The Next Neighbor from Hell Novel is Now Available

Dear Reader,

Another Christmas from Hell is now available!

In the first James Brothers’ novel, we have:

Bryce James, cranky, a little too serious for his own good, not a big fan of Christmas, and determined to do whatever it took to stay away from his brother’s best friend, only to have everything ruined when his sister made him an offer that he couldn’t refuse.

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Cayley was determined to prove the big jerk (a.k.a. Sean, her best friend and the man that loved tormenting her) wrong while trying to avoid her ex-fiancé and realizing that there was so much more to the man next-door.

To celebrate the occasion, I wrote a Chronicle for the James brothers, but there was one problem with it.

It’s naughty.

So, I couldn’t post it here because this blog posts automatically to Goodreads and Amazon and I wasn’t in the mood to see how far I could push the naughty boundaries 😉 So, I found a way to get around that by posting the chronicle to another page. You can find the link for A James Brothers’ Chronicle below 🙂

If you’re subscribed to the R.L. Mathewson Newsletter, this was the Chronicle that you got early access to Friday.

With that, I hope you enjoy Bryce and Cayley’s book 🙂

R.L.

Excerpt from Another Christmas from Hell

“I’m not interested in you,” Bryce said firmly, watching as she frowned in confusion.

“And you’re telling me this why?” Cayley asked as she sent him a questioning look as he told himself that this was for her own good.

“Because I’m trying to let you down gently,” Bryce said, wishing that he had done this years ago.

As much as he hated to do this, it was for her own good. He should have done this as soon as he realized that she couldn’t live without him, but he’d hoped that she’d outgrow it and move on. When she’d started dating the prick, Bryce told himself that it was probably for the best. Then, the prick broke off their engagement and she came running back, more determined than ever.

“I gathered that much on my own, but I’m not sure why,” Cayley said as she pulled into the parking spot that Connor assigned her.

“Because you’re in love with me,” Bryce said with a helpless shrug, not knowing what else to say.

“I see,” Cayley murmured, sounding thoughtful while he sat there really hoping that she’d be able to hold back the tears.

“I’m trying to be nice,” Bryce said, releasing his seatbelt as he tried to think of something that would help her get through this, but…

There was no way to soften the blow, he realized, biting back a sigh.

Frowning, Cayley said, “Let me get this straight, you think that I’m in love with you and-”

“I know,” Bryce said, but she simply continued as though he hadn’t spoken.

“-and you decided that the best way to let me down gently was to blurt it out like that?”

“I was trying to be nice!”

“And it really showed,” Cayley said, nodding solemnly as she opened her door and climbed out, leaving him to do the same and-

“I just never thought it would end this way,” Cayley said with a sniffle, dragging his attention to find her lower lip trembling.

Aw, shit…

“I thought we’d be together forever.” Sniffle. “I just thought you needed time to realize that you couldn’t live without me,” Cayley said as she released a shuddering sigh before continuing. “I always pictured us getting married, moving into a small house with a white picket fence where we would raise our ten children while breeding emus.”

“Emus?” Bryce asked dryly.

Sniffling, she nodded. “We’d make a killing selling emu eggs.”

“And why would we want to do that?” Bryce asked, rubbing his hands roughly down his face, suddenly feeling exhausted.

“How else would we support our ten children?” Cayley asked, frowning up at him.

“Please tell me that you’re screwing with me,” Bryce said, dropping his hands away.

“I would never joke about Fluffy,” Cayley said, blinking up at him.

“Who the hell’s fluffy?” 

“Our nearsighted dog, of course. Kids need a dog, Bryce,” she said with a solemn nod, only to follow that up with another shuddering sigh as his eyes narrowed dangerously on her. 

“Look, I think I really need to lay down in the fetal position and struggle to fight back the tears that I know are coming while I try to accept that the dream is over,”  Cayley said around a yawn that was quickly followed by a mumbled, “Good talk,” as she walked away while he stood there, watching her as he told himself to let it go.

“This isn’t going to work for me,” came the absently murmured words that had Rory reminding herself that she loved her brother even as her hands twitched with the need to grab that clipboard out of Bryce’s hands and-

“Why are you here?” Connor asked, sighing heavily as he leaned down and pressed butterfly kisses to Kylie’s small forehead as she slept happily in her daddy’s arms.

Blinking, Bryce countered with, “Why aren’t you taking notes?” as he flipped through the stack of papers fastened to his clipboard while Connor glared at him as he continued kissing their baby girl’s forehead.

“We talked about this,” Rory reminded him as she reached up and pinched the bridge of her nose as she stood there wondering, not for the first time, why he was like this.

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A James Brothers’ Chronicle

“This isn’t going to work for me,” came the absently murmured words that had Rory reminding herself that she loved her brother even as her hands twitched with the need to grab that clipboard out of Bryce’s hands and-

“Why are you here?” Connor asked, sighing heavily as he leaned down and pressed butterfly kisses to Kylie’s small forehead as she slept happily in her daddy’s arms.

Blinking, Bryce countered with, “Why aren’t you taking notes?” as he flipped through the stack of papers fastened to his clipboard while Connor glared at him as he continued kissing their baby girl’s forehead.

“We talked about this,” Rory reminded him as she reached up and pinched the bridge of her nose as she stood there wondering, not for the first time, why he was like this.

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