Once Upon A New Year’s Eve: A Meet Cute Romance

By Kait Nolan

A second chance romance for anyone who ever loved their brother's best friend.

It should have been the perfect New Year's Eve date. But when Gemma Forester gets called to bail her older brother out of trouble, she comes face to face with some of her own. Aaron Hendricks never forgot his best friend's little sister, but ten years wasn't enough to prepare him for the woman she's become. Will a chance meeting allow them to overcome the past?

Once Upon a New Year's Eve is a novelette of approximately 8,500 words.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Take The Leap Publishing
• Release date: Sep 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781311377975

Kait Nolan

Kait Nolan is a USA Today best selling, RITA® Award-winning Mississippi author who calls everyone sugar, honey, or darlin', and can wield a 'Bless your heart' like a Snuggie or a saber, depending on requirements. She believes in love, laughter, and that tacos are the world's most perfect food. When she's not writing, reading, or wrangling family (both the two-legged and the four-), you can find her obsessively watching The Great British Bake Off.

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Once Upon A New Year’s Eve

Once Upon A New Year’s Eve

A Meet Cute Romance

Kait Nolan

Once Upon a New Year’s Eve

Written and published by Kait Nolan

Copyright 2014 Kait Nolan

Cover design by Kait Nolan

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All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.

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AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following is a work of fiction. All people, places, and events are purely products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual people, places, or events is entirely coincidental.

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Contents

Invite

A Letter to Readers

Once Upon A New Year’s Eve

Once Upon An Heirloom

Know Me Well

Other Books By Kait Nolan

About Kait

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A Letter to Readers

Dear Reader,

So you know what you’re getting into…this book is part of my Meet Cute Romance series. It is a novelette (little longer than a short story, shorter than a novella) about the first meeting of a romantic couple. Please read them with that in mind and do not judge the story as if it is intended to be a full novel. They are meant to be bite-sized romances that only hint at the HEA to come.

This book is set in the Deep South. As such, it contains a come colorful, colloquial, and occasionally grammatically incorrect language. This is a deliberate choice on my part as an author to most accurately represent the region where I have lived my entire life. While this particular book contains little swearing and no pre-marital sex between the lead couple, most of my work does, as those things are part of the realistic lives of characters of this generation, and of many of my readers.

If any of these things are not your cup of tea, please consider that you may not be the right audience for this book. There are scores of other books out there that are written with you in mind. In fact, I’ve got a list of some of my favorite authors who write on the sweeter side on my website at https://kaitnolan.com/on-the-sweeter-side/

If you choose to stick with me, I hope you enjoy!

Happy reading!

Kait

Why didn’t I just stay home with the Ben and Jerry’s? Surely ringing in the New Year with a pint of What A Cluster is better than this.

Gemma Forester picked her way across the gravel parking lot, praying she didn’t break an ankle, or worse, one of the precious Jimmy Choos she’d scrimped and saved and paid damn near retail for.

I’m going to kill him, she thought. That’s simply all there is to it. Family immunity does not apply. Mom will have to understand.

The bar door opened before she could reach for it. A pair of clearly drunk rednecks stumbled out, lips locked, along with a burst of truly craptastic country music. Whoever the bar had hired to play for the night was going to be lucky if they made it out without requiring intervention from Patrick Swayze and Sam Elliott.

Gemma leapt out of the way before the couple could lurch into her. With the door held open, she watched them stagger to a beat up pick-up truck. The guy managed to get the passenger door open, while simultaneously removing his date’s bra from her tank top. Gemma couldn’t decide whether to be impressed or appalled. She went inside before her suspicion that they weren’t going to make it out of the parking lot was confirmed.

The music didn’t stop and all attention didn’t focus on her, but she noted her fair share of raised eyebrows. She ignored the catcalls and wolf whistles.

Eat your heart out, boys, she muttered, crossing to the bar.

As a rule, she wasn’t opposed to honky tonks. If she was in the mood and dressed for one, she could totally go for some boot scootin’. But she’d been dressed for dinner at Chez Philippe, where she’d been forced to abandon her very pissed off date before the signature golden champagne raspberry sorbet was served. All because her stupid brother was drinking himself under the table over his latest lost love and making enough of an ass of himself that the bartender had liberated his phone and gone straight down his contact list trying to find someone to come pick him