Subject: You're not ready for 2025. It's going to be amazing!

You're Not Ready for 2025

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Hello, and thank you for signing up to my newsletter.

This newsletter went out on Monday, 16th December, but please enjoy it today. I didn't want anyone, including new sign-ups, to miss out. I shall send another newsletter in mid-January.

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Welcome to my bumper end-of-year newsletter, and a big HELLO for those joining for the first time!


In today’s newsletter, you’ll find:

-          The links to the extra epilogues for Regally Binding and Go Cook Yourself. These are exclusive to newsletter readers.

-          The biggest moments of 2024

-          What I’m looking forward to in 2025, including the books I’m releasing

-          Who won the Christmas Newsletter Giveaway

-          My Christmas present to you - a spicy excerpt from Go Cook Yourself

I released Go Cook Yourself a month ago. It’s my spicy grumpy chef vs. sunshine baker romcom. If you haven’t read it yet, then it’s still available here. It’s on Kindle Unlimited and in eBook and paperback formats. You can find a spicy excerpt at the end of the newsletter. UK readers can buy all my books at HEA Bookshop as well.


If you’ve read Go Cook Yourself and Regally Binding and want a bit more, you can read the exclusive extra epilogue for Go Cook Yourself here and the exclusive extra epilogue for Regally Binding here. And here is a little tease from me: both extra epilogues include clues for future books in their series.

Guess what? Go Cook Yourself is my highest-rated book on Goodreads so far, with 49 ratings, 42 reviews, a 4.08 rating, and 18 people rating it 5 out of 5!



This is what readers have said:


“Omg I love the cloud family!!!! They are so amazing. I loved Rubes and Garrett and the whole story and the school and ugh, just brilliant... A million stars! It was awesome.” Sarah


“The banter? Absolutely five stars. The grumpy-sunshine dynamic between the leads is chef’s kiss (pun fully intended). Garrett is the ultimate grouch in the kitchen, but watching him melt around the sparkly, determined Ruby is to die for.”


“This is everything you could want in a romance book” Sam


“I was hooked from the start by the easy, chatty, witty writing style and that carried throughout the entire book—even whilst providing intrigue, twists and turns. A great read!” Sammie“


"I don’t know how Rebecca does it but I fall in love with her characters from the first page all of them bring something and make the books so much more special I don’t think I could love them more...The banter was perfect I laughed out loud a few times !! The story setting was picture perfect the characters no matter the part were so well written they felt so real. I truly loved everything about this book". Jade


"I literally couldn’t breathe for laughing when Ruby’s shouts Mary Berry and Garett asks about Gordon Ramsey. I really snorted my Cheerios!" Tangents and Tissues


“This was such a fun book!! Highly recommend if you enjoy cooking competition shows like Bake Off, a grumpy secret cinnamon roll of a chef, a fun sunshiney baker, in a cookery school out in the Cotswolds. And of course a cute fluffy puppy”

What are my biggest moments of 2024?


I released three books this year:


Keep in Touch – a sweet coming-of-age romance


Regally Binding – an enemies to lovers spicy bodyguard vs accidental princess romance with hints of The Princess Diaries and The Bodyguard.


And Go Cook Yourself

I also reached over 150,000 page reads on Kindle Unlimited – I’d never had more than 13,000 in a year before. Much of this change was due to a viral TikTok of a rugby player who flashed his bum during the Six Nations, which I cheekily covered with my rugby romance book covers – Head Over Feels and Stalling in Love. But it was also through finding many kind readers who read my books and fell in love with my sometimes alphahole but always loveable British (and Irish) main male characters.

I can’t thank you enough for all the love and support you gave me this year. You’ve made all my dreams come true.


Another highlight was having short stories featured in The Big Book of Quickies and Best Women’s Erotica, vol 10, both edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. I finished the year on a virtual author chat hosted by The Ripped Bodice, a trailblazing American bookshop. If you missed me and other authors reading excerpts of our erotic stories and answering questions, you can watch again here.


Also, this year, I found incredible author friends who have helped me improve my stories and who make my indie romance author life the best! I even met one in September—thank you for the trip to the bookshop, Elizabeth Holland! One day, I hope to meet my favourite American author and author bestie, Kathryn Kincaid, too.


It was lovely connecting with many new readers through TikTok, Bluesky, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Threads. If you don’t follow me on these platforms, please do, as it would be great to find new people to chat with.


I was lucky enough to travel to many places in England. I also stayed in Ireland, Wales, and Mexico and fangirled at Taylor Swift’s last European Eras concert. And I visited my friend’s bookshop in Old Buckenham, Norfolk. It is beautiful! And I enjoyed rugby and ice hockey games.


But what is coming in 2025?


Start Your Engines, my first Formula One romance, will be released on March 14th – just in time for the new F1 season. I will share the blurb and possibly the cover in my next newsletter. I adored writing this book so much that I’ve already finished the first draft of the second in the series.


I will release the third and final book in my current rugby romance series this summer. I say current because I’m planning something new and exciting and rugby-related in 2026. Obviously, as a newsletter reader, you’ll hear about it first.


I’m heading to my first book event. This event is being run by HEA Bookshop, and there are still a small number of tickets available. I’m giving away lots of book merch, running a competition, and selling and signing books. If you bring one of your Rebecca Chase books along, I would love to sign it.


Maybe I’ll tease you with future books before the end of the year. This could be Strike’s bodyguard book, the second Formula One romance, or possibly the next Cloud Family Series book. Will Flora find love? Everyone has told me that they want her to be with Jem. But what if a Canadian hockey player and Cloud cousin visited the family?


Away from my book life, I’m excited about the Wormen's Rugby World Cup taking place in England next year and I'm planning a trip to a Grand Prix for my husband’s birthday, although that might be 2026.

Are you wondering who won the newsletter Christmas giveaway? Well, I can announce that Tabitha won, and the prize is already on its way to her.


Sorry if you didn't win, but there will be more giveaways next year.

Keep checking this monthly newsletter for information.

And finally, thanks again for all your support this year. If you want to know more about something I’ve mentioned, please message me. In the meantime, here is a spicy excerpt from Go Cook Yourself, which you can buy here.

I dare you to read it in front of your family at Christmas and not blush, laugh or gasp!


I turn away from him and flip the button on the back of my skirt, unzipping it. A mirror stands in front of me.


“This way, I can see every part of you. Now pull it away from your waist and push it down.” I do as he says, enamoured by his reflection. His eyes fix on my body like he wants to consume me.


“That’s right. Bend over. And you can leave your heels on,” he hisses. “You’re going to look like my classy sex goddess when you play with yourself.”


He’s kind and feral, and I need every part of it. I bend slightly, and his growl fills the room. My leather skirt hits the carpet.


“You wore your hold ups today.” Cinnamon fills my lungs. “Turn and face me, baby.”


My breath sticks in my throat. I close my eyes under his inspection as I turn.


“Keep your eyes open. I want you to see what you do to me.”


“Yes, Chef.”


His eyes get impossibly darker. “Fuck. Say that again.”


I lick my lips slowly. “Yes, Chef.”


His eyes fix on mine as he slowly undoes his jeans, and his erection pushes its way out from his zipper. He runs his hand up and down his cock. Wetness gathers in my knickers as he fists himself. “Now undo your blouse, button by button. Don’t take it off until I say.”


My fingers tremble as I follow his orders. Slowly, I reveal inches of skin.


The depth of his voice thrums through my limbs. “You’re so sexy, baby. I’m so hard for you. All I think about is being inside you.” He pauses and growls, his face strained and his jaw hard. “Fuck. You’re everything.”


He drags a breath into his mouth, and his nostrils flare. “Shit, I’ve never been this turned on before.”


He shakes his head, and my whole body flushes under the intensity of his dark-eyed stare and tight jaw.


“I haven’t stopped wanting to touch you since we were last together. I fantasise about you every night until I might burst with need for you. Do you think of me?” He grinds his teeth for a second, and I sense a vulnerability.


Finally, I find my voice. “Every second. I need you inside me. Some days, it’s all that fills my head. Working with you day after day destroys me because all I want is to fuck you.”


A tentative smile turns up the corners of his mouth, but then he returns to his role of commanding me.


“That’s my good girl. Now show me what’s hiding beneath that blouse.” I do as he says. My nipples press against the lace of my bra, and he licks his lips slowly as if he’s readying himself to devour me. “Is your toy in your bag?”


I nod. “I’ve got lube, too,” I whisper.


“Good girl. Get them and sit on the edge of the bed facing me. Lube your toy, but don’t slide it inside until I say.”


“Yes, Chef.” Just saying that makes me pant with anticipation. “Should I keep my knickers on?”


He shakes his head. Every part of him focuses on me. I remove my knickers gradually, my bum facing him, but I watch him from the mirror again. I’ve learnt what he likes, and I’m rewarded with a groan that fills my entire body, building my arousal impossibly higher.


“Now give me those little lace things.”


I pass them to him, and he takes the opportunity to run his fingers between my legs. “Wider,” he grunts, and I obey.


Sunshine Ruby is out of the frying pan and into the forearms of the cinnamon-smelling chef, Garett, in this grumpy sunshine Christmas workplace romance.

Ruby’s life couldn’t get any worse after catching her boyfriend cheating on her with her best friend until she clashes with Chef Garett Kelsey. Her first day in her family’s cookery school turns into a shouting match with Garett demanding that Ruby leave or he quits.


Garett has lost his restaurant, livelihood, and his dog, Cookie. Garett must work at Cloud Cookery School to get his dog back before moving away with him and starting a new life.


It’s doable if he doesn’t trust anyone or fall in love.


With Ruby and Garett working together, an irresistible attraction forms. Before he knows it, the grumpy chef is pretending to be her boyfriend to punish her ex, socialising with her family, and teaching her skills to win the Christmas Eve baker competition. After weeks of flirting and a snowstorm, temptation and the presence of 'only one bed' overwhelms them.


But Ruby can’t let anyone come between her and her family like her ex did and Garett is keeping a huge secret from Ruby that could ruin everything.


Can their forbidden connection endure it all, or are they destined to break each other’s hearts?


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