Cover Reveal

The Death of Digby Catch Cover Reveal ❤️ 📚🎉

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Happy Easter! I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. My children are finally in bed, and I just finished making their Easter baskets and trying not to eat too much candy in the process. I should have tried harder! LOL

It’s late here, but as my newest book is now in the publisher’s online store, I wanted to attempt a proper cover reveal. So, take a look at my little pretty! :D

Mysteries were really my first love. So, it’s odd that this is only the second true mystery I’ve written. It was fun to write, so hopefully, there will be more mysteries in my future. Though you need to follow where your writing muse leads, and currently, for me, that is 1960s Hollywood.

Blurb

It’s more than eighteen years since August Catch’s Uncle Digby disappeared to the Cape to mourn the death of his sister. So when August arrives at Arachne’s Loom to collect his late uncle’s things, he isn’t expecting to find stories of a man larger than life. Or the very real possibility that Digby’s death may not have been from natural causes.

Theo Webb has had few people in his life he loved, and fewer still he can trust. But the estate groundskeeper, Digby Catch, was one of them. Returning home for Digby’s funeral, Theo is thrown together with Digby’s nephew, and the attraction is instant. But so is Theo’s certainty that things surrounding Digby’s death don’t add up, and at least one person isn’t telling the truth.

Discovering a killer is difficult when someone is desperate to keep more than just their identity a secret. And when all the clues point in one direction, even Theo isn’t sure what to think. He and August must work together if they’re going to solve a murder, and not let the thing growing between them be a distraction.

But then, maybe a distraction is exactly what they need.

The Death of Digby Catch is up for pre-order from JMS Books, and releases on May 7th.

Book Sale

Also, for anyone looking for a new read—who isn’t?!!—check out the Easter sale at JMS Books. All eBooks are 40% off, so it’s a good time to grab a few of those titles you’ve been thinking about.

You can find my titles HERE.

Or check out some of JMS Books’ other great authors!

Holiday Book Cover Reveal! 🎄

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The holiday season is almost here! Personally, I’ve already started Christmas shopping—it takes a long time to ship overseas so starting early really is a must—but with Thanksgiving here in the US a week from today, the season is truly going to kick off.

I adore a Christmas story and have a few I make sure to read every year. The second book I ever wrote was a Thanksgiving/Christmas holiday story called Shiny Things about a man who runs into his high school sweetheart a few weeks before Thanksgiving. There have also been a few Halloween stories in there too—do those count?—and today I have a new Christmas book up for pre-order! 

This one was a long time coming, as I first jotted notes about the idea nearly three years ago. 

I finally decided to write it for JMS Books’ Naughty or Nice author call, and it’s now up for pre-order on their website. It will start to appear in other online retail shops in the coming weeks, and will release on December 15th.

Which means…today is cover reveal day! Yay!

With no further delay—because I know you didn’t peek—here’s How to Cheat at Dirty Santa!

Blurb

Some things are worth risking the naughty list.

Jonah Newfeld is not someone men fall for at a glance. They have to get to know him first. So when he meets the perfect man, he knows he needs to play the long game.

Nathan Sharp is the newest guy on the customer service floor. He’s clever, kind, blessedly single, and volunteers weekends at a local animal shelter. Jonah wants to raise babies with him. But when Nathan’s sister starts trying to fix him up with her veterinarian, Jonah’s dream is put into jeopardy.

Jonah needs the perfect plan if he wants to win over the man of his dreams. But a terrible plan will have to do, and more than a little help from his friends. If Jonah can pull it off and manage to get the boy, it’ll be more than worth being put on Santa’s naughty list for good.

You can save 20% now when you pre-order How to Cheat at Dirty Santa directly from the publisher website. Just click the link below.

Excerpt

As promised, I ordered pizza for lunch. I made it a large -- enough for Reed, Lydia, and myself -- and we agreed to meet at our normal table. Lydia brought the drinks, and, as it turned out, Reed brought Kim and Becca.

“Hi?” I said when the three of them arrived.

"Don't worry," Reed assured me as they took chairs across from Lydia and me. "The girls want to help."

Kim and Becca were also on our team. They dressed alike, spoke alike, and spent their lunch hours hiding in one or the other’s car reading yaoi comics featuring incredibly slender men in dress shirts, ties, and wire-rimmed glasses.

“Of course we want to help.”

They spoke in unison. Their voices a hotel twins echo of one another as if they practiced being unnerving on the weekends.

"That means we only have fifteen people to worry about." Lydia had pulled out a notebook and was busy crossing their names off the list. "That’s only three people a piece if we split them up.”

She said it like it was a good thing. While I, on the other hand, was horrified that two more people knew about my infatuation.

As if she could read my mind, Lydia patted my leg. “It takes a village, hon.”

I squinted at her. It was one thing to say it took a village to raise a kid, it was something else completely to say it took a village to get me a boyfriend. Different, and sad.

“Thanks for the assist, ladies.” Lydia gave them a conspiratorial smile, and the girls clapped, each mirroring the other’s excitement at being brought in on the mission, and I swear to God I could feel the hair on my neck stand up on end.

“Firstly, is it best to have Nathan pick his gift first? Or last?” Team leads always ran the games, and since Lydia was ours, we could give ourselves the advantage from the start. “Or does it even matter?”

“First. Definitely first.” That way, if he didn’t pick my gift, it gave the five of us a chance to take his present, and force him to pick another.

“Next, any suggestion that might keep the others away from Jonah’s gift.

“Sal is allergic to peanuts.” This came from Kim and Becca, and I instantly rethought my hesitation at bringing them on board.

“Perfect.” Lydia pointed at Becca with a pen. “It will be your job to tell Sal the purple polka dot wrapped present is a box of ... peanut clusters?”

“Got it.” The girls clapped again.

In the end, everyone had their jobs. Spreading rumors, and telling flat-out lies, and just as important, listening. But not, despite Reed's insistence that it was fail-proof, no bribery. Paying out cash would take the whole thing from a possibly cute story we’d tell our kids, to a cautionary tale he’d tell his.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!