Holiday Wishes

by Jill Shalvis

series: Heartbreaker Bay

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Looking for a sweet romance to read this holiday season Holiday Wishes (Heartbreaker Bay 4.5) just might be what your looking for. This book is only available as a e-book or mass market paperback.

 

It’s Christmastime again in Heartbreaker Bay!

When Sean O’Riley shows up at the Hartford Bed & Breakfast for his older brother’s bachelor weekend, he’s just hoping to make it through the weekend. What he’s not expecting is to come face to face with the woman he lost his virginity to a decade ago—a woman he’s never really forgotten.

The last time Lotti Hartford saw Sean, she told him she loved him while he said nothing. Now, ten years later, she’s just looking for a good time. For once, she wants to be the wild and free one, and Sean – the good time guy – is the perfect candidate.

But as the weekend continues, Sean realizes that after a lifetime of being the hook-up king, he’s ready to find happily-ever-after, and he wants it with Lotti. But will she open her heart to him again? As Christmas sweeps through the little B&B, he can only hope love and magic are in the air. 

Noelle

by Greg Kincaidas

series: A Dog Named Christmas

 

 

In this fourth installment of the poignant stories of the McCray family and their lovable canines in rural Kansas, matriarch Mary Ann McCray is determined to shake up Christmas by accepting the role as Crossing Trail’s first woman Santa Claus. Mary Ann, always a bit of a rebel, is looking to offer a more progressive voice in the staunchly conservative town at Christmastime and has a few ideas up her red velvet sleeves.

 

 

Noelle is a part of a series it is book 3. I also found out that Hallmark made these books into movies? I’m not sure about that but they would make for good Hallmark or Lifetime movies. I enjoyed Noelle and liked the story and enjoyed most of the characters. I didn’t really have all their backstories and all since I haven’t read A Dog Named Christmas, A Christmas Home or the prequel novella Christmas With Tucker. If they are as good as this sweet book I know I would enjoy them. This book works OK as a stand alone but I do think I would have really loved it more if I had read the previous books. I would have been more invested in the McCray family and the town.  I did like that the very first pages brings forth a hard to talk about issue of puppy mills. You learn that this is how Todd gets his puppy Elle. The author tackles many heavy subjects besides puppy mills. He tackles unemployment, divorce, alcoholism, and many more real life problems in this little book. If you like sweet stories, stories centered around families and pets or just looking for a good holiday read grab: Noelle as well as Christmas with Tucker, A Dog Named Christmas and A Christmas Home. This is a book I would recommend to anyone looking for some holiday themed books to read over holidays.  It will put you in the mood now if only I could have read it while it was snowing outside. 🙂

Thank you Blogging for Books and Random House books for sending me a copy of Noelle. All thoughts and opinions are mine and not influenced by the free book. 

Chasing Christmas Eve

by Jill Shalvis

Series: Heartbreaker Bay however it is a stand alone

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I will say I haven’t read books 1 – 3 of the Heartbreaker Bay series. I usually don’t go for sappy romance books. Every now and then I will pick one up, however if it takes place during Christmas I’m all for it. I thought this book sounded really sweet and a nice light read. I was right I really enjoyed Chasing Christmas Eve. I’m going to be checking out more from Jill Shalvis and will read the rest of the series as well as grab books 1-3 from my library soon. If you’re looking for a holiday, winter themed book that is sweet than Chasing Christmas Eve might be just the book.

 

 

 

About the Book:   Meet cute…   Run for the hills—temporarily. That’s Colbie Albright’s plan when she flees New York for San Francisco. Wrangling her crazy family by day and writing a bestselling YA fantasy series by night has taken its toll. In short, Colbie’s so over it that she’s under it. She’s also under the waters of a historic San Francisco fountain within an hour of arrival. Fortunately, the guy who fishes Colbie out has her looking forward to Christmas among strangers. But she’s pretty sure Spencer Baldwin won’t be a stranger for long.

Make merry…

Spence’s commitment to hiding from the Ghosts of Relationships Past means he doesn’t have to worry about the powerful—okay, crazy hot—chemistry he’s got with Colbie. Just because she can laugh at anything, especially herself… just because she’s gorgeous and a great listener…just because she “gets” Spence immediately doesn’t mean he won’t be able to let Colbie go. Does it?

…and hope for a miracle.

Now the clock’s ticking for Colbie and Spence: Two weeks to cut loose. Two weeks to fall hard. Two weeks to figure out how to make this Christmas last a lifetime.

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New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill’s bestselling, award-winning books wherever romances are sold and visit her website, for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.

 

 

 

Thank you HarperCollins and Avon books for allowing me to read Chasing Christmas Eve. All thoughts and opinions are my own and not influenced by the free book.