The Invitation: A Night of Misadventures with Love

On Valentine’s Eve, three hearts battle the Friday the 13^th curse to find happiness.

Cassandra Halloway may live in the Age of Steam, she herself is no machine for popping out babies. Her destiny lies not in Stubborn, West Virginia, but among the stars, which she hopes to photograph with her experimental camera. And her heart leans toward the feminine persuasion.

She’s trying to find the right time to tell her well-meaning, matchmaking Papa when she meets astronomy professor Morgan Thibodeax. A woman whose stellar beauty is rivaled only by the handsomeness of the sign language interpreter at her side, “Hunter” Huntsdale.

When Cassandra’s Valentine’s Day gift for her father accidentally goes missing, the trio abandons a night of stargazing for a madcap journey on the Wicked Night Carnivale train to retrieve the precious trinket. And as Cassandra and Morgan’s attraction grows, and Hunter reveals a potentially devastating secret, it’s shaping up to be a Valentine’s Day none of them will ever forget.

Note: Contains an incorrigible Papa, long-winded recipe titles, not-your-grandmother’s-needlework, a misunderstanding of going-going-gone proportions, and gentlemen jellybeans.