It's A Very Wicked Christmas!

One great way to endure the summer heat is to write a Christmas Regency story. This is my very first one, and while I was wearing my flip flops and sipping on mojitos, I was mentally in another era and a completely different season.

This anthology, A Very Wicked Christmas, contains six stories from six authors -- the very same ones from the Rakes and Rogues anthology earlier this summer. It's available for pre-order now, for just 99 cents, and it will release on October 18th. It will also be in print.

In my story, Lord Misrule, the heroine is a widow whose husband caused quite the scandal when he died in another man's bed. Now that her mourning period is over, she is eager to have her very first love affair, and the man she wants for her lover is none other than the rogue known as Lord Misrule. He has rather strict rules for affairs, mainly to keep anyone's heart from becoming attached--it's the only way he can handle the regrets from his role in a past Christmastime tragedy.

I'll have more info in the upcoming weeks, including sneak peaks. For now, here is a description of all six stories:

A Very Wicked Christmas

Six of today's most popular regency romance authors come together to deliver a holiday anthology full of passion, promise, and scandalous dalliance. Have Yourself A Very Wicked Christmas!

In Heather Boyd's The Christmas Affair, a lonely shopkeeper offers shelter to a beautiful, not so innocent miss to overcome the bitter memories of Christmases past, but could such a wicked connection ever lead to a happily-ever-after? A dashing spy with marriage on his mind seeks to rekindle the spark by any means possible with the woman who claimed his heart in Love at First Dance by Barbara Monajem. A scandalous widow rescues the man of her dreams - but his secrets could destroy their love in Nicola Davidson's Joy to the Earl. A masquerade ball was no place to be reckless with your innocence, and yet one scorching look at the masked highwayman urges Miss Partridge to do just that in Mistletoe and the Marquess by Wendy Vella. In Lord Misrule by Donna Cummings, a young widow chooses a handsome rogue to be her first lover, but his regrets from a past Christmas may end their affair before it even commences. A blue-stocking becomes a courtesan to escape a murderer in The Glittering Prize, an intrigue-filled romance by Beverley Oakley about finding love where it's least expected.