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I totally disagree with the idea that Hallmark dictates a day for us to tell the person that we love how we feel, but Valentine’s Day is this weekend and I can’t just ignore it.

So what’s a poor couple to do? And by “poor” I mean, well, poor. Without cash. No phat bank.

Lance and I have had to get creative with date ideas over the years, and this V-Day will probably be spent doing one or more of the following things. I hope these 14 ideas help you celebrate this day of bloody, martyrus love.

1. Go to a used bookstore (or a mega-bookstore if you must), preferably one with coffee, and browse books while you sip lattes. Bonus points if you pick out a photo or travel book and look through it together!

2. Clear away furniture, spread out a blanket on the floor, and have a picnic. Bonus points if you eat something that’s considered an aphrodisiac. Like cous-cous, which gives you BONUS bonus points, because it’s cheap, you can fix it up however you like, it’s ridiculously easy, and you can eat it with your hands.

3. Bundle up and go star-gazing. Bring a thermos with some hot chocolate to a spot with as little light pollution as possible. Cuddle up in a sleeping bag together.

4. Go for a drive. Before you leave, make a playlist for your iPod (or burn a cd if you’re old-school) of some fun romantic songs. Bonus points if you get yourself lost. Stop at the first local coffee shop you find and take a long time there, just talking and drinking coffee, before you get back out on the road.

5. Order pizza or chinese, or cook something easy like a big pot of spagetti, and watch a movie at home. Bonus points if you curl up under a blanket together.

6. Go out somewhere nice just for drinks and an appetizer. It’s WAY cheaper and if you’re still hungry afterwards, go back home and bake some break-and-bake cookie dough.

7. Play a board game. Bonus points if you make up some flirty rules (i.e. only sexy words allowed in Scrabble, or one long kiss every time you land on Park Place in Monopoly. Strip poker also works).

8. Make a fancy dessert. It’s a lot cheaper than buying all the ingredients for a whole meal, and if you scrounge for dinner you can splurge a little for a decadent dessert. I plan to make this one as a surprise for the hubbs, but bonus points for you if you make it together.

9. Splurge on a bottle of wine and ask each other random questions while you drink it. I like using Soul Pancake for inspiration.

10. Window-shop. Bonus points if you go to IKEA and play grown-up doll’s house while eating a big cinnamon roll.

11. Go see a matinee. Sneak sandwiches and cokes into the theater and have lunch while you watch the movie.

12. Walk around downtown where you live. Go through the neighborhoods and talk about the houses you like or don’t like.

13. Obviously, scour the internets for free happenings in your area. You never know when someone’s giving a free concert or a museum is sponsoring a free night. Take advantage!

14. Go to Krispy Kreme the night before, then spend the day in bed, reading, talking, eating donuts, cuddling… you know.

Well, Reader, I hope this helps you and I certainly hope you can enjoy St. Valentine’s massacre on February 14.

Crossroads
(Southern Arcana #2)

Derek Gabriel was born human in family of psychics, aware of the supernatural world but never a part of it…until a rogue shapeshifter took humanity from him in a vicious attack. He’s spent two years struggling to adjust, not just to a change that’s driven many insane, but also to the prejudices of a culture where transformed wolves are considered inferior. A serious struggle, indeed, when the woman who attracts the man and the wolf inside him is the daughter of the most powerful wolf in the country.

For Nicole Peyton, nothing is more important than escaping the stifling confines of elite shapeshifter society, an old-fashioned world where women are valued only for their bloodlines and bank accounts. In New Orleans, she has a bar she loves, friends she cares for, and a smoldering, unspoken tension with an unsuitable but incredibly attractive man.

Neither could predict how quickly forbidden longing would erupt into burning need, but Nick and Derek have more than themselves to think about when Nick’s sister arrives in the city with a shapeshifter strike team hard on her heels. The only way Nick can save her sister may be to play by the Conclave’s rules–but it will mean giving up the man she’s falling in love with, unless he’s willing to risk everything in a challenge that will shake the foundations of their world.

Warning: This book contains forbidden lust, strip poker, instinct-driven sex in odd places, devious shapeshifters, and love and loss in a world of paranormal politics and supernatural schemes.
 

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