11/07/2025
❄️NEW NOVELLA❄️
Surprise! .romanceauthor has been working quietly behind the scenes on this secret and surprise novella. Just in time for the holidays.
We finally get Cat and Hayes story from the Magnolia Creek crew.
If you’re in to friends to lovers, secret relationships, He falls first, and guest appearances by the other Mag creek crew! Then you have to pre order this book!
A Jolly Rancher Christmas
A novella by Ryan Marie
Available November 20th
Amazon and KU
Tropes:
❄️Christmas novella
❄️Friends to lovers
❄️Secret relationship
❄️He falls first
❄️and the Mag Creek crew is back
Blurb:
Cathia
I’m surrounded by happy, loving couples every day of my life and reminded of the fact that I am still as single as the last slice of cheese, wrapped in horrible plastic and stuck at the bottom of the drawer to harden and grow old. The feeling that my days as the cool spinster aunt are inevitable.
But it seems I’m not the only one feeling this way. Hayes McCallan, a childhood friend turned my sister’s new brother-in-law, was watching all joy from the sidelines, too.
While people were laughing and celebrating the upcoming nuptials of our brother and sister, we were commiserating in our single-ness. So what happens when two lonely hearts have a few too many drinks and chemistry off the charts? They fall into bed with one another, naturally.
What was supposed to be one night of feeling wanted turned into another...and another. Soon, we were seeking “comfort” with each other several times a month. Okay, so it was more like a couple dozen times a month, but who’s counting.
When Hayes decided to go and fall in love, I was left wondering if losing a friend would be worth the moments of happiness should this relationship meet its ultimate demise.
Holidays, laughter, mistletoe and champagne; it’s a recipe for disaster. Or in this case, loose lips. So when our friends finally discover what we’ve been hiding for months, the only thing they can say is...
It was bound to happen.
