Life After the 1NS…

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By Dakota Trace

The idea of a one night stand has always intrigued me. I personally have only had the experience once and unfortunately, I wasn’t as lucky as my characters from Blind Need, Xaviera and Nate, where their one night stand was the start of something special. Because of my beta reader, I’ve actually recently been thinking about them. It’s been nearly a year since my blind heroine and her brave fire jumper have played in my mind and not that long ago. In fact, the same lady who got me to thinking about them, asked me if I was ever going to finish their story. It honestly makes me wonder what they might actually be doing. Did they manage to stick together? Did Nate return the jump team? Did Xaviera leave her bed and breakfast to be at Nate’s side? Or did he take time off to spend the holidays with his lady? These are all questions I’ve been thinking about. With Christmas right around the corner I’d like to think that my Xaviera is curled up in front of the fire place—whether it’s at her place or his, sipping on some of her family’s finest wine or perhaps even eggnog, with Lucy at her feet and her Nate at her side.

With the way that our 1NS stories are structured we (as authors) are left with the idea of a happy for now ending. Which personally I think can be a bit challenging since I’m much more the happily ever after type of author. Perhaps someday I will finish their story but honestly I find myself content where it ended with a promise of a future, a future they couldn’t yet see but wanted to work together towards.

Perhaps that’s why I find myself thinking about them at this time of the year. Christmas is the time of hope and I could easily envision my lovely Xaviera and rough edged Nate taking the holiday to heart and using it as a time to come together and just be in love. 

With that being said, I am curious however, what do you think? Are there any other 1NS characters you’ve read about that you’d love to see more of? To find out exactly what happened after the night ends? I know I have my favorites.

I’d love to know what happened in John and Travis from Bear It All. Perhaps one day Deanna Wadsworth will spill the beans and either write another story or maybe even tell me. Until then though, I’d like to think they went home, decided to move in together, and create their own family – but that’s the romantic in me. Happy Holidays J

Blind Need blurb:

Two wounded souls, one blind and the other scarred, are matched up by the famous Madame Evangeline—neither one expecting more than a brief meeting of two bodies in the dark for one night.

Xaviera Navarro had it all, a wonderful career ahead of her running her family’s wine business, a sexy fiancé, and her dream-wedding around the corner, but that all changed in the blink of an eye. A freak accident has left the Navarro wine heiress blind with no future other than the company of her seeing-eye dog, Lucy. After licking her wounds, she finally is tired of her own company and ventures out in hopes of finding a man who might be strong enough to stand beside her but not in front of her. If she can’t have that, she’ll settle for a night of hot loving before returning home.

Ignatius "Nate" Ramirez is not only a scarred fire-jumper with a justifiably bad attitude toward women, he’s also under strict orders by his Captain that if he doesn’t get laid on his vacation, he’s going to bench him. After finding out about 1Night Stand, he requests Madame Evangeline find him the perfect fantasy woman to have under the cover of darkness. Figuring he’ll have a better chance with his date with all the lights out, he wasn’t expecting a feisty, no punches pulled heiress to knock him off his feet.

A blind woman and a scarred fire-jumper should be a match made in heaven, but will Nate and Xaviera manage to leave their baggage at the door and find love all in one night.