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Beautiful Girl by Shiloh WalkerShiloh Walker is the next cupid in the Valenduckie line up.  She shares with us her ideal romance. 

Don’t forget to catch her latest,  Beautiful Girl, released 29 Jan 08 by Samhain, and her next, Through the Veil (love the cover), releasing 3 Jun 08 from Berkley.

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Talk to some women and they’ll tell you their idea of a romantic man is one who shows up with flowers for no reason at all. One who can quote poetry, or adores walks on the beach. Someone who is touch with his feelings, or arranges for a candlelit dinner.

In reality, a lot of us are happy when the DH remembers our anniversary, our birthday…Valentine’s Day.

through-the-veil-by-shiloh-walker.jpgI’m lucky. I got a guy that remembers all of those. More, he also does some things that are really romantic. Forget chocolate, roses (although, baby, if you’re reading this… *G* I love those, too). This guy has snuck into the room in the morning when he knows I’ve been having trouble sleeping and he’ll turn off the alarm clock and take care of the kids so I can sleep. He’ll bring me some sweet tea from Mickey D’s and a hash brown on his way home from dropping them off. The end of the day, if he can tell I’m stressed, he’ll pour me a glass of wine or make me a White Russian.

He’ll get his mother to come over and watch the kids so we can get out. He buys me a Garmin GPS gadget for Christmas because he knows I get lost. He picks out little fairies for the kids to give me Christmas and he almost always manages to sneak some Godiva into my stocking on Christmas.

He’s sent me roses at work even though I know he doesn’t really like buying flowers… (they die…he doesn’t like giving me something that dies).

candy-hearts.jpgBack when we were still dating, he was going out of town with his folks for a week and I was house-sitting for them. I show up over there and find a book from my fave fantasy author and some money tucked inside. I was a broke college student and the only time I had money was when I bummed it off of him. 😉

There have been days when I come home from the Y, the grocery store or from picking the kids up at the sitter’s and the house is clean. Mornings when I oversleep and I’m rushing around, or even just procrastinating at the PC and I’ll go to get my keys so I can warm up the car and viola… he’s already done it.

Some girls might wish for a silver-tongued devil who is in touch with his emotions to show up at the door with roses and candy. Not me. I want my dark-eyed guy with the boy-next-door-smile. I don’t need him to be in touch with his emotions… I’m in touch with them—and he’s in touch with mine.

The way I see it, that’s romance.

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