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Filed under Dickens Holiday Romance
Today’s Friday five is about my heroine, Julia Maryland in my upcoming release, Don’t Mess with the Mistletoe.

It’s the holiday season in the tiny town of Dickens and pilot Michael Charles is home for his annual visit. His wanderlust has him itching to get back up in the skies as soon as possible, especially since he’s got a full schedule of rich and famous clients waiting to be transported to warm, exotic locales for the winter.
When his heavily pregnant sisters present him with a plan to give their workaholic mother some time off from managing the family diner, he balks. But one look at how tired the woman who took him into her home and heart is, and Michael agrees to run Dorrit’s Diner for a month so Amy Charles can get some well-deserved rest.
He’ll be back in the skies by the New Year.
The diner staff functions like a well-oiled machine, most of them long-term employees. The exception is new waitress Julia Maryland. The beautiful blonde has a past filled with heartache, a charming six-year-old daughter, and a smile Michael could spend the day getting lost in. But starting a relationship with her wouldn’t be wise because his visit is temporary and Julia seems like a permanent kind of girl.
When a family emergency requires him to rethink and reassess his life, Michael wonders if it’s time he becomes a permanent kind of man.
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Filed under Dickens Holiday Romance
YAY! I’ve got another GOODREADS giveaway starting today. This one’s for my upcoming book DON’T MESS WITH THE MISTLETOE: A Dickens Holiday Romance (Book 18) Dorrit’s Diner.
I’m giving away 100 free Kindle copies, but you have to enter for a chance to win one. Here’s the entry link:

The giveaway ends October 25, 2023.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
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Today’s first line comes from last year’s sweet romance CHANCE, book 12 in the Last Man Standing series.

Intrigued? Here’s the book jacket blurb:
Chance Miller, divorce lawyer extraordinaire, knows the whole happily ever after dream is an urban myth. He deals with miserable and wedded warring couples every day and swears staying single keeps him sane and happy. His friends and family consider him the last single man standing and fear he’ll never find someone and settle down. But Chance relishes his carefree status and unencumbered lifestyle and has no plans to change anything.
If only his relatives would stop trying to set him up with their version of the perfect woman.
Fredrika Poole already experienced her one great love, and the widow can’t read any future romance in her tea leaves. She’s content to bake, run her business, and care for her daughter.
When Chance meets Freddie and discovers her marriage thoughts run on the same road his do, he realizes she’s the answer to his prayer for keeping the relatives at bay. But the pixie barista has a way of making Chance question everything he’s always thought about love, marriage, and wedded bliss.
Will his last man standing status go unchallenged? Or will Freddie be the one woman he wants…but can never have?
I’m proud and excited and humbled to announce that CHANCE is a 2022 Sweet Romance Novella Finalist in the HEART AWARDS, too!
Filed under Last Man Standing

From my 4th book in the MacQuire Women Series THE VOICES OF ANGELS. So I’m back to action sentences for starters, LOL! This sentence has A LOT of action, too!
Filed under #firstlinefriday
I’m so excited and honored that VANILLA WITH A TWIST won the July Book of the Month contest over at LoveRomanceReads.
I’m not gonna lie – I campaigned hard to win because I knew that the win came with a chance to do a Facebook Messenger chat and I wanted to be able to promote the entire One Scoop or Two Series of books from Wild Rose Press.
The live FBMessenger chat will take place next Thursday, July 23, at 8:30 pm EST. This is the link and you need to join the Love Romance Reads Romp to participate, so click on, ask to join, and you’re set: LRR
If you want to read the book before the chat, I’ve included the buy links below. It’s a novella, so you should be able to get it read in just a few lazy afternoon hours.
Hope to see as many people as we can fit in the room next Thursday. Happy reading!
Tandy Blakemore spends her days running her New England ice cream parlor, single-parenting her teenage son, and trying to keep her head above financial water. No easy feat when the shop’s machinery is aging and her son is thinking about college. Tandy hasn’t had a day off in a decade and wonders if she’ll ever be able to live a worry-free life.
Engineer Deacon Withers is on an enforced vacation in the tiny seaside town of Beacher’s Cove. Overworked, stressed, and lonely, he walks into Tandy’s shop for a midday ice cream cone and gets embroiled in helping her fix a broken piece of equipment.
Can the budding friendship that follows lead to something everlasting?
Buy Links:
Amazon // Nook // Applebooks // Google play //Rakuten/Kobo
Like the book and want to leave a review? I’d be thrilled! Here’s where you can ( in addition to amazon, nook, etc):
And look for the other One Scoop or Two novellas currently out:
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