Excerpts: Birthday Party Meet Cute from Silent Sky

Continuing my blog series of Excerpts, for which reasoning and explanation see the first post, with an excerpt from my contemporary seasoned erotic romance short story “Silent Sky”. Our hero and heroine meet for the first time at her birthday party. Based on my actual thirtieth birthday party, the heroine is having a “bring a single man” party.

This excerpt was originally published on the Naughty Literati blog in 2015. “Silent Sky” originally appeared in the 2015 anthology Naughty Reunions: Return to Romance, then was republished in the 2018 repackaged anthology Getting Naughty: Twenty Tantalizing Tales.
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Mature Romance

It happens to the best of us. It happens to the worst of us. But we’re lucky if it happens to us at all.

Getting older.

As we tally off the years, we get a little soft around the middle, our knees creak when we climb stairs, our muscles complain if we try a new dance move, our fifty shades of youthful tresses dim to one shade of gray.

And yet, we still crave romance, we still yearn for love. Because, even though we’ve grown older, we’re still human. We may not have the raging hormones of youth, but the heart still desires emotional satisfaction.

So it is with romance novel characters. Continue reading