Hey friends! I can't believe we are already halfway through January! I know things have been challenging recently for so many of us for so many reasons. My wish for all of us is peace, grace, hope, joy, and french fries. Can't help it, I love french fries. LOL. And hot cocoa. Not necessarily together. Are you Team Whipped Cream or Team Marshmallows on your hot chocolate? Or something else all together? Hit reply and let me know! Maybe you're super fancy and use hot cocoa bombs. My niece had a hot chocolate bar at her baby shower and it had different flavors of hot chocolate and all the toppings. That's where I got the idea for the hot cocoa bar in Sexy Pucking Polar Bear!

December was busy between finishing up a crazy temp job (aspects of it will be used in a future book), releasing book 3 in the Paranormal Hockey Series, Flirty Pucking Wolf, celebrating the holidays with my family, and planning for 2025 and beyond. More on what is happening in 2025 further down but first let's jump back to 2024 for a second.

In case you missed last month's new release, Flirty Pucking Wolf is a Forced Proximity Teammate's sister romance featuring Trevor Carter and Sophie Mackenzie. You met Sophie in Secret Pucking Unicorn but can read Flirty Pucking Wolf without having read the other other stories, although I hope you will. It's available widely at your favorite retailer and enrolled in Kobo Plus. You can also request your local library add it to their Overdrive/Libby catalog!

Here's the blurb:

What do you get when a flirty-as-puck hockey playing wolf shifter who seems to think everything is a joke is paired with his teammate’s sister who takes everything too seriously? Sparks.

Trevor

I’ve heard the gossip. The only reason I’m on the Devil Birds is because our coach is engaged to my sister. Doesn’t matter how many goals I score, how much fun I am to be around, or how hard I work, the haters say I don’t deserve to be here. I’ll do whatever it takes to prove my worth to the team, even if that means shaking my tail on national TV in a celebrity ballroom dancing competition as a publicity stunt for the team. However, I draw the line at falling for my dance partner. Sophie Mackenzie is sexy, snarky, entirely too serious, and no doubts wants things I can’t give her. And she’s my teammate’s sister.

Sophie

I’ve heard the gossip. I only have my spot on this season’s Celebrity Dance Dare – Shifter Edition because of my family connections. My mother is a judge on the original show and my twin brother is a past champion. I’m being given a chance as a favor to them. It doesn’t matter that I’m just as talented as my brother, learned everything I know from my mother, or paid my dues as a backup dancer in the show’s troupe - the haters say I don’t deserve to be here. I’ll do whatever it takes to prove I deserve my chance in the spotlight, even if it means I have to teach a hulking professional hockey player how to ballroom dance well enough to win the Platinum Paw trophy. However, I draw the line at falling for my dance partner. Trevor Carter is sexy, totally full of himself, entirely too irreverent, and no doubt wants things I can’t give him. And he’s my brother’s teammate.

We want a common goal - to win the Platinum Paw trophy and prove our worth to the haters - so why is it so hard to work together? It doesn’t matter how attractive we find each other, this is a business arrangement. We put up with each other to win the show and then part ways. We want different things, and those things are not compatible. No matter how much we secretly wish they were.

Flirty Pucking Wolf is a shifter hockey romance full of humor, heart, and heat. If you want to laugh, sigh, and swoon, not necessarily in that order, with funny, sexy shifters, this is the book for you!

What I'm working on now - is book 4 in the Paranormal Hockey League, Bashful Pucking Bigfoot. I'm horrible at being coy and dropping hints here and there so here's the cover, blurb and Amazon preorder link. Links for other platforms will be coming soon!

And here's the blurb! If you read my book Bigfoot Finds A Bride as part of the Monster Brides Romance series you'll see some familiar names...

What do you get when a bashful-as-puck hockey-playing Bigfoot shifter accidentally announces on national TV he’s still a virgin and his best female friend offers to help change his status? Flutters.

Ollie

I did my best to be the best team captain of the Spokane Sasquatch I could be. Even if it meant going out of my comfort zone and being a contestant on Bigfoot Finds a Bride to get publicity for my team. When not having my first kiss be with a stranger and captured on camera results in getting cut from the show, my hockey team trades me away. Now I’m in New Jersey as the newest forward for the Atlantic City Devil Birds and all I want to do is focus on playing hockey. Well, hockey and my sexy cupcake baking roommate Phoebe Albright...

Phoebe

I’ve had a crush on Ollie King ever since his brother married my sister. I knew he didn’t date much but I didn’t realize how innocent he was until he spilled the sprinkles on reality TV. Now he’s been traded to my local hockey team and he’s my roommate. I offer to help him gain more romantic experience and act as his fiancé to allow him to focus on meshing with his new hockey team. I wish it wasn’t fake, but he’d never fall for a woman like me. I fear he’ll appreciate my talents in the bakery more than in the bedroom…

When feelings that were never fake become even more real, will our hearts admit the truth and find forever? Or will fear keep us from risking it all and savoring the sweetest, love?

Bashful Pucking Bigfoot is a shifter hockey romance full of humor, heart, and heat. If you want to laugh, sigh, and swoon, not necessarily in that order, with funny, sexy shifters, this is the book for you!

You don't have to read the story of Ollie and Phoebe's siblings falling in love to enjoy Bashful Pucking Bigfoot but if you're nosy like I am and want to know all the things here's the link to their HEA in Bigfoot Finds A Bride, available as part of the Monster Brides Romance series in Kindle Unlimited.

I have more exciting news for 2025 like the start of a new series! I can't share all of the details yet because I'm waiting on the covers I commissioned to be finalized but it's going to be set in Shifting Pines, New Jersey and intersect with the Paranormal Hockey League series. What I CAN share so far is the series logo by the fabulous Dawn Taylor of Sweet 15 Designs. Isn't it gorgeous?

The first two books in the series are written and being edited. If you've read my Paranormal Hockey League books you've already met both couples but no worries if you haven't. No preorders up yet until the covers are ready but I'm so excited to share it all with you!!

While you're waiting for new stories from me please check out my friends' books!

Here are some more favorites from some of my favorite people in favorite genres – paranormal, small town, and cozy mystery. Just click on the covers to learn more!

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If you have missed my earlier Paranormal Hockey League books here they are. Click on the covers for links and info!

We're looking at possibly some snow this weekend at the southern Jersey Shore. My plan is to stay inside where it's cozy and I have hot cocoa with either whipped cream or marshmallows. Or both. Depends what I have handy.

Stay cozy!

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