My First Love Event with Traci Hall

With an impressive bibliography in an array of genres, USA Today bestselling author Traci Hall has garnered a notable fan base. She pens stories guaranteed to touch the heart while transporting the reader to another time and place. Her belief in happily ever after shines through, whether it's a romantic glimpse into history or a love affair for today.

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Congratulations, and thank you for letting me be part of your eight-year celebration!!

I am Traci Hall, and my first love was Billy Idol. I was in high school, a geeky freshman during that pioneering wave of MTV kids glued to the television every free second.

Writing this post brought back a lot of on-the-edge-of-my-seat memories, hearing that first riff of White Wedding had me careening through my aunt’s house to the TV to turn the song all the way up and swoon, literally, as I imagined being the dancer in the video.

Back then they didn’t have Internet, Siri or Google where information was at your fingertips in seconds.

No, I had to feed my crush and stalk the man the old-fashioned way. I hung out at our record shop, I ordered all of his albums, including stuff from Generation X, his previous band—it was much cooler to get something from England to show off to your friends.

I cut my hair, spiked it, dyed it—tore my jeans, wore mismatched earrings and learned every word to every song, listening to the ballads in my room at night, in the dark, imagining that each syllable he uttered was for me.

Sigh.

When I was sixteen my mother let me see his concert in Seattle and it cemented my love for him. It was also proof in that huge arena that I was not the only one in love with Billy Idol, lol.

I always have preferred his earlier music, which makes me think of cassette tapes and smoking clove cigarettes while drinking orange spice tea at Café Delicioso. Across the street from the record shop was a guitar shop and I used to imagine being able to play or sing, and I would write music lyrics.

Writing music lyrics (I can hear Black Rose in my head right now, lol and see my friends Lyn and Bobbie) turned into writing angsty poetry, which turned into angsty romance, which led to where I am today—still writing about gorgeous, sometimes tortured men—only this time, my characters all get a happily ever after!

Ten years ago, Jackson Hardy joined the Marines, leaving behind a woman he still dreams about. When he's called home to care for his ten-year-old nephew, no one is more shocked than he to run into Emma again. Or to still have those same feelings. But Jackson isn't looking for love, and neither is Emma, especially not with him. His precocious nephew, though, and a retriever named Bandit, are about to change that.

So what if Emma Mercer is an overachiever? She has plans to get her doctorate in psychology and create a no-kill shelter for the EST dogs she trains. Which leaves absolutely no time for romance. She's fine with a furry family—dogs don't teach you to love and then rip your heart to shreds. But young Matty's situation tugs at her heartstrings and there's no way she can't help him…and Jackson.

She may have hotter-than-ever chemistry with the soldier, but forgetting the past isn't easy.

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