Hello, my Wylde-lings!

How are you this fine... (let me check the calendar)... December 5th? Are your Christmas decorations up already? And are you only reading Christmas books (as you should)?

Today's newsletter wasn't planned, but I had to drop into your Inbox to tell you about an author friend who had to deal with Amazon closing her publishing account just a few days ago. It was NOT her fault, the problem got fixed fast, and someone from Amazon called her to apologize, but even so, her book ranks suffered, and also her income, so I wanted to mention her books here, in case you want to help by buying or reading in Kindle Unlimited.

Alina Jacobs writes romantic comedies with snarly guys, so I think her books might just be up your alley. She has two fresh books that are totally cozy and Christmas-y, so check them out!

Good Elf Gone Wrong

When you catch your fiancé cheating on you with your sister on Christmas Eve, the elf hat comes off.

I’ve always been the good girl—the anti Scrooge—the one who sacrifices for her guests, bakes cookies for her neighbors, and stays late after a party to clean up.

I don’t mind. I like being on the nice list.

I kept smiling when I caught my fiancé coming down my sister’s chimney on Christmas Eve.

I gave polite congratulations when they got engaged on Christmas morning.

And I even offered to help decorate for their holiday wedding despite the fact that was supposed to be my dream wedding.

But when my sister cuts up our great-grandmother’s one-hundred-year-old wedding dress and turns it into a skank show, even though that was the dress I was going to wear on my wedding day?

Well, this elf is torching down the North Pole.

And what better way to get revenge than giving those cheaters a taste of their own medicine?

This good elf is bringing the bad boy home for Christmas.

Hudson is a six-foot-five, coldhearted, tattooed bad elf with a perpetual sneer and washboard abs.

He’s exactly my sister’s type.

And he’s going to help me nuke her wedding from orbit on the night before Christmas.

What he is not supposed to do is grab my ass in the kitchen while I bake gingerbread.

Or crawl in my bed half naked.

And he’s definitely not supposed to smirk and tell me to commit to our fake relationship right before he goes down on me.

Guess there’s a reason the good elves stay far away from the bad.

Sleigh Bells and Slaughter

Slaughter, you say? Well, you’d be ready to rampage, too, if you had to listen to “Jingle Bell Rock” for the eleven thousandth time.

Christmas is bad enough without all the music, frantic shopping sprees, and holiday parties. So many parties… with people you couldn’t stand in high school and definitely can’t stand now.

Top of the list? Patty Harrison. She made my teen years miserable and, now that we’re adults, she’s trying to get me banned from the Christmas market.

Even so, I’m not going to commit literal murder.

But when Parry is found dead in the fiery inferno of my shed, I’m not going to pretend to be sad either.

Just because I look like Wednesday Addams’s cooler, more dangerous older sister, everyone assumes I did it—including Captain Luke Reynolds, the firefighter tasked with solving the mystery of the arson and murder.

He’s everything terrible about Christmas, all in one tall, huge, muscular package.

No, not like that! I have more self-respect than to drool over a man who’s convinced I’m a murderer. Too bad my only alibi is my cat, Salem, and he’s not talking.

As someone who detests Christmas and counts down the days until Halloween, I’m not inviting Luke over for milk and cookies to appeal to his protective nature and beg for help.

Nope, I’m oiling up my brass knuckles, clearing my name, then retreating to my witchy cottage to wait out the yuletide season.

But what if I end up right in the real killer’s lair?

All the better!

Christmas needs a little spooky, and what better way than solving a murder?

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Also, make sure you pre-order the Arranged Monster Mates books, which are all Christmas themed. The first one releases tomorrow - Wed to Jack Frost, by Layla Fae. It's 214 pages!!! And extra yummy.

Wed to Jack Frost

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If you check out the series page, you'll see that we already have the next books up for pre-order. I will do a cover reveal and an announcement later, but if you want to take a peek, you can do so now! Just scroll down, down, down.

Arranged Monster Mates series

Talk soon!

You'll surely hear from me again next week, when Wed to the Dark Elf comes out. Cara