I love Halloween. It’s one of my favorite holidays mostly because of all the wonderful memories I have of trick-or-treating with my friends, going to sweet & fun Halloween parties (remember those?), and then as a mother who couldn’t wait to take her babies trick-or-treating and threw sweet & fun parties for them as well. But, I’m also a romance writer who writes holiday stories. And while I still have a sweet & fun Halloween novella (His Wildest Sunflower in the Love & Coffee anthology), available for sale here, I also have a Christmas novella releasing today. So yay for that!
Because of the way the market works, today is the day that holiday novels and novellas hit the street. Maybe for the same reason that stores have moved their Halloween stuff to the clearance rack and put up their fake Christmas trees already. Regardless of the why, I have to put aside my Halloween thoughts for the day and tell you about the Let’s Get Naughty Vol. 2 Anthology, and my story called The Brightest Christmas Star. Whether you prefer to read holiday stories during their season, or you must read ahead, I hope you enjoy both of these new stories set in my Kingsmill Courtships novella series.
Let’s Get Naughty Vol. 2
If you think it’s too soon to get on Santa’s naughty list…think again. It’s time for Let’s Get Naughty Volume 2! So cancel your plans and spend this holiday season with 26 romance authors who have teamed up to bring you delicious holiday treats.
This holiday collection will have it all: fake relationships, second chances, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, workplace romance, age gap, CEO’s, bikers, and falling for the best friend’s brother. And one woman who decides, on a whim, to make a wish on a Christmas star.
The Brightest Christmas Star
When her Christmas wish unexpectedly comes true, everything changes.
Sophie Sinclair, a woman who’s never experienced a real Christmas, is a true Santa skeptic with Scrooge-like tendencies. Yet now that she’s found the love of her life in Kingsmill, VA, a town deep in the Shenandoah Mountains, she’s determined to belong in this tight-knit community as herself, not just as the sheriff’s girlfriend. So when Santa’s parade is canceled due to a shocking theft, she volunteers to run the parade. She’s determined to save the town’s Christmas tradition.
With only 48 hours until the parade begins, she discovers there’s no money, no volunteers, no Santa, someone has set the church on fire, and a winter storm is on its way. She also has another worry. Her boyfriend Ben Mosby, the town’s bad boy-turned-sheriff, is hunting a member of an outlaw motorcycle club. An arsonist who’s armed, dangerous, and searching for Sophie.
In the midst of Kingsmill’s traditional holiday chaos, Sheriff Ben Mosby’s heart is divided between duty and love. He’s determined to make all of Sophie’s holiday dreams come true. But when an outlaw MC brother arrives, threatening their festivities and everyone he loves, his protective instincts demand a dangerous manhunt during a massive snowstorm.
Sophie fears failing her newfound community if she cancels the parade, especially now that the outlaw biker is looking for her, so she makes a desperate wish on the town’s Christmas star. Except, since she doesn’t believe in Christmas magic, things don’t happen the way she expects–and she could lose everything.
This story about Sophie and Ben sounds so good!!!