for western and historical stories.
PRAIRIE ROSE PUBLICATIONS http://prairierosepublications.yolasite.com/ furthers the western-themed writing offerings of women.
As if that weren’t enough, there were so many requests for a publishing house for young people interested in the west that they decided to open the unique imprint, PAINTED PONY BOOKS http://paintedponybooks.yolasite.com/. This line will be open to all authors, male and female, who have submissions for Middle Grade readers, Young Adult, and New Adult.
The contemporary/futuristic imprint for these age groups is TORNADO ALLEY PUBLICATIONS http://tornadoalleypublications.yolasite.com/, and for adult contemporary/futuristic, check out their imprint FIRE STAR PRESS http://firestarpress.yolasite.com/.
All imprints are open and accepting submissions.
Cheryl's latest novel is a western historical romance, GABRIEL'S LAW. Her upcoming release, THE HALF-BREED'S WOMAN, will be available in February, 2014, through Prairie Rose Publications. To see all of Cheryl’s work, click here: https://www.amazon.com/author/cherylpierson
You can e-mail her at prairierosepublications@yahoo.com