Hallmark Romances with Extra Spice

Ever since I was a kid I always loved Christmas movies, especially romantic ones. I would watch the same Christmas movies over and over again, swooning over the leads finally finding love, or the spirit of Christmas, or family before the end of the film. There has always been something magical about this time of year to me. It always seemed like a perfect time, where anything could happen. People are nicer, the weather is wonderful (I know its not always a popular opinion but I love snow, and even the cold, especially if I can be cuddled up inside), and there is a sweetness in the air that is probably part cookie, but also at least some part Christmas magic. Looking back its probably not a huge surprise that I ended up writing so many Christmas romances. Maybe it’s a surprise that I haven’t written more (but I’m working on that).

When I was in my teens lifetime and hallmark really started to get involved in the Christmas spirit with their own brand of sappy romantic Christmas movies, we have all come to love and make fun of in equal measure. Probably not surprising, I ate those up too. I loved every one of them, even though the stories weren’t that different and the settings were the same, they were still magically to me and I watched each and every one all season long.

But as I’ve gotten older, the hallmark movies just don’t interest me the way they did as a kid. It’s not that I can’t get into the sweetness and the love of the season, or I can’t enjoy the romance of the stories, but so many of them cut short on what I want to see. And can sometimes give an unrealism that can pull me out of the movie, at least in one specific area.

I love the romance of a big city journalist falling for the Christmas tree farmer as much as the next girl, but expecting she would give up her whole life, her career, her friends, her future, for one bland kiss, was too much for me to stomach anymore. If I’m giving up everything for a guy (even a hunky small town sheriff), there better be more passion involved than a few kisses.

Then six years ago I had a tremendous idea. I wanted to write a series of Christmas stories, romantic Christmas stories just like the ones I enjoyed as a kid, just with more spice. The kind of stories I would produce if I were running the hallmark channel (though of course they would never be able to get past the censor, but luckily in the book world the only censor is yourself). That’s how the Frostbite Falls series was born.

All four Christmas stories revolve around the annual Frostbite Falls Christmas Ball, a huge event the entire town pitches in to create every year, and the love and romance each heroines find that night. There are all the tropes you love of a great hallmark holiday movie. A small town full of fun characters, a baker making the most delicious food, a librarian, farmers (horse farm, not tree farm, at least not yet), a snowstorm, a cheating ex-fiancé who comes crawling back, the town mayor even gets involved in some of the stories. But at the end of the night, instead of a quick kiss or a peck on the cheek, all my heroines get to take home two sexy guys and truly experience what it would be like to be with them. In every way.  Just as all great Christmas stories should end.

If you love hallmark movies, but you’ve always wanted your movies to come with a lot more spice, a trip to Frostbite Falls might be just what you are looking for. And this month many of the books are on sale for only $0.99 on the siren bookstrand site in celebration of this glorious time of year.

Series Buy Link: Frostbite Falls Christmas - BookStrand | Bestselling Erotic Romance eBooks