In salute of REAL Romance!

Valentine’s is THE day to celebrate love and romance. At least that’s what all the stores want us to believe, so we buy cards and too-expensive flowers and stale candy. I love romance, and I don’t want just one day to celebrate it all! I love feeling that surprise when my lover takes a normal everyday, with errands and work and school and music classes and hum drum, and gives me a moment or two of that heart-melting feeling, when my chest aches with love that I can’t quite contain. It can be a smile, an offhand complement, a package of macaroon cookies from the French bakery I adore, or to be surprisingly seduced when I least expect it, when I feel ugly or frumpy or just plain forget that I’m a woman.

It’s those moments, and those memories that I think about to truly celebrate Valentine’s Day. I tell my lover to forget the expensive flowers, and chocolate, and spend time reenacting those gentle – or not so gentle – memories that make my heart skip a beat and my pulse race a little bit faster. (Besides, I’m still trying to stick to my nutritional resolutions and I need more exercise and less candy!)

When I set out to write a Valentine’s Day story for Ellora’s Cave Sweet series, I wanted to celebrate the passionate history of a couple truly in love. To celebrate those moments that make me love romance so much. The silly, the sweet, the hot and the spicy, the fiery arguments and the heated make-ups. Nancy’s Sweet Spelling Bee is a paranormal tale, with a roan werewolf hero with a shock of ginger hair, and a half-Brazilian werejaguar who can’t keep their paws off each other. But it’s also a tale of lovers who found each other very young, still in high school and learning about themselves and teaching each other the meaning of love. Will this Valentine’s be the day that breaks them apart, or will it bring them together in sweet fulfillment with a proposal that celebrates everything that made them such perfect mates?

Read an Excerpt here: She had to go and wear that dress…

Thanks for reading, and celebrate true romance on Valentine’s Day and everyday!

Elaine Lowe

www.elainelowenovels.com

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