Thanksgiving Posts Are So Last Season... by Laura Hunsaker

 Or Are They...

I've always found Thanksgiving Gratitude Posts to be fairly cliche. Maybe it's because we see them every year, or maybe because I would have my students write them...I don't know, in my mind, they just aren't something I've ever wanted to write. And then this year I got a gratitude journal. You're supposed to write little things, like I'm grateful for a hot cup of coffee on a cold morning, or I'm thankful that it rained. It really forced me to look at all of the little things I'm actually grateful for. And it stopped feeling forced. It started feeling like something I would look forward to writing.

Readers, I think I've changed my mind. I think I like Thanksgiving posts now. 

I'm thankful for you. First and foremost, I'm thankful for anyone anywhere who has ever read my words. Whether it's social media, blog posts, or my books, I'm thankful that there are people out there who enjoy my words and my voice.

I'm also thankful for libraries on rainy days. I'm thankful for good music. I'm thankful for discovering new bands, and finding something new to obsess over in my free time. I'm thankful for my cozy blankets and favorite sweatshirt. I'm thankful for freshly baked cookies, and pumpkin pies, and hot cocoa. 

I'm also grateful at how many of you have loved my latest story, Kate and Kyle's wedding short DREAMS OF THE FUTURE. Thank you all. And feel free to post what you're thankful for!

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Kate Landry is soon to be Kate Donovan, if only the groom would show up…


Maid of honor Cara Nguyen wants everything to go smoothly for her best friend's wedding, yet almost immediately, the wedding turns into a fiasco. Kate and Kyle deserve to have the wedding of their dreams, and Cara wants to make it happen. How can she pull off the wedding of their dreams when the flowers are delivered to the wrong location, the groom is missing, and the lovely sunny day has become a sweltering hot mess? There’s a lot to do, and so little time to do it. She definitely doesn’t have time to get distracted by a sexy groomsman in a kilt.

Kyle Donovan is ready to marry the love of his life, but first he has to get back to the church…

Dash Helms is in the small town of Chester, California for his friend Kyle’s wedding. This should be a happy event, yet It seems everything is going haywire. A caravan of wedding guests breaks down on their way to the venue, one of the groomsmen misses his flight, and the wedding has to be moved inside. Yet the beautiful maid of honor is the only thing he can concentrate on. When Dash is asked to step in at the last minute as a replacement groomsman, of course he says yes. While the striking brunette walking down the aisle ahead of him wants nothing to do with him, even she can’t deny the sparks that fly between them.

With everything seeming to go wrong, what can go right?

In this wedding short story written for Kate and Kyle from Dark Past, the cast of the Fatal Instincts series comes together to celebrate their friends. With everyone in the same place at once, and romance in the air, can this small town handle them?