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Last Chance to Win 6 books plus a Martini Glass Becker Circle is the final installment of Novel Magic for 2019. Win a copy in the December Giveaway–but act fast. The contest ends at MIDNIGHT, December 31, 2019. Read through Addison’s post and enter below. Remember You by Addison Brae A few years ago a friendtreated himself to a drink after a long day working the sushi restaurant in myneighborhood. He bought me a cocktail and said something very wise that made alasting impression. “People have to love themselves first.” Many people don’t appear tohave that love. It affects their ability to be a friend, a lover, a responsibleadult. I think I love myself—until something happens or someone hits a weakspot. Like me, many people have been in relationships where their partner beatsthem down emotionally. It’s a struggle to love myself again after so much. Solong. Those doubting momentsbecame so common that I bought myself a ring. Inside the inscription says“Remember me 2011”. No one else knew

Finding love can be like walking a tightrope By Addison Brae   While I was jogging in my neighborhood park right before Valentine’s Day a few years ago, I saw a guy walking on a tightrope. I always wondered how people learn how to walk on a tightrope. They practice. He tied a narrow nylon strap to two trees and walked on it between them. It reminded me how much dating is like walking a tightrope. So many girls, me included, want to believe a guy really feels something for us. They go through the act of it, but do they really? How do we walk the tightrope of real or not? How do we learn to see the signs and accept the truth? We practice. This was my first Valentine’s as a newly single (again) when I was going through the adjustments of shaking off a painful marriage and relearning what love’s all about. Those single years and experiences inspired Becker Circle . In many romance novels, at least one main character walks that tightrope of whether their romantic interest is into them or no