Staci’s Super Stocking Stuffer Giveaway

Posted on by Staci Mauney

Congratulations to Maggie S. from Traverse City, Michigan, the winner of this giveaway!

Stockings are a tradition in my family, and each time new members join our family, they get their own Christmas stocking made just for them. Each Christmas morning of my childhood, my brother and I would run into the living room to find what Santa had left under the tree. Then we turned to our stockings, which were overflowing with goodies ranging from toothbrushes to small toys to socks to books to gift cards.

I still have that stocking and hang it up every year. My little Yorkie companion, Lilly, has one of her own too, and I stuff it with fun things like dog treats, toys, and a new collar and leash.

This Christmas season, I’m joining The Kids Did It blog and The Mommy Island blog to participate in the Super Stocking Stuffer Giveaway Hop, which runs from November 9, 2021, to November 30, 2021. The winner will receive a signed copy of Death by Dice: A Bunco Club Mystery (my new Christian cozy mystery) and a $15 Amazon gift card.

Enter through the Gleam form below for your chance to win!

Staci’s 2021 Super Stocking Stuffer Giveaway

One entrant will be selected to win a signed copy of Death by Dice: A Bunco Club Mystery (a Christian cozy mystery valued at $12.99) and a $15 Amazon gift card. Open for entry in the Continental US/Canada Only, 18 years and older from 11/9/21 thru 11/30/21 at 11:59pm EST. Winner will have 24 hours to respond to notification email to claim their prize or a new winner will be selected. See Gleam form for official rules. Event hosts and participating bloggers are not responsible for fulfilling prize obligations from sponsors or self-sponsoring bloggers.

Death by Dice: A Bunco Club Mystery

Blurb

Bridgette Olsen leads a quiet life in a rural Texas town with her golden retriever, Cooper. While finishing a degree in investigative journalism, she works at a local bank to help pay the bills. Her social life consists of a monthly bunco game with her coworkers and her best friend, Elena Rodriguez.

On a whim, the bunco group buys a lottery ticket and wins the multimillion-dollar prize. Bridgette knows her life will change, but she doesn’t realize how true that is until she stumbles over the body of her murdered bunco teammate.

Searching for answers, Bridgette discovers things she never knew about the murdered woman. Bodies and suspects begin to pile up, and she becomes a target herself. As she becomes wrapped up in the investigation, she gets closer to handsome police detective Garrett Keyes and finds herself fighting a growing attraction to him.

Haunted by the decades-old kidnapping and murder of her childhood best friend, Bridgette knows she must let go of her survivor’s guilt over both the past murder and the present one and allow God to mend her broken heart if she wants to find answers.

Can she stop the killer before it’s too late?

Excerpt from Death by Dice: A Bunco Club Mystery

Monday

I balanced my to-go cup of tea in one hand and my wallet in the other as I struggled to get the key in the door without dropping anything. I had overslept that morning, but I still made it to the bank before everyone else.

Muttering about how I hated Mondays, I finally slid the key into the opening and pushed against the back door of the bank. The door didn’t budge.

Sighing in frustration, I carefully set my cup of tea and wallet on the ground. A wisp of hair escaped from my ponytail, and the warm Texas wind blew the strand into my eyes. Tucking it behind my ear, I turned my attention back to the door and shoved with both hands.

The door moved just enough for me to get inside. The alarm blared a warning.
I picked up my tea and wallet and moved inside, tripping over whatever blocked the door. I grabbed for the wall to right myself, and my tea flew from my hand and splattered all over me and the floor.

“Aargh.” I scowled and swiped at my wet shirt. At least I’d worn black today, so the tea wouldn’t stain it.

The shadows in the hallway obscured the obstruction that had caused me so much frustration already this morning. The beeping of the alarm sped up. I punched in the alarm code on the pad next to the door and flipped on the light.

“Carol?” Surprised to see my friend and the bank’s manager splayed out across the floor, I blinked, taking in the brown liquid that covered Carol. Then, noticing the bright crimson splotch on the front of Carol’s cool white blouse, I inhaled sharply. Oh, Lord. My chest tightened as tears pricked my eyes. I jerked forward and grabbed her wrist to feel for a pulse. Her skin was still warm under my fingertips. Maybe I wasn’t too late.

I dumped the contents of my wallet out beside me, frantically searching for my phone. With shaking hands, I grabbed it and punched in the code. Buzz—rejected. I tried again, biting my lip and punching one button at a time. I was in! Finally.

“911. What’s your emergency?”

“This is Bridgette Olsen at the Roandell Bank. There’s blood…and my friend Carol…” Tears rolled down my face, and my throat closed.

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Thanks for stopping by and reading a little of my new cozy mystery! If you like devotionals, you can check out my Echoes of Joy devotional series as well.

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43 thoughts on “Staci’s Super Stocking Stuffer Giveaway”

  5. My favorite holiday cooking memory is baking Christmas cookies with my mom and grandmother as a very young child.

  7. My favorite memory was when I the last year I believed in Santa, when I was watching my parents like a hawk all night at our family’s Christmas Eve party. Neither of them left the party, but all our presents were under the tree when we got home that night. They kept me believing for another year.

  8. My favorite holiday memory is one year my dad dressed up as Santa for me and my brother. He passed away a couple years later and it’s always a memory that sticks with me. Thanks for the giveaway.

  9. My favorite holiday memory is cooking dinner with my grandma and her teaching me how to make everything.

  11. One of my favorite holiday memories is my nephew’s first Christmas. My great grandma was still with us so we got to celebrate with five generations.

  12. I love that we share 3 things we are thankful for around the table each year for thanksgiving and looking at Christmas lights around the neighborhood!

  13. My favorite holiday memory was seeing the Dayton’s holiday display in Minneapolis every year during the holidays!

  16. I think the best memory was having the whole family together the year before my father past. It was the first time we were able to all get together that year it was crazy but amazing.

  19. My favorite holiday memory is the one and only Christmas with our beautiful baby girl. She was perfect and I can’t wait to join her one day!

  20. My favorite holiday memories are the Christmas Eves my husband and I spent putting together toys and gifts for our children.

  21. My favorite memory is as a kid on Christmas Eve going to midnight mass with my mom. Then coming home, my mom lighting few candles, and us having a snack and looking at the tree.

  22. Both of my children were born in early and mid December, so my favorite holiday memories are having newborns those years and celebrating the birth of another child.

  23. My favorite holiday memory is New Year’s Eve 1995 when our youngest daughter was born. Also when our girls would get so excited on Christmas morning, even in their teens. One year, they were probably 12 & 14, they woke up at 3:30 am! LOL

  25. My favorite holiday memory is when I was younger having Christmas dinner with the whole family… Grandparents, aunts, uncles & cousins.

  26. I loved putting out cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. They were always gone in the morning…eaten by my dad as I eventually figured out :).

  27. My favorite holiday memory was when I was a teen, I flew to Florida to spend Christmas with my grandmother. First time to Florida, seeing the ocean, and on a plane! Such beautiful memories!

  30. One favorite memory is spending Christmas Eve in Germany and going to a beautiful midnight mass at the cathedral.
    Thanks for the contest.

  33. My favorite holiday memory is decorating the tree with all of my extended family as a child – some have passed and I miss those moments!

  34. My favorite holiday memory is all the Christmases with my cousins at my grandparent’s house!

  39. My favorite holiday memory was when my military son showed up with my newborn granddaughter and I had no idea they were coming home.

  41. My favourite memory is when my kids were little (4 years old and 8 months), and we were so broke. I made ornaments, crocheted gifts, crocheted decor and snowflakes, and we just got the kids gifts, and nothing for each other. We had chicken instead of turkey for dinner, and homemade Christmas cookies for dessert. It was the best Christmas ever. No money, but lots of love.

  43. My favorite holiday memory is my son’s first Christmas. It was fun watching him trying to open his presents.

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