Winter's Perfect Night
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Four teens, one viral video, unrequited love, and the quest to attend the biggest party of the year...
Let It Snow meets Can't Hardly Wait
Katie just wants one thing, well two things: to gain a coveted invitation to "Queen Bee" and local mean girl Jocelyn Moore's epic Winter Party and to go to that party with her crush, the popular volleyball player Olivia Brewster.
Except there's a problem, well two problems: one, Katie is a nobody at Westwood High School, and two, her mom just-so-happened to upload a recording of Katie after getting her wisdom teeth pulled just that morning, where Katie, all drugged up and drooling, slurred out her love for Olivia and her desire to go to Jocelyn's party, turning her into a viral joke at school.
Mortified, Katie thinks her social life is over, but the night holds a few unexpected surprises as she, her friends, and yes, Olivia, turn the evening into Winter's Perfect Night.
Winter's Perfect Night is a sweet young adult romantic comedy novella.
Cuteness Warning: this story contains adorable Golden Retriever puppies.
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A third-generation soldier, Kelly Washington isn't afraid to push boundaries in real life and in her fiction. Regardless the genre?fantasy, science fiction, or romance?her writing style packs a powerful punch by featuring strong and independent, yet flawed, characters.
Kelly is the author of the Falling for Him trilogy, the four-volume epic fantasy series, Reclaimed Souls, the Moira Rothrock novella series (Unlocking the Devil and Sleeping with the Devil), the stand-alone Freaky Friday-esque military romance novel, Collide Into You, the science fiction romance novel, Claiming the Heart of Vraithe, and her most recent, Dare You to Love Me.
Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, journals, and online magazines, to include, Overheard Magazine, Cutter's Final Cut, spillover mag, Fahmidan Journal, Pulp House Fiction Magazine, Kaleidotrope, Heart's Kiss, and multiple Fiction River anthologies.
Kelly's short story, "The American Flag of Sergeant Hale Schofield" was a 2016 Year's Best Crime and Mystery Story. Her mystery thriller, "The Tegan Doctrine" was listed as a best 2023 Thriller Short Story.
