Hello from Abbotsford, British Columbia,

I know you haven't heard from me for a while, and I apologize for that. If you're no longer interested in my news, just hit reply, let me know, and I'll take you off the list.

I hope you'll stick around, though, because I have some exciting news!

Seventy authors have banded together to create an amazing anthology of Christmas stories. Secret Santa: A Limited Edition Christmas Romance Collection has every story conceivable. From steamy to sweet. From paranormal to LGBTQ. Great news, you can pick up your copy for just 99 cents! And the best part? The net proceeds go to Ronald McDonald House!

Meet me under the mistletoe...

In this limited edition Christmas romance collection love blooms underneath the mistletoe as secret admirers finally confess their love and secret santas make holiday wishes of the heart come true. Get into the Christmas spirit by diving into these stories where anything can happen through the magic of Christmas—and love.

Grab your copy now to experience the magic of love during the holidays.

Pre-Order Here!

Coloring Book News!

My friend Danika Bloom has been busy, busy, busy, making a coloring book for you!

Well, it's more than just a coloring book—it's a romance reader coloring challenge that 27 authors have contributed to, many of whom are offering prizes of free ebooks to readers who post their colored pictures on Facebook or Instagram.

Click here to see all 30 reader challenges and their coloring pages! (Works best on a computer, not a phone or tablet).

If you're able to print and color a picture, I'd love to see which one you choose. If you do the challenge, share and tag them with #ColorfulRomance so we can all see each other's visions implemented!

And it's free right now! (My book Amber Eyes inspired a BDSM page.)

Freebie Alert!

There's a great giveaway on Prolific Works. Beautiful what's your hurry? is a giveaway with 15 romance books up for grabs! Head on over and snag a few (under my pen name Gabbi Grey I've giving away my gay romance, Ace's Place..)

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Contest Alert!

Who doesn't love the chance for a free book???

My friend Jeanine Lauren has her book Angel and the Neville Next Door in a Goodreads Giveaway. The book is a later-in-life romance, and especially enjoyable if you like stories with a heroine finding love after the age of 50.

100 lucky people will win an ebook of this story. And right now, you have a 1 in 5 chance of winning since there are fewer than 500 entrants!

Show some love for 99 cent romances!

My writing buddy Roxie Clarke has a great novella out this week about second chance romances. Who doesn't love a sweet story about a couple trying again ten years later? Check out Bright Fire.

Ten years ago, Maryann, the quirky owner of the Secondhand Rose Vintage Thrift Shop, called off her wedding to the proprietor of the Burrito Barn, Luis.

Back then, she didn’t think marriage was for her—her family had zero successful examples of what a good marriage looked like—and at thirty-eight she thought she was too set in her ways to be someone’s wife, even if Luis was her soulmate.

Now that Maryann is pushing fifty, she has a lot of regret about not marrying Luis. She still loves him, but knows he has every right to never speak to her again.

Yet, when the Burrito Barn burns to the ground and he not-so-subtly parks his temporary taco truck in front of her shop, Maryann questions if the spark she feels between them could ignite their second chance at love.

If anyone could make what was old new again, it’s her.

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Another friend has a series starter book you just have to check out. MaryAnn Clarke's The Reporter's Unlikely Reunion: A Swoony, Steamy Second Chance Hometown Romance (The Most Unlikely To Series Book 1) is also about taking a chance ten years later.

He’s sweet, caring and loyal. She’s independent, ambitious and brave.

To Julian, home, family and friends are everything. They’re all he’s got.

Ruby’s heart is big enough to encompass the whole world. But she’s all alone.

♥

Julian

Ruby was my universe. She was all I ever wanted. Then she left me in the dark the summer after grad with a shattered heart, all my dreams dead. The only place I’ve seen her face is on the televisions hanging in high-class kitchens around the world, haunting me. On the eve of our tenth high school reunion, she’s suddenly back, and I don’t know why. My hardened heart is cracked open like an egg. Though I never stopped loving her for a moment, how do I know I still want her? I’m not the same man I was then.

Ruby

Ten years ago, I buried the lede when I betrayed the love of my life and abandoned him to pursue my journalism career. Few people know what happened, and Julian isn’t one of them. Burning with ambition, derailed by loss, I left Julian on the farm to travel the world, investigating others’ strife and trouble. Ten eventful years have passed, and I’m finally back in Port Cam. Now I have to tell Julian the truth. After what I’ve been through, I’m not sure what I want or what I’m capable of, but the one thing I need is forgiveness.

Can their ten year high school reunion give these star-crossed lovers the ingredients to re-write their story?

Author’s Note: A steamy, swoony second chance romance with a big-hearted hero out to save the world one dish at a time, and a wounded heroine who is starting to think hearth and heart might be the balm to heal her broken spirit.

Start reading book one of the brand new MOST UNLIKELY TO series of contemporary romances by award-winning author MaryAnn Clarke.

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That's all the news from my little corner of Canada.

Take care. Stay safe. Stay dry. Stay sane.

Love, Gabbi