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and crying. “No. Not in the slightest.”
    He pulled the door shut and took her in his arms and kissed her, hard and fierce. “You come first with me. Always. Okay?”
    He led her back to their seats, the two of them wobbling all the way and dodging the odd passenger who had stood to claim an overhead item. She sat, but before he did, he reached into his other pocket, and there it was in his palm, a black velvet box, and he snapped it open and said, “Amy, will you be my seat mate for the rest of my life?”
    The rest of my life. He was serious. He had thrown away his phone and was hiring new people to run his company, and he wanted her to spend the rest of her life with him.
    “Oh, Jeff… Oh, Jeff!”
    “Holy Mother of God,” said a gruff, Brooklyn-accented voice from the seat in front of them. “If you don’t say yes, I will personally reach over the seat and strangle you both. I can’t take any more.”
    There was laughter from the seats around them, and Amy laughed too, through her tears, and nodded her head as hard as she could, while Jeff removed the ring from the box and slid it onto her finger. It was too big, but she wouldn’t let him take it off, just clung to it, and then clung to him while he kissed her and kissed her and the train pulled into the station with a squeal that might’ve been her own squeal of delight.
    Jeff took her hand.
    They watched out the window together as passengers disembarked and new passengers climbed aboard, their ebb and flow part of the train’s pulse. The train pulled out of the station, and she turned to him, smiling, and he smiled back, and squeezed her hand.
    The train gathered speed, a purr of contentment, a race of excitement, the beginning of the rest of their travels together.

Two hearts converge…until fear runs love off the rails.
     
    Tight Quarters
    © 2013 Samantha Hunter
     
    A Strangers on a Train Story
    In the years since a horrific car accident left her with a long list of phobias, Brenna Burke has overcome them all except one. Crippling claustrophobia—not a good trait for an aspiring travel writer.
    With an interview for her dream job looming, Brenna forces herself to board a train for a weekend tour through New York State…only to find her berth has been double booked. 
    Retired NYPD detective Reid Cooper isn’t happy about the mix-up, or his attraction to his petite, sexy roommate. But as their up-close-and-personal weekend progresses, something remarkable happens. Being with Reid makes Brenna feel normal, unafraid of anything.
    After one passionate night, both are thinking beyond a mere weekend fling. But when Brenna’s last phobia pounces at the worst possible time, she could miss the last boarding call for happily ever after.
    Warning: This book contains a hot-to-the-touch hero and sizzling sex at high speeds.

The last train of the night might just be the start of something good.
     
    Thank You for Riding
    © 2013 Meg Maguire
     
    A Strangers on a Train Story
    Stung ego or not, Caitlin’s relieved her fizzling relationship is over, even if she’s just been unceremoniously dumped between the copier and a dead ficus tree. At least she has an excuse to ditch the lousy office Christmas party in time to catch the last subway home…to her cat, and early-onset spinsterhood.
    Instead of a lonely, chilly ride, she gets an unexpected holiday treat in the form of a nearly familiar face—a handsome stranger she encountered last week at the blood drive.
    At the end of the line, neither can seem to let their chance meeting end—until their extended flirtation finds them facing the prospect of spending a frigid winter night locked in an unheated subway station. And they wonder if keeping each other warm is merely a delightful form of rebound therapy…or a memorable first of many more dates to come.
    Warning:  Contains dorky, harmless flirtation that heats up into some spicy, third-base action.

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