Hey friends! Let's pretend the reason I've ghosted y'all and haven't reached out in almost two months is because I was being all seasonal and not because my life went kafluey. I won't bore you with details but make sure you tell people you love them and appreciate the time you have with them.

Thank you for the love you've shown Book 2 in the Shifting Pines series, Claiming Her Cougar since it's release on August 29. I hope you are loving Mallory and Liam and their story as much as I loved writing it.

I have been spending the past two months deep in my writing cave and have some news on upcoming releases.

First up is Bashful Pucking Bigfoot releasing wide on December 12. It's book 4 in my Paranormal Hockey League series. It can be read as a standalone but it's more fun if you read the others.

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 refusing to have 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!

Violet's story (Bigfoot Finds Her Groom releasing February 15, 2026) is up for preorder as well! Violet is Finn and Ollie's younger sister. It's part of the Monster Brides Romance multi-author series and will be a Kindle Unlimited exclusive until June 2027. The cover is illustrated by the talented Kit Fox!

When love isn’t picture perfect, sometimes you need a blank canvas to create your heart’s masterpiece.

Violet

I can't believe my luck when I get my dream artistic commission to paint a historic lighthouse. It would be perfect if I didn’t have to deal with Cameron Leeds-Hewitt, the lighthouse’s grumpy occupant who insists I keep the painting of his home secret. I love my new life living close to my brothers and teaching art along the coast of New Jersey after leaving the woods of Oregon—and heartbreak—behind. I’m not risking my heart again, no matter how tempting this not-as-grumpy-as-he-seems man is.

Cameron

I love my life enjoying the serenity of the marshes surrounding my infamous family’s historic lighthouse where I live as the caretaker. Isn’t it enough I deal with young twenty-somethings in the history courses I teach at the local university? I don’t need one showing up on my doorstep with an easel and my meddling matchmaking witch of a cousin’s blessing. I tried the love-and-marriage thing years ago and the glare of the spotlight was too harsh. Violet King is too beautiful and talented to remain undiscovered as an artist. I can’t risk my heart, or the serenity of my home, hoping this time I'll be enough to stay for.

Can two healing hearts trust in each other and finally get the chance at happily ever after they deserve? Or will stubbornness and fear break their hearts all over again?

Monstrous grooms and beastly brides? Don't be afraid of falling in love... it's super-natural! Explore the entire Monster Brides series, one tantalizing happily-ever-after at a time!

If you want to start at the beginning of my Bigfoot family read Bigfoot Finds A Bride, also part of the Monster Brides series exclusive to Kindle Unlimited. It's the story of Ollie and Violet's older brother, Finn, and his second chance with the one he let get away.

What I'm working on now -

I'm currently writing a novella (it will end up around 30k words, similar to Bigfoot Finds A Bride) about Lily King, cousin to the siblings. Her story will come out late spring/early summer 2026. And she told me she has siblings, maybe my Bigfoot era isn't quite done yet...

OH! Many of my books are available to borrow through Hoopla so if have that service available to you through your library system check them out. (See what I did there?) You can also request your library to get my non-KU books (so, currently everything other than Bigfoot Finds A Bride) through Overdrive.

Alright, back to writing. Happy Halloween if you celebrate. Happy Half-Priced Candy Saturday. What's your favorite candy bar? I love Snickers. I think it's because I can relate - I'm also sweet but nutty. ;-)

Watch out for things that go bump in the night. Or don't. Whatever floats your boat.

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