Today is release day for THE AMISH CHRISTMAS CANDLE, a collection of three stories from three of your favorite Amish authors, Jennifer Beckstrand, Kelly Long, and Lisa Jones Baker. Aunt Bitsy gets her own love story! Ever since the release of my Honeybee Sisters series in the summer of 2016, many readers have asked me if Aunt Bitsy is going to get her own romance. Yes! In “A Honeybee Christmas,” Bitsy Kiem, the Honeybee Sisters’ eccentric aunt, has met her match. With her trusty shotgun and her troublesome cats, Aunt Bitsy catches the eye of an Amish widower who is determined to turn her into a proper Amish frau. Aunt Bitsy is an excellent cook, and one of her specialties is Bienenstich Cake or Bee Sting Cake. This cake is guaranteed to make any Amish widower fall in love with you. It is made with yeast, so the cake has more of a bread consistency—moist and light. The recipe is quite involved, but the cake is absolutely delicious and worth every minute. Perfect for any Christmas celebration. Aendi Bitsy’s Bienenstich Cake Cake 1 1⁄4 teaspoons active dry yeast 3⁄4 cup whole milk, warmed just over room temperature with 1 tablespoon…

Admit it, you’re humming the old Bette Midler song. You’ve got to have friends, the feeling’s oh so strong. You’ve got to have friends, to make the day last long. Those lyrics were definitely running through my mind as I wrote BILLIONAIRE IN HER BED, my first book for Entangled’s Indulgence line. Writing can be a pretty solitary profession, and finding your tribe is essential to maintaining your sanity. I’m lucky to have found a great group of writer friends in the MTBs, my plot group. (No, I’m not telling what that stands for LOL.) They’re the ones who cheer my successes and buck me up when I’m struggling. Brooke Worthington, the heroine in BILLIONAIRE IN HER BED, is lucky, too. She’s found her tribe in the other residents of Candy Court, the chocolate-factory-turned-apartment-building where she lives. There’s the Feinbergs, the elderly couple who lives on the first floor; partners David and Chris, a concert pianist and a ballet dancer; and single mom Charise and her infant son. And when hero Eli Ward shows up, he’s warmly welcomed into the fold. But what they don’t know about Eli may come back to hurt them . . . Some of my…

RUNNING INTO LOVE is my newest romantic comedy which features an over the top alpha (Levi) and a sweet heroine (Fawn). Levi and Fawn literally run into each other in Central Park one day. Levi who is new to New York has no Idea that the woman who just drove him to madness in the park is actually his new next door neighbor. Even after getting to know each other Fawn doesn’t believe that Levi actually wants her he thinks that he wants to be her friend even when he goes out of his way to show her that he wants more. Eventually they get it together and from that comes a beautiful love story. But before she can get to her happy-ever-after with Levi, Fawn has had her share of bad dates (which is definitely part of dating in the Big Apple). Here is a list of her top 5 dating deal breakers: Your date asks to use your make up durning dinner because the lighting in the restaurant is making him look shiny. (No, Levi would never even think about wearing makeup.) Your date asks you to pay for the meal. (Thankfully Levi is the kind of guy…