Walking in a Witch Wonderland Anthology (Stay a Spell 3.5) by Juliette Cross-dual review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date October 5, 2021

Getting hexy for the holidays!

Bewitch You A Merry Christmas: Always the peacemaker, Evie conjures Christmas magic between a hexed hottie and his witchy neighbor, while Mateo and Alpha plan to do whatever it takes to get some alone time with their girl.

Rockin’ Around The Hexmas Tree: A Dirty Santa gift with a very special hex boosts Devraj and Isadora’s sex life from sizzling hot to scorching.

Jingle Bell Jock: On New Year’s Eve, a new man puts the moves on Charlie. Tired of pining for his best friend, he’s ready to move on. Fortunately, JJ’s jealousy is just the right ingredient to move them well out of the friend zone.

You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grim: Her first glimpse of grim reaper Gareth Blackwater evokes a major case of insta-hate in Lavinia. In that same moment, Gareth is hit with insta-lust. Fate is playing with them both, and neither one is happy about it.

Jingle Spells: Nico and Violet laugh their way through their first babysitting adventure. But laughter turns to lust when Nico’s “dad” vibes tug on Violet’s maternal heartstrings.

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Sandy’s review : WALKING IN A WITCHY WONDERLAND is a collection of contemporary, erotic, paranormal short stories set in the author’s STAY A SPELL series focusing on the Savoie Sisters of New Orleans in and around the Christmas holidays.

BEWITCH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS focuses on Evie Savoie as she is tasked with reversing a hex placed on Marcus Romano, a human businessman , who caught the ire of the witch next door, a witch whose interest in Marcus goes more than ‘magically deep’. Meanwhile, werewolf Alpha Mateo is hoping for some one on one time with his mate but the celebration for Evie’s twin sisters Clara and Violet is on the schedule, and time with his mate is put on the back burner.

ROCKIN’ AROUND THE HEXMAS TREE focuses on Isadora and her vampire lover Devraj, and a Christmas gift exchange wherein our couple were not the intended recipients of a magical Christmas gift, a gift with the power of sexy lust. As Devraj and Isadora unknowingly take full advantage of the power of the gift, the intended recipients Violet and Nico.

JINGLE BELL JOCK is an MM story line focusing on the unrequited love between human best friends bartender Jeremy ‘JJ’ Breaux, and Event Manager Charlie. A New Year’s Eve party finds Charlie kissing another man, unknowingly breaking the heart of his best friend JJ but JJ is desperate and devises a plan to seduce his best friend, the man with whom he had fallen in love.

YOU’RE A MEAN ONE MR. GRIM follows grim reaper Gareth Blackwater and Lavinia Savoie when a advertising competition places our couple in direct competition with one another. Lavinia despises the sullen and quiet grim reaper but Gareth finds himself insanely attraction to our story line heroine. In the end, a three way tie, forces our couple to work together…the story line has yet to be told.

JINGLE SPELLS finds werewolf Nico, and his mate Violet as they are tasked with babysitting Mateo and Evie’s fifteen month old triplets, a task of which they thought were prepared but to their surprise the triplets powers begin to manifest shocking not only Nico and Violet but Mateo and Evie as well. At the end of the day, Violet and Nico look to the future, for a family of their own.

WALKING IN A WITCHY WONDERLAND is a collection of fun, sexy, spirited and tender holiday stories about family and friendships, relationships and love. Gareth and Lavinia’s short story has yet to evolve, while JJ and Charlie act on their attraction to one another

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Wolf Gone Wild
Don’t Hex and Drive
Witches Get Stitches

Barb’s Review:  Walking in a Witchy Wonderland is an holiday anthology that is part of her wonderful Stay a Spell series.  This is a holiday short stories featuring different Savoie Sisters (witches) and their steamy relationships.  I will break this down for each story, which are quick reads

Bewitch You A Merry Christmas: This story revolves around Evie and Mateo (a wolf), with Mateo’s inner wolf Alpha also playing a big part in this story.  Seems Mateo/Alpha is not happy that Evie has been very busy, especially with the holidays, and they are determined at any cost, to get alone time with her.  But Evie must remove a hex another witch put on a customer, and find the witch who put that curse on. Of course, once she removes the hex, Evie is whisked away to spend some very steamy time alone with Mateo (& Alpha)

Rockin’ Around The Hexmas Tree: This one is centered around Isadora and Devraj (a vampire). It is Christmas season, and the sisters have a party exchanging gifts, and one ornament ends up with Isadora.  What they didn’t know was the ornament had an added lust hex, that made for mind blowing steamy sex, which neither could stop.  A wild time was had before they realized what was causing the super-hot enhanced desires.

 
Jingle Bell Jock:  JJ is the bartender at the Savoie Sisters place. Charlie has lusted over his best friend JJ for a long time, with no reaction.  On New Year’s Eve, he meets another guy, who expressed interest in Charlie, and they decide to go out with each other.  When JJ sees his buddy dating someone else, his jealousy arises, and he realizes that he wants Charlie for himself.  When JJ finally makes a move on a confused Charlie (JJ never expressed interest, other than as a friend), the hot chemistry between the two of them escalates into a wild steamy lustful desires, filled with the love they felt for one another.

You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grim: Livvy meets the grim reaper, Gareth Blackwater, and immediately dislikes him.  Gareth comes across as cold, but at the same time, he feels a major case of lust toward Livvy.  She also feels the attraction to Gareth, but will she allow herself to be involved with a Grim. We know very little about the mysterious Gareth, which I’m sure a book about them should come soon enough. 

Jingle Spells: This was a riot, as we get to see Nico and Violet babysit Mateo and Evie’s triplets.  The babies are already hard to handle, but though it is fun and challenging, it was lots of laughs.  Nico and Violet start feeling maternal instincts, as they think about what will be in the future. By the time Evie and Mateo come home, everything is in order, and they are exhausted. LOL

Walking in a Witchy Wonderland was a fun and steamy anthology, with 5 great short stories revolving around our wonderful Savoie Sisters.  Juliette Cross always blows us away with her fantastic and hot romantic paranormal stories, and I absolutely love this Stay a Spell series.

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Juliette calls lush, moss-laden Louisiana home where the landscape curls into her imagination, creating mystical settings for her stories. She has a B.A. in creative writing from Louisiana State University, a M.Ed. in gifted education, and was privileged to study under the award-winning author Ernest J. Gaines in grad school. Her love of mythology, legends, and art serve as constant inspiration for her works. From the moment she read JANE EYRE as a teenager, she fell in love with the Gothic romance–brooding characters, mysterious settings, persevering heroines, and dark, sexy heroes. Even then, she not only longed to read more novels set in Gothic worlds, she wanted to create her own.

Juliette is a multi-published author, including her Nightwing series with Kensington Publishing and The Vessel Trilogy with Samhain Publishing.

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