My Cover Reveal!
How Lovely Your Branches
a novella in the Unholy Nights Anthology!
UPDATE: Cover by the lovely Robin at https://www.facebook.com/coversbyrobin
Release date: December 2nd, 2013.
Giveaway: Answer this question in comments for a chance to win a $10 Amazon giftcard!
Question: When you think about love in wintertime, what image comes to mind? For me it’s snuggling under a blanket with my DH. What’s yours?
For folks who like their Christmas a little twisted, seven tales of charms and magic, curses and intrigue…
Featuring novellas from popular authors Linda Barlow, Andra Brynn, Carly Carson, Alana Albertson, Kara Ashley Dey, Nicole Blanchard and Cherie Chulick.
Snap up this Christmas collection and spice up those frigid winter nights with a great story at an irresistible price. Seven riveting romances by award winning authors for $0.99. The perfect gift for you favorite bookworm. (Regular price: $4.99)
Releases December 2, 2013 at your favorite retailer in ebook and print.
A Kiss is Just a Kiss by Linda Barlow
Synopsis
It’s Christmastide, but Holly Mathers can’t seem to get into the spirit. She’s been obsessing for weeks over a hook-up gone wrong with the hot, green-eyed Will MacIvey, who’s treating her like the ghost of Christmas past. When she and her roommate are invited to a Winter Solstice celebration by their faculty advisor, Holly is thrilled to learn that Will is going to the party. Holly’s roommate has procured a sprig of enchanted mistletoe that she plans to use to steal a kiss from the sexy professor. When she chickens out, Holly decides to try the spell on Will, hoping that a kiss under the mistletoe will remind him of the steamy night he seems to have forgotten. But magic always comes with a price…
About the Author
Linda Barlow lives in New England with her mysterious spouse (who sleeps during the day, which has often made her wonder if he’s a vampire) and their equally enigmatic and nocturnal cat.
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In the Bleak Midwinter by Andra Brynn
Synopsis
In the bleak midwinter…
With no money and nowhere to go, Ayla MacFarlane’s first midwinter break from college returns her to the decaying house she grew up in–and to the shadow of her father, whose perverse obsession with her made her years there a misery. Now under her father’s control again, Ayla knows that if she leaves once more it will only be a matter of time before their father turns his sights to her little sister Julia…
“There’s a boy in the woods…”
But the hunted are not always without protection. While Ayla has been away, Julia has made friends with a mysterious boy in the woods that surround their property. Certain he is up to no good, Ayla sets out to confront him, only to find a beautiful young man who speaks in riddles and makes her heart race. What is stranger is that he knows things no human should know, and he tells Ayla that he can help her…for a price.
The hunt is on…
As the solstice nears, the time of reckoning is at hand. Will Ayla have the courage to reclaim all her father stole from her and protect her little sister, or will she be be a slave to her fear, and lose her chance to save herself forever?
About the Author
I write books. Obsessively. And I read books. Not quite as obsessively as I’d like, since there are all these books I have to write, you see. One day I will take a book vacation and do nothing but read my TBR list.
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Love Charm for Dakota by Carly Carson
Synopsis
Nantucket is the home of hedge fund titans, old money and hidebound tradition. Habits are comfortable, and the habits of the rich are very comfortable. Into Cabot Saltonstall’s sedate world blows Dakota Bishop, possessor of a wild spirit and a magical love charm. Cabot’s blue-blood family history includes an ancestor who resigned from the Salem Witch trials, because he refused to believe in witchcraft.
But Cabot is all too willing to be bewitched.
Dakota can’t stay still long enough for anyone to tie her down, nor is Cabot the right kind of guy for her. If only he’d have sex with her so she could get him out of her system. Why does he need to be so traditional with his emotions and plans for the future?
Does she know enough of witchcraft to overcome the spell of the accidentally cast love charm?
About the Author
Carly lives near Nantucket Island, where the Christmas Stroll is an annual event. Having found her own Prince Charming at a young age, she’s never needed a love charm, but please join her as she tells the tales of other women who’ve used a bit of magic to find true love.
The Snow Queen by Alana Albertson
Synopsis
Five years ago, Cambridge Ballet’s Sugar Plum Fairy and Cavalier vanished after performing The Nutcracker. Despite extensive city and statewide searches, no traces of them, besides their ballet slippers, were ever found. Every year since, another member of the cast has gone missing after closing night: the Mouse King, an Arabian Dancer, The Dew Drop Fairy, a Flower. Nieves Alba, who as a thirteen-year-old played Clara in the first ill-fated performance, is now cast as the Snow Queen. On closing night, every police officer in Boston surrounds the theater, determined to catch the perpetrator whom they’ve dubbed “The Nutcracker.” Can Nieves break the curse or will she be the next victim of America’s favorite ballet?
About the Author
Alana Albertson never was fortunate to get cast as the snow queen though she did play the soldier. She has extensive collections of snow globes and nutcrackers but none of them have ever been enchanted.
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How Lovely Your Branches by Kara Ashley Dey
Synopsis
Recluse, Katie Crowe, has observed the world from a window in her father’s loveless house. With the death of her father and the departure of her only friend, Katie sees no point in venturing out. Then a new neighbor and his three female companions take up residence across the road in the very house her friend had vacated four months ago. Gabe’s eyes hold a promise to Katie when she gazes into them–a way out of her lonely prison, if she could but step beyond her threshold. Something holds her back: Though the past and its people seem far from her now, the trees still know her haunting secret.
About the Author
Kara Ashley Dey is a writer of UF and Sci-Fi Romance. Her alter ego is an abbynormal cg artist.
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The Perfect Gift by Nicole Blanchard
Synopsis
Sera Flaherty would rather take lumps of coal and be committed to the naughty list for life than admit that she has a role to play in her failing marriage. She deludes her way into a negative bank balance and is left with no chance of getting her husband Spencer a present. When faced with the reality of their relationship, Sera finds she’s willing to sacrifice anything to fix her mistakes and find her husband the perfect gift…even if doing will cost more than she bargained for.
About the Author
Nicole Blanchard loves receiving gifts from strangers so long as they don’t come with an ominous warning or risk of dismemberment. She also enjoys taking full advantage of the fringe benefits of being on the naughty list in her spare time.
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Until the Twelfth Night by Cherie Chulick
Synopsis
Lady Elizabeth Darling has fled her overbearing family to spend the holidays with her late husband’s Aunt at Scarsbury Manor in the hills of Herefordshire. What she hoped would be a quiet Christmas quickly turns upside down as strange sightings begin to stack up and rumors fly that the great house is haunted. She tries to stay out of the drama, but when a young maid who also lost her lover in tragic circumstances asks for her help to move forward she drops everything to come to her aid. With age old traditions underway and a diverse guest list including the handsome and outspoken Captain Wolfe on the premises, can Lady Elizabeth heal both their hearts and find love before it’s too late?
About the Author
Cherie Chulick will not be spending her Christmas holiday at a haunted manor, but she does keep an eye out for the occasional ghost. Fortunately the glow of her Kindle seems to keep them at bay.
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I always think of sitting in front of the fireplace in a darkened room after a day spent together in some snow-related outdoor activity. Skiing, skating. Champagne would be a nice touch. Oh and it should be snowing outside.
That sounds so wonderfully cozy, Carly! Very romantic. Cuddling up in sweaters from Norway…then silk wraps from Paris. Then…well a nice faux fur rug by the hearth and a feather comforter. 😀
Thanks for stopping by!
–Kara
What a creepy premise, Kara! (Also sounds like there’s menage potential—yum.) Congrats on the release, and in such good company.
Love in the winter means the sun. The sun is my honeybun, my lover, my joy. Every warmer-than-normal, sunny day we lucky Texans see in the winter is balm to the part of me that pines for summer like a lovesick teen. Someday, I’ll have a home in the tropics so I can be with my sweetie all year long.
Good luck with the anthology!
Sally, my dear! Glad you like the spooky potential. Winter in the tropics! Nice! We’re lucky in Texas, right? I remember days as a kid, sitting in front of the window and letting the sun seep into my face, when outside was sub-zero Wisconsin. 🙂
–Kara
Love in Winter means cool sheets with two warm bodies doing their best to turn up the heat in one another! LOL
Nice! 🙂
Beautiful cover, Kara! I think of snow skiing followed by drinks at the lodge in front of a fire. 🙂
-R.T. Wolfe
Thanks R.T. I’m really pleased with what Robin came up with!
–Kara
The moon is full and candles are lit there is soft music playing NFL two glasses of wine and a platter with grapes strawberries cheese chocolate and crackers my husband and I toast to sharing the rest of our lives together as it’s only been 13 years. We feed one another and snuggle in together under huge fluffy blankets We take in the fire roaring in the fire place and tell each other how much the other means to us. ( well all that warmth would be great except the hot flashes all most mess up the moment ) he fans the air for me and wipes the sweat off my forehead and tells me how much he loves me
Love it, Rebecca! 🙂
–Kara
REBECCA MILLS is the $10 Amazon Gift Certificate Winner!!! Yay. Thank you everyone for stopping by! The anthology is doing really well! Top 10 and 100 in almost all categories. Yay! Here is a link. Only 99 cents for now. 🙂
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Thank you and Congratulations Rebecca!
–Kara