December Holiday Releases! (Plus enter our GIVEAWAY!)

December 1, 2023 · Posted by Tule Publishing

Read more about our new releases for December!

GIVEAWAY: We will pick ONE winner to receive a digital book of their choice from the December releases. Comment down below saying which book you’re looking most forward to reading! Giveaway is open INTERNATIONALLY. The winner will be randomly selected at the end of the month.

The Christmas Cottage
by Jane Porter (Holiday)

Release Date: December 5, 2023
Love at Langley Park, Book 2

She’s ready for a charming Christmas in the English countryside…

It’s almost Christmas and Ella Roberts is ecstatic to be heading to Bakewell to spend the holidays with her sister and brother-in-law, the new Earl and Countess Sherbourne, and represent her family at the English wedding reception. Ella is looking forward to visiting the Sherbourne estate, exploring Bakewell, and experiencing a proper English Christmas. She just has two requests—that she stays in one of the historic cottages at Langley Park, and that the annoying best man not be invited to the reception.

Baird MacLauren was happy to serve as the best man to his closest friend from Trinity College’s wedding. The long weekend spent in the San Juan Islands celebrating his best friend was easy, but getting along with the bride’s mischievous sister who takes nothing seriously was an unexpected challenge. Baird thought he’d never have to see her again…until he spots Ella in Bakewell preparing for the reception.

To Ella’s dismay, her second request isn’t honored and now she’ll be spending Christmas with the most arrogant—and handsome—of Scottish men. Can they both keep their distance or will the magic of the season bring these two together?

A Merry Bramble Christmas
by CJ Carmichael (Holiday)

Release Date: December 7, 2023
Bramble House Chronicles, Book 2

Bramble House B & B is booked for the Christmas season, and new owner Amy Arden and her husband Chet Hardwick are excited to spend their first Yuletide season as a married couple. To spread the joy of the season, they have carefully selected their guests for the week before Christmas including two very special people.

Oliver Rivers is coming to Marietta to fulfill his mother’s deathbed wish…to locate the daughter his mother gave up when she was fifteen. When that doesn’t go as planned, he finds himself gravitating to another guest at Bramble House.

Everyone calls Gemma Granger the runaway bride, but they don’t know she was deceived by her fiancé and fled to Bramble House to nurse her broken heart. Instead, Gemma finds herself feeling an instant connection with Oliver and helping him bond with his long-lost family.

Oliver suspects Gemma is taking on him and other projects to avoid dealing with her heartbreak. But the truth is that with each passing day, Gemma is discovering that her real life and her real love might not be where she thought it was.

Sarah Vance-Tompkins Shares Her Favorite Appetizer and Dessert In Time for the Holidays!

November 30, 2023 · Posted by Tule Publishing

Delicious recipes straight from the kitchens of your favorite Tule authors.

Hello Tuligans!

I have two delicious recipes I am excited to share with you. One is an appetizer – easily one of the easiest things to make! And the other is the recipe to the greatest brownies. Both can be kept in the freezer and enjoyed when company comes over at the holidays. The appetizer recipe is so simple it’s ridiculous. But they are always gobbled down and the first to disappear during a gathering. And the Katharine Hepburn brownies are so good that rumors in the New York Times recipe section claim they’ve been used for seduction. Just saying!

Enjoy!
xoxo – Sarah Vance-Tompkins

Ha’ Penny Appetizer

Ingredients:

1 cup flour

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup grated sharp cheese (1 regular-sized bag)

1 envelope Campbell’s onion soup mix.

Directions:

1. Pre heat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Mix together in a bowl.

3. Form dough into log/rolls that are an inch to 3/4 inch in diameter.

4. Wrap in sheets of foil and freeze.

5. When ready to use, slice 3/8 inch thick and place the coins on a cookie sheet.

6. Bake 10-12 minutes. Serve warm (with a glass of red wine!).

Katharine Hepburn Brownies

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Hershey’s unsweetened cocoa powder

1 stick unsalted butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/4 cup flour

1 tsp. vanilla

1/4 tsp. salt

1 cup roughly chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)

Directions:

1. Pre-heat over to 325 degrees.

2. Melt butter in a heavy saucepan over medium low heat. Add the cocoa powder, whisking constantly until blended and the mixture is shiny.

3. Remove from the heat.

4. Stir in the sugar. Whisk in the eggs and vanilla. Stir in flour, salt and walnuts. Mix well.

5. Pour into a well-buttered 8-inch square baking pan.

6. Bake for about 40 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool completely and cut into squares.

These brownies are very fudgy and may be somewhat difficult to slice cleanly but worth the effort because they are absolutely delicious!

Whip Up Some Quick Microwave Fudge with Tule Author Laurie Beach!

November 27, 2023 · Posted by Tule Publishing

Delicious recipes straight from the kitchens of your favorite Tule authors.

Happy Holidays, Tuligans!

I wanted to share my mother’s recipe for quick microwave fudge with you. It’s a great Christmas cookie plate filler when you’re tired and need more treats. Quick, easy and delicious!

MICROWAVE FUDGE

1 pound powdered sugar

1/2 cup cocoa

1/4 cup milk

1/2 cup butter

1 tsp vanilla

Blend sugar and cocoa in an 8x8x2 dish. Pour in milk. Place butter on top. Heat on full power for two minutes. Stir well. Add vanilla, stir again. Allow to cool.

Enjoy!
– Laurie Beach

*Be sure to check out Laurie’s “Crickley Creek series” on the Tule site!

Delicious Southern Shrimp or Crawfish Pasta from Southern Born Author, Susan Sands!

November 20, 2023 · Posted by Tule Publishing

Delicious recipes straight from the kitchens of your favorite Tule authors.

This recipe is always a crowd pleaser in our family and I hope you enjoy it as much as we do! It’s the perfect addition to your holiday festivities.

Enjoy!!
– Susan Sands

Shrimp or Crawfish Pasta

What you need:

1 bag egg noodles
6 – 8 oz. Velveeta
2 Tbs. of pickled jalapenos
¾ cup milk
2 – 3 Tbs. flour
1 bunch green onions chopped small
1 small yellow onion chopped
Garlic (minced or chopped) or garlic powder
Tony Chachere’s to taste
1 green bell pepper chopped
½ stick butter
1 tsp. celery flakes or 1 stalk chopped celery
Shredded cheddar to top

What to do:

1. Prepare noodles according to package directions, drain, and set aside.

2. Melt butter in a large skillet. Add chopped onion, garlic, bell pepper, celery, Tony’s, onion powder and sauté until soft. Add peeled and deveined shrimp. Cook until shrimp are pink or crawfish are hot.

3. Cube Velveeta and add to pan, and melt into mixture on low heat.

4. In a bowl, whisk together flour in cold milk until smooth. At low fire, add milk/flour mixture. Use whisk to combine until blended. You can add a little at a time until desired thickness is reached. If mixture becomes too thick, add a bit more milk.

5. In a 13 X 9 pan, combine egg noodles and shrimp/crawfish sauce mixture. Top with shredded cheddar. Bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes.

Meet Tule Publishing’s First 10 Brides as Part of our #Tule10 Anniversary!

November 18, 2023 · Posted by Tule Publishing

Tule Publishing has hit a milestone 10 years and we’re celebrating all month long with showcasing some of our first 10’s! Learn more about our first 10 authors, meet our first 10 cowboys and cowgirls, watch our first 10 films, and maybe find yourself wrapped up dreaming of the holidays with our first 10 Christmas stories!

We are so thankful for each of you for continuing to put your faith in us to continue bringing you amazing reads. You are a crucial part to our success and we couldn’t have made it to our 10th anniversary without you! We hope you stick around all month for more celebratory blogs and are looking forward to another 10 years – cheers!

Meet the First 10 Brides of Tule Publishing and Fall In Love with Their Stories:

Champion barrel-racer Tegan Ash has nothing left to go home to in her native Australia and every reason to stay in the USA. But her visa is about to expire, and her prospective groom has called off their green-card wedding.

Jamie MacCreadie doesn’t actually want to marry a woman he can’t stand, but his best friend and fellow rodeo rider Chet has just let her down and, somehow, he finds himself offering to do the deed instead.

There’s no chance it could turn into the real thing, because they have nothing in common… do they?

. . . . . . . . . .

What a bride wants…

Ella Grace Emerson adores her father, but he keeps trying to marry her off to every eligible rancher in Montana. When he puts an ad in the paper on her behalf – for a docile house-husband – Ella retaliates with one of her own, pinned to the noticeboard of the local saloon. No husband required, housebroken or otherwise. What she wants is the perfect lover.

What a bride needs…

Newcomer Cam Sawyer is perfectly willing to tear up the sheets with Ella and be her partner in chaos. She wants a bad boy and he’s had experience aplenty. But what she really needs is a strong and loving partner, and until Sawyer stops running from his past he can never be that.

Sawyer’s the one Ella wants. But can he be the man she needs?

. . . . . . . . . .

Scarlett Buck has always been flaky in comparison to her sensible twin sister Tara, so nobody is really surprised when Scarlett spends all her money on a one way ticket to Australia to be with the man she’s met on the Net. But she hasn’t reckoned on the guy already being married, or her mom getting sick, and now she needs money for a flight home to Marietta, MT—quick. Signing on with Bella’s Belles in Kalgoorlie isn’t be the proudest moment in her life but it will get her home fast. After all, it’s just sex. Or is it?

Mitch Bannister‘s ex is about to marry his best friend, and he could really do with a cold beer and a hot woman. But the cowgirl he takes a shine to at Bella’s is surprisingly skittish, and in the end he leaves without hooking up.

Later, when Mitch spies the cowgirl in the local pub begging for a job, he shrinks into the shadows–he’s not looking for complications, and something tells him that Scarlett Buck is a whole handful of them. But soon it’s clear she’s not just trouble, she’s in trouble, and like it or not, he’s not about to turn his back on this stray from the States. Especially if she can do him a favor in return. After all, it’s just a helping hand. Or is it?

. . . . . . . . . .

Tara Buck has always been the good sister, level-headed by comparison to Scarlett, her flaky, impulsive twin. But when Tara learns her fiancé has been cheating on her with one of his school students, the orderly world she’s created for herself suddenly feels as if it’s falling apart. For years she chose the safe option, but from now on she’s going to live a little, stretch her wings…be a little daring. And if that means acting on the long-suppressed feelings she’s always had for Reid Dalton, then so be it! Reid has wanted Tara from the moment he met her, but she’s always been out of bounds. Not only is she his patrol partner at the Bozeman PD, she’s also engaged. But then her relationship blows up, and Reid finds himself battling his own instinct to stake his claim with the finest, hottest woman he’s ever known.

Even if anything did happen between them, it would only ever be temporary – Reid’s a born wanderer, while Tara’s roots run deep in Marietta. So even if things are good between them, it seems their romance is destined to be short and sweet…

. . . . . . . . . .

Wanted: nanny. Needed: wife.

Laurent Fletcher has to admit his life would be a whole heap better if there was woman in it. His kids are running wild, and his dog is acting crazy; he’s been finding it tough to juggle everything since his wife died, and run his successful custom-built furniture business. But maybe there is a solution that won’t demand any emotional input from him: hire a female to whip his turbulent household back into shape.

Emma Peabody is a British nanny, looking for a new life in the New World. When she arrives at River Bend and finds two small motherless children, a miserable pet and a man who’s placed his emotions in the deep-freeze, she realizes she’s joined a broken family and it will be down to her to put it back together again.

The kids and the dog are easy—all they need are routines and love. Their father is something else. Laurent isn’t about to drop his guard and let Emma work her magic—and it doesn’t help that she finds this dark, brooding man incredibly attractive…

. . . . . . . . . .

Monty Davison is a man on a mission: he’s determined to track down his fiancée, Risa Grant. Why did she leave Vegas so suddenly and without telling him? Okay, perhaps their engagement was a little hasty—in between deployments to Afghanistan and wearied and changed by the horrors of war, he grabbed at the chances of real life and happiness that she seemed to offer, by proposing after only one week of knowing her. But he was sure she shared his feelings of hope and excitement. What was so scary about loving him that made her want to bolt?

Risa Grant has found sanctuary in Marietta, Montana, and the chance to heal. She’s opened a florist’s business and is settling down to life in the pretty, friendly western town, attempting to put the trauma of past behind her. Only she can’t erase the memory of Monty, the big, handsome, protective Marine who asked her to be his wife. She left without saying goodbye, without getting the chance to tell him what had happened, and now so much water has passed under their bridge that she doesn’t know if she ever can.

When Monty finally finds Risa outside Marietta one chilly April evening, stranded and needing help, his protective instinct kicks in: she’s still as feminine, vulnerable and pretty as ever, and as ex-military he’s trained to come to the rescue. But a knight in shining armor seems to be the last thing that Risa wants right now, so where does that leave him?

. . . . . . . . . .

Emmy Mathis is sure of three things:

1. Her sister Margery’s three-week wedding extravaganza at their grandmother’s Marietta, Montana home will be over-the-top ridiculous.

2. She’d much prefer to stay home in Atlanta in a pair of sweats.

3. And she absolutely, positively, won’t feel even a hint of a spark for Griffin Hyatt, grandson of her beloved grandmother’s best friend and the architect of the most embarrassing night of her life ten years ago.

But Emmy is dead wrong about number three. The moment she and Griffin lock eyes again, the passion that’s always smoldered between them flames. And they aren’t kids any more, so why should they deny the desire that sears through them both?

Is this no more than a wedding fling between two people with too much chemistry and an overload of history, or can Emmy try to build a new life from the ashes of their past? And if Griffin is truly really free of his fiance, why is he a finalist in the town’s Wedding Giveaway? Emmy can’t answer those questions, but she does know that Griffin has the power to burn her like no one else.

Still, how can Emmy walk away from the one man she’s always loved now that she knows what she’s been missing?

. . . . . . . . . .

Once upon a time, Marly Akers had believed that, for better or worse, people made their own luck…

Marly wonders how she could ever have believed it. Jilted and pregnant, she’s come back to Marietta with her tail between her legs, the blow to her ego huge as she begins working at her family’s small newspaper, the Copper Mountain Courier, and sharing a tiny apartment with her disapproving mom.

Things can’t get any worse. Or maybe they can. Drake Everett, who secretly captured her teenaged heart and then publicly trampled on it, decides to make her re-acquaintance. Though Drake isn’t the sharp, funny, cocky, arrogant rich boy of yore. These days he seems sharp, funny… and supportive and decent, and Marly realizes she could fall for him all over again… if she listens to her heart. But what about her reporter’s head, which has sniffed out a story that paints Drake as the sweet talker she’s always known?

. . . . . . . . . .

“It’s for the ranch. It’s your duty. A man does his duty, always.” His father Sam’s words were carved into Cole McCullough’s brain. His responsibilities lay with Rafter M Arrow, which had been in their family for over a hundred years. Even though they were fighting a losing battle to keep the place going.

The ranch always came first, over personal comfort, sometimes reason and definitely women. Sam had seen both his wives walk away, dismissing them as hot-house city girls who couldn’t survive the wilds of rural Montana. So how had Cole ended up making a spur-of-the-moment marriage last year in Reno to TV director Nell, who was as city as they came? Nell was prepared to give it all up to be with Cole. But he knew how it would end: as it had always ended before. It was time to stop living a pipe dream and sue for divorce.

But then Nell came back to Marietta with The Compatibility Game, a reality program, in which couples discovered what they were willing to do for love by living and working at Rafter M, and Cole found himself taking part too…

. . . . . . . . . .

A romantic honeymoon in Paris, with a sexy billionaire Russian groom…

There are only two problems. It’s a marriage of convenience. And, the virgin bride is frigid.

Kate Edwards has never embraced her sensuality, is terrified of intimacy, and the wedding night is a disaster. Instead of calling the whole thing off, Isaak Zaretsky listens to her and challenges her using his unashamedly sensual nature and superb bedroom skills. But can Kate really give herself without love?

. . . . . . . . . .

Thanks for stopping by to check out the first 10 Brides of Tule Publishing! Here’s to a great year of #Tule10!

Sweet Gingery Molasses Cookies from Kris Bock’s “Accidental Billionaire Cowboys” Series!

November 16, 2023 · Posted by Tule Publishing

Delicious recipes straight from the kitchens of your favorite Tule authors.

This is one of my favorite cookies, perfect for the cooler winter weather in the northern hemisphere. This has the usual warming spices, plus crystallized ginger for an extra kick. The characters make these cookies in The Billionaire Cowboy’s Christmas, book 1 in the Accidental Billionaire Cowboys sweet romance series. Who wouldn’t want to be a billionaire? Turns out winning the lottery causes as many problems as it solves.

Enjoy!
– Kris Bock

Gingery Molasses Cookies

These molasses cookies get an extra kick with two kinds of ginger! Note that this recipe needs to be chilled before baking. Liquid molasses makes the cookie batter very soft. Chilling creates a firm dough.

Ingredients:

¾ cup butter, softened

1 cup sugar

¼ cup molasses

1 egg

2 cups flour

½ teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon ginger

½ teaspoon cloves

½ cup chopped crystallized ginger

Tip: Dark molasses gives the cookies a stronger molasses flavor. Light or mild molasses provides less flavor.

Directions:

In a large bowl, mix the butter, sugar, molasses, and egg.
Stir together the flour, salt, baking soda, and all spices. Pour this into the butter mixture and blend well. Stir in the crystallized ginger.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight.
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Spray the cups of a muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray. Scoop spoonfuls of dough and roll them into 2-inch balls in your hands. Place each ball in the cup of a muffin tin.
For soft, gooey cookies, bake about 10 minutes, until the edges look firm but the middle is still very soft. For crisper cookies, bake 12-14 minutes, until they look firm in the middle.
Rest the cookies in the muffin tin for five minutes. Then remove the cookies to a wire rack to finish cooling. Store in an airtight container.

Tip: You can also make these cookies on a regular baking sheet. They spread a lot though, so using the muffin pan results in thicker cookies.

In the Accidental Billionaire Cowboys series, a Texas ranching family wins a billion-dollar lottery. They’re advised to go into hiding, but they have animals needing care. They’ll have to stay and fend off envious friends, scammers, and fortune hunters. Can they build new dreams and find love amidst the chaos?

Readers say:

“I was hooked from the start. This book series just keeps getting better.”

“Kris has created a beautiful family with special significant others. I highly recommend this book and series.” – BookBub Reviews

Kris Bock writes romance, mystery, and suspense. In the Accidental Detective series, a witty journalist solves mysteries in Arizona and tackles the challenges of turning fifty. The Furrever Friends Sweet Romance series features the employees and customers at a cat café. Watch as they fall in love with each other and shelter cats. Sign up for the Kris Bock newsletter and get a free Furrever Friends novella, a printable copy of “22 recipes from the cat café” and an Accidental Detective short story, plus fun content about cats, announcements of new books, sales, and more.

Kris also writes a series with her brother, scriptwriter Douglas J Eboch, who wrote the original screenplay for the movie Sweet Home Alabama. The Felony Melanie series follows the crazy antics of Melanie, Jake, and their friends a decade before the events of the movie. Sign up for the romantic comedy newsletter to get a short story preview or find the books at all E-book retailers.

Slay Bells Ring 7-Layer Cookies Recipe from Tess Harrison’s Briar Patch Bakery!

November 12, 2023 · Posted by Tule Publishing

Delicious recipes straight from the kitchens of your favorite Tule authors.

Tess Harrison is a secondary character in my Wedding Bell Mysteries cozy mystery series. She owns the Briar Patch Bakery, which is across the street from (main character) Maddie Bell’s Blissful Beginnings Bridal Boutique. Every morning before Maddie opens the shop, she goes to the Briar Patch Bakery and writes two pages in her Aubrey Christiansen cozy mystery series and then has a cup of coffee with Hemlock, North Carolina’s hunky police chief Jackson Bradley. Maddie claims the chief is helping her with police procedures for her books, but people are starting to suspect that Tess’s Famous Seven Layer Cookies aren’t the only sweet the chief craves.

In real life, my grandma made Seven Layer Cookies every Christmas. I would always look forward to that wax-paper-lined holiday tin that was filled to the brim with these delicious treats. Now, I carry on this tradition and make them for my family during the holidays.

Enjoy!

– Nancy Robards Thompson

The Briar Patch’s Famous Seven-Layer Cookies

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs

1/2 cup butter melted

1 (14-ounce) can of sweetened condensed milk (NOT evaporated milk)

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 cup butterscotch-flavored chips

1 1/3 cups flaked coconut

1 cup chopped nuts or for a festive look add holiday-colored sprinkles.

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (325 degrees F for glass baking pan). In a small bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs and butter; mix well. Press the crumb mixture firmly in the bottom of a 13×9-inch baking pan.

Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over the crumb/crust mixture. Layer evenly with remaining ingredients; press down firmly with a fork.

Bake 25 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool. Chill if desired. Cut into bars or diamonds. Store covered at room temperature or in the refrigerator.

AN ANGEL FOR CHRISTMAS: Release Day Blog Post Featuring Author Lara Van Hulzen!

November 9, 2023 · Posted by Tule Publishing

It’s release day for An Angel For Christmas, the fourth and final book in my Endicotts of Silver Bay series.

As a writer, it’s always tough to say goodbye to characters you spend so much time with. As much as I start out with details about their lives, the characters take on a life of their own, adding pieces of themselves that are revealed as I write.

Garrett Christmas is a character I’ve had in my head for a while. Readers get a first glimpse of him in my book, Saving Drew, as owner of the local saloon. He shows up from time to time in following books, and he ended up being someone I wanted to know more. Someone who I felt deserved a love story.

Angelica Endicott is the youngest of the Endicott siblings and is the last of the family to move to Silver Bay. With lots of energy and spice, I felt she was the perfect match for Garrett – the perfect person to draw him out of his (perceived) grumpy shell.

Christmas is my favorite time of year and I was thrilled when Garrett and Angelica’s love story fell into that season. While I plan to get lost in Hallmark Christmas movies and devour my stack of Christmas romance novels to read, I hope you are surrounded by all the things and people you love this holiday season.

Happy Reading,
Lara

About the Author.

Writing stories since she was a young girl, Lara’s dream of being a novelist became a reality with her Men of Honor Series.

An avid reader, she worked as a book reviewer for 18 years with various organizations. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and a Masters of Divinity in Chaplaincy. Lara loves tea, baseball and living in Idaho with her husband and Great Dane.

CHRISTMAS AT EMBTHWAITE FARM: Release Day Blog Post Featuring Author Kate Hewitt!

November 8, 2023 · Posted by Tule Publishing

The Joy and Pain of Christmas

There are so many things I love about Christmas—carols, cookies, stockings, decorations, the sense of being cozily tucked up with your loved ones all around. Now that three of my children are out of the house, welcoming them back home is another wonderful part of the Christmas season, and I cherish the days we are together, even if the house does feel a little crowded!

I also know that Christmas can be a difficult time for many people, when the loss of loved ones can be deeply felt. My father died eight years ago, just two days before Christmas, and so the season now brings the painful and poignant nostalgia of remembering and missing him.

Christmas at Embthwaite Farm is a bit like that—as a story it celebrates the beauty and wonder of Christmas, especially in the North Yorkshire moors, a gorgeous part of England, and there are a lot of Christmas cookies featured in the story! But it also deals with the pain and hurt that the Christmas season can so often bring in terms of relationships whose brokenness can be felt especially in the festive season.

Harriet Mowbray has always felt as if her father didn’t love her, and that truth becomes painfully real over the Christmas season. Fortunately, she has the gorgeous distraction of Quinn Taylor, the handsome and eccentric hotelier who hires her to bake cookies for his country house hotel’s Christmas party. But like anyone else, Quinn has his own heartaches, and Harriet will have to help him find his Christmas joy this season, as well, with the help of their family and friends.

Cookies and Christmas trees aside, the Christmas season is about hope—the hope of light coming into the world. Quinn and Harriet both find that light in their story, and I hope you do, as well.

Happy Reading,
Kate

About the Author.

Kate Hewitt wrote her first story at the age of five, simply because her older brother had written one and she thought she could do it too. That story was one sentence long—fortunately, they have become a bit more detailed as she’s grown older.

She studied drama in college and shortly after graduation moved to New York City to pursue a career in theatre. This was derailed by something far better—meeting the man of her dreams who happened also to be her older brother’s childhood friend.

Ten days after their wedding they moved to England, where Kate worked a variety of different jobs—drama teacher, editorial assistant, church youth worker, secretary, and finally mother. Read the rest of Kate’s bio here.

THE BILLIONAIRE COWGIRL’S CHRISTMAS: Release Day Blog Post Featuring Author Kris Bock

November 7, 2023 · Posted by Tule Publishing

Readers say:

“I was hooked from the start. This book series just keeps getting better.”

“Kris has created a beautiful family with special significant others. I highly recommend this book and series.” – BookBub Reviews

The Billionaire Cowgirl’s Christmas (book 5)

Playing the lottery was just for fun, but with the one-billion-dollar win, life gets complicated.

It’s been nearly a year since widowed Texas rancher Ava Tomlinson won the lottery. And while her four adult sons have found love, Ava feels unsettled as the holidays approach. She’s adjusting to giving her sons more privacy and lonely due to a rift in her once tight circle of friends. Romance is the last thing on her mind when a handsome, younger survey geologist arrives on the ranch to work through the holidays. Their friendship is unexpected and delightful, but she won’t risk a broken heart by starting a romance with a man who’s hitting the road soon – even if she could trust he’s not a gold digger.

North Rabe’s career keeps him on the road. His plans of working through Christmas are derailed when Ava includes him in family dinners and holiday events in Last Stand. For the first time, he has a glimpse of a family life long missing. Ava is sweet, smart, generous and hard-working, and he’s quickly smitten. Is it finally time to put down roots? And if so, how can he prove he wants Ava’s heart, not her money?

This is a holiday book, so they eat well! At Thanksgiving, that includes “three kinds of pie and a sopapilla cheesecake.” Here H‑E‑B shares a Texas Thanksgiving Menu with a sopapilla cheesecake recipe.

Readers say:

“All of these books have been marvelous.”

“This book proves you’re never too old for love. This is a well written story with great characters. It is a story about family, friends and love. This book is the perfect way to end this series.”

Quick Peek:

“I’m a grandmother, or near enough with Daisy’s baby,” Ava said.

She could hardly believe it. Maybe because it had happened so quickly, her youngest falling in love with a lovely young woman who already had a baby. But she wasn’t especially young to be a grandmother. Her older boys had simply taken their time settling down.

“That’s a good thing, right?” North asked.

“Oh, of course. It’s just I’m turning sixty soon, and I don’t feel sixty.” Her face heated, but she wanted to get that out there in case he had any incorrect notions about her age.

“How old do you feel?”

She pondered the question as she watched the milk swirl in the pot, turning darker as the chocolate melted. Life had rushed by, decades gone in a blink. Inside she still felt like a young woman, even if the outside didn’t match.

“Twenty-seven?” she said. “Except at twenty-seven I had young children and I was frazzled and sleep deprived all the time. Eighteen? But I was completely different then, full of hope and nerves and dreams of starting a family. When I was fifty my husband died, and that was the worst year of my life.” She gave a reluctant laugh. “Maybe I do feel sixty, because maybe this is how sixty feels.”

“I guess all of those ages are still inside you.”

Who wouldn’t want to be a billionaire? Turns out winning the lottery causes as many problems as it solves. Get the Accidental Billionaire Cowboys sweet romance series in print or ebook.

About the Author.

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