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    The Midnight Couch
    The Midnight Couch
    The Midnight Couch
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    The Midnight Couch

    By Jae

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    At 30, Paula, a technician at a radio station, feels a bit ridiculous for having a big crush on Dr. Christine Graham, host of the late-night radio show The Midnight Couch. Every night when midnight approaches, she vows that this will be the day when she asks Christine on a date—only to chicken out every time. But when Christine hosts a special show about revealing secret love on Valentine’s Day, Paula suddenly finds herself on The Midnight Couch.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYlva Publishing
    Release dateDec 13, 2014
    ISBN9783955333133
    The Midnight Couch
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    Jae

    Jae grew up amidst the vineyards of southern Germany. She spent her childhood with her nose buried in a book, earning her the nickname "professor." The writing bug bit her at the age of eleven. For the last seven years, she has been writing mostly in English.She works as a psychologist. When she's not writing, she likes to spend her time reading, indulging her ice cream and office supply addiction, and watching way too many crime shows.

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    • 5/5
      Another absolutely wonderful book from Jae. I enjoyed this short story tremendously, but I can’t help hoping for a continuation of it. I’d love to see where Jae can take Paula and Christine, although it is unlikely that it will happen. Nonetheless, this brought a smile to my lips!
    • 5/5
      This is a super cute short story. Even with a limited number of pages Jae manages to hook us into the characters and give us immediate chemistry between them. I'd love to see Paula and Christine appear in more stories. Worth the read.

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    The Midnight Couch - Jae

    The Midnight Couch

    by Jae

    Published by Ylva Publishing, legal entity of Ylva Verlag, e.Kfr.

    http://www.ylva-publishing.com

    Copyright 2014 Jae

    Smashwords Edition

    Edited by Glenda Poulter

    Cover Design by Kaitlyn Connolly

    Cover Photo by © OnAir2 | Dreamstime.com

    This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, events, and locations are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons or events, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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    Table of Contents

    The Midnight Couch

    About Jae

    Other books from Ylva Publishing

    Coming from Ylva Publishing in 2015

    The Midnight Couch

    Paula always felt like Cinderella when midnight approached; only in her case, the magic didn’t wear off at the stroke of midnight—that’s when it began.

    And today, she had a front-row seat since she was working in the deserted reception area of the radio station. As she took the coffee machine apart, she kept an eye on the automatic doors.

    Finally, they swept open. A gust of cool night air rushed in, followed by her—Dr. Christine Graham, clinical psychologist, host of the popular late-night radio show The Midnight Couch, and the woman of Paula’s dreams.

    Christine crossed the station’s lobby, her heels clicking over the fake marble floor.

    From the cover of the coffee machine, Paula trailed her gaze upward over shapely calves and trim hips. Her gaze didn’t have far to go. Even in heels, Christine barely topped five feet, but what she lacked in height, she made up in looks. She didn’t fit the description of someone who had a face for radio, a person who wasn’t attractive enough to make it in television. A few raindrops clung to her honey-blonde hair, but she either didn’t notice or didn’t care. Her luscious lips parted into a warm smile when she stopped in front of the reception desk.

    Good evenin’, Paula, Christine said with her slight Scottish lilt.

    Paula held on to the coffee machine as Christine’s voice made her knees turn into wobbly goo. Evening, Christine.

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