🎅🎄7th Day of Christmas Author Spotlight🎄🎅: Colette Davison

Colette Davison

Colette's personal love story began at university, where she met her future husband. An evening of flirting, in the shadow of Lancaster castle, eventually led to a fairytale wedding. Several years later, she’s enjoying her own ‘happy ever after’ in the north of England with her husband, two beautiful children and her writing.

Ever since she could hold a pen, Colette has been writing stories. Always an avid reader and lover of the arts, Colette graduated in Theatre Studies from Lancaster University in 1999, and in English Literature from the Open University in 2010. After studying for a P.G.C.E. in secondary education, and subsequently teaching english and drama for six years, Colette chose to become a stay at home mum and to focus on her writing.

Colette's first M/M romance, Why I Left You, was published in November 2017. Since then she has continued to write books that are sweet, sexy, and heartwarming.

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Rowan

Summary:

A Daddy for Christmas 3 #7

When my brother jets off on a last-minute holiday, leaving me to run our business, my plan to avoid Christmas is left in tatters.

The bright side? Is there one? I don’t really do bright sides.

Making use of my brother’s flashy car and his driver, Rowan, is a plus. Sort of. Upbeat personalities aren’t my thing. Despite that, Rowan’s optimism is better than any chisel, chipping away at my stern exterior.

Getting stranded in a snowstorm wasn’t on my itinerary, but here we are, cold and all alone, with no sign of being rescued.

I couldn’t leave Rowan to freeze, could I? As we try to stay warm, I discover something about Rowan which makes me realise we have more in common than I expected.

I’m technically his boss…

…but that doesn’t matter tonight.

Not when working together to raise the temperature in the car has the potential to be so much fun.

But when the storm clears, will I still want to be Rowan’s Daddy?

A Daddy for Christmas 3: Rowan is a low-angst, 40,000-word, feel-good insta-love contemporary romance, with a grumpy boss falling for his ray-of-sunshine employee.

A Daddy for Christmas 3 is a multi-author series. Holiday tales of boys in need of Daddy’s love and in some cases, a firm hand. Naughty or nice, it’s all in Santa’s hands now. So why not dive in and read each standalone and enjoy the holidays alongside our boys.

Secretly Mine

Summary:

Offbeat Shifters #1

I’m being paid to spend a month on tour with Jesse Steele, to keep him safe and protect his image. Simple.

The first rule of being a bodyguard is never get involved with your client. It should have been easy to follow, but Jesse Steele is a beautiful, kind omega, who’s far more down to earth than a pop star has any right to be.

Someone discovering our tryst becomes the least of our worries when it becomes clear Jesse has a stalker.

Can I love Jesse and protect him, or will my emotions cloud my judgement and put him in danger?

Secretly Mine is an m/m paranormal romance with a protective tiger shifter, a sweet monkey shifter, lots of cuddles, secret kisses, and piggy back rides. Whilst it is set in an alternate universe where omegas give birth, there are no pregnancy or birth scenes in this book.

Trigger warning for mentions of infertility.

Falling for the Professor

Summary:

Falling for You #1

I wanted to distract the professor; I didn’t expect to fall for him.

Richard’s wife cheated on him, and his marriage has fallen apart. He’s in desperate need of a distraction, and I volunteer.

The problem?

He lectures at the university where I study. Fooling around with students is frowned upon. But with my graduation right around the corner, it’s a risk we’re willing to take. Besides, it’s only one night. Isn’t it?

As one night of passion turns into several, will we be able to keep our relationship secret until after graduation?

Falling for the Professor is a high-heat, 50,000-word contemporary M/M romance, with an eight-year age-gap, lots of sneaking around, encounters in semi-public places, and a lecturer who discovers he loves being called ‘Professor’.

Run Free

Summary:

They believe they only need each other, until they collide with their soul mate.

Jax is a fox shifter, Hugo is human, and their love is forbidden. They’ve spent the last seven years on the streets, relying on no one but each other.

When they collide with Dominic, a wolf shifter, they realise something has always been missing. Jax is keen to get to know the older man, but Hugo resists fate, worrying that, as a human, there will be no room for him.

The only way they can be free to love each other is to escape the UK, but will Dominic leave his life behind to find home with two younger men?

Run Free is an alternate universe MMM shifter novel, with fated mates, an age-gap relationship, and a happy ending. Includes scenes of labour and birth.

A Silver Fox for Kinkmas

Summary:

Naughty or Nice Season 3

I’m a commitment-phobe. He’s a widower. Is the true gift of Christmas each other?

All I want for Christmas is a silver fox, and Cuffd's Christmas events are the perfect places to find someone to hook up with.

I don’t expect to get swept off my feet. I don’t expect to want more of Magnus.

Even though I’m freaking out, I can’t deny that he ticks all my boxes. He’s older, handsome, and firm enough to handle my brattiness. But when Christmas ends, will I run for the hills or be brave enough to stay?

A Silver Fox for Kinkmas is a May to December steamy romance with spankings, release denial, a chastity device, and a talkative parrot. It’s part of the Naughty or Nice Season Three multi-author series. Each book can be read as a standalone, but there are so many Daddies and boys finding their happily ever afters, why not grab them all?

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🍾🎉⏳Throwback Thursday's Time Machine⏳🎉🍾: New Year's Day, 1979 by Frank W Butterfield

Summary:

Nick & Carter Holiday #1

Monday, January 1, 1979

Happy New Year!

Nick and Carter are in Dallas for the opening of the newest of their Hopkins Hotels!

But Mother Nature is on a bit of a rampage and has left the Metroplex covered in sleet and ice and it's awfully cold.

But inside their new club - The Fourteenth Floor - the scene is sizzling!

Atop the Hopkins Dallas, close to five hundred gay men have paid a hundred bucks each (all for charity) to be at the biggest party in town!

The clock strikes midnight and Nick and Carter are dancing to Guy Lombardo just like they did when they first met.

But then one of the bartenders is seen running into the back in a frenzy.

And the General Manager of the hotel is found semi-conscious, bleeding from the head.

While Carter boogies on down with a circle of admiring fans on the dance floor, Nick is hard at work.

He's trying to discover what secrets might conspire to close the Hopkins Dallas and The Fourteenth Floor before either have a chance to fly!

Welcome to a year of holidays with Nick Williams and Carter Jones!

This is a series of short stories with each centered around a specific holiday.

From New Year's Day to Boxing Day, each story stands on its own and might occur in any year from the early 1920s to the first decade of the 21st Century.

Original Review December 2022:

New Year's Day, 1979 is a wonderful blend of mystery, humor, and heart that seems to follow Nick and Carter everywhere they go.  This was the fist in the author's Nick & Carter Holiday series of short stories but as I was late to the party it wasn't my first, neither is it necessary to read in order as they jump around throughout the men's journey.  As I have said in the others that I have read, I am not familiar with Nick and Carter's full journey, I hope to discover them in 2023 but it too is not necessary to have read prior these shorts.  Would some of the names and places mean more?  Maybe but not a must.

Since there is a bit of mystery involved here I don't want to spoil anything so I won't touch on the plot other than to say if this is how Nick tackles all his situations I look even more to reading his case history.  Carter may not be involved as much here but it's obvious his presence is never far from Nick's mind.  Hard to imagine a mystery so short being this good, could it be strictly down the talent of the author or the characters involved?  In my opinion it's both but whichever it is, there is no doubt that these characters mean a lot to the author and in that  we are given very entertaining gems.

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Hopkins Dallas Hotel

2201 North Stemmons Freeway

Dallas, TX 75207

January 1, 1979

12:01 a.m. 

It was a cold, icy night and Carter and I were dancing like we did when we were young. 

The DJ had found an old version of Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians performing "Auld Lang Syne." 

I closed my eyes as we moved around the dance floor, my left hand in his right and his other arm around my waist, holding me close, with mine around the small of his back. 

We were celebrating the new year north of the equator for the first time in a long while. Normally, we went somewhere warm for the holidays, but that year, we decided to stay in San Francisco. It was the first time in more than ten years that we'd done so. 

And the weather in Dallas had welcomed us with cold, frigid hands. As we were dancing, it was about 25 outside and the mercury was steadily dropping. Trees and power lines all over town were coated with ice thanks to the fact that it had been sleeting earlier that day. On TV, we'd heard how power was out in different parts of the city. Fortunately, the hotel had never lost power and had been able to take in a few guests who needed a warm place to spend New Year's Eve.

Our plane had arrived at Love Field on the previous afternoon, when it was a bit warmer. We'd been driven over to the hotel, which wasn't too far away. 

We'd been greeted at the front door by Charles Marcus, the general manager. He'd previously worked for another hotel in the area. I wasn't sure which. 

Charles had contacted me in the middle of November and invited us to spend New Year's Eve in Dallas. He was pulling together an invitation-only party which would be exclusively gay and held inside the private club at the top of the hotel called The Fourteenth Floor. He said he was selling tickets for a hundred dollars a pop and how all of the money raised would go to our foundation. 

Since that was the case, we couldn't resist. I promised I would personally match whatever he raised and multiply his take by ten. If he could sell a hundred tickets for ten grand, I'd add another ninety and make it an even hundred. Easy enough. 

When we'd arrived, he'd showed me his records. He'd sold just shy of five hundred tickets and to folks from as far away as Phoenix and Baton Rouge. 

I'd congratulated him on a job well-done and written a check to him, personally, so that the total came to an even five hundred grand and he could pay out the whole amount to the foundation in one lump sum. After Carter and I were up in our suite, I'd realized that might have been a mistake for tax reasons and otherwise... 

 . . . 

Once Guy Lombardo had finished singing, the DJ started up a disco version of the same song. 

Carter let go of me and then began to do his usual boogie. It involved him swiveling his hips and grinding them up and down while doing a two-step dance move with his big feet that he'd picked up when we used to spend the holidays in Rio. When he got down on the dance floor like that, a small pack of admirers would always gather. 

At 58, he was still the most handsome man on six continents (I'd checked). 

And he looked like he could have been in his 40s. His reddish blond hair was only partially streaked with white. His muscles were just as big as they'd ever been. And, at 6'4", he still commanded most every room he walked into, even though there were plenty of kids, anymore, who were his height or taller. 

We were both wearing the 1978 version of a white tie tux. Our outfits matched, even down to the bow ties, button-up vests, and white patent leather pumps. The only thing we were missing were top hats, but I had stopped wearing a hat back in the early 70s and had no desire to do so again. 

His trousers were skin-tight and made of some kind of stretchy polyester. I didn't like how it smelled. Neither did he, but he'd decided the look was what counted. He'd practically bathed in British Sterling cologne, his new favorite scent, to cover up the chemical stench. 

Cologne was a new thing for him. I didn't mind it. His sense of smell was much stronger than mine, so, if he could stand it, so could I. But I preferred a whiff of something simple, like Aqua Velva, when I kissed him. 

My trousers didn't have the same awful odor, since they were made of wool and had a smooth silk lining, like they were supposed to. And I didn't wear cologne, either. I just splashed on after-shave and that was all I needed. 

In any event, Carter was doing his moves and an admiring crowd was beginning to gather, like always happened. I stood where he'd left me and watched as he got down and grooved to the disco beat.

Whenever we went out to the discos, anymore, I always let him do his thing and enjoy being admired by the crowd. For myself, I preferred to find a nice spot where I could watch everyone as they moved and chatted with friends and attempted to hook up (and sometimes succeeded). I looked around to see if I could find any such thing. 

After a moment or two, I spied the DJ's booth, which was elevated above the dance floor and across the room from where I was standing. Through thick glass that reminded me of a bank in a rough part of town, I could see the black kid who was manning the turntables. He had on a pair of big headphones and was smiling and nodding to the beat as he made a motion with his hand that made me think he was putting the needle on the next record. 

Sure enough, the disco version of "Auld Lang Syne" faded away. I then heard a familiar count to two followed by the crowd cheering as "Le Freak" started up. 

Most everyone who'd been standing on or sitting by the edges of the dance floor (single guys, by the look of things) made their way to dance to the song that had been popular for a while and didn't seem to be losing any steam. 

Carter's admirers pushed him towards the middle of the dance floor. From what I could see, he appeared to be having fun. So did they. I smiled in admiration, happy to be watching and not part of the action. 

With the crowd moving onto the floor, I took the opportunity to make a wide circle around the room in an attempt to find refuge in the DJ's booth. I was hoping that, since I was the owner of the joint, he might let me sit on a stool or something and watch the night away from a lofty distance. 

 . . . 

On my way around, I decided to make a stop at one of the bars and pick up a rum and Coke.

"Mr. Williams!" exclaimed an enthusiastic redhead who had to be about 25, if that. 

I smiled. "How's business?" 

"Considering everyone shoulda stayed home in this weather, I'm doin' fantastic." He eyed my outfit and, with a grin, said, "Classy threads!" 

"Thanks." 

Giving me a professionally seductive smile, he asked, "What can I get you?" 

"Dark rum and Coke on the rocks." 

"Captain Morgan?" 

I shook my head. "You should have a bottle of Gosling's. It's a requirement for every Hopkins bar." 

He grinned. "We do. And we were wondering why we had it on hand. Every other place I've ever worked only had Captain Morgan. Is it your favorite?" 

I nodded. 

He laughed. "Gosling's and Coke. Coming right up." He turned and headed towards the middle of the bar. 

He was wearing the same thing all the other bartenders were wearing: a tight black t-shirt with our logo ("Hopkins Hotels") just above his left nipple. On the back was a silk-screened image of the Mark Hopkins on Nob Hill in San Francisco in silhouette. Under that, it read, "Welcome to '79" in the same style as our logo. It was a special thing Charles had ordered just for the night. 

Carter had mentioned how the silhouette should have been of the Dallas hotel. He had a point. With the three buildings (of varying heights) clustered as they were in a triangle along with their distinctive pyramid roofs, they presented an impressive outline from the freeway as we drove in from the airport. They were supposed to grab your attention and, apparently, they did.

According to Charles, the local papers had complained about them being too unique when the buildings were finally finished. More than one person had admitted to police that they were gawking at the hotel when they'd hit the car in front of them during rush-hour traffic. 

One of the other bartenders walked by right then. A blond with a tight crew-cut and an earring in his right ear, he appeared to be in a bit of a rush. And he looked frazzled. In fact, he was in more of a rush and more frazzled than was normal for even a New Year's Eve. To be honest, he looked panicked. 

I watched as he disappeared through a pair of swinging doors. Something told me to follow him, so I left a hundred-dollar bill on the bar and did just that.

Nick Williams Mystery Series

In 1953, the richest homosexual in San Francisco is a private investigator.

Nick Williams lives in a modest bungalow with his fireman husband, a sweet fellow from Georgia by the name of Carter Jones.

Nick's gem of a secretary, Marnie Wilson, is worried that Nick isn't working enough. She knits a lot.

Jeffrey Klein, Esquire, is Nick's friend and lawyer. He represents the guys and gals who get caught in police raids in the Tenderloin.

Lt. Mike Robertson is Nick's first love and best friend. He's a good guy who's one hell of a cop.

The Unexpected Heiress is where their stories begin. Read along and fall in love with the City where cable cars climb halfway to the stars.

Long before the Summer of Love, pride parades down Market Street, and the fight for marriage equality, San Francisco was all about the Red Scare, F.B.I. investigations, yellow journalism run amok, and the ladies who play mahjong over tea.

Pitiful Player  /  Voluptuous Vixen 

Happy Holiday  /  Redemptive Rifleman

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Nick & Carter Holiday Series

Welcome to a year of holidays with Nick Williams and Carter Jones!

This is a series of short stories with each centered around a specific holiday.

From New Year's Day to Boxing Day, each story stands on its own and might occur in any year from the early 1920s to the first decade of the 21st Century.

New Year's Day, 1979  /  Martin Luther King Jr Day, 1986

 Valentine's Day, 1951  /  Washington's Birthday, 1948

Mardi Gras, 1975  /  St David's Day, 1848

St Patrick's Day, 1945  /  Easter, 1929

Cinco De Mayo, 1963  /  Mother's Day, 1978

Decoration Day, 1933  /  Father's Day, 2005

Gay Freedom Day, 1977  /  Independence Day, 1976

Bastille Day, 1957  /  Labor Day, 1960

Columbus Day, 1939  /  Halloween, 1970

Veteran's Day, 2006  /  Thanksgiving, 1947

Nick's Birthday, 1967  /  Pearl Harbor Day, 1991

Christmas Day, 1994  /  Boxing Day, 1981

Saturday Series Spotlights

Patriotic Holidays  /  Xmas Edition

Mother's Day  /  Father's Day

Thanksgiving Edition  /  Spring Edition

Author Bio:

Frank W. Butterfield is the Amazon best-selling author of 89 (and counting) self-published novels, novellas, and short stories. Born and raised in Lubbock, Texas, he has traveled all over the US and Canada and now makes his home in Daytona Beach, Florida. His first attempt at writing at the age of nine with a ball-point pen and a notepad was a failure. Forty years later, he tried again and hasn't stopped since.

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🎅🎄6th Day of Christmas Author Spotlight🎄🎅: Lucy Lennox

Lucy Lennox

After enjoying creative writing as a child, Lucy didn’t write her first novel until she was over 40 years old. Her debut novel, Borrowing Blue, was published in the autumn of 2016. Lucy has an English Literature degree from Vanderbilt University, but that doesn’t hold a candle to the years and years of staying up all night reading tantalizing novels on her own. She has three children, plays tennis, and hates folding laundry. While her husband is no shmoopy romance hero, he is very good at math, cooks a mean lasagne, has gorgeous eyes, looks hot in his business clothes, and makes her laugh every single day.

Lucy hopes you enjoy sexy heroes as much as she does. Happy reading!

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Hashtag Holidate

Summary:

I came to Legacy, Montana, to sell a fantasy—twelve Insta-ready #Holidates of Christmas. One career-making brand deal. Zero drama.

Then my videographer bailed, and in walked Maddox Sullivan.

Grumpy. Gorgeous. Growly. A mountain man with zero chill and even less tolerance for influencers like me. He agrees to film my content—off-camera only—but when my first date cancels, guess who ends up in front of the lens?

Cue the fireworks.

Our chemistry is instant. My followers are obsessed. #TeamMaddrian starts trending. Suddenly, all my dates are mysteriously dropping out, and Maddox is reluctantly starring in every single holidate—sleigh rides, snowball fights, cocoa by the fire, kisses under the mistletoe.

And I… I’m starting to forget this was ever supposed to be pretend.

Because every time Maddox looks at me, I feel something real. Something lasting. Something terrifying.

I came here for curated content. Now I’m dreaming of a life I never thought I wanted—with a man I never saw coming.

But am I falling for the picture-perfect holiday fantasy? Or could this be the start of my real-life happily ever after?

Facing West

Summary:

Forever Wilde #1

Nico:

I left my family and tiny Texas hometown fifteen years ago to escape small-town gossips and to give my mom and sister the chance at a better life. But when a phone call from an attorney back home informs me that my sister passed away, leaving me custody of her newborn baby, I’m shocked out of the steady life I’ve built for myself running a tattoo shop in San Francisco.

The thing is: I don’t do babies. And I don’t do small towns. Or commitment. And I especially don’t do family. My plan is to go back to Hobie just long enough to sign adoption papers, giving my niece the kind of stable, loving family I could never provide.

But the moment I meet my niece in the arms of Weston Wilde, my sister’s best friend and the town’s handsome doctor, my plans begin to change. Because suddenly, I see a different future. One with the very thing I thought I never deserved: a family. If only I can convince West that I’m not the same good-for-nothing kid ready to bolt when things get tough.

Weston:

There’s one thing I know for sure about Nico Salerno: he was a good-for-nothing as a kid and judging by the purple-haired, tattoo’d punk who shows up at his sister’s funeral, he hasn’t changed. There’s no way I’m letting him take custody of my best friend’s baby.

But the more time I spend around him, the more I realize that his rough exterior is just a shell and that beneath all the tattoos is a scared, insecure man searching for a place to belong. And pretty soon I know exactly where he belongs: in my bed and by my side.

The problem is, he abandoned his family once before, how do I know that if we become a family he won’t do it again?

Facing West is the first in the new Forever Wilde series about the huge Wilde family from Hobie, Texas, whose patriarchs aren’t above a little meddling if that’s what it takes to help their grandkids find true love.

Ski Patrol

Summary:

Aster Valley #4.5

BJ came to Aster Valley to find a man. Okay, not just any man, a specific man. Namely, the man who accidentally dropped his To Do list in the Denver airport, thereby revealing he's the absolute best, most perfect match for BJ.

But after almost a week of... uh... kissing too many of the wrong guys, BJ realizes it's not meant to be. To add insult to injury, he gets an actual injury on the slopes, putting a wrench in his plans and his job at risk.

When Dallas, the sexy ski patrol responder, arrives on his snowmobile, BJ barely gives him a second look. He's in too much pain and he's sworn off all men, sexy or not.

But when Dallas shows up later that night at the hospital to offer BJ a ride home, BJ wonders if maybe he had it all wrong. Maybe he should give Aster Valley one more chance to make his To Do List dreams come true...

A Very Marian Christmas by Lucy Lennox

Summary:

Made Marian #7

12 Marian Men-A-Mating... I mean, A-Meeting

11 Blind Dates-A-Blinding

10 Lords-A-Leaping (to conclusions)

9 Ladies Dancing (okay, maybe that's Griff)

8 Kids-A-Complaining

7 Changes-A-Clothing

6 Love Junk Gadgets

5 **DRA-AAG QUEENS**

4 Calling Neighbors

3 Nosy Grannies

2 Men Falling In Love

And a partridge in a pear tree.

A Very Marian Christmas tells the story of a crazy family who goes to great lengths to find Noah a boyfriend in time for the holidays. But as Noah goes on date after date with these perfectly nice strangers, all he really wants is to return home to be with his roommate, Luke, who just so happens to be his brother's BFF and the man he's wanted for years.

Prince of Lies

Summary:

The Billionaire Brotherhood #1

Rowe Prince is many things.

Gorgeous? Yes.

Unintentionally hilarious? Absolutely.

The hottest, sunshiniest virgin to ever set foot in Manhattan? Oh, yeah.

One thing he’s not, though, is a reclusive billionaire named Sterling Chase who supposedly founded my company. So when the man (literally) stumbles into a charity gala saying precisely that, I do what anyone would: I set out to prove he’s a liar.

Except it turns out Rowe’s ridiculous falsehoods are surprisingly… enchanting. The heart of gold beneath his borrowed tux makes even a jaded businessman like me start to believe in fairy tales. And there’s no faking the heat between us when the man’s in my bed.

But when it turns out Rowe’s lies conceal a secret that threatens the company I’ve spent years building, I have to choose: say goodbye to the sweet pretender I’m falling for, or risk everything for a man who just might be… the prince of lies.

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🎅🎄5th Day of Christmas Author Spotlight🎄🎅: Toby Wise

Toby Wise

Toby Wise is a stay at home parent who hails from a tiny town in Wisconsin. Contrary to popular Wisconsin stereotypes, he’s not a cheese-head who enjoys beer but rather an introvert who spends all his time on the internet, drinking coffee, spending time with his kid, and cooing about his adorable cat, Pikachu.

In April of 2019, A Collection of Strays was born after the world of fanfiction drew him back into his love of writing. Now he’s writing all things omegaverse and paranormal as long as it includes silly moments and found family.

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Love's Unexpected Gift

Summary:

Something Unexpected #1

Pining after your best friend and roommate is all fine and dandy until you’re faced with tragedy. Then it kinda loses its appeal.

It’s always been me, Hayden, Jeff, and Tristen for as long as I can remember. The four of us against the world. But now that Jeff and Tristen are gone, I can’t help but think about all of life’s ‘what if’s’. Could I risk it all at a shot at love? ~Matt

Jeff and Tristen named us their daughter’s guardians if anything should happen to them. Matt and I have gone from two alphas who live together to a family of three. We love Emma like our own, but my heart longs for more. When I offer to help Matt with his rut, boundaries lose meaning and I fall even harder. What will it take for me to find the courage to tell him my true feelings? ~Hayden

This 26k omegaverse story is a standalone about two alphas finding love in the midst of loss. It’s filled with best friends becoming lovers, only one bed, adopted family, and more pining than a Christmas tree farm. Love’s Unexpected Gift contains knotty fun and therefore is intended for those 18 and older.

Chasing Magic

Summary:

A Collection of Familiars #1

After receiving a magical compass that’s supposed to lead him to his spark, Willow embarks on the road trip of a lifetime. He just didn’t realize it would take over five years of chasing to finally meet his spark, Nash and he certainly wasn’t expecting his spark’s brother to be his true mate.

Callan, a hawk shifter, is used to his life on the road. He’s always found joy in helping his brother, Nash, travel from place to place, helping sparks learn more about their magic. On one magical stop, Callan and Nash run into Willow and realize he’s exactly what they didn’t know they were missing.

Chasing Magic is book one in A Collection of Familiars series. Inside you’ll find true mates, found family, an alpha hawk, a bluejay familiar, mpreg, magic, and of course, a happily ever after!

Snowed in Sucker

Summary:

Tinsel and Tentacles 3

When Landon goes for a run, he has no idea a snowstorm is supposed to hit. Finding himself too far from home, he changes course and runs to his neighbor’s house instead. Not only does he find safety from the snow, but he also finds safety for his heart.

Jett is used to being alone, prefers it even, but there’s something about Landon that changes that. He develops feelings he’s never felt before and they all have to do with the alpha wolf in his home. At the same time, Jett’s octopus pheromones are causing big changes to Landon’s body.

The two of them have a decision to make at the end of their snowed in time; will they stay apart until the pheromones settle down? Or will they embrace these changes together?

Snowed In Sucker is a standalone story in the Tinsel and Tentacles 3.0 Series. Inside you’ll find tentacles, true mates being snowed in, first times, eggpreg, oviposition, supportive dads, meddling pheromones, and of course, Toby Approved happily ever afters in time for Christmas.

A Layperry's Tradition

Summary:

For A Chance At Us #1

It turns out every sci-fi movie was wrong when it comes to the whole ‘alien takeover’ thing.

On a drunken dare, Miles signs up for the Human Layperry Exchange. To Miles’ surprise, he and his best friend, Christian, are both accepted. Three years on an alien planet, learning their ways and experiencing their culture. Falling in love wasn’t part of the program but that’s exactly what Miles does.

The Layperry people have rituals and traditions when it comes to finding their mates. Timalah has always trusted these traditions, even as he falls hopelessly in love with Miles. On the day of Timalah’s mating ritual, he stands before his people, praying that Miles decides to take the leap.

Will Miles jump head first into Layperry tradition for a chance at love? Or will their differences be a bridge too long to cross?

A Layperry’s Tradition is book one in For A Chance At Us series. You’ll find mpreg, alien traditions, snarky best friends, and of course, a happily ever after.

Prancer

Summary:

Mated at the North Pole #3

Can a mis-booked hotel room be the makings of a Christmas miracle?

Dominic Prancer comes from a long line of reindeer shifters responsible for pulling Santa’s sleigh every Christmas. When he’s not flying the sleigh, he’s helping keep the sleighs in tip top shape. He works too hard, which is why Santa demands he take a mandatory vacation.

Silas has been planning this vacation for six months and refuses to let something as silly as a breakup keep him from enjoying it. When he overhears Dominic’s room has been double booked and the omega has nowhere to stay, he offers to share his room with the reindeer shifter.

The two spend an entire week together, enjoying a vacation they both desperately needed. When they need to go their separate ways, Dominic back to the North Pole and Silas back to his suburban home, they realize just how deep their feelings have grown. Can they find each other again in time for Christmas?

Prancer is the third book in the multi-author M/M Shifter Mpreg Christmas romance series Mated at the North Pole, featuring Santa’s reindeer who find their mates while on a mandatory vacation. Prancer features an omega reindeer, an alpha who takes care of everyone but himself, a hotel mishap, and the best kind of present ever—true love, fated mates, an adorable baby, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

Love's Unexpected Gift

AMAZON US  /  AMAZON UK  /  GOODREADS TBR

Chasing Magic

AMAZON US  /  AMAZON UK  /  GOODREADS TBR

Snowed in Sucker

AMAZON US  /  AMAZON UK  /  GOODREADS TBR

A Layperry's Tradition

AMAZON US  /  AMAZON UK  /  GOODREADS TBR

Prancer

AMAZON US  /  AMAZON UK  /  GOODREADS TBR