A BRAVO CHRISTMAS WEDDING nominated for best Special Edition of 2014!

Wahoo!  Feeling proud and happy.  A BRAVO CHRISTMAS WEDDING has been nominated by Romantic Times BookReviews for best Harlequin Special Edition of 2014!

Happy Holiday, everyone!

Goodreads Giveaway: A BRAVO CHRISTMAS WEDDING

This giveaway is closed.  Thanks so much to all who entered!  We had more than 800 entries.  XOXO!

I'm giving away five signed copies of my December release, A BRAVO CHRISTMAS WEDDING, over on Goodreads.  

Click HERE to enter between October 11 and November 11.


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Cover Reveal A BRAVO CHRISTMAS WEDDING

A December release.

I absolutely love this one!



Back cover copy is next post down...

Back Cover Copy A BRAVO CHRISTMAS WEDDING...

Here's the back cover teaser for my December release, A Bravo Christmas Wedding:

LOVE ON THE RANGE? 

Princess Aurora Bravo-Calabretti is wishing for a mountain man this Christmas! But her most unroyal crush—rancher Walker McKellan—insists that they remain "just friends." Now he's her round-the-clock bodyguard while she is the maid of honor at her cousin's holiday wedding. Rory can't resist this Colorado cowboy…but she wishes she was walking down the aisle to meet Walker at the altar! 

Both the best man to the groom and Rory's bodyguard, Walker can't shake his charge. As he begins to see Rory in a different light, a surprise snowstorm strands him with his princess…and sparks ignite into a holiday love affair! Can their Christmas passion blossom into a very Bravo happily-ever-after?

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This book will be the last in my Bravo Royales series.  It will also introduces my next series of Bravo Family stories, The Bravos of Justice Creek, which will star the children of Franklin Bravo.  Frank's no longer alive when these stories begin.  He had two wives, Sondra Oldfield Bravo and Willow Mooney Bravo.  And he cheated on the first with the second, having children with both of them pretty much at the same time.

Here's a little more on that subject: 

From the beginning, thirty-four years ago, when he took up with 18-year-old Willow Mooney, everyone in Justice Creek knew that Frank Bravo had a well-bred heiress wife at home and a young thing on the side.  Then both women started having babies practically simultaneously.  And not only that, Willow called her children by the last name of Bravo and Frank openly claimed them; he was named right there on their birth certificates as the dad. So Frank not only essentially had two families, the man was bold as brass about it and didn’t seem to care who knew.  Everyone said Sondra ought to leave him, but she never did, just went on popping out the babies at about the same rate as Willow across town...

What's New for 2014?

Happy New Year, everyone!

This year, I'll have four books coming out, all from Harlequin Special Edition.  I'll be winding up the Bravo Royales series and starting out The Bravos of Justice Creek series, featuring a whole new branch of the Bravo family.

First off, in May 2014, look for THE PRINCE'S CINDERELLA BRIDE.  This is Max's story. He's the oldest of the Bravo-Calabretti siblings and the heir to his mother's throne.  I have back cover copy for this one:

                             
                                         From Texas nanny…to palace princess! 

It should never have happened—the night of forbidden magic that turned Lani Vasquez and Prince Maximilian Bravo-Calabretti into lovers. After all, Lani knew all too well that an affair between a lowly nanny and the heir to the throne could only end in heartbreak—her own. Which was why she had to end it before she lost her herself completely… 

His New Year's Eve with Lani had rocked Max's world—and now the Texas beauty wanted to be just friends? The single father had sworn he'd never marry again, but Lani had charmed his children and awakened his guarded heart. Will the prince catch his Cinderella before the clock strikes midnight?

Then in July, I'll be launching the 20-year anniversary of Harlequin's Montana Mavericks series with MILLION-DOLLAR MAVERICK.  In this one, I get to take the villain of last year, Nathan Crawford, and turn him into a hero.  It was a tough job, but somebody had to do it.  Nate has a tragic past and a lot to make up for and his heroine, Callie Kennedy, is just the woman to help him with that.

And in October watch for THE EARL'S PREGNANT BRIDE.  I like to think of that one as my Downton Abbey Bravo Royale story.

Finally, in December, Aurora, the last of the Bravo Royales, gets together with the new branch of the family, The Bravos of Justice Creek, in A BRAVO CHRISTMAS WEDDING.  Aurora comes to be the maid honor for a Colorado Bravo cousin--and gets in deep and fast with mountain man, Walker McKellan.

All around, a fun year, I think.  I'll be posting everything you could want to know about these upcoming releases as information comes in at my website, ChristineRimmer.com

I hope this message finds you well and happy and surrounded by the ones you love.  May your New Year be filled with love, laughter--and great books!

Got special plans for New Years?  Leave a comment here before January 2--and I'll draw a winner from the comments for a $10 Amazon gift card!  Good luck and thanks for stopping by!