***2016 RITA® Finalist in the Contemporary Romance: Short Category***
***HOLT Medallion Award winner for outstanding literary fiction***

Have yourself a steamy little Christmas…

After three years in prison, freight train engineer Lacey Gallagher doesn’t expect this Christmas to be very merry and bright. At least chopping down trees for her brother’s Christmas tree farm will help her save money to get her life back on track. All her plans derail, though, when her new job puts her in territory patrolled by the man who haunts her dreams—the forest ranger who sent her to prison.

Austin Wilder isn’t thrilled about Lacey working in his forest—but he soon realizes he needs her help. His family is depending on him to restore an old steam train for a spectacular Christmas event, and train expert Lacey is his only hope of finishing in time.

Working together challenges every assumption Lacey and Austin have about each other, and they discover a desire hot enough to melt even the deepest Montana snow. But will the season of second chances be enough to mend the most hardened broken heart?

A mystery thriller novel you will not forget.

A gripping novel full of action, suspense, mystery, plot twists.

Do you love stories that are packed full of mystery, suspense, twists and turns? Then you will love this mystery thriller novel.

Enjoy this gripping story with enough twists to keep you turning the pages.

If you enjoy gripping crime thrillers full of twists, be sure to check out other books by best-selling author James Kipling.

Welcome to Silver Springs, Colorado and the Three Brothers Lodge. Justin, Kaillar and Mason Donnelly have turned their uncle’s outfitting and guide service into a profitable business.

Justin, the oldest, felt a responsibility to his brothers with the passing of their uncle. With their mother dead decades earlier, and no idea who any of their fathers were, they only had each other.

Jessica Andrews was running away from her messed-up life. The child of missionary parents, she blamed God for all of her trials and the losses she’d suffered throughout her life. Having abandoned God on all fronts, she’d tried to manage her own life, and after being duped by her supposed boyfriend of three plus years, she didn’t even believe she could trust in herself.

In a rash decision, she takes a job in a little Colorado mountain town, hoping to start again and put her past completely behind her. Silver Springs may be the place of her new beginning, but she’ll have to go through the fire and find forgiveness in her heart for herself and others before she can get there. And Justin is just the man to help see her through the ordeal.

Is there anything the devil won’t do for the daughter he loves?

While Sanguine is locked in hell, keeping an eye on the devil, Kendell and Myles are happy to finally get on with their lives. But Colin Malveaux has other plans. The devil will go to any lengths to get his deceased daughter back, even if it means ripping the fabric of multiple dimensions with her resurrection.

Now there’s a bigger problem. If the divide between the living, the dead, and the damned is breached, Colin will gain command of every person’s soul. As the protectors of humanity, the loas of the dead are willing to engage in all-out war to block him from taking his plan any further.

For Kendell and Myles to save the girl, stop Colin from becoming all-powerful, and prevent the coming apocalypse, they must engage in an act of interdimensional terrorism. They’ll need everyone they love to help them break the Malveaux curse and free the world of the devil.

Genre: Contemporary Paranormal Erotic Romance

After being dumped by her boyfriend, having her doctoral thesis stolen and losing out on a job she had coveted, Faith Prescott just can’t seem to generate any holiday cheer. Her spirits as low as her bank balance, she goes to a Black Friday sale to try to get a computer that she desperately needs to improve her situation. Unfortunately, she finds out that her luck isn’t getting any better when she loses the very last one for sale at the bargain price…to the most disturbingly handsome, alluring male she has ever laid eyes on. He’s big, he’s intense and totally out of her league. Why would a gorgeous millionaire be interested in a mousy, plain woman like her that spends more time with wild animals than people? And Faith really wasn’t interested. She had given up on men after her last experience with a loser boyfriend…taking a vacation from dating. Or so she thinks, until she is kidnapped by Mr. Tall, Blond And Intense from the dark parking lot of the mall…

Gavin Lancaster hates Christmas and anything associated with the holiday season. Coerced into stopping at the mall to pick up a computer for his sister-in-law, all he wants to do is get the computer and get the heck out of the city and away from the mass of crazy holiday shoppers. He might be a wolf Changeling, but the last thing in the world he wants is to bump into his destined mate – literally. Gavin doesn’t want a mate, is perfectly happy with his bachelor status, but fate won’t be denied.

In a moment of pure desperation, Faith asks Santa for a Christmas miracle…and finds out that old St Nick sometimes grants Holiday wishes in best and most mysterious of ways.

This is an erotic romance with graphic language and erotic content not appropriate for YA readers.

“JS Scott did not disappoint. Gavin and Faith love story was hot from the first moment they accidentally touched to their explosive sexual connection. These shifter stories take the mate thing to another level.” 5 star review

Next Christmas in Girouette is the first in a series of novels set in a ghost town on the eastern porch of the Montana Rocky Mountains. This book will appeal to people of all ages—nine to ninety-nine—who want to share a classic, heart-warming literary adventure at Christmastime.

Next Christmas in Girouette is the story of a brother and sister—Autry and Oxana Quinn—who find themselves stranded in a Girouette, a virtual ghost town, from Thanksgiving through Christmas when their father is taken seriously ill. Their grandfather, a Marine Captain long retired, plus an eccentric old café proprietress, a Blackfeet Indian horse trader who once served as the town’s mayor, a couple who published the local newspaper and an ancient deaf-mute trapper are the only remaining inhabitants of Girouette. These self-styled, “diehards” all seem to have one thing in common. Thanks to a mysterious event 60 years earlier, they still believe in Santa Claus.

Girouette features something for everyone: carefree cowboys who race their horses over snow covered country road, a team of wolves trained to pull a dogsled, a stroll that nearly turns tragic on a buffalo jump, a serialized newspaper story titled “The Adventures of Rocky Mountain Santa,” a desperate attempt to escape from an abandoned copper mine, a night-time journey through the mountains on a frozen river and the miracle that delivers wayfaring strangers to Girouette during a storm on Christmas Eve.

The book revels in the solitary beauty of winter in Big Sky Country, the enduring wisdom of the elderly citizens of Girouette, the excitement of frontier history coming to life, the inspiration of a family healing itself and the magic of an old-fashioned western Christmas. Read Next Christmas in Girouette with your family this year, and you’ll want to revisit it for years to come at holiday time.