Ex-con Samantha Reed spent
the last three Christmases in prison eating jail food and exchanging candy
canes with her cellmate.
She’s finally released,
and she gladly accepts when a mysterious stranger invites her to a White
Christmas celebration at his family’s Wyoming ranch.
Braden Powers hasn’t spent
a Christmas at home since his mother died one Christmas Eve long ago. Now, his
grandfather is dying, and Braden is asked to spend one last Christmas with his family.
Braden’s grandfather
offers to change his will in exchange for a healthy dose of Yuletide cheer, and
Samantha jumps to help Braden put on the perfect act.
When disaster strikes on
Christmas Day, Samantha and Braden are conned into discovering the truth about
themselves.
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Jingle Belles Series of
Christmas hotties: dramatic, humorous, with a bit of steam and lots of holiday
cheer.
Christmas Flirt, #1 - Bad
girl Lacy Reed gets more than she bargained for when her naked selfies turn up
on her boss’s phone.
Santa’s Pet, #2 - Girl
genius Brittney Reed plays elf to a substitute Santa and turns both their lives
upside down.
Christmas Con, #3 – Two
ex-cons, Sammie and Braden, pose as stellar success stories to swindle a
grandfather to change his will for Christmas.
Buy link: Amazon
Cat gives this one 4
Meows with a 2 Purr heat index...
This is a fun and flirty holiday
story. Samantha Reed has been in prison for three years for something she did
but didn’t do. (Let’s just say her actions got her in a lot of trouble.) She didn’t
have any visitors or calls while in jail and now it is almost Christmas, she
has nowhere to go and alone. She calls the man she went to prison for because
he owes her and gets a strange voice. The man that picks her up is hunky and definitely
not Mitch.
Braden has his secrets and
now he is out and trying to get Mitch when he gets a call from his stepmom
telling him his Grandfather is dying and wants him home for Christmas so this
can be his best Christmas ever. He isn’t about to let Sammie go so he talks her
into going and pretending to be his daughter. Saying things backfire is putting
it pretty mildly.
There is a lot going on,
some sweet, some sexy, and a touch of danger suspense involved. I would have
liked to have known more of Braden’s story since I never figured out where he
was or what he had done so bad (and good that had been mentioned). I think if
you had read the second Book Santa’s Pet perhaps things may have made more sense.
(I am not sure because looks like I missed that one). I also found the part
with Sammie (though she is pretending to be sixteen and Fifteen year old Will a
bit unnecessary and it squicked me out some.) but all in all this is a very
good Holiday book and I highly recommend it.
Rachelle Ayala is an
award-winning USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic
suspense. She writes emotionally challenging stories but believes in the power
of love and hope.
Her book, Knowing Vera, won the 2015 Angie Ovation Award, and A Father for
Christmas garnered a 2015 Readers' Favorite Gold Award. Christmas Stray was
awarded the 2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Award and A Pet for Christmas had an
Honorable Mention. In 2017, her book about a single mother with an autistic
son, Playing for the Save, won the 2017 Readers' Favorite Gold Award for
Realistic Fiction.
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She is also a writing teacher and founder of the Romance In A Month writing
community. She lives in California with her husband and has three children and
two birds.
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