Hi everyone! Last week I mentioned watching Sinners and The Old Guard 2 and I did watch them both. The Old Guard 2 has a few really good parts. There's one bit where Andy is walking through a street and the background switches to different times through the centuries that she's lived. It was a very clever part of the movie.

I have wanted to watch Sinners since I saw the preview. I LOVE when they put familiar characters (vampires) in different situations, in this case it's the American south in 1932. But it blends so many different cultures and people that you would never expect in the same storyline. SO GOOD!!!

This week I've finally finished reading The Roustabout by Morgan Brice. It's part of the Carnival of Mysteries series I was part of last year. I've really loved how this story evolved. Both characters are so different but so perfect for each other. Lots of necromancer magic and help from the carnival folk.

I'm still working on Cookie but it will be ready to go next week! AND I'm approving the audiobook of Blinding Light today so hopefully Audible approves it fast. Thanks to all of you that have read Camping 101. I really appreciate all your support.

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Camping 101

BL Maxwell

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Gavin Johnson has been camping as long as he can remember. His family spent a few weeks every summer either on the coast of California or in the forests of the Sierra enjoying the simple life and getting closer to nature. Which is why when he had the opportunity to buy Camp Acorn where he’d worked in his twenties, he jumped at the chance.

Wyatt Jackson loves his life. He has everything he wants or needs at home. But he starts to crave change. He wants a new start, and new experiences. When he sees an ad for a camp for adults nestled deep in the Sierra, he registers for a two-week stay before he has the chance to change his own mind, and quickly regrets that decision.

Staying in a cabin for two weeks is supposed to be an adventure, but Wyatt soon realizes it’s far from luxurious, and there’s also poison oak, bugs, and rattlesnakes to watch out for. Gavin is always there to lend a hand and really wants them all to have fun. Afterall, that’s what Camp Acorn is all about, teaching adults how to have fun and survive in the wilderness, even if they complain the whole time. Opposites Attract, MM Romance

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Cookie

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When Ryan Stone’s aunt asks for help with her bookstore, he leaves the city and moves to the small town of Grace, at least temporarily. He’s so busy cleaning and restocking the store he almost doesn’t notice the handsome mechanic that always seems to show up at the park at the same time he has his lunch.

Every day for the past few weeks, Charlie Castle has been going to the park across the street from the auto shop, hoping for a chance to meet the new guy from the bookstore with the shock of red hair and a penchant for pink sugar cookies.

Ryan wasn’t looking for love when he met Charlie, but meeting Charlie might just give him everything he never knew he needed. MM Small Town Romance, Opposites Attract, Found Family

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Foggy Basin Season Two

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Isaac Grant has lived in Foggy Basin for all of his twenty-three years. Everything was perfect until his favorite friend with benefits, Jack, met the love of his life. Sure, he was happy for Jack, but he missed him and wanted someone of his own to keep him warm at night, or to get into trouble with.

Tig Sawyer left Foggy Basin after only living there for a little over a year. He graduated from high school and moved onto an out-of-state college and, for the most part, never looked back. But memories of that slower pace always came back to him when he was neck deep in work, and his personal life.

Isaac was never looking for a relationship and was more than

happy to live his life loose and free, but since meeting Tig, he wonders why he never wanted someone of his own. He also questions why someone like Tig, who has his life together and always seems happy as hell, would want to take him on. But there’s something in the way Tig looks at him that says he’s more than willing.

Welcome to Foggy Basin Season Two. Just passing through? No problem. Here to stay, well, better find your place. Sit back, relax and get to know the townsfolk. They love hard and play even harder. Each book is a standalone but why not stay and get to know us and read them all.

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The boys are back in the multi-author Road to Rocktoberfest 2025 series. Each book can be read as a standalone, but why not read them all and see if some of your past favorites poke their heads in. Err…voices. Hot rockstars, stolen kisses, drywall repairs and the men who drive them over the edge. What more could you ask for? Kick back, load up your ereaders and enjoy the men of Rocktoberfest!

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Blinding Light is back on the road! Easy and Liam are even harder to be around than they were before, and Rory’s still in love with Kai. Everything’s going great, until Glenn, their drummer, has an unfortunate accident and can’t play the drums for their upcoming tour. Lucky for everyone his nephew, Devon is also a drummer.

Devon Grimes has played the drums since he was old enough to hold a stick, but he’s never been known for his responsible choices or showing up anywhere on time. After being kicked out of the band he helped form he’s relieved when Blinding Light asks him to step in and jumps at the chance. Now if he can just prove that he’s not the screw up everyone thinks he is.

Johnny Brown was lead singer in an up-and-coming band until everything imploded on their first tour. Now he’s hoping to find new members that he can rebuild his dreams with and hopefully avoid the drama that destroyed the band. He’s a fan of Blinding Light and he’s more than curious about their new member, but rumors about his past make Johnny wonder if the hot drummer is worth the trouble. #second chance romance, #Rockstar Romance, #age gap, #friends to lovers

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Blue Lightning

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Cole Ryan is bored. He’s lived in the same small town his whole life and has the same job. Nothing changes there and every morning when he goes for a run, those thoughts echo on repeat through his mind. Until today, on this day, something big happens and if he survives it, his life won’t be the same. Maybe boring old Hickory Crossing wasn’t so bad after all.

Driving in the rain, on his way to a delivery, Bobby Sanders is focused on the road, when a flash of blue light in the distance catches his eye. He witnesses a bolt of lightning strike a man running on the road ahead of him. He never suspected that bolt of lightning could change both their lives, not just the poor guy who was blown out of his shoes right in front of him.

When the persistent sound of whispering won’t go away, Cole questions his sanity. But maybe he’s not the only one experiencing strange things.

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Finding Archie (Foggy Basin Season Two)

Brina Brady

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Keywords: MM Romance, Small Town, Proximity, Hurt &Comfort, Irish teacher, Blue Star Diner server

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Archie Star’s life had always been marked by loneliness. After losing his mother at eleven, he was left with a father who never quite knew what to do with him. Even after earning a literature degree, Archie felt like a ghost in his own home, unseen and unneeded. When his cousin Andrew offered him a job at the Blue Star Diner in Foggy Basin, he took it as a sign. With nothing but a duffel bag and a restless heart, he climbed onto his motorcycle and rode toward a fresh start, hoping to find a place where he could finally breathe.

Andrew secured him a room in the home of Brogan Finnegan, a charming Irish high school teacher with a storyteller’s soul. Brogan had traveled the world before settling in Foggy Basin, drawn to teaching after years of volunteering in communities abroad. His warm home and steady presence offered Archie something he hadn’t felt in years—comfort, safety, and maybe even belonging.

But it was Brogan himself who truly captivated Archie.

What started as quiet conversations over late-night cups of tea and shared glances across rooms soon became something deeper. Two men, both searching for connection in their own way, found solace in each other. In the gentle rhythm of daily life, in the laughter that softened the edges of their pasts, they pieced themselves together. And in doing so, they learned that home isn’t always a place—it’s a person.

Finding Archie is a story of love, healing, and the unexpected places where we find home.

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Welcome to Foggy Basin, Season Two. Just passing through? No problem. But if you’re here to stay, you’d better find your place. The townsfolk love hard and play even harder. Each book is a standalone, but why not stay a while and read them all?

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A Daddy for Christmas 3: Benson

Brina Brady

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Thirty-year-old Benson McCoy hides behind a veil of precision and routine, his cab a sanctuary of order where every item has its place and every stop is timed to the minute. Beneath his tight-lipped smiles and mechanical schedule lies a man aching with loneliness, haunted by the time he never carved out for connection. As he hauls a load of toys cross-country from New York to Los Angeles, trapped in a cycle of work and his father’s expectations, Benson quietly yearns for something or someone to disrupt his solitude. He doesn’t expect that someone to be Kyle Foster, a charming storm of disarray who might just upend Benson’s rigid world and uncover the tenderness he’s tried so hard to bury.

Twenty-two-year-old Kyle, impulsive and reckless, runs from the chaotic mess of his own making with the sounds of sirens faintly echoing in the distance. Kyle shows up on the shoulder of some frozen NYC highway, hitchhiking toward California with half a plan and a backpack full of chaos. If anyone needs a daddy, it’s Kyle. He asks too many questions, laughs too loud, and doesn’t know how to shut down his heart or his mouth. Kyle’s presence is a messy explosion of honest emotion, impossible to ignore his whirlwind of unfiltered energy.

They hit the icy roads together—two strangers, one rig, and a growing tension neither of them knows what to do with. Between awkward silences, cheap diner meals, and late-night talks that get way too real, Benson and Kyle begin to crack each other open. Benson needs a boy, and Kyle needs a Daddy for Christmas. Neither of them was looking for love.

Love doesn’t always come knocking, but sometimes, it climbs into the passenger seat and refuses to shut up.

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A Daddy for Christmas 3 is a multi-author series. Holiday tales of lost 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? The character’s theme is Grumpy and Sunshine.

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 Lux had been without a boy for years now. After moving fifteen hundred miles away from the site of his biggest failures, he hopes he's left his track record for failure behind him. River is a ray of sunshine from the tips of his curly pink hair to the soles of his pink Converse. He is an unapologetic blend of sassiness and snark and he's not about to tone it down for anyone, including the colorful new Daddy who has caught his eye. Lux might be an art teacher, but River has made an artform out of making sparks fly and with Christmas right around the corner, there's nothing he'd like more than to celebrate the season by rolling up a bit of Christmas Magic after a night of rolling in the sheets.

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 Walker Remington hates the holiday season. He didn't always feel that way, but tragedy has a way of changing things and making a man bitter. Carols, lights, the sight of people with their packages and bags all tip him over into Bah Humbug mode, that is, until Ajay comes along. With his piercings and wildly colored hair, he is everything Walker is not. Young, fun-loving, and on the hunt for a Daddy, something Walker has been before, and longs to be again, if only he'll stop sabotaging every chance he's offered.

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 When a Secret Santa matchup sends Ryu to the wrong Daddy, will it be a pleasant surprise for both of them or will grumpy Kissmass Daddy Hank prove why he's been alone for over a year? The moment Hank lay eyes on the basket outside his door he figured someone down at the club was playing a joke on him. The boy was adorable but certainly not meant for him. Learning who Ryu was meant for changed everything though, and suddenly the man who wasn’t interested in the package on his doorstep was loudly declaring Ryu his.  

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 Pillow forts. Fairy lights. The magic of the season is alive in this return to Foggy Basin and the lives of Haven and Maddox. From risking their 'tastybuds' on jellybeans that may, or may not be the flavor they look like, to destination planning their next big adventure, they pass their time with snark and steamy innuendos; while celebrating the season with their rescue pets, Loki-Bear and The Notorious S.O.X. Laughter, snow, and berry blue implements of pleasure round out this return to Twisted Chassis. 

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Despite the breakup of their marriage, Harper and her ex-husband Simon remained friends. As co-owners of the popular lifestyle club, Menotte avec toi, they decided to put out an open call to local artists to fill the colorful walls of their freshly renovated club.

Harper expected bright colors and sensual art. What she didn’t expect was to find love.

On a whim, free spirited Sonnet attends the call out having come to a bit of a crossroads in her career. Maybe this was just the spark she needed to fill those empty canvases haunting her studio.

Will Sonnet be the one to soothe Harper’s soul and in return can Harper silence the cruel voices inside Sonnets head?

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I’m an elf, but not a good one. I’m too tall. My ears aren’t pointy enough. I can’t make toys. Basically, I’m a failure.

I’ve grown up with Nic and Holly—a/k/a Santa and Mrs. Claus—which puts a considerable amount of pressure on me, especially since I’ve been kicked out of every creative department at Santa Claus, Inc., Int’l. In a last-ditch effort, I’m sent to the Special Case Unit, where I’m assigned a family going through a crisis.

I’m charged with bringing comfort and cheer to a special little girl who needs all of it she can get. I don’t expect to meet a wonderful human man who appears to have the weight of the world on his broad shoulders, and I certainly don’t expect to want to help him carry it. The case is difficult, but I’m dedicated.

I definitely don’t anticipate falling in love along the way, either.

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In my world, there are no silver linings—that is, until Jinson Bell, a nursing assistant, walks into my daughter’s hospital room and gives her something to smile about.

Going into the holiday season with a sick child is as heartbreaking as it sounds. My sweet little girl is diagnosed with a horrible disease where the treatment is doubly as harsh. I’m nearly at the end of my rope regarding what to do when one afternoon, I round a corner and meet an incredible guy I’m not expecting. Jinson is kind, adorable, much younger than me, and he has a sweet tooth like none I’ve ever seen. He knows what we need before we need it, and it’s far too easy to fall in love with him.

The timing is horrible, but Jin is there when I need someone to hold me together. When he laughs, it’s like bells are ringing, and when I find out he’s only at the hospital temporarily for training, I have to find a way to make him mine.

This work of fiction is 30,000 words in length, is a standalone novella without a cliffhanger, and ends in an HEA. 

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