Hello and Happy New Year!

My name is Dorothy Bodoin. I live in Michigan, an hour’s drive from the fictional Foxglove Corners in my cozy mystery series. I’m new to blogging but not to Coffee Time Romance. I’ve been visiting this enchanting site for a long time, and they’ve sponsored my monthly newsletter, so I don’t really feel like a newcomer.

I love to interact with my readers and have found many new friends who contacted me through on website, , or on Facebook.

I write romantic suspense and cozy mysteries, and have one Gothic romance, my only book set outside Michigan. My books are a blend of romance and mystery with a touch of the supernatural””sometimes light, sometimes heavier””and at least one collie. At last count, Jennet, the heroine of my Foxglove Corners series, has four collies. At present I have one, Kinder who appears in my books as Candy.

My most recent book, Spirit of the Season, was released last year in October, just in time for Christmas. It’s available at Wings ePress and Amazon as an e book or trade paperback.

Spirit of the Season starts with a winter apparition. My heroine, Jennet, sees an ice skater fall through the ice of Sunset Lake. Because this is Foxglove Corners, where the unusual is ordinary, by the time help arrives, the skater has vanished, along with the break in the ice.

While Jennet seeks to understand the story behind the phantom skater, she also finds herself having to deal with an unscrupulous collie breeder and facing danger of her own at Sunset Lake.

There’s plenty of romance in Spirit of the Season. Jennet and her husband, Deputy Sheriff Crane Ferguson, are practically newlyweds. Jennet’s neighbor and Crane’s uncle exchange wedding vows in a romantic New Year’s Eve ceremony, and Jennet’s best friend and her sister compete for the attentions of a handsome but clueless deputy who gives both girls the same Christmas present.

If you’d like to read the first chapter of Spirit of the Season, you’ll find it posted on my website under My Books.

To celebrate the beginning of 2011, there’s going to be a contest at Coffee Time Romance. The prize will be four of my books reprinted for Harlequin Worldwide Mystery BookClub. They are: The Cameo Clue, A Shadow On The Snow, Secret For A Satyr, and Snowhedge.

Get the details here and post a comment with your answer!