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Dancing with Gargoyles, a fun contemporary paranormal romance novella has released! Yahoo! You may recall that this story was originally part of an anthology titled, Ring in the New at Caynham Castle. All the stories in that anthology were set at a fictional British castle close to the border with Wales and, as indicated by the anthology title, had to deal in some way with New Years Eve. Thus my story touches on two holidays, Christmas and New Years.

I took inspiration from a brief scene from the TV series Resident Alien. In that show, an alien disguised as a human, discovers the joy of dancing in public like no one is watching. In fact, the scene shows a number of raucous humans in a bar bopping up and down on the dance floor, except one keeps switching to an alien head. As someone who loves to dance, I had to include that very brief scene when my gargoyle discovers the joy of dancing at a bar in the castle. The story is so much fun and so emotional that you will laugh and cry. I’m so pleased that you can now purchase it outside of the anthology. For more information about the story, please click on the cover.

And if you could be so kind as to leave a review, it would be greatly appreciated. It needn’t be long, just whether you enjoyed the story or not (as I’m sure you will).

However, there is sad news in that all of the Caynham anthologies will be out of print and unavailable for purchase after September 30, 2024. I’ve had a novella in three of the anthologies, specifically: Christmas at Caynham Castle, Ring in the New at Caynham Castle, and Midsummer Mischief at Caynham Castle. I’ve now independently published my contributions in the first two anthologies, and I’m planning to expand the Midsummer Mischief story, a tale with fairies and gargoyles called “The Play’s the Thing” before releasing it at a later date.

Meanwhile I’m working on completing the yet untitled Faith’s Story, which is the fourth book in the Rake Patrol series. The series, set during the 1890s in England and Scotland, is based on newspaper personal ads which often included ads from men seeking women for companionship or marriage. My group of heroines, known as the Rake Patrol investigate the men placing the ads to see if they are worthy of the women they seek. As you may have discovered, the first two books in that series originally published by Berkley Publishing, Casanova Code and The Whisky Laird’s Bed are out of print. My intention is to re-release them along with the three new stories to complete the series. I’ve written book three “How to Bait a Dangerous Rake.” I’m working on book four which is quite a bit different than the previous three books. Stay-tuned to learn more about the series’s progression.

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Happy reading and have a great day!

Donna MacMeans