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Kristen Helmstetter

(Brisa Starr)

Count on Me: My New Romance Novel Now Available!

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This is Benjamin. Say “Hi!”

Ciao from Italy! 🇮🇹 ☕️

I have news!

I just published the 2nd steamy romance book in my Young Brothers Series titled Count on Me! It’s sexy and steamy and heart-racing and full of delicious feelings. 💋

(Fake It was book number 1 in the series though they’re standalone stories, I recommend reading them in order. UPDATE: This is now free for a limited time to download via NetGalley, click here.)

THIS is book #1 in the Young Brothers Series 💋

That means it’s celebration time! Vino rosso here I come! Or maybe I’ll celebrate with a steak. BOTH! 🥩 🍷

I have to tell you I am having the time of my life writing these romance novels. And I have so many more stories to write. Just today I was brainstorming on eight more novels, including a 4-book series set in Italy. Of course.

So. Count on Me! My newest book!

What happens when you bring together a spender and a saver? Sparks fly!

Penny, a beautiful but spendy biohacker and MBA student, desperately needs a place to live, but only for ten months, and then she’s moving out of state.

Benjamin, a muscular CFO and proud, frugal minimalist, is bankrolling a fortune to retire in his thirties, so he offers Penny a room to rent in his house.

It’s the perfect solution for both of them. Until he realizes it’s going to cost him his heart.

Despite their differences, and the fact that she’s leaving, he’s fallen for her, completely. Then comes the hardest thing he’s ever had to do: Let her go so she can follow her dreams.

Can they find a solution before they lose each other forever?

You have to read it to find out!

And if you haven’t read the first book in the series, Fake It… get your free ebook copy here on NetGalley for a limited time! (And if you have read it, I’ll send big hugs all the way from Italy if you’d be so kind as to leave a review.) 🤗

Please note, links are affiliate and I get a small commission if you use them to buy anything on Amazon, but it’s of no extra cost to you. 😀

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Life After Quarantine in Italy

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Venus flytrap

It’s been over a month since we’ve been out of our mandatory quarantine when we arrived in Italy from the USA. I would’ve shared more sooner, but I’ve been busy writing romance novels.

Published next week!

I’m about to publish my 6th one titled, Count On Me, which is the 2nd book in a four-book series titled Young Brothers. The first book in the series is Fake It, which is available now. And the third book in the series, Playtime, will be available later this month. So, yeah. Busy! And loving it.

Which is really to say that we stay home a lot. As much as I’d like to explore more of Italy, especially in these times where crowds are minimal, we’re staying home. Our outings include walking around our gorgeous town and going to the store for groceries.

We’re happy as heck, too, enjoying our beautiful apartment which has become a lovely home, and coasting through day after day. It’s la dolce vita, even just staying home most of the time.

1st homemade cappuccino in our new apartment.

We’ve bought a number of things to making time in our apartment fun, beautiful, and useful. From the twenty pound salt lamp to our wicked balance board to the exercise equipment and Instant Pot (my old best friend) and Airfryer (my new best friend)…we’re absolutely set.

Oh, and the Venus flytrap (pictured above)! It’s makes a much better “pet” than a rollie pollie.

News in Italy: Everyone now wears masks here, all the time when you’re out. If you’re walking outside in a piazza? Mask. Walking in a store? Mask.

Mask Mask Mask.

Masks for the market.

Meditating is my morning routine.

Here I am meditating. I do this almost every day. As you all know my passion for Dr. Joe Dispenza’s morning meditation.

I’ve also added meditations that came free with Dawson Church’s Bliss Brain (recommended) new book.

I listen to one of his 15-minute meditations and then follow it with Dr. Joe’s awesome morning meditation (~ 27 minutes?).

Meditating… every day.

I exercise daily.

Without a gym membership we’ve bought a few awesome things to make exercising fun and inspiring. I like keeping a fit body and I absolutely boost my happiness when I’m moving, exercising, and challenging my body.

Our pull-up and dip contraption. I call him Thor.
I also did my own highlights, as if you couldn’t tell. 🙃
Balance board is great exercise, fun, challenging, and good for your brain.
Crazy strange and weird at first. This is my 1st day here. Now? I’m better! The brain is awesome! Neuroplasticity!
Ordered a ton of tea from the UK. They know tea.
Went to our landlord’s garden. He’s amazing!

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My Carnivore Dieter’s Desk

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My desk.

My Carnivore Dieter’s Desk… laptop, coffee, and steak

An example of how I start my day… with local Italian red meat (a fine steak full of protein and fat). 🥩 🇮🇹 It’s about 400 grams (about 14 ounces), and I cooked it in the air fryer, my new favorite way to cook steak so it gets the fat around the edges deliciously crispy and melty.

I’m not all carnivore these days but I tend to stay that way most of the day at least during the week. Now that we’re settled and have a stronger routine, steaks are calling me. 

And frankly I still feel like an unstoppable, limitless woman when I fuel this way (and I like not being bloated! 👙). It works for us. Big time. (Read about my carnivore diet adventures in my book, The Carnivore Diet Handbook)

My new experiment for the next couple of weeks will be steak 🥩 for food and honey 🍯 (plus tea and coffee of course, and I like heavy cream in my tea lately). I’ll call it my steak and honey 🍯 🥩 diet.  

Or my 🥩 🍯 ☕️ 🍵 diet.  

When I decided on my butcher of choice in our Italian hill-top village, it was a funny first encounter. Of course, I was buying a lot of meat, many kilos which I don’t think is common. He looked at me, not speaking much English, and my Italian leaving a lot to be desired, I realized he was inquiring if I had a lot of friends I was cooking for.

Ha. Nope, just me (well and Greg and Kamea, though I eat more meat than them).

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Fake It! My NEW Steamy-Sexy Romance Novel! Free!

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New Release!

I’m back at it! Just released another romance novel!

Fake It!

This boss-employee, steamy-hot love story, Fake It, is a bit different, though. It’s the first in a series of four books, The Young Brothers Series! Each novel is standalone with its own love story, but you get to dive into love multiple times as you progress through the love stories of each brother (Ethan in Fake It, Benjamin in Count On Me, and Gavin in Play Time).

Books II and III will be released in October! And book IV, a title special for Christmas, will be released in time for the holidays.

I’ve made the kindle version (ebook), Fake It, FREE for a few days! So hop to Amazon and get yours now.

AND! As always!!! Please leave a review after you read it. :) I would really appreciate it for any and all of my books. XOXO

Fake It Description

Harper Dallas is so desperate for the job, she’s willing to lie on her resume to get it. But she has a good reason, and she’s qualified. So that makes it OK, right?

Ethan Young is her devastatingly hot and sexy new boss, and he hired her based on her lie. He’s wonderful, and he’s falling hard for Harper. But office romance is forbidden, so he can’t touch her, no matter what his heart and hormones say.

But when the boss and employee take a business trip to Las Vegas, well… what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!

Eventually, Harper knows she must tell Ethan the truth, even if it means risking everything… her newfound happiness, her amazing job, and the man of her dreams.

Her lie is eating her alive. If she comes clean, will their love survive?

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My Housesitting Book Is Free! Limited Time!

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Hi!

I made the ebook version of my book, How to Win at Housesitting, FREE for a couple of days. Hop over to Amazon and get a copy. It’s a great, quick read and will teach you everything you want to know about housesitting.

Even though there’s not a lot of travel happening during Covid, it’ll get better, and you can take the time now to learn about housesitting—a great way to travel!

Housesitting will change your life! Did you know you can travel all over the world (and U.S.) and stay in 100% FREE accommodations? 

You’re going to discover an insider’s secret to travel for weeks, months, or year-round while saving tons of money!  Housesitting is a secret world that few people know about. Save thousands of dollars while you travel the world. It’s fun, too!

This book gives you step-by-step instructions and teaches you everything about housesitting, including how to score the best houses against competing applicants.

You’re going to learn…

  • How to beat the competition when you apply for your dream housesit
  • How to build your profile and reputation if you’re just beginning
  • 12 reasons WHY you should be housesitting (whether you’re single, married, have a family, or a senior citizen)
  • HOW to find housesits all over the world: United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Latin America, South Africa, and more!
  • HOW to get the BEST housesits
  • Real-life housesitting stories that teach and entertain
  • Learn how to line up back-to-back housesits to travel the world full-time!

How to Win at Housesitting is packed with all the practical tips for housesitting you need to know, including checklists! It shows you how to make your housesitting experience the best ever, and win the housesits of your choice!

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Learning Italian in Italy Is Easier Because…

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Learning a foreign language in-country is easier… not by osmosis, but because you make mistakes you’ll never make twice. Like the time I asked the old lady how old she was when I meant to ask the age of her dog. Or the time I thanked my landlord for the eggs when I meant to say grapes. The look on his face told me I’d blundered, but then he just laughed and figured it out.

Walking away I smacked my palm to my forehead! Duh! Eggs… I meant grapes! Uova vs Uva.

I have story after story like this. At this rate I should be fluent in a century. :) That’s cool I plan to be alive then, too.

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