Strangers in the Knight

"It was supposed to be a chill night. Like, snacks-and-a-face-mask chill. Not sneak-into-a-party-to find-a-sacred-bong-from-a-shirtless-ex chill. I didn't even wear my good sneakers." ~ Roxy HorneRoxy Horne thought she had it all figured out: hot pre-med boyfriend, killer GPA, and a future as shiny as the Vegas skyline. Then reality sucker-punched her in the face-and maybe set it on fire for good measure.Enter Rafe: tall, dark, smirky, and sporting a pair of eyes that scream "bad decisions ahead." Roxy knows she should run the other way, but her hormones apparently didn't get the memo.Things really go sideways when her best friend Sarina begs for help recovering an ancient ceremonial bong (yes, seriously) that her ex stole-from her professor. If they don't find it, Sarina's out of a job and out of college, and Roxy's on a crash course with chaos.Now they're chasing a stoner ex, dodging disaster, and trying not to fall into bed with the wrong people-again. All they have to do is survive one night without setting their lives on fire. No pressure. *** This is a prequel novelette for the Roxy Horne series. It occurs 20 years prior to Come Die with Me. *** Vanessa M. Knight has always enjoyed writing, and once she found romance, she was addicted. She props her laptop in the suburbs of Chicago with her family and menagerie of four-pawed claw-babies (AKA cats and dogs.) That laptop has partnered-in-crime to write contemporary romances with a dash of humor and splash of snark.When she has a few moments to spare, you can find her singing off-key (but she assures everyone it's still considered singing), reading, kickboxing or killing a few brain cells as she stares at the many sitcoms and dramas available through the Internet and TV.For more information on Vanessa, including her Internet haunts, contest updates, and details on her upcoming novels, please visit her website at www.vanessamknight.com.