Wild Winter Books in Order

Wild Winter is a holiday anthology with a paranormal streak, which means the mood is less quiet fireside and more snow, magic, storms, and people making dangerous choices in the coldest part of the year. Different authors contribute different stories, but the wintry frame ties everything together.

It is a festive book with sharp teeth.

Myla Jackson's contribution is Witch's Curse. It follows Catherine Wein, an ex-witch punished for using magic badly and forced to spend each year in a different woman's life. On New Year's Eve, with only hours left before midnight takes her somewhere else, she meets Sam Cade, a cop who has his own reasons for not trusting easily.

That ticking-clock setup is a good example of what this page offers. Wild Winter is not just seasonal decoration. The time of year actually matters. Snowed-in settings, holiday loneliness, last chances, and year-end reckoning all give the stories a little extra pressure.

Anthologies like this work best when you want variety without losing a theme. One story may lean more toward shapeshifters, another toward witches, another toward magical romance, but they all keep that same sense of winter as a season where isolation and longing hit harder.

For Jackson readers, the appeal is seeing how she handles a shorter paranormal romance when the deadline is literal midnight. The result is brisk, sexy, and just a little wistful, which fits a New Year's story nicely.