Before Brady is on pre-order!

Finally!

I have another book coming out. And two more in the Love & Other Calamities Romantic Comedy series coming in 2024.

Before Brady: A Never-Him Bridesmaid Romance is Book 3 in the series and features Alicia Maxwell, the hostess for the bachelorette party in Book 1, and Brady Jacobs, a police officer under her father’s command in fictional Briarton, WA.

The story:

She has one rule. Never date a cop. But he craves so much more than her cupcakes…

He’s speeding into her heart…

Alicia Maxwell feels pulled in a million directions trying to make her cupcake shop a success. Nothing will stand in her way. Especially not sexy cop Brady Jacobs, who gave her a speeding ticket with a twinkle in his eyes. Then claimed he was just doing his job!

But when chaos erupts in the weeks before a friend’s wedding, Brady turns on the help. And the charm. Ultra-focused Alicia needs neither. Not his fiery touches. Or his sweet kisses. Not—

Oh, no, what is happening? Before long, Alicia yearns for Brady’s heart and his arms…but has she missed her chance?

Coming in December! But you can preorder on all the major eBook retailers now!

Find your links at Book2Read

Extended and updated edition of Catching Claire now available!

Cover designer Kim Killion did an awesome job of rebranding Love & Other Calamities Romantic Comedy! Loving this new cover for Catching Claire: An Instalove Maid of Honor Romance – available now!

Find your links at Books2Read!

I want some of what she’s having!

Catching Claire, Book 2, Love & Other Calamities Romantic Comedy

Did they share all the right moves last night?

She’s falling fast!

When Claire Merriweather hires sexy future doctor Ridge Pederson to strip at a friend’s bachelorette party, she never imagines she’ll wake up in his bed. Well, she imagines it—but now it’s happened.

Big problem: Claire’s memory is fuzzy. Did they do the bouncy or did Ridge reject her?

Either way…uh-oh, her heart is in trouble!

I’m using Books2Read for all my links until website updates are complete.

Deceiving Derek – Book 1

Catching Claire – Book 2

All Cindy’s Books

And, yes, something’s on preorder!!

Check out the updated and extended edition of Deceiving Derek!

Don’t you love this cover? It’s like they’re taking a pink bubble bath – in hearts!

Note: I am in the process of updating my book pages so the DD page isn’t ready to receive visitors yet. I’ll let you know when it is.

But – the updated and extended edition of Deceiving Derek is now available on all the major eBook retailers! Now includes a steamy epilogue!

Get your links at Books2Read!

Right now, Deceiving Derek is only 99 pennies, but the price is going up in December along with the release of Book 3 in Love & Other Calamities Romantic Comedy.

So grab Deceiving Derek now!

Deceiving Derek: An Instalove Summer Wedding Romance

A workaholic trying to break out of her shell and the steadfast police detective who can’t believe what’s unfolding in front of his eyes…

Love at first…falsehood?

Lingerie designer Lacey DeMarco livens up her life by finagling a sexy police detective into attending a rowdy bachelorette party. Lacey needs one last item to complete a scavenger hunt list. Can she help it if handsome cop Derek McAllister fits the bill the same way he fills out his jeans? That is, so much more than nicely…

But a little trickery is at work. Lacey and Derek are both being hoodwinked. In the name of love.

Deceiving Derek is Book 1 in Cindy Procter-King’s Love & Other Calamities Romantic Comedy series of fun and steamy feel-good short romances. Follow Lacey and her girlfriends as they prepare for a wedding and find true love along the way! HEAs guaranteed. Open door, medium heat.

Deceiving Derek is 9000 words

Got a free book right now!

I keep forgetting to say that Picture Imperfect was in a big free promo a few weeks back and is remaining free for the indeterminate future. Maybe until the end of the year. Maybe not. I don’t know.

What I do know is that if you’re in the mood for a big, juicy, sassy, steamy mystery romance with several points of view and a braided plot involving past and present mysteries, a fully developed romance, family and friendships, backstabbing and betrayal, Picture Imperfect might be the book for you!

But it’s big.

If you like short books, don’t read it.

I gots me some short books, and I’ll be telling you about them in the next few days.

But if you like big books and you can not lie?

Try PI.

Apple Books, Amazon, BN, Google Play, Nook. Find your store at Books2Read.

Happy autumn reading!

Picture Imperfect: Steamy Mystery Romance

I’m baaack???

My site changed servers a few months ago, and because I’ve been busy recovering from a car accident and working on updated versions of Deceiving Derek and Catching Claire in Love & Other Calamities – and also writing the next three titles in the series, Before Brady, Just Janie, and Trusting Trey – I didn’t realize my blog was broken. I kept trying to publish new posts, to no avail. I spent hours on tech support with my host, to no avail. They even switched my customized Muse Interrupted theme to the 2021, theme and I still couldn’t publish a post.

Most aggravating.

I was about to hire a website designer to fix things when I decided to do ONE LAST TEST. And, well, whatever was glitching for weeks before I went away to trek through Ireland for a month is no longer glitching!

This is good because I really, really, really need to redesign my website, and I want to move it to a WordPress-based site because my web design software is on an old computer I only keep for the software. I need to get with the times and make things mobile-friendly.

So redesigning my site is on my To-Do list for this year.

That said, because I’ve been away from publishing for so long, like 5 years, I made the decision not to put any of the books in Love & Other Calamities on pre-order until all 5 are revised and edited. I’ve learned that when it comes to my neck, skull, and shoulder injuries I just need to put my health first, and besides who wants to read a connected series with months and months between releases?

If you’ve stumbled upon this post and you’ve been wondering, What happened to Cindy? Yeah, I got whacked, multiple times, from behind. And it wasn’t as fun as it sounds. 🙂 I’m now seeing a pain management specialist, getting nerve block injections every 3 months or so, and, on top of my other therapies (of which there are many), I finally feel like I can get on the path to publishing again. I can’t spend much time at the computer. I do 2-3 hours a day of physio, strengthening and yoga just to TRY to get to 4 hour days – with breaks that interrupt my flow. I would really love to get 4 to 5 4-hour writing days a week. I’m not there yet. I can get maybe 2 hour days. I can do a 3 hour day but will pay for it the next day.

I am determined, even as I am reminded that those 6 hour days are lost to me forever. So I’m gonna go ahead with my plan not to put Love & Other Calamities on pre-order until the editing process is complete.

For my readers, that means some aggravating waiting. But I thank you for your understanding.

When the updated versions of Deceiving Derek and Catching Claire are on sale, I’ll let you know here. I won’t be creating new website pages for the series – I will just be putting the links here and/or pointing you to pages hosted on a site like Books2Read or my SleekBio. When I design my new website, I WILL create separate pages for each title, but because of my injuries it seems not a very wise use of my limited time to make 3 new website pages on an old computer with old software and THEN redesign the entire site.

Thank you for your understanding!

PS. You never know, I might change my plans and update my old site before redesigning the new site. If so, I’ll also announce that here.

How to find my books!

Oh, gosh, I haven’t been on my blog in forever. Yes, I am still writing, despite the universe’s attempts to throw me off-course. In my turtle fashion, I am finding my way back!

I am, in fact, working on updating and revising Deceiving Derek and Catching Claire in Love & Other Calamities, and I am writing the next 3 titles in the series, which will be novella length (20,000 – 40,000 words).

After that, I really, really, really need to redesign my website and move it to a mobile-friendly platform. But I don’t want to redesign my site (which I’m doing myself, so will need to learn) until these books are up for preorder.

And…I just found out there is a problem with several of my book links to retailers on the current version of my website. I don’t know when that issue will be fixed, as it’s out of my control. It’s a 3rd-party issue. The best I can do for now, rather than going through every book page and redoing the links, when, due to circumstances arising from a twist of fate about three years ago, would be a real PITA to do and get in the way of finishing my series, I am going to quickly list my books here, and each book will have a Universal Book Link that will take you to the store of your choice.

If you’re reading this blog post on my website, you can take a gander to the sidebar on the right, and each of those book covers, which previously pointed to individual website pages on this site with all the buy links, will now point to a Books2Read Universal Book Link. Same as you’ll find right below.

You are still free to visit my Books page and have a look at individual book pages on this site; it’s just some of the links work and some don’t. You can read excerpts, check out covers, everything you always could do. But if the links on that page don’t work, just come here and use follow a Books2Read Universal Book Link to get to the store of your choice!

Thank you for putting up with this disruption. The problem could be fixed within days, or not. I just don’t know. So this is the best workaround I could think of, as my website design software is truly ancient, and it’s on a 10-year-old computer I don’t often have access to. I want to keep writing my series and THEN redo my website, and I hope you agree that that’s the best use of my time. I do write under a second name, and when I redo my site, I will bring those books into the fold. Moving forward, I am focusing on my books as Cindy.

Irritatingly enough, I can’t figure out how to link the book covers in this post to the links on Books2Read, but you can follow the text links or use the right sidebar!!

That’s it, and thank you for your patience! Trust me when I say I would have been regularly writing and publishing books these last three years if possible. Rather than super slowly putting out the rest of Love & Other Calamities, I thought it best to write them all and THEN slowly come back from. The. Publishing. Grave.

Cindy