If you saw my post on Friday, 8.30, you know that Judy Kentrus and I kicked off the 2024 season of A DICKENS HOLIDAY ROMANCE series on the Facebook page with a day of fun, games, recipes, and our cover reveals.
Just in case you missed that fabulous day, here’s the cover to my 2024 addition to the series, A CHEF’S KISS CHRISTMAS
This beauty joins the other 5 books I’ve written in the series, all centering around DORRIT’S DINER, its owner AMY DORRIT CHARLES, and her adopted children Abra, Sasha, and Michael.
YOu can find all the DICKENS HOLIDAY ROMANCE series books here: DHR
A CHEF’S KISS CHRISTMAS releases on 11/11/24 and will be just #99cents for the first week. After that, the price goes to its normal $2.99 per kindle copy. It will also be available in print for $16.99
Happy reading, kids, and welcomes to Dickens, where love is always in season.
Do you love a matchmaker romance book? I do. Simply lovelovelove!!! And August 31st has been designated as MATCHMAKER DAY!
To celebrate this wonderful day devoted to finding love, I’ve got a sale going on for my HEAVEN’S MATCHMAKER series – both books MIX & MATCH and LOVE MATCHare ON SALE for just #99cents in Kindle copy! You can’t beat that price! 2 books for less than $2.00!
Divorced and lonely, nurse Jasmine Green retains the services of Heaven, NH’s very own successful matchmaker, Olivia Joyner. The bar scene and dating apps give Jasmine hives and Liv’s reputation is stellar. If anyone can help guide her through the quagmire that dating has become, Olivia can.
Architect Donovan Boyd is ready to settle down. He wants the kind of marriage his parents have; long lasting, filled with love, children, and joy. But even after a year of living and working in Heaven, he’s still considered an outsider by many. Finding the type of woman he’s looking for is hard in the tight-knit community. Retaining Olivia Joyner to help him find his forever love is one of the smartest things he’s done, especially after she sets him up with Jasmine Green.
But the red-haired, green-eyed beauty wants a different kind of marriage from the one Donovan considers ideal.
Running away from a public scandal may be cowardly, but to Layla Warton, it’s her best option.
After her politically connected fiancé is indicted for a laundry list of crimes, Layla wants to put the public ridicule and shame of her guilty-by-association status behind her. Not easy to do when all her supposed friends and supporters lose her number and the taint of scandal-adjacent destroys the successful design business and life she’s built for herself.
Happy childhood memories and the blessing of a local friend push her toward the tiny New England town of Heaven where she spent summers with her loving grandparents. Hiding out in the town until the scandal dies down is the perfect plan.
With the paparazzi hot on her tail, an ancient family home she needs to get livable, and a contractor too hot for her sanity, Layla worries she’ll never be able to get her old life back.
But would that really be such a bad thing?
….and look for book 3, PERFECT MATCH, coming in 2025
This upcoming Labor Day weekend, the authors of the 2024 additions to the DICKENS HOLIDAY ROMANCE series are having a weekend-long cover reveal.
My cover for A CHEF’S KISS CHRISTMAS is going to be revealed on Friday, August 30 over on the public site. This is the link to the site for you to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/christmasindickens
On the the 30th, join me and fellow Dickens author Judy Kentrus for a fun day of games, insights into the series, and all things fun and Christmas-y!
And you’ll finally get to see the cover of A CHEF’S KISS CHRISTMAS!!
Successful Chef Anton Saparosa had the perfect life. Great marriage; beautiful and adoring wife; trendy, SoCal restaurant frequented by celebrities – many of them his friends.
Then Covid hit.
Anton’s perfect life dissolved before his eyes. With nothing left to keep him in California he starts an itinerant cross-country journey searching for something to give his life meaning again.
Happenstance lands him in the tiny town of Dickens just as Dorrit’s Diner is thrown into chaos.
Literary Agent Portia Avon needs a rest. A messy divorce has her craving quiet and the company of her friend and client A.B. Cards, nee Abra Bree. She comes from the western heat of California to the eastern cold of Dickens and plans to do nothing but rest, relax, and read during her holiday stay.
When Portia spots a familiar face in Dorrit’s, she’s confused. Why is Anton Saparosa, one of the most recognizable chefs in California, working as a fry cook in Abra’s mom’s diner, and going by the name Tony Smith?
A question Portia wants an answer to, but one Tony isn’t willing to share, especially with a woman he can’t stop thinking about.
In lieu of my typical throwback Thursday post today, I want to make sure everyone knows about this Saturday’s event at the Bigelow Free Library in Clinton, MA.
Some of my favorite authors, writers, and friends will be offering their books for sale during ROMANCE WEEKEND, so come down and see/support us.
Libraries are the backbone of a free democracy and when so many destructive factions are trying to ban books, we need to support libraries as much as we can to ensure free speech and access to ideas remains allowable.
Peggy Jaeger, Author 