Bad Boy Beck, here, doing my best to get over my old friend Jonah ditching me for another guy.

I hate Christmas, boy, do I hate Christmas! I also hate being a third wheel, so instead of joining Royce and Jonah on their romantic tropical cruise, Im going by myself into the mountains to stay at a resort hotel in one of those ski towns.

Do I ski? No, I do not. But Ive got a nice room at a fancy hotel (complete with time reserved in their rooftop hot tub), and plan to enjoy a little me time.

While making my way up to Steamboat, the only thing Ill have to watch out for is other idiots who have no idea how to drive in a blizzard. Oh look, theres one now! Some dumb guy in an Audi. Hes about to go off the road and into a frozen lake. Guess I better stop.

Do I save him? Yes, I do. Does it get complicated from there because the guy I saved is handsome and smells like a dream? Yes, it does. Does it get even more complicated because that same guy has a whole family waiting for him to show up? Yes, it does.

Gah, I hate Christmas!

A Christmas for Beck is a gay, m/m Christmas romance complete with mutual rescue, only one bed, a rooftop hot tub, a bit of a meddlesome family, and tons of Christmas cheer, in spite of Beck’s bah humbug attitude. It is part of the Farthingdale Valley universe, and is best read after The Cowboy and the Hoodlum, though it can be read on its own.

Will you go with me? Yes, to the ends of the earth and back again.

Cal

Cal made a coding mistake that got him arrested and far away from Preston, his horrible boyfriend.

After over a year in jail, he’s touch-starved and afraid. Not of doing his parole in the wilds of Wyoming, but that Preston will come and force him back to Denver.

In the valley, when Cal is assigned to Zeke Malloy’s team, his luck starts to change because Zeke is patient and kind, both with the horses and with Cal.

Cal doesn’t trust anyone now, except Cal’s crush on Zeke starts with a single word of kindness. A warm touch. And the smile in those green eyes.

Zeke

After a horse fell on him, Zeke’s bronc riding days are over. His girlfriend wants a buckle-wearing man, not a broken one, and leaves him.

Zeke finds he doesn’t care that he’s alone now. But he can’t stop thinking about the time Galen Parnell asked him out, as if there was something Galen saw in Zeke.

Was he gay?

When Zeke starts to work with Cal Tamalin, the only parolee on his team, he begins to think maybe Galen had been on to something.

Getting close to Cal can only spell disaster, and surely Zeke’s had enough of those, right?

He shouldn’t take the risk, but doesn’t think his heart can resist the biggest blue eyes Zeke has ever seen.

The valley works its magic, even on the most broken of hearts.

Galen Parnell is the type of guy who would stop at a four-way intersection, even at midnight with nobody around.

Obadiah Bede Deacon is a drug dealer who was sentenced to five years in prison.

Newly released with a broken heart that simply won't heal, Bede is now a free man. But now he needs to decide whether to return to his old life, wheeling and dealing drugs.

His other option is to remain in the Fresh Start parole program, digging up knapweed and sleeping in a tent each night, all while doing his best to figure out what the hell his team lead's problem is.

His team lead is Galen. He's got eyes full of disdain, a mouth full of truth, and he does not like ex-cons at all. Doesn't like that they're getting a free ride in the valley, when he's been working hard for years and is still broke.

Star-crossed lovers lost in time and ripped apart by war. Will desire win the final battle?

Ornes, France, 1917. Stanley Sullivan is trapped in hell. With combat raging and defeat imminent, he's determined to save his remaining brothers-in-arms no matter the cost. But when he's killed before he can sound the call for retreat, he's shocked to awaken a hundred years in the future.

Ornes, present day. WWI scholar Devon Foster laments the tragedy of the conflict. But as he works on his thesis and fantasizes about meeting a real American soldier from the era, he's stunned when handsome Stanley appears out of nowhere and falls into his embrace. And despite the century-long gulf between them, Devon's heart leaps with an instant connection.

Torn between his growing feelings for the quirky man and his own guilt over his long-dead battalion, Stanley is confronted by a decision that could change the course of history. And though Devon feels his lover's pain, he's desperate to keep their newfound affections firmly in the present.

Will their timeless passion endure the twists of fate?

Heroes for Ghosts is the enthralling first tale in the Love Across Time MM gay time travel romance series. If you like heartrending chemistry, sweetly drawn characters, and impossible dilemmas, then you'll adore Jackie North's touching story.