Anywhere With You: A Romantic Comedy -- FREE on KU! Read now!

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It's here!  ANYWHERE WITH YOU: A Romantic Comedy, my beach-themed, destination wedding novella!

I'm so proud of this story. It's classic Christina Elle--fun, spontaneous, quirky, and down right steamy!

For my readers who like to know the romance tropes in a story they're reading, ANYWHERE WITH YOU includes:

  • best friend's older brother 
  • fake relationship 
  • revenge 
  • friends to lovers 
  • secret crush 

This story is a stand-alone and not related to any of my other stories. Also, it's novella length, which means it's shorter than my traditional novels, but still just as entertaining! 

WHAT IT'S ABOUT:

You are cordially invited to. . . tick off the bride. 

Teegan Michaels has attended six weddings for her sorority sisters dateless and she refuses to go to the last one alone. Not when she has a perfectly respectable—not to mention hot—NFL player ready to save her from humiliation. Who cares that he’s the bride’s ex-fiancé and only wants to go for revenge? What's the worst that could happen?

This story is meant to be a quick beach read. So get ready to load up your e-reader--or pack your print copy in your suitcase--and enjoy a fun romantic comedy while lounging in the sand with a drink in your hand!

The e-book is available on Amazon only. Print versions are available from any of your favorite retailers.

If you're a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, you can read ANYWHERE WITH YOU for FREE. If you're not a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, no problem! You can purchase this story for $2.99 on your Kindle app. 

Apologies to my iBooks, Nook, Kobo, and GooglePlay readers, but since this will be distributed through Kindle Unlimited, Amazon requires the ebook to be sold exclusively through them. If you don't have the Kindle app, you can download it for FREE through your favorite app store!  

While the ebook is exclusive to Amazon, you can still get the print version from any of your favorite retailers.

READ NOW!

Download ANYWHERE WITH YOU through Amazon HERE. 

TEASERS for ANYWHERE WITH YOU: 

Excerpt of ANYWHERE WITH YOU: 

Sliding an arm around her back for support and burying a hand into her hair, he lowered his head. Didn’t think about what they were doing, simply let his instincts guide him. He placed his lips on hers, softly at first. Testing it out. She stiffened in his arms, but only for a second before she softly moaned and relaxed. Her arms came around to clasp the back of his neck, and he almost howled at the delicious feel of her body against his. He dove back in, applying varying pressure, learning every spot that ignited her desire. 

Teegan tilted her head and opened her mouth slightly. He shouldn’t take what she was offering in front of all these people, but at the moment he didn’t care. Wes slid his tongue out for one slow swipe against hers. She whimpered and gripped his neck hard enough to bruise. In any other circumstance, he would’ve grabbed her ass, lifted her up, and had her against the nearest wall. But since they were here with a single mission—and it had nothing to do with either of them getting off—he slowed his pace, placing gentle kisses along her cheek and jawline before drawing back and looking at her.

Her eyes were unfocused and her lips a little swollen. He wanted to carry her back to their suite right now so none of the other man could witness how delectable she looked. 

“That…that was…” She touched her lips. “Wow.”

“We’ve done that a million times, remember?” he whispered.

She sucked in a quick breath and her body tensed as she remembered where they were. Her gaze skated to the right, toward the gathered group watching them intently. 

Thanks as always for your support! I can't wait to hear what you think once you've had a chance to read ANYWHERE WITH YOU!

xoxo, 
Christina 

Anywhere With You: A Romantic Comedy -- Cover Reveal & Excerpt!

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It's here!  The cover reveal for ANYWHERE WITH YOU: A Romantic Comedy, my beach-themed, destination wedding novella!

I'm so proud of this story. It's classic Christina Elle--fun, spontaneous, quirky, and down right steamy!

For my readers who like to know the romance tropes in a story they're reading, ANYWHERE WITH YOU includes:

  • best friend's older brother 
  • fake relationship 
  • revenge 
  • friends to lovers 
  • secret crush 

This story is a stand-alone and not related to any of my other stories. Also, it's novella length, which means it's shorter than my traditional novels, but still just as entertaining! 

WHAT IT'S ABOUT:

You are cordially invited to. . . tick off the bride. 

Teegan Michaels has attended six weddings for her sorority sisters dateless and she refuses to go to the last one alone. Not when she has a perfectly respectable—not to mention hot—NFL player ready to save her from humiliation. Who cares that he’s the bride’s ex-fiancé and only wants to go for revenge? What's the worst that could happen?

This story is meant to be a quick beach read. So get ready to load up your e-reader--or pack your print copy in your suitcase--and enjoy a fun romantic comedy while lounging in the sand with a drink in your hand!

Anywhere With You will be available on Wednesday 27 June 2018. I chose this date so you could grab your copy before heading to your favorite beach for the 4th of July holiday!  The e-book will be sold through Amazon only. Print versions are available from any of your favorite retailers.

If you're a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, you can read ANYWHERE WITH YOU: A ROMANTIC COMEDY for FREE. If you're not a KU subscriber, no problem! You can purchase this story for $2.99 on your Kindle app. 

Apologies to my iBooks, Nook, Kobo, and GooglePlay readers, but since this will be distributed through Kindle Unlimited, Amazon requires the ebook to be sold exclusively through them. If you don't have the Kindle app, you can download it for FREE through your favorite app store! 

PRE-ORDER NOW!

Pre-Order your ebook copy of ANYWHERE WITH YOU through Amazon HERE. Once it releases on 27 June, your copy will automatically upload to your Kindle device or app.

TEASERS for ANYWHERE WITH YOU: 

Excerpt of ANYWHERE WITH YOU: 

Sliding an arm around her back for support and burying a hand into her hair, he lowered his head. Didn’t think about what they were doing, simply let his instincts guide him. He placed his lips on hers, softly at first. Testing it out. She stiffened in his arms, but only for a second before she softly moaned and relaxed. Her arms came around to clasp the back of his neck, and he almost howled at the delicious feel of her body against his. He dove back in, applying varying pressure, learning every spot that ignited her desire. 

Teegan tilted her head and opened her mouth slightly. He shouldn’t take what she was offering in front of all these people, but at the moment he didn’t care. Wes slid his tongue out for one slow swipe against hers. She whimpered and gripped his neck hard enough to bruise. In any other circumstance, he would’ve grabbed her ass, lifted her up, and had her against the nearest wall. But since they were here with a single mission—and it had nothing to do with either of them getting off—he slowed his pace, placing gentle kisses along her cheek and jawline before drawing back and looking at her.

Her eyes were unfocused and her lips a little swollen. He wanted to carry her back to their suite right now so none of the other man could witness how delectable she looked. 

“That…that was…” She touched her lips. “Wow.”

“We’ve done that a million times, remember?” he whispered.

She sucked in a quick breath and her body tensed as she remembered where they were. Her gaze skated to the right, toward the gathered group watching them intently. 

Thanks as always for your support! I can't wait to hear what you think once you've had a chance to read ANYWHERE WITH YOU!

xoxo, 
Christina 

ANYWHERE WITH YOU Release Information!

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Those of you who have followed me for awhile might recognize this book title from last summer (2017). I was part of an anthology with some awesome authors, which is where I originally released ANYWHERE WITH YOU. After that anthology ended, I decided I wanted to re-release the story with a new cover and a full marketing plan behind it. I also worked with a professional editor to make the story S-H-I-N-E. I'm really proud of it. It's classic Christina Elle--fun, spontaneous, quirky, and down right steamy!

This story is a stand-alone and not related to any of my other stories. Also, it's novella length, which means it's shorter than my traditional novels, but still just as entertaining! It's meant to be a quick beach read. So get ready to load up your e-reader--or pack your print copy in your suitcase--and enjoy a fun story while lounging in the sand with a drink in your hand! 

This story will be available on Wednesday 27 June 2018. I chose this date so you could grab your copy right before heading to your favorite beach for the 4th of July holiday!  It will be sold as an e-book through Amazon only. Apologies to my iBooks, Nook, Kobo, and GooglePlay readers, but since this will be distributed through Kindle Unlimited, Amazon requires it exclusively through them. If you don't have the Kindle app, you can download it for FREE through your favorite app store!

If you're a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, you can read ANYWHERE WITH YOU for FREE. If you're not a KU subscriber, no problem! You can purchase this story for $2.99 on your Kindle app. 

Preorder on Amazon starts on Wednesday 6 June with the cover reveal!

WHAT IT'S ABOUT:

You are cordially invited to. . . tick off the bride. 

Teegan Michaels has attended six weddings for her sorority sisters dateless and she refuses to go to the last one alone. Not when she has a perfectly respectable—not to mention hot—NFL player ready to save her from humiliation. Who cares that he’s the bride’s ex-fiancé and only wants to go for revenge? What's the worst that could happen?

TEASERS for ANYWHERE WITH YOU: 

Add ANYWHERE WITH YOU to your TBR list! 

Are you on Goodreads? If not, you should join! It's a fun site where you can keep track of the books you've read, the books you want to read, and read updates from your favorite authors. It's an awesome place to catch up and network with fellow readers too.

Click Here to add ANYWHERE WITH YOU to your Goodreads TBR list!

Thanks as always for your support! I can't wait to hear what you think once you've had a chance to read this story!

xoxo, 
Christina 

How Did I Come Up With the Plot for THE MAN I WANT TO BE?

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This seems to be the most common question authors get.  Where do you come up with your ideas? What makes you want to write about a certain character or setting? 

My answer is usually always the same -- I have no idea.  I spend a lot of time walking around with my head in the clouds, thinking about new characters or fun places to set a story. Some are great ideas, others are just that--ideas that don't fully develop into a strong plot. I have a notebook full of things that come to me while I'm trying to sleep, or in the shower, or riding in the car.  Watching movies is a big one too. I'll often watch a movie, and it will spark inspiration for me to write something about a character similar to the one I just watched on screen. 

Sometimes though, it's more personal. 

For THE MAN I WANT TO BE, it was very personal.

It's not a secret how close I was to my grandmother. I dedicated that book to her and I spend a lot of time honoring her memory in the funny grandma characters I write. She was a special lady and I miss her dearly.

When I was coming up with the plot for TMIWTB, I knew it needed some sort of suspense aspect (since it's a romantic suspense novel, after all), but it was taking place at a destination wedding. I didn't want a drug dealer coming in and ruining the perfect day for my characters (much like the what happened in ON HER SIX and IN WALKED TROUBLE), so I tried to tame it down a bit.

But for the life of me, I couldn't think of a good plot that would be fun, suspenseful, and believable for a destination wedding. 

Around the time I starting plotting this book out, we had moved my grandmother into assisted living as it was getting too dangerous for her to live on her own.  It killed us.  We hated the idea of shoving her into a place with people she didn't know, into a room that wasn't her house, with a roommate who yelled at her all day long. But most importantly, we hated the fact that we couldn't watch over her ourselves as much as we wanted to. Everyone in my family works strenuous 9-5 jobs (even me. This author thing is a side gig) so we weren't able to be home to take care of her day in and day out. So we had to do what we could to keep her safe.

One day, during a routine trip to the doctors office, my grandmother's wedding ring (the ring she wore for 50 years that originally belonged to HER mother) went "missing."  No one at the assisted living facility could locate it.  She apparently had it on that morning, got on the transportation bus they use to take folks to the docs, and she wasn't wearing it when she came back to the facility. . . 

The ring was never found.

It happened more than 2 years ago, and my heart STILL hurts to think about. 

So what does any self-respecting author do when faced with an emotional crisis? 

We write about it.

My grandmother's missing ring was the inspiration for the main suspense plot in THE MAN I WANT TO BE.  I needed to use it, to CONTROL the situation, and imagine a different outcome.  In this novel, Kenna McCord's late mother's ring goes missing at the wedding, she thinks someone stole it, so she and the hero, Bryan Tyke, go on an investigation to find it.

Although we never found my grandmother's ring, I made for damn sure that Kenna got her mother's ring back. (Sorry to ruin the ending for you, readers. But all of my characters always get their happy ending!) It was the one thing I could control. I HAD to make sure Kenna didn't have that hole in her heart that I still have today. She deserved to have that piece of her mother with her always. 

And every night I go to sleep, thinking and dreaming about my next big story, I imagine my grandmother haunting the ever-loving hell out of whoever had the audacity to steal her ring. It gives me a tiny bit of solace. And I might even smile about it from time to time. 

xoxo, 
Christina

THE MAN I WANT TO BE is book #3 in the Under Covers series. Although it is in the same world with the same characters as books #1 and #2, it can be read as a standalone.

SALE ALERT! On Her Six is $0.99!

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 📣 **$0.99 ALERT!!** 📣 

My first book baby, ON HER SIX, is on *SALE* for the first time ever!! If you haven't read it yet, here's your chance! 

It's only $0.99!  

If you're into FUNNY and ACTION-PACKED stories that don't take themselves too seriously, then this one's for you!  

There's a gruff alpha DEA Agent, a quirky, stubborn wanna-be cop heroine, and a pack of old ladies who run the neighborhood watch -- a hilarious combo that definitely keeps things interesting! 😂😝

This is a great intro to the Under Covers series before my newest release, THE MAN I WANT TO BE, comes out next month!

What people are saying about On Her Six: 

⭐ "I have not read a book with this much HUMOR in it in a long time and it was so refreshing and enjoyable. Christina Elle has done an AWESOME job of mixing ROMANCE, SUSPENSE and HUMOR all together." -Amazon reviewer


⭐ "This is a BRILLIANT SUSPENSE, ACTION PACKED and SO FUNNY - I loved it!"
-Amazon reviewer


⭐ "On Her Six has it all--ENERGY, HUMOR and plenty of HOT SCENES. It's an amazing book and I enjoyed reading it very much." -Amazon reviewer
 

Blurb:

First rule of stake-outs -- don’t fall in love. 
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New neighbors are bad news in Samantha Harper’s experience. Especially ones as suspicious and brooding as the guy who just moved in next door. So when the dangerous but sexy stranger seems to be involved in something illegal—the aspiring cop in her takes action. If only she could stop thinking about how he looks naked...
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All DEA agent Ash Cooper wants to do is lay low and survive this crap surveillance assignment. But after a run-in with his attractive neighbor, he realizes that’s going to be much harder than he planned. Keeping the woman out of trouble is hard enough, but keeping his hands off her is near impossible.

If you've already read ON HER SIX and you haven't had a chance to leave a review, I would be so appreciative if you could. It helps other readers determine if they might enjoy the story.

If you're curious about where ON HER SIX fits into the Under Covers series, this is book 1. All the books in this series revolve around the same characters and the same world, but can be read as STAND-ALONE stories in any order.

Thanks for your support!

xoxo,
Christina 

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IN WALKED TROUBLE Cover Reveal!

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It's here!  It's here!  The cover for IN WALKED TROUBLE!  

This is book 2 in my Under Covers romantic suspense series and centers around Luke Calder, Ash Calder's (from ON HER SIX) best friend and DEA teammate.

All the players from book one are back.  Ash, Sam, Tyke, Reese, and even the old ladies from the 19th Street Patrol! (Remember crazy Estelle?)

I feel like the action and humor factors were really AMPED up in this book compared to book one.  If you loved ON HER SIX, then you'll definitely be on the edge of your seat and also laugh more while reading IN WALKED TROUBLE.

Here's the blurb: 

With a deadly target on his back, DEA agent Luke Calder’s plan is to drink away his impending demise. Except instead of getting blessedly drunk, in walks a woman with a much deeper story than she’s leading on. And he definitely wants to know more. Especially when he learns she might have intel he needs. He’s not cool with lying to her, but desperate times call for desperate measures. And what starts out as simple surveillance turns into so much more.

Cassandra Stone is having a bad night. Her boyfriend’s been cheating because she’s not “adventurous enough” in bed. So, she does the next logical thing—she goes in search of a dark, dangerous one-night stand. Instead, she finds smoldering eyes, deep dimples, and the killer smile of a guy who won’t leave her alone. Damn him. He says and does all the right things, making Cass believe that good men still exist. Until she learns why he took an interest in her in the first place.      

Teasers for IN WALKED TROUBLE: 

(check out more teasers here)

Release date is Monday 31 July, but you can preorder now!

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Enter to WIN a print copy of IN WALKED TROUBLE on Goodreads!  CLICK HERE to enter!  Don't forget to add it to your TBR pile while you're there!

 

xoxo, 
Christina

ANYWHERE WITH YOU Release Info!

***UPDATE:  This was a novella that released in an anthology in 2017. That anthology is no longer available for purchase.  But I will be re-releasing ANYWHERE WITH YOU in 2018!  Stay tuned!  More details to come!***

Surprise! Not only is IN WALKED TROUBLE, the second novel in my Under Covers romantic suspense series, coming out this summer, but I also have a novella releasing, too!  (They are releasing within one day of each other, so be prepared to get your Christina Elle fill!)

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I was asked by four really talented authors to participate in an anthology that centered around exotic locations.  Uh, destination love?? Count me in!  It was a no brainer for me to do because I got to write about one of my favorite things -- the beach!!

And so. . . ANYWHERE WITH YOU was born!

Here's the blurb:

Teegan Michaels has attended six weddings for her sorority sisters dateless and she refuses to go to the last one alone. Not when she has a perfectly respectable—not to mention hot—NFL player ready to save her from humiliation. Who cares that he’s the bride’s ex-fiancé and only wants to go for revenge? What's the worst that could happen?

Sounds fun, right? It was a blast to write. Since it's a novella, it's much shorter than my usual full-length novels, so it's the perfect read while you're on vacation! I can't wait for you to check it out. 

It releases on Tuesday 1 August, but it's up for preorder now as part of the DESTINATION: LOVE anthology. We're donating 20% of ALL sales to an organization called Final Salute Inc., who provide housing for homeless women veterans and their children. It's a really great cause, and we're excited to do our part to help. For a limited time, you can pick up ALL FIVE stories in the anthology for $0.99!

Want to read more? Maybe check out some promo teasers with some excerpts from the story? Head over to my ANYWHERE WITH YOU page for more information!

Preorder now!

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Teasers for ANYWHERE WITH YOU:

As always, I would love to hear your thoughts about this, or any other story I wrote. Go to the contact page to send me a message or follow me on social media, or you can leave a review on your favorite book retailer's website.  

I hope you have an AWESOMELY BEAUTIFUL and SUNNY summer!

xoxo,
Christina