Stories to Snuggle With by Paty Jager

 November heralds the beginning of the holiday season. 

The Christmas movies on Hallmark and Family channel have already begun. Not to mention all the Christmas decorations and aisles marked "Gifts" in the stores and online. And staged shelves of Christmas baking items in the grocery stores.  

The one thing that makes me feel the holidays are upon us is when you start seeing Christmas books and novellas advertised. Last year I had a short holiday story in the Windtree Press Anthology Crime Never Takes a Holiday. 

A cornucopia of ten cozy mystery stories that are perpetrated during holidays from New Years to Christmas. This collection explores unexplained disturbances, college pranks gone wrong, and almost always one or more murders around a holiday. Solve these spooky crimes that lurk beneath celebratory parties and help search for the murderers. Kick off your shoes, grab a warm drink, and snuggle into a blanket before you get lured onto the sparkling snow for the next crime spree.

Crime Never Takes a Holiday

A Body on the 13th Floor by Paty Jager

Dead Ladies Don’t Dance by Robin Weaver

Took Nothing Left Nothing by Pamela Cowan

Busted for Bones by Dari LaRoche

Yuletide Firebug by Kathy Coatney

Starry Night Murder by Mary Vine

The Twelfth Night Murder by Ann Chaney

Blue Christmas by Melissa Yi

Two Turtle Doves by Maggie Lynch

Five Golden Rings by Kimila Kay

Universal buy link: https://books2read.com/u/b6zYgp

This year I have a Christmas Novella. It is set in my Shandra Higheagle Mystery world.

Christmas Chaos takes up the lives of my characters Shandra Higheagle, her husband Ryan Greer, and their adopted twins ten years after the series ends. I also made sure several of the characters whom the readers met throughout the series were mentioned. 

Christmas Chaos

A Shandra Higheagle Mystery

Novella

Check out a super-special Christmas surprise— a continuation of the Shandra Higheagle Mystery series. Ten years later the twins are at college but there’s trouble brewing.

Shandra Higheagle Greer is anxiously awaiting a visit from her twins as they head home from college for Christmas break. After a ten-year absence, her deceased grandmother is back in her dreams and the message seems clear. The twins are in trouble. After giving a young woman a ride to a nearby town, they become suspects in her murder.

Even though he's been removed from the case, Shandra and her husband, Weippe County Sheriff Ryan Greer, continue to investigate, determined to dig up proof that the twins had nothing to do with the homicide. Even if that means putting one of the twins in danger to uncover the truth.

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You can be sure I'll find a new to me Christmas story to read as the days grow shorter and I spend more time snuggled up in my chair with a blanket. 

It's My Party! by Paty Jager

I'm going to stray from the suggested post topic for this month. It's June, my birthday month, and I have two new releases, so bear with me as I talk about those. 

The first release is a box set of contemporary western romance novellas. I was excited to be asked to join this elite group of 5 western authors. I had a story idea that was sitting in my contemporary western romance folder on my computer. And it was one I could see working in a novella. The interesting thing about this story is the fact I picked a different flaw for the heroine than you usually see in a romance and now, as I started to write the novella, I had more insight into her flaw because I have a granddaughter with the same affliction.  Dyslexia.

In Catch the Rain, heroine, Kitty Baxter was shuffled from foster home to foster home with no one realizing she couldn't read. She learned how to cope and hide her defect. While she had dreams, she knew she'd never be able to work as anything but a stable hand. Along comes a  new veterinarian to town. Dr. Zachary MacDonald sees more in the stable hand than she sees in herself. Add in a stalker and the conflict grows.

Catch the Rain

Running from her past, Kitty Baxter catches a glimpse of her future—if she’s brave enough to believe in herself and the kind-hearted stranger who claims she deserves love. 

Focused on setting up his new veterinarian practice, Zach MacDonald becomes sidetracked by a karaoke singing beauty with a secret. He sees what others don’t, and becomes determined to make Kitty see that anyone can learn to catch the rain.

 



You can find this and 5 other novellas in Cowboy Six Pack for $0.99 or FREE on KU.

Every woman loves a six-pack! Six sexy cowboy stories sure to make you swoon as they ride, rope and two-step into your heart!

To Steal a Cowboy’s Heart by Kari Lynn Dell

Cowboy Courtship by Allison Merritt

Changing a Cowboy’s Tune by Stephanie Berget

Broken Vows by Melissa Keir

Cowboy Wrecked by D’Ann Lindun

 

Buy Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072LR2WFL

My other release is:

Fatal Fall

Book eight of the Shandra Higheagle Native American Mystery Series

Avarice…Family…Murder

When the doctor is a no-show for her appointment, Shandra Higheagle becomes wrapped up in another murder. The death of the doctor’s elderly aunt has everyone questioning what happened and who’s to blame. Shandra’s dreams soon tell her she’s on the right path, but also suggests her best friend could be in grave danger. 

Detective Ryan Greer knows not even an illness will keep Shandra from sneaking around, and he appreciates that. Her insight is invaluable. When she becomes embroiled deeper in the investigation, he stakes out the crime scene and waits for the murder to make a tell-all mistake.

But will he be able to act fast enough to keep Shandra or her friend from being the next victim?

Buy Link:
https://www.books2read.com/u/bQZ5d7

This is a busy month for me- the two releases, I'm attending the Wild Deadwood Reads event in Deadwood, SD, I'll have grandchildren staying with me, and I'm hosting a reunion. If I have a post up in July, you'll know I survived!  

 

Paty Jager is an award-winning author of 30+ novels, a dozen novellas, and a passel of short stories of murder mystery, western romance, and action adventure. All her work has Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging characters. This is what Mysteries Etc says about her Shandra Higheagle mystery series: “Mystery, romance, small town, and Native American heritage combine to make a compelling read.”