Special edition swag boxes are back! Offering these is my favorite book release ritual. I want folks to have the full experience. In fact, I’m changing the name of these to “Full Experience” swag boxes. I love building these and sharing them with you so you can have the full experiences of the characters, the setting, the fictional universe.

In Young Buck, Loretta is an infidelity investigator who runs a secret PI agency called Sniffing Around. It hides behind a vanity business of the same name. The Sniffing Around website carries handmade botanical beauty products that Loretta makes with the herbs in her garden. The beauty products in this box are an homage to that. Loretta also runs a support group for women called Cheated On-Onymous. The women in this group call themselves the COOs, and, together learn to overcome betrayals and become the Chief Operating Officers of their lives. The other half of this box is an homage to the COOs and the major girl squad vibes of this book. Women supporting women. Sisters before misters. I loved writing the COOs as much as Ioved writing Buck and Loretta and I hope you love everything you see in this box.

Here’s what’s included:

• A signed, personalized (or not) copy of Young Buck

• A “Smells like his b*tch ass isn’t your problem anymore” scented jar candle from Big White Yeti Candle Co. (Woman-owned, 100% soy all-natural candle; comes in “his b*tch ass” and “their b*tcsh ass” variations; note the sale price reflects the fact that some candles are slightly non-cosmetically defective; some have a bubble inside)

• 4 super-snarky girlfriend greeting cards personally designed by me:

  • “It’s better to have loved and lost than to live with an asshole for the rest of your life.”

  • “Roses are red, Violets are blue. We’re breaking up. It’s not me, it’s you.”

  • “If you’re happy and you know it, thank your ex. (clap, clap)”

  • “You’re the whole package; you just picked the wrong address.”

• A Vitamin C paper face mask from my very favorite luxury brand, Lapcos

• Kobee’s Mai Tai Punch beeswax lip balm (Black-owned, in 100% biodegradable packaging)

• The recipe for Loretta’s Bourbon Butterscotch Bars (printed on a super-luxe collectible recipe card)

• Stickers, bookmarks and other bookish goodies

• Retail value: $82 if sold separately. My price: $50

All about Young Buck

When her husband died in bed with a 19-year-old college student, Loretta Boggs swore off men. Now she moonlights as Green Valley's finest infidelity investigator. When she's not staking out scumbags, sidelining sugar babies, and catching cheating bastards, she's the fearless leader of Cheated On-onymous, a secret support group for betrayed women that meets in the basement of Green Valley Library.

Fire Lieutenant Buck Rogers is Green Valley Fire Department's newest recruit. He's also renting the house next door to Loretta’s. When a mysterious family secret compels him to seek the talents of a private investigator, he calls in a friendly favor. But keeping things neighborly isn't easy. Not with Loretta spying on Buck's chin-up routine through his open bedroom window. Not with Buck's shameless flirting and beguiling blue eyes. Buck may be testing her resolve, but Loretta is testing his mettle. Can she get over the fact that he's just so young?

Young Buck is a full-length contemporary romance and can be read as a standalone. Book #5 in the Green Valley Heroes series, Green Valley Chronicles, Penny Reid Book Universe.