Title:  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
Cover Description:

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.

Trudy is on the enforced vacation from hell.  She doesn’t want to be on vacation.  She hates vacations.  She’d much rather be online, watching action movies or… just about anything that does not even remotely involve a vacation – Christmas vacations no less.  One where she has to document “Having Fun” for her boss back home in order to get that partnership she wants.  If only pulling out purple streaked hair would help, Trudy would be doing that too.  But nothing was going to help.  Not even the handsome man who keeps watching her from across the cafe.

Mason is captivated by the lovely, blue striped hair woman across the cafe.  (Mason is color blind).  She is as nonconformist a woman as he’s ever seen in Laurel Heights, and he knows a lot of people here.  There’s simply something about her that draws him.  And he’s going to find out exactly what that is.  The dagger looks she’s sending his way don’t really count – she doesn’t-know that the lady he’s buying coffee for is a friend so he gives her points for not liking a cheating kinda man.  And once he realizes that she’s gotta document having fun for Christmas – he offers up a deal, one that benefits them both.

I have absolutely no intention of giving anything more away about Wrapped In You.  This is a one of a kind, laugh out loud and simply feel good kinda story that no one should ruin for you by saying too much.  Trudy is delightful in her own unique way.  Mason is dashing as a hero who simply wants to enjoy this woman exactly as she is – he wouldn’t change one thing… except maybe make her his on a long time permanent kinda deal.

Fall in love right along with Trudy and Mason.  This is probably one you’re going to want to pick up again next year.  It will make you feel that good.  If you love Christmas romance, then this is perfect for you.

Available for the Kindle