Happy Halloween, dear Reader!

What do you have planned for this day? I hope that whatever you do will bring you joy. If you need a book recommendation, how about this one? One Christmas Wish by Brenda Jackson. Click on the title to find it on Amazon.

Today is my birthday, and my older daughter---the Broadway stage manager---is gifting me dinner and tickets to her current show, "Once Upon a Mattress". We'll be dining at a restaurant called 'Cafe Un Deux Trois'. That's French for 'Cafe 123' and those are the numbers of my street address, so I'm all for it! If you're in midtown Manhattan and want to do something fun, click on the link in the title to check out this fairytale redo.

Just a quickie on this last day of the month to share my birthday gift to you. Enjoy an otherworldly collection of shorts in Fabulous Fantasies, FREE TODAY ONLY ON AMAZON! 'Today' means 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. Pacific time! Amazon's rules, not mine. Click on the link to get your gift

Finally, as promised, a teaser from my next Christmas book ... the names of my main characters. This is an interracial, later-in-life, shared-trauma romance.

She is 40-year-old Dr. Chantilly "Tilly" Henderson, a pediatric surgeon, the eldest of six children, all of whom are named after perfumes or colognes! Oh, and she HATES her name!

He is 47-year-old McAllister "Mac" Battle (yes, two last names---his mother's maiden name and his dad's name), TCRN, which means Trauma Certified Registered Nurse. He is an honorably discharged former Navy corpsman and paramedic.

And here's the model who will be on this cover. Isn't she gorgeous?

I must away now, dear friend! It's very late here, and I'm on grandma duty again in six hours. I need my beauty (hehe!) sleep. Good night!

À bientôt,

KT