All my Christmas monsters in one place!
Dec 07, 2024 12:25 pm
Happy December, my Wylde-lings! Are you ready for the holidays? Have you decorated yet?
This is a wonderful time of the year, indeed, because there are so many holiday romances on Amazon that it's probably hard to choose which to read. All of them, ideally.
I can't say that I'm a holiday romance writer... I know writers who publish something Christmas-themed every year. But I did write some holiday-themed books over my almost ten years of romance, and I thought I should list them in one big email, in case you haven't read them already.
And if you have, don't give up just yet. Scroll to the end, because there are two NEW books from two of my author friends. Make sure you check them out!
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Wed to Krampus
Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon AU | Amazon CA
Is there anyone for me? Or am I meant to live and die alone?
Krampus. It could be my name, or it could be what my species is called. I don't know. During The Shift, something happened, and I lost my memory. I don't know where I come from; all I know is there's no one like me on Alia Terra. I am unique.
Uniquely monstrous. I am hard to look at.
I don't know how old I am, either. Old, for sure, but I feel young. Young enough that I have warmth and love to offer, if only I could find someone to accept me as I am. My only option is the Temple, but even as I let them draw my blood for the DNA test, I have no hope they'll find a match for me.
Against all odds, they do. And she is beautiful, perfect, so sweet, and... horrified when she sees me.
My bride cannot look at my face. How will she see what's in my heart?
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Grimor the Joyless
Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon AU | Amazon CA
Faith Bell is in need of a miracle. A Christmas miracle. And not for herself, either, but for the children at the orphanage where she works. She’s an orphan herself, she’s penniless, and after a life of being in service of others, at twenty-five, she doesn’t have much going on. Not that she’d have it any other way, but the orphanage is going under. Without funding, and with less and less people willing to work for smiles and hugs, the orphanage will surely close. When humans turn their backs on their own orphans, Faith sees only one way out. She becomes an orc tribute.
Grimor the Joyless once had a different name. Back in the orc world, he inspired terror and awe. Now, in the world of humans, after so many years of meaningless peace, he can’t find his place. He’s lost his purpose. There is no word in his language to describe how he feels. There is a word in the humans’ language, but he’s forbidden his orcs from ever speaking it. His mage says he needs a bride. He’ll take one, if that means his horde will shut up about it and leave him be.
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Toghat the Vile
Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon AU | Amazon CA
Snowbound with Toghat the Vile - a sweet Christmas novella
Isabella Jensen is in over her head. She should've never gone hiking with her friends in the snowy mountains of Utah. With no training for this kind of physical effort, she fell behind, and then a snowstorm hit out of the blue. Now she's lost, and with every passing minute, her chances of survival are quickly dropping to zero. She doubts her friends will come back for her, and when she sees a massive creature heading her way, she panics. She thinks it's a bear and runs in the opposite direction. The creature has no trouble catching her, and that's when she realizes... It's not a bear. It's an orc on one of those huge beasts they ride into battle.
Toghat the Vile is on his way to one of those institutes for orc tributes. After years of loneliness, he thinks it's time to take a bride. Since orc females are scarce, a human one will have to do. A snowstorm derails him, and when he hears someone cry for help, he decides to investigate. He stumbles onto a human female who's lost, cold, and terrified of him. Now that he's found her, he can't leave her. He takes her with him, kicking and screaming, and finds shelter. Until the snowstorm passes, he will show her that all he wants is to take care of her.
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Snowbound with the Winter Lord
Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon AU | Amazon CA
Nora
I was looking forward to a cozy writing retreat with my best friend, at a cabin in the mountains, but when a snowstorm hits and the roads become impracticable, I end up alone, in the middle of nowhere. And then the power goes out, there’s no signal, and I hear a knock on my window. With a candle in hand, I look outside, and there’s a blue-skinned man with antlers staring back at me.
Velyan
I never liked the world of humans. I like it even less when I must leave my home behind and I end up in the middle of a vicious snowstorm, and the nearest shelter is a cabin that’s occupied by one of them. I ask the human woman to let me inside, and she answers by blocking all entrances. I soon realize my short exile in the human world is not going to be made easy by the bright-eyed, curvy beauty who denies me everything I crave.
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New book in the Red Planet Dragons of Tajss series, by Miranda Martin!
Forbidden Love, A Woman In Jeopardy
Saylor might be queen bee of her world, but her heart belongs to someone who could ruin her reputation forever—an Urr’ki warrior named Khiara. If anyone finds out, her social standing will crumble. Keeping her feelings hidden has been easy—until she's captured by Khiara’s people and thrown into a dangerous world she’s completely unprepared for.
When Khiara learns that Saylor is in the hands of his ruthless clan, he will risk everything to rescue her. But saving her means not only exposing their forbidden love, but forming an alliance with his sworn enemies. The dragon-like Zmaj warriors.
Will Khiara be able to save his forbidden love or will he lose everything before it has a chance to begin?
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And what's this from Layla Fae? A contemporary spicy holiday novella that will scratch all the right itches!
A Very Stalker Christmas
Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon AU | Amazon CA
My neighbor believes in Christmas magic. That’s because someone takes out her trash, does her dishes and laundry, clears snow from her driveway, and puts up Christmas decorations in her house.
She has no idea it’s me, her stalker neighbor who watches her every move. Seeing only the good around her, she fails to notice I also steal her panties and curtains. She doesn’t know I’m in her bedroom every night.
What I do is for her protection as much as for my pleasure. Emma loves to help, often bringing sick or lost animals into her home. She takes on way too much, sometimes forgetting to care for her own needs. I make sure she has food on her table, gas in her tank, and a safe, salted driveway.
It works out perfectly until she decides to make me her next pet project. I can’t risk being discovered, and even though I want nothing more than to be with her, it’s impossible. War trauma has left me unable to speak unless I wear a mask.
I know for a fact someone as innocent as her will never accept my creepy ways. Nothing, not even the magic of Christmas, will bring us together.
Even though I secretly wish it would.
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Happy reading!
Cara