{{contact.first_name}} 🥳 Happy New Year 🥳
Jan 03, 2026 8:30 pm
The new year has rolled in, and 2025 is now in the annals of history. Let's hope the new year brings all of us good fortune and happiness. It's been a crazy year for me, as I'm sure it has been for you.
I sprained a tendon/muscle in my foot in December, and then a nasty cold took me down for most of the week after Christmas, so most of my Christmas decorations never made it out of the closet! I did get the tree up and my Nutcracker collection out, though.
Next year, right?
I'm busy making plans for more new books this year. I have several different projects going, especially with the Holidays Ever After Series. If you haven't dived in yet, here is the first in the series, Tied to Trouble, on sale in January for just $.99.
https://books2read.com/Tied-to-Trouble
**********I also have several free Amazon links for Returning for Trouble, the latest release in the series, to give away. Reply to this email if you would like one. I have about six left. *************
You can find the entire Holidays Ever After Series on
Just a reminder for 2026: Be sure to open my newsletter at least once every 90 days to stay active. Of course, if you don't want to be active, it's okay to unsubscribe. I want you to love it here and hope you keep clicking. I appreciate every single reader. But Sendfox puts people into inactive status if they don't at least click once every 90 days. Once you go inactive, you stop receiving newsletters, and your email just sits there, and I have to delete it. I've avoided deleting the inactive list until now, but I had to do it. So, please click! Thank you for staying, Brandy :)
From our friends!
He may have broken her heart, but Natalie Freeman hasn't forgotten the dashing English spy who sent goose-bumps popping across her skin. Though a part of her is still furious, she hopes one day fate will reunite them, and she can once again surrender to his spine-tingling, dominant skill.
Oliver Barton just discovered the woman he was forced to abandon two years before is working for a ruthless Russian mobster—the same mobster at the center of his latest mission.
He’s determined to race to her rescue and do what he must to keep her safe. But he knows Natalie has a mind of her own.
Once again trouble is brewing in the North Pole!
Crystalia Wonderland had no idea that by leaving her home on Snow Capped Ridge for the first time in years she was opening a door she couldn't close. Of course she had to go to the Winter Ball in Christmas Village! Her son Wyatt was getting married for heaven's sake, and she wanted to meet the pretty pink-haired elf who'd stolen his heart. Besides, perhaps it was time to rejoin Elven society after so many years of isolation.
Jackson Frost took a different view. For years he'd courted Crystalia, waiting passionately for the day she would agree to become his bride. Ever the gentleman, he lavished her with gifts and adoration, slowly letting their relationship deepen while keeping his burning desire firmly in check. She was young, impulsive, and impressionable. He needed to give her time to mature, they said. Time to... blah, blah, blah!
Well, he’d given her time—time enough for her to run off with a human male who never married her but was kind enough to give her a child to raise on her own!
That was more than three decades ago, and Jackson thought his heart would one day mend. Instead, he became bitter, his heart turning to ice much like his castle on the frozen tundra. Then when she returned to The North Pole, he began again, hoping for a better outcome this time. He visited her in her home, offering a kind shoulder to cry on and a willing ear. However, his patience was at an end.
His Crystalia was once again in the village, and he knew what that meant. She was a stunning woman, and soon the males would be flocking to her side, hoping for a smile or a kind word. History could well repeat itself, and he was not going to allow that to happen.
That was when Jackson decided he was not above kidnapping!
She’s afraid she’ll never be exactly what he wants. But all he really wants… is her.
For months, Hazel has surrendered herself to Dr. Nigel Berringer’s dominance. At his command, she’s given and received more pleasure than she ever thought possible.
But Nigel wants more. Hazel knows it, she can feel it in every interaction they have.
So she turns to her friends at Rawhide Ranch for guidance, and when she finally gets up the nerve to talk to Nigel about her fears that she’ll never be the Little girl he really wants, she’s stunned to learn that he doesn’t want a Little.
He just wants her. All of her. Not just the bits and pieces of submission she’s been giving him during their time together. He wants all the dark, messy, thorny parts of her.
Even if giving him those pieces means ripping open wounds Hazel isn’t sure can ever be closed again, even by the most skilled doctor.
Strange visitors have appeared in Ethel, their clothes and mannerisms jarring against the familiar rhythm of the coastal town. The woman in Orla and Dave's spare room speaks in archaic phrases and marvels at electric lights, while the silent man staying with Molly and Cormac carries a translucent device that glows with symbols no one recognizes.
As fog rolls in from the sea, bringing with it the now-familiar whispers and cold spots that signal another haunting, the four friends realize they must unravel the temporal mystery before them. The clock tower strikes at midnight, and both past and future hang in the balance.
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