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It is winner-picking time. Using the random selector tool we have the following winners:

Giveaway #1 (Holiday Kisses) – Monikarw (comment #17)
Giveaway #2 (charity antho copies) – Claudia GC (comment #9)
Giveaway #3 (backlist digital book) – Cheryl S (comment #1)

And I thought we’d go ahead and do this one…
Monthly contest ($15 gift certificate) – Daniela C (from Giveaway #2 post, comment #3)

Congratulations to everyone! Please email me so we can work out how to get those prizes to you all.

This giveaway is a bit of a free-for-all. The winner gets his/her choice of any of my books that have already been released. The only catch? It’s a digital copy. You win and then pick the book of your choice and I gift it to you from B&N or Amazon, whichever works for you.

TO ENTER: Leave a comment here and I’ll pick a winner on the 30th. It’s your job to check back and see if you’ve won.

I’ve had the incredible honor to be a part of two charity anthologies. The first, THE GIFT OF LOVE, benefits The Conductive Learning Center, a special school for children with spina bifida and cerebral palsy. The second is SEAL OF MY DREAMS and benefits the Veterans Research Corporation, a non-profit foundation supporting veterans medical research.

Two great causes. Many great authors. It was truly an honor to be involved in these books. And you have a chance to win them. The winner of this giveaway gets both.

TO ENTER: Leave a comment here and I’ll pick a winner on the 30th. It’s your job to check back and see if you’ve won.

I hope everyone is having a good holiday season. To celebrate the end of the year, I thought I’d do a few giveaways. Today’s prize is…

A special print edition of the holiday anthology, HOLIDAY KISSES (or a digital one, if you prefer).

Back cover:

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like…Love!

A man gives the gift of trust and receives a second chance at love in return. A woman helps to heal the wounded heart of a soldier. A couple finds that true love knows no distance. And a young widow learns that there can be two great loves in a lifetime. Love, romance and passion come together in this collection of four seasonal shorts.

TO ENTER: If you want a copy, just leave a comment here. I’ll pick a winner on the 30th. It’s your job to check back and see if you’ve won.

To those who celebrate – Merry Christmas! I hope everyone has a healthy and happy holiday season.

Next week I’ll do some giveaways to end the year. Until then, enjoy your families and friends…and be happy you don’t live next to these people:

Awesome author and good friend Alison Kent is giving away a copy of Agony/Ecstasy, the anthology which includes my sexy workplace short Just Say Yes. Go on over HERE and enter to win.

The cover isn’t all that holiday-y, but let’s look at it one more time…

Today is the hubby’s birthday. We were going to play today, but instead of racing around we’re hanging around home with our sick 15 yr old sweetie pie dog. She’s better but we’re worried, so hubby is sacrificing his day out. Love the hubby.

Happy birthday, babe.

It’s holiday time. Many parts of the US (and elsewhere) have snow. With all the present wrapping and cold weather, I thought you might enjoy this:

Gotta love Hawaii.

The theme today is winter. Kind of seems appropriate, doesn’t it? I thought about highlighting a winter-in-Hawaii book but decided to give you one more excerpt from IT’S NOT CHRISTMAS WITHOUT YOU.

He blew on his gloved hands. “It’s going to snow.”

“You could always tell.”

“Not sure if it’s my innate ability to read the signs or the fact it started coming down a second ago.”

She leaned in and glanced out the big window that overlooked the lot. “Ah, brilliant.”

White flecks filled the near-black sky and landed on the tree branches. She inhaled and even through the walls could pick out the refreshing scent of pine, the same smell she associated with Holloway and hayrides and hours of racing around outside once the school cancellation announcement came across the crawl on the bottom of the television screen.

If she closed her eyes she could blink her way back to the wooded acres surrounding Austin’s house and relive the last winter she spent there. The nights so deadly quiet except for the soft rustle of branches and slick click of icy snow as it fell and piled in feet-high stacks.

Austin slid a thigh onto the desk and studied her. “What are you thinking about?”

“Why?”

“You’re smiling.”

The memory filled her with the same comfort as a cozy blanket on a cold night. “Trudging through the snow until I could barely lift my leg and was so tired I almost fell over. Impromptu snowball fights and the rumbling sound of the snow blower.”

“You’re kind of making me hot.”

She coughed out a laugh and kept going until she doubled over and her stomach ached. When she opened her eyes again, he was at her side with that soft expression of amusement on his sexy mouth.

He slipped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her body tight to his. “You okay there?”

“You make me smile.”

His hand tightened on her arm. “Good to know.”

“Everything about you tempts me.”

“Then I’ll stay quiet to keep from messing this moment up.”

She turned in his arms, settling in and resting her palms against his chest. “You know this isn’t about you or my feelings for you, right? It’s never been a matter of being unsure about those.”

He just stared at her.

She rested her forehead against his. “You can talk, you know.”

A long breath escaped his chest and blew across her cheek. She could feel every last inch of him tense under her fingertips.

“Gotta be honest. The break-up feels like it’s about me. I’m the one you left. That you keep leaving.”

The sadness in those blue eyes zapped her strength and left her weak and shaking. She searched for the right words to shift the blame back to where it belonged. On her.

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Remember to check out the other authors’ snippets:

Lauren Dane
Rhian Cahill
Eliza Gayle
Selena Blake
Anne Rainey
Jody Wallace
Lissa Matthews
Mari Carr
McKenna Jeffries
Myla Jackson
Taige Crenshaw
Alison Kent
Delilah Devlin
Shelli Stevens
Shiloh Walker
TJ Michaels