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I have a new audiobook for readers to enjoy!

I’m thrilled to announce a new audiobook release from the talented narrator, Pearl Hewitt. Treat your ears to dazzling Regency romantic suspense with A Holiday Code for Love. 

A Christmas house party becomes a covert operation to trap a French spy. Can the honorable John Bonnington protect his wife from their guest’s murderous intentions? Can Abbie Bonnington protect her husband from his ex-mistress’ intentions to seduce him into revealing Crown secrets?

Can Abbie and Jack continue the charade of hosting the perfect holiday party as danger, treachery, and treason swirl in the ballroom?

Enjoy the passionate, suspenseful regency world of the Code Breakers,where daring lords and ladies decode the path to happily ever after, amidst their dangerous, heroic fight against Napoleon’s treacherous designs.

Look for it on Audible, iTunes and Amazon!

Big Trouble ~ Excerpt from 'Mission: Impossible to Resist'

“Damn and double damn,” Aiden muttered under his breath. He should have known the “little” and “easy” favor for Jenkins was going to be “big” and “trouble.” Jordan Dean wasn’t the pampered princess, or the cold-hearted bitch Aiden had expected.

Jordan was a caring, straightforward woman who didn’t seem to be intimidated by him. Which was a first, especially since he had intentionally opened their exchange with his I-can-kill-you-in-ten-seconds-or-less look. Her grit made the soft, alluring woman all the more intriguing.

With his assignment in the Philippines finished, he had planned a few days to catch up with Finn. He and Finn made a point, whenever they got together, to toast Parker and the Afghan boy with a beer and a Snickers. Nothing in his plans had entailed serving as a fricking bodyguard for a billionaire’s daughter.

Their tradition had started when Aiden stopped by Yemen to check on Finn after the “situation” in Afghanistan. Aiden recognized that part of the trip was to assuage his own guilt in losing Finn’s buddy—a talented young man who didn’t deserve to die. Aiden’s visit became an annual ritual, spanning the past four years, and cemented their bond—allegiance between spec-op soldiers with the life expectancy of a daylily.

Aiden never spoke of the loss in Afghanistan again and doubted Finn did either. What was the point in examining feelings? Duty demanded you pick yourself up and do the job.

He was in Seattle because he wasn’t sure he wanted to pick himself up and do the job anymore, not after the death of Jackson in Marawi. The cryptic text from Finn—”The Frogman is finished.”—was a sign. Now, instead of decompressing with a fellow member of spec ops who would share his warrior’s view of Jackson’s death, and how many deaths it might take to finally say “enough,” he was duded up and playing nice to the same sort of people he had rejected in order to join the military.

Talk about irony. He’d had enough of the wealthy—most of whom had no concept of the realities of the working world—to last his lifetime. Though if any more assignments went down like the Philippines, his lifetime might end up pretty short.

He tracked Jordan’s leggy stride, acutely aware of how her hips undulated in those damn high heels. What was she thinking, wearing those shoes? She’d never be able to run away from an abductor in those things.

Click here to keep reading Mission: Impossible to Resist, Impossible Mission Book 1

Leaping into the New Year

Happy New Year! Are you ready for 2020? I have big expectations for this year because it marks the start of a new decade — some folks are already calling it the Roaring 20s — and it’s a leap year. Think of all the babies born on February 29, the next leap day, who will have special birthdays.

Here are some interesting facts about leap years.

The extra day is added to the Gregorian calendar every four years to synchronize the solar year to balance out the 365.25 days it takes to orbit the sun.

The practice of adding an extra day began in 46 BC when the Julian calendar (decreed by Julius Caesar) was created.

In the U.S., leap years coincide with presidential election years.

Couples in Greece avoid getting married in leap years to avoid bad luck. Russians also believe leap years herald trouble such as freak weather patterns.

People born on February 29 (leap day) are called “leaplings” or “leapers” and there is a special group for them: The Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies.

Notable events — not all bad — that occurred during leap years:  George Armstrong Custer fought the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), the Titanic sank (1912), Benjamin Franklin proved that lightning is electricity (1752) and and gold was discovered in California (1848).

There is a movie titled Leap Year. Released in 2010, it stars Amy Adams and Matthew Goode.

What will you do with an extra day? If reading tops your list, check out my books:

Code Breakers Regency Romantic Suspense

Grayce Walters Contemporary Romantic Suspense

Impossible Mission Military Romantic Suspense

Sources:  Leap Year Fast Facts, 20 Fun Facts about Leap Years

Christmas Kindle Giveaway

CONGRATULATIONS to Dawn H. of Newton, Kansas, the winner of my Kindle Giveaway. Happy New Year to all!

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I’m celebrating Christmas with a Kindle Fire giveaway. For a chance to win, just email me at jacki@jackidelecki.com with your favorite thing about the holidays.

I’ll randomly select one winner to receive a Kindle Fire!

Winner announced January 1st.

Happy Holidays!

Yes, she's a lady ~ Excerpt from 'A Code of Wonder'

“Stop.” The man stood at the top of the stairs. He at least had the decency to put his breeches on though sans a shirt. “This is ridiculous. Come back. We’ll talk.” He tried to sound reasonable, but Eliza saw the way his hands were fisted at his side, his strained neck, and clenched jaw.

“Are you insane? So you can ravish me?” Eliza ran down the stairs.

“I wasn’t going to ravish you. My God, this melodrama. I give you my word as a gentleman, I’ve never harmed a woman. And never taken a woman against her will. Bloody hell, I saved you.”

“A gentleman would never talk to a lady in such a manner.”

“You’re a lady?”

Eliza gasped. He had the nerve to call her out—a “gentleman” who was willing to ravish an innocent woman. After all her mother’s attempt to shape her daughters to be ladies and redeem the family name after the scandal that caused them to be shunned from society, she was now the one to bring complete ruin to her family.

That was the worst thing he could have said.

A Code of Wonder is part of the Regency holiday anthology, Snowed in with a Rogue.

You can read A Code of Wonder and six other romantic stories for just $0.99.

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