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The men of Sleeping Dogs have had their fair share of women, but now that they’re a little older, and a little wiser, they’re looking for something more meaningful than the one-night stands typical of what they’ve experienced in the past.

This complete collection includes all five full-length, laugh-out-loud, cinnamon roll rockstar, rom-coms featuring the men of Sleeping Dogs.

lots of laughs
standalone stories
cinnamon roll rockstars
quirky friends
steamy love scenes

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𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 (𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐨𝐠𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟏) Connor and Alex
She’s an unemployed chef afraid of being burned by love again. He’s a world-weary rockstar tired of being used. Can a second chance at first love heal them both?

𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 (𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐨𝐠𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟐) Ryder and Denise
She’s a serious control freak of a band manager. He’s a jaded joker of a rockstar. Will a jealous ex and surprise pregnancy tear them apart before they start?

𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐩 𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐭 (𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐨𝐠𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟑) Aiden and Rhea
She’s a disgraced ex-cop looking for a career change. He’s a moody drummer trying to keep his demons at bay. Can vandalism and ill-conceived revenge plans be the glue that mends their lives and binds them to each other?

𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 (𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐨𝐠𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟒) Johnny and Becca
He’s a romantic, guitar-playing tattoo artist looking for true love. She’s an emotionally and physically scarred photographer who keeps people at a distance. When one wants true love and the other wants one night, can friendship and a fake relationship ever be enough?

𝐖𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞 (𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐨𝐠𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟓) Travis and Finley
She’s a single mom struggling to rebuild her life. He’s a reluctant rockstar tired of being alone. Can they repair a foundation of lies to build the life they both want?

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romcom
can be read as a standalone
single mom
crazy grannies
cinnamon roll Rock Stars
steamy
love at first sight
quirky friends

Way off Base is a heart-warming romantic comedy about family, trust, and starting over.

A regular guy who also happens to be a rock star. A single mom struggling to rebuild her life while going through a bitter divorce. Can a case of mistaken identity transform their growing attraction into something more? Or will the foundation of lies they’re building on cause it all to come crashing down around them before they can find out?

Travis has been following his brother, Johnny, around for his entire life, even going so far as to learn to play bass so he could start a band with him. It’s just too bad the band actually took off. Now, instead of working with his hands and starting a family, Travis plays music while travelling the world with his brother and his best friends. Poor guy.

Finley’s ex husband turned thirty and then began his downward spiral into a mid-life crisis. He started by joining a band, moved on to staying out too late and partying too much, and ended with cheating on her with random groupies who left their dirty underwear in his car. Well, he didn’t end it after that, Finley did. She took the kids and left, moving into a run-down house badly in need of repairs.

Luckily, she meets a sexy handyman at her neighbours’ house who can help solve all her problems. His name is Travis, and he’s just a regular guy.

18+

Start at the beginning with Second Chance.

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romcom
can be read as a standalone
single mom
crazy grannies
cinnamon roll Rock Stars
steamy
love at first sight
quirky friends

Way off Base is a heart-warming romantic comedy about family, trust, and starting over.

A regular guy who also happens to be a rock star. A single mom struggling to rebuild her life while going through a bitter divorce. Can a case of mistaken identity transform their growing attraction into something more? Or will the foundation of lies they’re building on cause it all to come crashing down around them before they can find out?

Travis has been following his brother, Johnny, around for his entire life, even going so far as to learn to play bass so he could start a band with him. It’s just too bad the band actually took off. Now, instead of working with his hands and starting a family, Travis plays music while travelling the world with his brother and his best friends. Poor guy.

Finley’s ex husband turned thirty and then began his downward spiral into a mid-life crisis. He started by joining a band, moved on to staying out too late and partying too much, and ended with cheating on her with random groupies who left their dirty underwear in his car. Well, he didn’t end it after that, Finley did. She took the kids and left, moving into a run-down house badly in need of repairs.

Luckily, she meets a sexy handyman at her neighbours’ house who can help solve all her problems. His name is Travis, and he’s just a regular guy.

18+

Start at the beginning with Second Chance.

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So ten years ago, when my husband and I first started seeing each other (again, because we dated when we were kids awww, so sweet ), my dad passed away and we travelled to our home town for the funeral. While there, we went for breakfast with my cousin and my mom. I had a normal eggs and toast kind of breakfast and he had eggs benedict or something like that (whatever it was, it didn’t come with toast).

If it doesn’t come with toast, and you want toast, order some effing toast! Don’t ruin the toast to egg ratio for someone else.

Now, I like to eat my breakfast in a certain order. I eat the egg white part first, then dip one full slice of toast into the yolks, and then eat the remaining pieces of egg on top of the remaining slice of toast. Maybe it’s a little strange, but it’s how I do it. And that’s how I was doing it that day, until my wonderful boyfriend (at the time) reached over and took (!!!!!) a slice of MY toast. He completely ruined the egg to toast ratio I’d carefully arranged and planned for.

When I say it’s a good thing looks don’t kill, it’s a damn good thing.

My mom and my cousin were both shocked he’d had the audicity to do that, and that I hadn’t stabbed him right there with my fork and left his body for the busboy to dispose of. They knew better than to touch my food, but clearly he didn’t and they were prepared for the fallout.

I imagine being stabbed with a forked would be pretty painful. My husband should consider himself lucky that he didn’t find out first hand that day.

We still talk about this toast incident. He’s warned our children to never steal mom’s toast. And when he orders something that doesn’t come with toast, he gets an extra order on the side, for himself. And it’s not that I won’t share food, it’s that he threw off the ratio and made it so I couldn’t eat the rest of my meal the way I wanted to.

Obviously I forgave him, we’re married now after all, but a lot of it had to do with him just ordering himself toast when he wants it

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Last year, when I started this whole writing adventure, I wanted to do everything right. The right stories, the right words, the right technology, and the right distribution.

I had five books planned for the Sleeping Dogs series, one book for each member of the band. For some reason, when I posted the first book for sale on Amazon, I couldn’t figure out how to make it say that it would be book 1 of 5. Until I thought ” I should make listings for the other books”. It was brilliant. Until it wasn’t.

When I put in the books, I also put in preorder dates. If you don’t know what that is, it just means that you can order a book before it releases officially. But for the writer, it’s a pretty solid deadline. You need to have your book done in time for that sale date.

Well, when I first put the books in, I mixed two of them up, got the order wrong. No problem, I thought, I can just switch them around. Except when I tried to do that I wound up with two books with the same pre-order date. Yikes!

I had to push one of them back by a couple of months, but Amazon only lets you postpone a release once, and only for thirty days. Which of course makes sense. The last thing I wanted to do was disappoint people who had placed a pre-order.

Amazon gave me a one time exemption from the penalty for postponing more than once and I was able to keep my preorder creation capabilities. Even so, I barely made my deadline for the release of Book 4. Like, made it by the skin of my teeth, thanks only to the kindness of the Amazon employee who happened to answer my email that day.

So now, here I am again, struggling to make my deadline, only this time, if I don’t make it, there will be no reprieve. Some people say the ability to create pre-orders doesn’t matter until you’re a much bigger author but I like the idea that people can order before a release. I like pre-ordering books I’m looking forward to because I have the worst memory and would forget otherwise. I imagine that at least some other people have to the be same way, right?

The hard part I’m dealing with right now is that these characters aren’t talking to me the way I’d like them too. They’re not really interested in going the way I want the story to go, so things are getting a little out of control.

Will I finish the story in time for the release? Or will I have to forfeit my ability to create pre-orders for a whole year? If you’ve been kind enough to place a preorder for Way off Base, thank you. I appreciate you so much. If you’ve been waiting for release day, thank you also. I appreciate you so much.

Thanks for reading this rant. I’m sure I’ll make the deadline, I’m just being a whiny baby because I’m sick right now

Talk soon,

Chantal

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Second Chance (Sleeping Dogs Book 1) is free in ebook form on Amazon this weekend only!

A recently single, unemployed personal chef. A jaded, world-weary rock star. A second chance at first love. Plus panty-melting sex scenes, a grumpy grandfather, quirky friends, and a happily ever after worth waiting for. 18+

I can’t believe I broke my favourite umbrella on my loser ex-boyfriend’s cheating behind.

Literally.

I caught him in our bed with another woman, and I used my umbrella to give him a well-deserved beating. I guess now we’ll just add him to the long list of my cheating ex-boyfriends.

Seriously, I’ve had more unfaithful boyfriends than faithful ones. Something is definitely wrong with me.

Swearing off men is the only reasonable solution. No more dating for me. Hard pass, thanks. Sorry, not sorry.

Of course, now would be the time that I reconnect with my long lost first love, Connor Ashley. And of course he’s the super sexy lead singer of the band Sleeping Dogs.

But how can I give my heart to a rock star when I know it can only end in heartbreak?

⁠rock star⁠s
first love⁠
cinnamon roll hero
reunited lovers⁠
grumpy grandpas
romantic comedy⁠
can be read as a standalone
steamy

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Only the Best (Sleeping Dogs Book 4)

A super romantic, guitar playing tattoo artist who believes in true love. An emotionally and physically scarred photographer who spends her days documenting the kind of love she believes she doesn’t deserve. If he wants forever, and she refuses to give anyone more than one night, will friendship ever be enough for either of them?

When Johnny meets Becca after a Sleeping Dogs show that she’s been hired to photograph, he’s sure he’s finally found ‘the one’. Too bad Becca’s ideas are of the less permanent variety.

For reasons she prefers to keep in the past, Becca doesn’t get intimate with a guy more than once.

Johnny wants a fairytale true love like his parents have, and he’s gone through dozens of women trying to find it.

When Becca’s mother gets it into her head that she’s going to find Becca a man, Johnny steps in with the perfect plan. He’ll pose as Becca’s boyfriend to get her mother off her back.

Pretty soon, what’s supposed to be one friend helping another turns into more than just a fake relationship.

Can Becca face her trauma and find the strength to trust Johnny with a real chance? Or will the childhood accident that left her scarred in more ways than one leave her settling for less love than she deserves?

romcom
can be read as a standalone
friends to lovers⁠
crazy grannies
cinnamon roll Rock Stars
steamy
love at first sight
quirky friends

Want to start at the beginning? Check out Second Chance, Face the Music, and Skip a Beat. And remember to keep your eyes peeled for Way off Base (Sleeping Dogs Book 5) coming early 2022.

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