Cougar shifter Jessie Whittington plans to work on her psychic romance book before Christmas at the Whispering Pines Resort on the North Shore of Lake Superior, but peace and quiet aren’t exactly what she’s going to get right before Christmas. Former army ranger Emerson Merriweather has returned home after being ambushed on a Black Ops mission, and now learns his uncle has died. When he meets his only guest at the cabin resort, he’s surprised she’s a cougar too. Before long, a blizzard hits, bear shifters wreak havoc, and he’s helping Jessie decorate for Christmas. Something he never thought he would be doing. Jessie’s definitely the light in his life but he still has to take care of the man who set him and his team up during the mission. He knows he will be looking for Emerson to finish the job. Mystery and intrigue are the name of the game and things aren’t always as they seem.

Caught between a rock and a hard place, Accalia has to prove her worth to one prospective mate or wed another who could bring ruin to her clan. Erik is much more at risk of marrying another woman, but trouble roars to the front as an aggressive wolf takes drastic action to make Accalia his own. Erik requires an alliance with her father to keep the antagonist at bay. With such high stakes, are the couple fated to mate, or will they be torn apart forever? If you like hot, Medieval Highlanders with a wolfish appetite, this is the series for you.

Master baker Ava Lamar has one mission in mind after baking tons of treats for the Fourth of July celebration in Yuma Town—swimming at Lake Buchanan on this hot summer’s day. What she doesn’t expect is to be saddled with running the fortune telling booth—using her real psychic abilities—and giving a hot, bachelor cougar a place to stay for the whole weekend. Cougar Shifter Force Special Agent Chet Kensington has just finished a tough mission, been chewed up a bit by rogue cougars, and he’s taking a break to be with his old team, but he has no place to stay, everything being booked up in Yuma Town for the big cougar celebration. When Ava reluctantly allows him to stay with her, he finds himself drawn to her the whole celebration long. But back home in Wyoming, things are getting out of hand. A serial killer is murdering female cougars and he and some of his old team have to find him, pronto. The problem is all the trouble leads right back to Ava—and now he has to do his best to keep her safe before the killer adds her to his list of victims.

Arman dreams of a teen he met two years earlier when he realizes she’s in trouble. Even though he stays with his Welsh prince vampire friends through thick and thin, this time he’s certain he has to rescue her on his own. They’re not about to let him though. As friends since the Black Death, they stick together. Besides, they’re already known as rogue vampires who help humans and hunters in need, so what else is new? But this time the teen is a huntress, though she doesn’t know it. She’s held hostage by a powerful family of vampires, also that she’s clueless about, and they want her for her dream abilities when she turns eighteen during the red blood moon. Fiona doesn’t like living with her eccentric great aunt who gives her no freedom until the night of the Halloween dance, big mistake on her great aunt’s part. Fiona meets the teen of her dreams, she thinks, and the same guy she’d run into two years earlier in Dallas, Texas. But how could he be in Portland, Oregon now? Where she is? At her high school dance? She’s drawn to him like she has never been to anyone else, but before long, he whisks her away into a world she has never known—of vampires and hunters. Of witches and dream powers. Of danger and deceit. Somehow, he must keep her safe while she harnesses her abilities to do the same for him before the blood moon makes its appearance and it’s too late.

A Romeo-Juliet type family feud, polar bear style, tore them apart; can they find true love again? It’s nearly Christmas, no tours on the schedule for Edward MacMathan and his brother and so they’re working in their uncle and aunt’s tavern when the love of Edward's life returns with two young boys in tow, and they look a lot like him when he and Rob were that age. Robyn Conibear is in trouble and she's fled her deceased mate's sleuth to keep his parents from taking custody of her and Edward's sons. Can she and Edward renew the love they had for each other despite the six years that have passed? Or will her return only cause more grief between her family and his as the hostilities renew? But Edward is the boys' true father and she wants to be with him no matter what. Likewise, Edward is determined to protect her and the boys, both from her former mate's sleuth and her own, and take up where the two of them had left off.

Margot Anderson goes with her girlfriend to White Bear, Alaska, from their home in North, Alaska, to enjoy all the Halloween activities the town has to offer. What she doesn’t expect is to get a rescue from a seaplane pilot who happens to be from White Bear and a polar bear just like them. Craig MacMathan had a delivery to make when his cousin sees a vision of a couple of polar bears needing Craig’s help. Not only are the ladies single, but they’re coming to his town to have fun. And he’s more than ready to help them have a great time. But Margot is having nightmares related to something that has to do with White Bear, her mother doesn’t want her to go there, and they have a mystery to solve as Craig gets deeper into his relationship with Margot. Until she solves it, she doesn’t want to drag another bear into her world of nightmares, but Craig isn’t just any other bear.

I wrote this to answer questions I had after reading one line while researching smallpox: Calamity Jane saved six men from smallpox at the white rock cabin. There were no answers to my questions, who, how, why, so I answered those questions including others I had. That is the fiction as there are facts about her also.