Author Archives: Peggy Jaeger

So, are you looking for a little sweetness this Valentine’s Day that doesn’t involve thousands of calories in chocolate or allergy-inducing floral arrangements? If so, I’ve got a deal for you.

3 WISHES is my Valentine’s Day romance and it’s the first book featuring the San Valentino family.

Valentine’s Day is chocolatier Chloe San Valentino’s favorite day of the year. Not only is it the busiest day in her candy shop, Caramelle de Chloe, but it’s also her birthday.

Chloe’s got a birthday wish list for the perfect man she pulls out every year: he’d fall in love with her in a heartbeat, he’d be someone who cares about people, and he’d have one blue eye and one green eye, just like her. So far, Chloe’s fantasy man hasn’t materialized, despite the matchmaking efforts of her big, close-knit Italian family.

But this year for her 30th birthday, she just might get her three wishes.

The ecopy is just 99cents, or if you prefer print, 5.99

Either way you read it, it’s a nice way to celebrate Valentine’s Day without and excess calories! Heehee

Preorder here: VENDETTA

I’m so excited to announce my first official reader meet/greet/booksigning is coming up in 2 short months.

THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK BALL willo take place in the beautiful Mountain View Grand Resort and spa from April 25-26.

There will be over 55 authors, 3 narrators, and a few vendors all pariticipating in the weekend.

Multiple author panels on topics important to the book community are scheduled throughout the two days, in addition to a huge Ball planned for the night of Saturday, April 26th.

All in all, this weekend is sounding like it’s going to be, well, A BALL! lol.

So, I told you the other day that A CHEF’S KISS CHRISTMAS was a finalist in the New Jersey Golden leaf 2025 contest.

I’ve already ordered stickers for the front of the books from Vistaprint!

But I wanted to share the entire finalist list because I have some friends who are very talented writers who are also finalists.

Congrats to Jennifer Wilck, Clair Marti, Gracie Guy and Diana Rock and to all the other finalists in this great contest. You are all winners in my book! ( See what I did there, LOL?)

but March winds are coming.

And that’s not only a reference to the weather.

Right now I am participating in another chapter writing challenge to motivate me to finish the two books I’m currently writing. I need more motivation than just 1 month, though, so I am participating the NHRWA MARCH WINDS writing challenge to keep me going!

If you’re in a writing slump, or need to finish or start your next book project, please consider joining us for the challenge. Here’s the link to do so:

Special Events

Let us help you stay motivated on your writing journey!

Today’s first line Friday comes from book 1 in the MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN series, DEARLY BELOVED.

“9-1-1 Colleen! I’ve got a 9-1-1 in the Bawl room!”

(Why not start off with a bang, right? LOL

DEARLY BELOVED

Colleen O’Dowd manages a thriving bridal business with her sisters in Heaven, New Hampshire. After fleeing Manhattan and her cheating ex-fiancé, Colleen still believes in happily ever afters. But with a demanding business to run, her sisters to look after, and their 93-year-old grandmother to keep out of trouble, she’s worried she’ll never find Mr. Right.

Playboy Slade Harrington doesn’t believe in marriage. His father’s six weddings have taught him life is better as an unencumbered single guy. But Slade loves his little sister. He’ll do anything for her, including footing the bill for her dream wedding. He doesn’t plan on losing his heart to a smart-mouthed, gorgeous wedding planner, though.

When her ex-fiancé comes back into the picture, Colleen must choose between Mr. Right and Mr. Right Now.

DEARLY BELOVED was voted a 2019 TOP PICK in the BBB – the Book Buyers Best – contest.

Here a just a few of the 5 star reviews for the book:

Guest Review: Dearly Beloved by Peggy Yeager

Dearly Beloved by Peggy Jaeger

and it’s not for the reason you think!

So this happened today:

See that big black dot? It’s next to my name as a finalist in the 2025 New Jersey Romance Writers Golden Leaf contest! The finalist book is A CHEF’S KISS CHRISTMAS, my very last Dickens Holiday romance book.

To say I’m honored it too small a statement. I’m thrilled to be a finalist in this prestigious contest.

Even after 11 years of writing full-time, and over 70 books in print, entering writing contests is still a way for me to offset the horrible imposter syndrome that cripples me on certain days. And it’s a real thing. There are some mornings I worry that the words I put down that day are going to be trite, cliches, and worst of all – boring.

But then something like this happens and serves to validate that I can still tell a good story – so good, it’s a finalist in a writing contest.

So…yeah, I’m gonna keep entering contests, keep writing my books, and keep hoping someone, somewhere, is moved by my words.

Happy day, kids. A happy day.

Many of you know that several months ago I obtained the rights back to the first book in the NYC Socialites series, DIRTY DAMSELS. This was the book that started it all for me writing my female billionaire series, the tag line of which is: books about women who had it all, lost it all, then got it back – all on their own – finding love along the way.

Well, I took DIRTY DAMSELS, updated it, added an epilogue that I’d had to remove the first time around ( don’t ask) and today it went out into the book-reading world!

You can get your updated version on AMAZON or through my website for a reduced price.

DIRTY DAMSELS :THE BEGINNING

What happens when a modern day Cinderella has a one night stand with a man named Prince?

Cynderella Jones, Ella to her friends and family, owns a thriving and successful cleaning service called Dirty Damsels. 32, single and a self imposed recycled-virgin, Ella is looking to keep her company private. But when her business manager tells her he’s heard scuttlebutt about a takeover, she realizes she needs a plan to protect her business. Before she can, she has to navigate through a week where sick calls and marriages lighten her workforce. When she goes out on a cleaning call for a very influential client, she meets a man so hot, so exciting, she literally comes out of her exiled celibate-state and has a one-night fling with him.

But when Cynderella discovers he’s the frontman for the supposed takeover, she scrambles to protect her company…and her heart.

Today’s #firstlinefriday – to continue with the theme – is from the third book in my PRIDE OF BROTHERS series, DYLAN

Dylan Keane knew if he hadn’t been forced to walk the straight and narrow by his parents he would have had a lucrative career as a con man instead of a private investigator.

Cyber-security specialist Dylan Keane is working undercover to suss out a corporate thief. When he zeroes in on Harper Vale, he thinks he’s found his mole.

Harper has a reputation as a coding savant and an introvert. Dylan’s interest is flattering, but after she’s implicated in the theft of the company’s protected software, she doubts everything he’s told her.

When a series of potentially deadly accidents occur involving Harper, Dylan wonders if she is being set up to take the fall. One thing is certain: the more time they spend together, the more Dylan realizes he’s the one who’s falling—for Harper.

On a previous social media post, I mentioned that someone I’ve admired greatly turned out to be a magahole Because of this, I no longer admire them.

Let me be clear on a few points I believe, wholeheartedly.

~ Love is love is love is love. I don’t care what color you are, religion, creed, nationality, or who you identify as. You deserve to be seen, loved, honored, and revered as a child of God.

~ you love your children unconditionally no matter what pronouns they have and use. There’s no argument to be made here; it’s an absolute.

~my body is mine and the choices I make or don’t make concern no one but me, my family, and my doctors.

~ if you think people who don’t look just like you don’t belong in this country, but you’re not of Native American heritage, then look in a mirror, because you don’t belong here, either.

~ I believe what I see with my own eyes. I am not hypnotized into believing what a gaggle of corrupt, lying, power-hungry assholes think is what I should see. The Emperor is naked, kids. Believe your own eyes and the evidence you see with them.

~ Release the Epstein files if there is nothing embarrassing in them to Orangina.

~It was always about attaining power and money, never about any kind of love or support of the American people.

~ ICE is Orangina’s American Gestapo. Don’t believe that? Ask the families of Renne Good and Alex Perretti and the other people this murderous enclave have murdered recently.

~ absolute power corrupts, absolutely.

~ silence is cowardice and complicity.

~calling yourself a Christian and condoning what is happening in our country right now is not what the definition of Christianity or being Christ-like is.

Now, I write books, and as such I have an expectation to sell them. This is how I make a living.

But if I never sell another book because of my beliefs, then so be it.

If you think I’m delusional, have my head in my ass, and am a flaming lib-tard, so be it. I’m not. I’m actually an Independent, and have always been a strong fiscal conservative and a social liberal, plus a believer in the right to bear arms legally under strong gun laws, but you won’t believe that.

If you believe it’s okay to murder people in the streets of this country, or arrest them without due process, or deport them without legal representation, so be it. That’s on your soul, not mine.

I know with my whole heart that when I go to meet the Lord, he’ll know I was on the right side of history, humanity, and morality.

And I know it, too.

So if you disagree with any of the bullet points I’ve made, or you think I am wrong on any and every point, then go ahead and unfollow me on all platforms and don’t buy any future books of mine. We will both sleep better for it.

One more thing. I have no remorse for deleting negative comments, blocking magahole lies and rhetoric, and reporting abusive posts/comments/quotes/threats. And I’m an excellent researcher. Remember that lady who drove 3 hours to confront someone who posted hate-filled speech on her TikTok post? Yeah, that chick’s got nothing on my research and deep-dive skills. So, like Liam Neeson says, “I will find you.”

That is not a threat…it is a promise.