Tag: Christmas Romance

Wrapped In You by Kate Perry

Posted December 26, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Wrapped In YouTitle:  Wrapped In You
Series:  Laurel Heights #10.5
Author:  Kate Perry
Genre:  Contemporary Romance, Christmas Romance
Published:  November 17, 2014
Publisher:
My Rating:  4 stars
Source:  Owned, Kindle Edition
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Trudy Hawke’s mission: to go on vacation and have fun.

A prison sentence, more like it. She doesn’t take vacations, and she especially doesn’t go anywhere during the holidays. But her boss insists it’s the price she needs to pay to become a full partner in his new private investigation firm. She’ll do anything to become partner–even subject herself to love, peace, and Christmas music.

Trudy figures it’s no big deal: she’ll hole up in a hotel in Laurel Heights, drink gin, and watch action movies until she can return to London. Only her tyrant boss gives her a holiday list of to-do items, for which she must email picture proof of completion.

It’s impossible… Until she meets Mason, who proposes a deal: he’ll help her with the list if she’s his date to his office holiday events, to show his edgy tech employees that he’s more than a nerd from Iowa.

From the moment she agrees, Trudy gets more than she bargained for, but she refuses to be corrupted by the magic of the season–or love.

Read on for my thoughts on Wrapped In You.  No true spoilers, promise.

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A Cupcake Christmas by Beth Barany

Posted December 26, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Series / 2 Comments

A Cupcake ChristmasTitle:  A Cupcake Christmas
Series:  Touchstone #5
Author:  Beth Barany
Genre:  Christmas Romance
Published:  December 25, 2015
Publisher:  Firewolf Books
My Rating:  4 stars
Source:  Owned, Kindle Edition
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Florian MacMillian needs a final job to complete his baking resume—preferably a job where he’s unlikely to blow things up with his unruly magic—before returning to the North Pole and taking his rightful place as Master Baker to all the elves.

Kate Delore desperately needs help in her fast-growing cupcake business. Florian is a perfect fit, so she brings him on as baker. For a short time, Florian is happily up to his elbows in batter, and Kate’s business is booming.

But when things heat up between them, Florian wonders if he should risk his legacy to cook up something truly special.

Read on for my thoughts on A Cupcake Christmas.  No true spoilers, promise.

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Two Turtle Island Doves by Kim Law

Posted December 26, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance / 0 Comments

Two turtle Island DovesTitle:  Two Turtle Island Doves
Series: 12 Days of Christmas #2 & Turtle Island #2.5
Author:  Kim Law
Genre:  Christmas Romance
Published:  December 4, 2013
Publisher:
My Rating:  4 snowy stars
Source:  Borrowed, Kindle Unlimited
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Kelly and Becky Griffin can’t seem to keep their hands off each other—which would be fine if they weren’t divorced. Every few months, looking for “closure”, they fall into bed together.

To keep his mind off of Becky and his foundering acting career, Kelly heads to Turtle Island, Georgia, to be a contestant in the Yummy Santa contest. But when Becky shows up, winning the title is suddenly the last the thing on his mind.

Becky has arrived with more than hot ex-sex on the agenda. She’s got a big secret to get off her chest, if she can only get Kelly to listen. Will these two finally get the closure they need, or will their reunion spark a second chance at first love?

Read on for my thoughts on Two Turtle Island Doves.  No true spoilers, promise.

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A Partridge in the Au Pair’s Tree by Susan Donovan

Posted December 25, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance / 0 Comments

A Partridge in the Au Pair's TreeTitle:  A Partridge in the Au Pair’s Tree
Series:  12 Days of Christmas #1
Author:  Susan Donovan
Genre:  Christmas Romance
Published:  December 4, 2013
Publisher:
My Rating:  5 snowy stars
Source:  Borrowed, Kindle Unlimited
Cover Description:

British nanny Noelle Clarke finally gets a break when her wealthy employers and their two high-maintenance children go to Aspen for the holidays.

Despite feeling a little homesick, Noelle can’t wait to kick back and relax with a bottle of wine and some telly. But when she accidentally trips the family’s alarm system and the dashing American cop Ryder Partridge comes to her aid, Noelle may get a far more satisfying Christmas than she’d hoped for.

Read on for my thoughts on A Partridge in the Au Pair’s Tree.  No true spoilers, promise.

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Jessica’s Christmas Kiss by Alison May

Posted December 24, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Jessica's Christmas KissTitle:  Jessica’s Christmas Kiss
Series:  Christmas Kisses #3
Author:  Alison May
Genre:  Contemporary Romance, Christmas Romance
Published:  December 12, 2015
Publisher:  Choc Lit
My Rating:  5 stars
Source:  NetGalley
Cover Description:

Real Christmas miracles only ever happen in the movies – don’t they?

When Jessica was fifteen, she shared the perfect kiss with a mystery boy at a Christmas party. It might have only lasted a moment, and the boy might have disappeared shortly afterwards but, to Jessica, it was just a little bit magic.

Fourteen years later, and Jessica is faced with a less than magical Christmas after uncovering her husband’s secret affair. And, whilst she wouldn’t admit it, she sometimes finds herself thinking about that perfect Christmas kiss, back when her life still seemed full of hope and possibility.

But she never would have guessed that the boy she kissed in the kitchen all those years ago might still think about her too …

Read on for my thoughts on Jessica’s Christmas Kiss.  No true spoilers promise.

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Eve’s Christmas Wedding by Caroline Mickelson

Posted December 22, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance / 0 Comments

Eve's Christmas WeddingTitle:  Eve’s Christmas Wedding
Series:  a Christmas Central novella
Author:  Caroline Mickelson
Genre:  Christmas Romance
Published:  November 28, 2015
Publisher:
My Rating:  5 stars
Source:  Owned, Kindle Edition
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Wedding planner Eve Bennington has her Christmas all thought out, down to the last Mai Tai she plans to savor once she reaches Hawaii. But her plans quickly go awry when her very pregnant business partner insists that Eve do a favor for Santa’s niece.

The problem? Santa isn’t real. Or so Eve believes until she and her ex-boyfriend Hunter find themselves on a sleigh pulled by eight shaggy reindeer. Their destination? The North Pole. Their mission? To pull together a very last minute Christmas Eve wedding.

Eve’s problem? Finding out that Santa Claus really does exist challenges everything Eve thinks she knows, including her belief that she and Hunter don’t belong together.

Read on for my thoughts on Eve’s Christmas Wedding.  No true spoilers, promise.

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Operation White Christmas by Nicki Edwards

Posted December 21, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Operation White ChristmasTitle:  Operation White Christmas
Series:  Escape To The Country #2.5
Author:  Nicki Edwards
Genre:  Contemporary Romance, Christmas Romance
Published:  December 17, 2015
Publisher:  Momentum Books / Moonlight
My Rating:  4 stars
Source:  NetGalley
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Hollie Douglas has dreamed of a White Christmas ever since she was a child, but her dream implodes when her fiancé breaks her heart two months before their big day. Convinced by her best friend to go ahead with her planned honeymoon anyway, Hollie doesn’t expect to find herself stuck in a snowstorm in rural Canada two days before Christmas.

Jim Bell has been dreading another Christmas without his wife. When one of his orphaned animals goes missing in the middle of a snowstorm, he didn’t expect he’d be rescuing a stranded Australian tourist as well. He quickly realizes Hollie is carrying as much emotional baggage as him, and when she accepts his offer to seek shelter at his farm, he wonders if he’s doing the right thing.

As Jim helps Hollie fulfill her White Christmas dreams, the winter wonderland and spirit of Christmas work their healing magic on both of them.

Read on for my thoughts on Operation White Christmas.  No true spoilers, promise.

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Home For Christmas by Lizzie Shane

Posted December 17, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Home For Christmas Lizzie ShaneTitle:  Home for Christmas
Series:  Reality Romance
Author:  Lizzie Shane
Genre:  Contemporary Romance, Christmas Romance
Published:  November 3, 2015
Publisher:
My Rating:  4 stars
Source:  Borrowed, Kindle Unlimited
Cover Description:

All she wants this Christmas is to get home and put this disastrous year behind her, but when Samantha Whitney boards her flight to Chicago she finds the man in the seat next to hers is none other than Jase MacGregor, her first love who shattered her heart last Christmas Eve.

All he wants this Christmas is a second chance with the love of his life, but if Sam’s frosty reception is anything to go by, it’s going to take more than a few hours at thirty thousand feet for Jase to win back her heart.

When a blizzard cancels their connecting flight, it looks like neither of them is going to get their Christmas wish, but with the help of a little holiday magic Sam and Jase may be able to find their way back home. But only if they do it together.

Read on for my thoughts on Home for Christmas.  No true spoilers, promise.

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Snowbound in Montana by C J Carmichael

Posted December 15, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Snowbound in MontanaTitle:  Snowbound in Montana
Series:  Carrigans of Circle C #4, Christmas Romance
Author:  C J Carmichael
Genre:  Contemporary Romance
Published:  October 23, 2014
Publisher:  Tule Publishing
My Rating:  5 stars
Source:  Owned, Kindle Edition
Cover Description:

When Eliza Bramble signs up for a Christmas mountain ski adventure with sexy mountain guide Marshal McKenzie, she’s looking to escape the attention of a two-timing charmer and find some inner peace. Instead, a blizzard traps her in a remote mountain hideaway with Marshall and two other families in need of their own Christmas miracles.

Christmas is looking like a write-off, until Marshall suggests they make the best of what they have, and work together. The avid outdoorsman has a special touch with people…and with Eliza in particular. Soon she realizes Marshall isn’t just fixing Christmas — but her broken heart, too.

Read on for my thoughts on Snowbound in Montana.  No true spoilers, promise.

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Christmas Wish Come True

Posted December 12, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance / 0 Comments

Christmas Wish Come TrueTitle:  Christmas Wish Come True
Series:  an anthology
Author:  Gina Rochelle, Misty Shaw, Jaimie Admans
Genre:  Christmas Romance
Published:  December 4, 2015
Publisher:  Carina UK
My Rating:  4 stars
Source:  NetGalley
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All I Want for Christmas by Gina Rochelle

Ditching her faithless fiancé, schoolteacher Isabella plans to spend the holidays alone. But when she unintentionally inspires a young pupil to make an impossible wish, she joins forces with his – totally gorgeous – uncle to put things right! Could two wishes come true this Christmas?

Dreaming of a White Wedding by Misty Shaw

When Scarlet discovered her husband-to-be in a passionate clinch with her bridesmaid, she called off her Valentine’s wedding and ran away to London. But when her sister asks for her help, she can’t refuse…even if it means coming face-to-face with her ex – the man she never stopped loving!

Christmas Every Day by Jaimie Admans

Emma loves bumping into Gorgeous Dog Walker, Nick, every evening. But when he ends up in a coma (partly her fault), she ends up taking care of ‘his job’…and his dog! Emma stopped believing in Santa years ago, but this Christmas her world is about to be turned upside down!

Christmas Wish Come True is a gift for you this December, snuggle up by the fire, leave the stresses of Christmas shopping behind you…and relax!

Read on for my thoughts on Christmas Wish Come True.  No true spoilers, promise.

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Timeless Moments

Posted December 12, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance / 2 Comments

Timelesss MomentsTitle:  Timeless Moments
Series:
Author:  Ruth A. Casie, Lita Harris, Emma Kaye, Nicole S. Patrick, Julie Rowe
Genre:  Christmas Romance
Published:  November 30, 2015
Publisher:  Timeless Scribes Publishing
My Rating:  5 stars
Source:  NetGalley
Cover Description:

In the quaint seaside town of Havenport, Rhode Island, five couples find their happily ever afters with a little help from the romance section of The Final Chapter bookstore.

Introduction ~ Hope Ramsey

Ruth A. Casie ~ I’ll Be Home for Christmas

What does a best-selling romance author do when she’s lost her muse? Maybe a handsome stranger holds the key. Or maybe he’s her worst nightmare.

Lita Harris ~ Winter Wonderland

A college student’s future takes a new direction when she visits her aunt’s bookstore and meets a new stranger in town.

Emma Kaye ~ Baby, It’s Cold Outside

She read the spell “To Bring Forth True Love” for entertainment, not expecting a nineteenth century sailor to appear at her side. So what can she do when her soul mate shows up, but doesn’t want to stay?

Nicole S. Patrick ~ White Christmas

An unexpected connection leads a traumatized Prosecutor, and former Marine rebuilding his life, to face each day as it comes…together.

Julie Rowe ~ Merry Christmas, Baby

Marine biologist Mattie Clark is moving back to her hometown after the break-up of her marriage, but she doesn’t expect to run into her high school crush (literally) only days after returning, or to discover he’s not the smooth operator she remembers.

Read on for my thoughts on Timeless Moments: The Final Chapter.  No true spoilers, promise.

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Cookie Girl Christmas by Christene Houston

Posted December 12, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Cookie Girl ChristmasTitle:  Cookie Girl Christmas
Series:  Snowflake Falls #1
Author:  Christene Houston
Genre:  Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance
Published:  December 4, 2014
Publisher:
My Rating:  5 stars
Source:  Borrowed, Kindle Unlimited
Cover Description:

Molly Hayes has one more job before Christmas and then she can put her plans for a storefront bakery of her own in motion.

What she doesn’t bargain for is the handsome young Scrooge who insults her cookies and makes her blood boil.

Toss in a heaping helping of snowstorm and a pinch of romantic old Inn and you’ve got yourself the perfect recipe for a not-so-silent-night.

Read on for my thoughts on Cookie Girl Christmas.  No true spoilers, promise.

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Christmas Assortment Box by multi-authors

Posted December 11, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance / 0 Comments

Chritmas Assortment BoxTitle:  Christmas Assortment Box
Series:
Author:  Multiple Authors
Genre:  Variety
Published:  November 27, 2015
Publisher:  HAT Rock Publishing
My Rating:  5 stars
Source:  NetGalley

Christmas Assortment Box is a delightful collection of five Christmas Romance novellas by several authors.

To discover snippets of each story please continue…

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The Christmas Visitors by DeEtte Beckstead

Posted December 10, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance / 0 Comments

The Christmas VisitorsTitle:  The Christmas Visitors
Series:
Author:  DeEtte Beckstead
Genre:  Christmas Romance
Published:  November 2012
Publisher:
My Rating:  4 snowy stars
Source:  Borrowed, Kindle Unlimited
Cover Description:

It’s Christmas Eve – A blizzard and a paranormal sighting cause an accident on a country road. Sam and Ellen seek refuge at a nearby farmhouse.

Their experience with the elderly couple that live there will change their lives forever.

Read on for my thoughts on The Christmas Visitors.  No true spoilers, promise.

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Josey’s Christmas Cookie by Sharon Kleve

Posted December 9, 2015 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Josey's Christmas CookieTitle:  Josey’s Christmas Cookie
Series:
Author:  Sharon Kleve
Genre:  Christmas Contemporary Romance
Published:  November 23, 2012
Publisher:  Books To Go Now
My Rating:  4 stars
Source:  Gift from the Author
Cover Description:

In the blink of an eye, Josey lost the most important people in her life, her parents.

Can a hound dog named Cookie, a pair of Mourning Doves, and a passionate vet bring the holiday spirit back into Josey’s life in time for Christmas?

 

Read on for my thoughts on Josey’s Christmas Cookie.  No true spoilers, promise.

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