Lane Hayes has written a funny engaging holiday romance about a two completely opposite men, ones who aren’t looking for a relationship, who find in themselves a unexpected love. In a Christmas Town during the holidays.
With Hayes’ gift for memorable, endearing characters and the ability to create realistic locations are fully illustrated in this book. It’s everywhere in scenes the reader can easily visualize the citizens, the places, and the situations with the characters as they develop in the relationship. Each house, that fabulous bookstore, even the baby goat comes alive.
But it’s the dialogue and heartwarming journey to a HEA for Moody, the town’s Christmas Scrooge, and Hudson, its newest arrival and cowboy, that’s the heart and spirit of this wonderful book.
I adore them and their romance. And highly recommend reading their story.
The geek, the cowboy, and a not-so-grumpy holiday…
Moody
Living in Christmas Town doesn’t make me a fan of the holidays. Quite the opposite. In fact, eleven months of the year, I’m perfectly happy running my bookstore in peace and quiet. Of course, that changes in December when it’s mistletoe madness and mayhem. Ugh.
But this year, there’s a new cowboy in town and it’s not as easy to grumble about…anything. I admit, Hudson is handsome and hunky, but everyone knows I’m not myself till January, so he’ll have to buzz off and charm someone else.
Bah humbug.
Hudson
Moving to California wasn’t in my plans. I could use the change of scenery, though, and Oak Ridge Ranch is a good investment. That’s not a sneaky way of saying I’m hiding from my past—no siree. I’m following a new path to a new town, that’s all.
And so far, so good. Except…my attraction to the nerdy bookstore owner is throwing me off my game.
Look, I’m not interested in anything other than a casual hookup. But Moody is a mystery, and I want to know more about the adorable geek with a sunny disposition who turns into a holiday grump every year.
For some reason, he feels like home away from home. December may be the last month of the year, but something tells me this is our beginning.
Moody’s Grumpy Holiday is an MM grumpy-sunshine, romantic comedy featuring an adorkable geek, a hunky cowboy, and a little seasonal magic.
Brigham Vaughn brings us another terrific heartwarming holiday romance with 12 Dates of Christmas, a novel in the multi-author series, Christmas Falls: Season 2.
One of the best holiday series, now in its second season, the setting is a town dedicated exclusively to Christmas, 12 months of the year, Christmas Falls. Complete with a charming map of the town, outlying areas (few as they are), and the Christmas shops with the holiday punny names that we’ve become so familiar through so many stories and characters.
Widower Nick Morgan, who’s been mentioned in previous books, is Christmas Falls matchmaker. He wants everyone to experience the love and joy he had in his marriage with his wife before she died, so he’s made it his mission to help others find their match.
But to take that business online he needs a better website. And someone who has the ability to create one. That’s website developer Leo Fenner (best friend to Hayden ) who has recently relocated to Christmas Falls having fallen under its charms and wanting a change.
These are two completely sweet people that Vaughn has created for the story and watching each of them grow together, working with each other, and through a couple of different struggles is low key lovely and heartwarming.
The reader, if they are following along in the series, may recognize some scenes from other stories but now from their perspectives. A element I really enjoy.
And the aspect of Nick’s story, from realizing that he has already been bisexual to the journey of acceptance that’s it’s time to move forward past grief to a new chapter and relationship is believable. Even his missteps and fear all feels true to heart.
As does the gentle reminders and ways Leo both protects himself yet leaves the path open for them both.
Did I want a little more of them at the end? Certainly but 12 Dates of Christmas (Christmas Falls: Season 2 #3) by Brigham Vaughn is a holiday heartwarmer. Christmas Falls lights up my holiday reading and this is just one more reason why.
Another win!
Cover art by Morningstar Ashley Designs
And check out all the books in the Christmas Falls series, both 1 and 2.
Christmas Falls, Season 2:
The Snuggle is Real by DJ Jamison Flake It til You Make It by Beth Bolden ❤️
12 Dates of Christmas by Brigham Vaughn
Here Comes Santa Paws by Lee Blair
Under the Mistle-Foe by Rye Cox Christmas Beau by Amy Aislin
❤️No Business Like Snow Business by J.A. Rock & Lisa Henry
Frost Impressions by Kelly Fox
Promise Yule Be Mine by Rhys Everly Mingle All The Way by Hayden Hall
Christmas Falls, Season 1:
Grinch Kisses by DJ Jamison Snowbody Loves You by Jacki James Get Frosted by Amy Aislin
Charmed by the small town, and weary of the big city dating scene, Leo moved to Christmas Falls in hopes of finding love like his college friend, Hayden.
Nick Morgan had the love of his life and lost her, but is determined to help others find their happily ever after with his matchmaking service.
His website needs work though, and Leo is just the man for the job.
The web developer signs up for Nick’s matchmaking service to get a feel for what the process is like, all while secretly hoping it’ll bring him the love of his dreams.
But as Nick and Leo work together, the sparks between them are impossible to ignore.
Too bad there’s a few little problems.
For one, Nick’s never fallen for a man before. And, oh yeah—those dates he’s planning for Leo? They’re supposed to be with other guys …
Christmas Falls: Season 2 revisits a small town that thrives on enough holiday charm to rival any Hallmark movie. It’s a multi-author M/M romance series.
Publisher: Two Peninsulas Press (November 19, 2024)
Immediately upon opening the book, I love this format, the story is divided into the four equinoxes of the year, starting with Spring. It’s a wonderful method of showing progression of the characters’ relationships and developments in their lives while folding in meaningful celebrations of the year.
I also had to go for tissues more often than expected, not knowing fully about the history of USMC vet Luther Sorenson, the unit he’d served in and the full story of the losses that followed him home. It’s so well written, soft in details, a wealth of sparsely communicated pain, loss , and love for a career and those who were unable to make it out. Including his K9 partner.
The foster aspect of Luther is beautifully captured. From Luther’s skittish memories to his fabulous trans sister from the same system, Violet, who is the core member of his family, and his new foster 8 yr old daughter, Mila, each is a remarkable factor in this story. Merrill has crafted in each one a memorable quiet gem. Through subtle character building, layers of background and small details combined with a nuanced personality that’s allowed development throughout the storyline, we’re able to see the characters grow, stumbling, achieving new milestones, and getting them into the new paths.
That includes former Air Force soldier Doug Cross, a security coder now in business for himself. Part singer, goth artist, and a person helping out his friends with their dog rescue, it’s at a Bay city fair where adjoining booths , the rescue team and Luther’s artwork, force a meeting.
From there, from Equinox to equinox, a relationship or really, an interlocking group of relationships are slowly being formed. There’s meaningful adjustments, adult communication, necessary talks about their histories and his health, his daughter. Everything is just as important and real. The fears and the challenges. The surprises and the heartwarming wins.
It’s watching Mila go from a fearful 8 year old at the beginning to a young girl so happy and excited in her heart at the end. The families formed, standing together in the firelight of that Solstice fire. More tissues.
Yes , there’s a furry one too. I really wanted more of him.
In fact this entire book is so great, so moving, and magnetic in its emotional appeal that I wanted to explore more of each Equinox stage. Dive deeper in how the changes occurred that lead to the beginning of the next Equinox stage.
My hope is the line at the end where there’s a promise of more to come.
I’ll be there to see what happens.
A beautiful story, outstanding work, a definite recommendation.
Cover design by Kelly York, love this cover so much
Once Upon a Holiday series – 8 books:
Once Upon a Second Chance by Davidson King
Once Upon A Mistletoe Kiss by Sammi Cee
Once Upon a Holiday Vacation by Annabella Michaels
From the author of the award-winning novel You Can Do Magic: Carnival of Mysteries and Publishers Weekly’s BookLife quarterfinalist Earthquake Ethan comes a heartwarming holiday tale of found family and sacrifice. Two wildly opposite veterans connect over a shared love of art, rescue dogs, and a very special foster child.
Settling in the Bay Area after his stint in the Air Force, Doug Cross’s new titles include business owner and member of a goth-punk band. And, apparently, professional do-gooder. When his housemate needs funds for her dog rescue, he willingly whips up goth-inspired dogwear to sell at a local craft fair. He gets a rather cool reception after offering a helping hand to their booth neighbor, however…which is a shame, because the bearded artist is the first man to turn Doug’s head in a while.
Marine vet and single foster dad Luther Sorenson is struggling to keep his family afloat—and himself on his feet, literally. He’s selling his paintings at the fair when his body betrays him, and he’s forced to ask for help from the goth guy next door. Doug made a humiliating experience seem easy and innocuous, and despite their differing opinions on the military…Luther can’t stop thinking about the charming man. His killer makeup skills and the way he rocks a kilt aren’t helping.
The men embark on a tentative relationship, but as the seasons change, so do their circumstances. Navigating a new relationship is hard enough. Add in an adorable foster daughter, a new job, a business emergency, and a grumpy dog…and the two vets/artists will have to get creative if they want to carve out time for love.
Once Upon A Goth Dog Solstice is a part of the multi-author series Once Upon a Holiday Story. Each book can be read as a standalone and in any order. What links these books together is The Hook’s Book Nook Traveling Library, a library on wheels owned by two old ladies in love.
Publisher: Celie Bay Publications LLC; 1st edition (December 10, 2024)
I was looking forward to Once Upon A Christmas Song by Mary Calmes, a novel in the multi-author Once Upon a Holiday series. And after reading it, I’m finding it hard to rate.
The story has many of the best elements of Calmes writing and some of her aspects of her work that just don’t seem as well thought out.
First the best of this book. That’s the setting, New Orleans, which is beautifully rendered in atmosphere and realistic locations. Then it’s the wonderful found family of La Belle Vie, the bar/restaurant that’s the home and heart for an entire group of people. Calmes makes this key setting a hearthstone by folding into the workplace the multidimensional people who work there and are considered family of its owner, Chris Gardner.
Chris, his bar/restaurant and found family? Fantastic! The issue arrives with the holiday romance aspect.
That’s a rockstar who left Chris (and the friends there) behind to find fame and fortune. Which he found along with drugs, alcohol, and addiction. Now 2yrs later, without any communication, Dawson West has arrived expecting open arms and to pick up the relationship where they left off. A ending that, reasonably, devastated Chris and took him a while to recover from.
What works here is (spoilers) Chris’s initial reaction and responses to Dawson’s nonstop entreaties to pick up immediately on the romance between them as if nothing happened because Dawson went to rehab. Now’s he’s out and a “new person “. It’s he’s back! And his band mates are just as strangely written as enablers or clueless with regard to relationships and specifically to their own personal relationships with Chris.
If Calmes had decided that the story was about forgiveness and recovery, a friend relationship, and rewritten the ending, this might have worked. But Dawson is a problematic character, albeit one we’ve seen before in certain Calmes stories. The flip side to the golden boys every one loves.
Dawson, an ambitious singer in a rock band, rises to the top of the charts, then , along with his fellow musicians, becomes addicted to drugs and alcohol, burning himself and them out. The story goes into a little more detail but the catch is that Dawson went to rehab, along with a band mate/friend twice, to return to Chris and home. Got clean because of Chris. Two years after break up , and recently release from rehab. No mention of getting clean strictly for himself. Because what happens to addicts when plans fail if they went through rehab for the wrong reasons?
And now he’s constantly pressuring Chris to get immediately together, like there’s no past, because they “love” each other. Etc. Chris asks for space and time to think and talk. Immediately no, keep the pressure on, don’t respect Chris’s decision or wishes to make decisions based on his own personal feelings. So many flags. And the author seems to realize that but it’s temporary stop in rational plotting.
While having Chris explain why the space is necessary or even why talking about the differences (he’d lived a full satisfying life in the singer’s absence) is required , a relevant part of the conversation here, Calmes then negates everything that is solid about this aspect of the story and has Dawson rolling right over Chris, abetted by the “friends”, and a child manipulated by the singer. That left a sour impression on me.
So for every well written piece of this story there’s an equally less thought out aspect that works against it. It’s a love this character, no, this really isn’t working for me type of story.
The series connecting element, The Hook’s Book Nook Traveling Library, has a larger role here. But unlike other series of this kind, while the married couple (adorable) and that bus are amazing, they never seem to fit well into any story. They are either too big an element themselves or too quirky to fit into the plot that’s already in place. The connection either needs to be a more simplified one or more suited to the specific series , like a seasonal object. Just mo. Give them their own story.
Cover design by Kelly York
Once Upon a Holiday series – 8 books:
Once Upon a Second Chance by Davidson King
Once Upon A Mistletoe Kiss by Sammi Cee
Once Upon a Holiday Vacation by Annabella Michaels
Chris Gardner has a good life in New Orleans. He owns a club in the French Quarter, has a wonderful crew of people who call it home, loyal, caring friends, and even gets his kid fix by helping to take care of his chef’s daughter. What he doesn’t have is that special someone to share his days and nights with. He thought he did, once upon a time, but that man left to find fame and fortune, became a rockstar, and never returned. And that’s fine. Life isn’t a fairy tale. Now if only he could find a band to play music in his club at night, that would be a Christmas miracle.
Dawson West had to leave to see if his dreams could become reality, but what he didn’t count on was that once he had the world at his feet, he’d miss the man who’d held him tight. Between the endless climb toward greatness and the pitfalls of addiction, Dawson lost himself for a while, but that doesn’t mean he stopped loving Chris. Not wanting his love to see him broken, he makes certain he’s clean and sober when he finally comes home. Going radio silent while becoming the man Chris deserves seemed like a good idea at the time, but now…
Now, Chris has a problem. Dawson is back, out of the blue, and if Chris lets him return to rocking his club, is that an invitation for his heart as well? How can Chris ever trust again, even if it is the season?
Once Upon A Christmas Song is a part of the multi-author series Once Upon A Holiday Story. Each book can be read as a standalone and in any order. What links these books together is The Hook’s Book Nook Traveling Library, a library on wheels owned by two old ladies in love.
Under the Mistle-Foe by Rye Cox is another adorable holiday romance in the multi-author series, Christmas Falls, now in its second season. A frenemies to lovers story, it’s more a tale of a misunderstanding from school than an actual enemy relationship. But the real theme is one of grief, mourning, and finally recognition of its impact , on families and homecoming at the holidays
Remy returns home after learning of his father’s injury and need for him at the family diner. The loss of his mother and his grief caused him to leave his home for a job elsewhere. Jett, a man who had never left, has always had a huge crush on Remy since school, something that factored into his actions towards Remy being awkwardly inappropriate and unsolicited then.
The story follows the men as they reconnect, as well as Remy struggles with the town and memories he left behind, including the father who loves him.
There’s much about the story that’s beautifully heartwarming and moving. When it dwells on loss, and Remy’s realization that he was still mourning her loss, then he uses her love for the season to move forward, those moments are special and believable.
The romance is cute, the men adorable, and if it’s a bit quickly pulled together, well, it’s the Christmas season and a small town story. Many of the elements are lovely and the town sparks with joy and familiar characters.
It’s another terrific tale in a heartwarming series.
Christmas Falls, Season 2:
The Snuggle is Real by DJ Jamison Flake It til You Make It by Beth Bolden ❤️
12 Dates of Christmas by Brigham Vaughn
Here Comes Santa Paws by Lee Blair
Under the Mistle-Foe by Rye Cox Christmas Beau by Amy Aislin
No Business Like Snow Business by J.A. Rock & Lisa Henry
Frost Impressions by Kelly Fox
Promise Yule Be Mine by Rhys Everly Mingle All The Way by Hayden Hall
Christmas Falls, Season 1:
Grinch Kisses by DJ Jamison Snowbody Loves You by Jacki James Get Frosted by Amy Aislin
Under the mistletoe with my enemy? What else can we do but kiss?
A family emergency brings me back to Christmas Falls after running away from the loss of my mother six years ago. Not much has changed, and I don’t know if that’s a good thing or bad, especially when it seems my high school enemy hasn’t gotten over his habit of circling around me.
Jett is everything I’m not, so full of confidence like he’s never done a single thing wrong in his life. He vibrates life, and I have to admit his presence distracts me from being back in Christmas Falls. What I didn’t expect is for him to take all my attention.
He’d gotten under my skin back then and he’s only dug in deeper since, and I can’t let anyone find out how much I love that fact. Now if only he’d stop stealing my heart with his crookedly perfect smiles…
Christmas Falls is a multi-author M/M romance series set in a small town that thrives on enough holiday charm to rival any Hallmark movie.
Once Upon a Holiday Vacation by Annabella Michaels is a sweet best friends to lovers holiday romance that’s got a strong start but predictable ending that’s not as satisfying.
The boyhood friends, complete opposites , dark bookish Easton Beckett, a librarian, to his outgoing , firefighter blond best friend, Weston Holt, have been so attached to each other that their nicknames are East and West.
A nice narrative touch.
The main characters, Easton’s fellow librarian, and his family, who are all introduced into the storyline as important to Easton and also to West, as he’s been a integral member of their family as well. It’s all lovely, sweet and real.
The middle section of the story where Easton and West re-evaluate their relationship from friends to lovers while on a cruise is also a very sweet, sexy element. Michaels uses established couples around them to show our main characters exactly what their bond and relationship is like or could be. Really the cruise is just a relatable experience until the end. Then it falls completely flat for me.
The last fourth of the story just doesn’t work for me on multiple levels , and while the author delivers the anticipated happy holiday finish in terms of the romance relationship, how that was achieved felt contrived and juvenile. It went against what the author had created in terms of a long term history between the two characters and the type of unspoken communication that existed between them.
So a sweet story that was relatable most of the book only to be undone by the dramatic thread towards the end.
Nice holiday story if this doesn’t bother you.
Cover design by Kelly York
Once Upon a Holiday series – 8 books:
Once Upon a Second Chance by Davidson King
Once Upon A Mistletoe Kiss by Sammi Cee
Once Upon a Holiday Vacation by Annabella Michaels
Easton Beckett has always cherished the Christmas season, but this year, his parents are off to help his aunt in Wyoming, leaving him to celebrate alone. But his best friend, Weston Holt—his outgoing and popular opposite—has a surprise: tickets to an all-expense-paid Holiday Cruise he won through a local radio station.
Excitement builds as they leave for a week in the Caribbean, celebrating Christmas at sea and stopping in the Bahamas. Their adventure takes a turn, however, when they discover they’ve been assigned to the honeymoon suite. Easton is about to correct the misunderstanding when Weston convinces him to pretend they’re a couple.
As they navigate their week together, the tension between them grows palpable—each stolen glance and playful touch igniting a longing that neither dares to acknowledge. With only one bed and mounting emotions, both grapple with their feelings. As New Year’s Eve approaches, will they find the courage to admit their true feelings, or will fear keep them apart?
Once Upon A Holiday Vacation is part of a multi-author series, Once Upon A Holiday Story. Each book can be read as a standalone and in any order. What links these books together is The Hook’s Book Nook Traveling Library, a library on wheels owned by two old ladies in love.
His Until Christmas is another of Con Riley’s Christmas Collection that involves a group of people from various stories and similar circles of friends. It’s fabulously seasonal, deeply rooted in the special Christmas traditions of the people of the stories and locations they love so dearly. Whether it’s any of the many well known attractions or off the beaten path finds in London or small well trodden pathways in places in Cornwall, Riley makes us see them through the eyes of the characters, as though we look at them with the same vision of knowledge, history, and abiding affection that’s carrying them to those places again and again. We see them in depth , the details sparkling with Christmas lights and lore, magical moments for us and them.
And as the characters, here it’s a torn PA, Jack, fleeing the changes at his office as his beloved boss , Rex , leaves for Cornwall. Rex is leaving London for Cornwall where his husband, grandfather, and new part of their business will expand. He’s been in other stories and is a remarkable man as is his grandfather.
Jack’s upending his life for many reasons, some of which will not be revealed until the end of the story. It’s an emotional, layered tale of grief, remembrance, and love in many respects. And how we deal with those things.
While it helps to have read the other books and know the background history of the foundation and the issues that’s talked about, a reader can pick up enough not to be confused here.
As someone who has read them, it will send me back to read them once more. I remember loving them so much. And I want to remember meeting Rex and his grandfather again.
But this wonderful romantic journey for Jack and Reece ( of the three Trelawney brothers) isn’t to be missed. It’s warmhearted, funny, poignant, and often moving.
And we get to see favorite characters once again at Christmas.
We also get a glimpse at who has the next Christmas story. I can’t wait.
His Until Christmas (Con Riley’s Christmas Collection) by Con Riley is a definite must and a holiday recommendation! Check out all the stories below.
Welcome back to London for another snow-dusted and super-emotional holiday romance from Con Riley’s Christmas collection.
“What do you mean I’ll be someone else’s PA?” I slump, the bell on my Santa hat tinkling. “For how long?”
“Just until Christmas,” Rex promises. “Don’t worry, Jack. You’ll like him.”
Set in a shared world and gift-wrapped with sweet and steamy first times, His Until Christmas is a low-angst friends-to-lovers workplace romance set in London and Cornwall. Each book in this festive collection can stand alone, starting with the much-loved His Last Christmas in London.
Lee Blair’s Here Comes Santa Paws , an adorable holiday romance in this year’s Christmas Falls series, is a story guaranteed to entertain and make your Christmas reading lists merry.
It’s got rescue dogs and puppies, matchmaking grandfathers, a sweet/grumpy couple, and a small town full of the spirit of Christmas.
Elias, the Director of the Santa’s Helper Animal Shelter in Christmas Falls,Illinois is the sweet, kind man who is fully committed to the town he lives in, along with his grandfather who raised him. He lives in a duplex, the other half of which is occupied by Roman, a physical therapist whose nomadic upbringing has made him afraid to commit to anything other than his career.
I like that Blair’s characterizations are well written and their histories are realistic rather than drama oriented. It makes for a balanced narrative and men whose relationship with each other and their personal growth within the story a journey we can relate to.
It’s the author using a person’s misinterpretations, or just adolescent’s perspective on a past reality that impacted their life in a way that feels believable.
The characters are charming and their own romance heartfelt, especially when it comes with adorable dogs. And a grandfather to love as well.
I’m really enjoying the second season of Christmas Falls, and this is another winner. It’s a definite recommendation.
Cover art by Morningstar Ashley Designs
And check out all the books in the Christmas Falls series, both 1 and 2.
❄️Christmas Falls, Season 2:
❤️The Snuggle is Real by DJ Jamison
❤️Flake It til You Make It by Beth Bolden
12 Dates of Christmas by Brigham Vaughn
❤️Here Comes Santa Paws by Lee Blair
Under the Mistle-Foe by Rye Cox Christmas Beau by Amy Aislin
No Business Like Snow Business by J.A. Rock & Lisa Henry
Frost Impressions by Kelly Fox
Promise Yule Be Mine by Rhys Everly Mingle All The Way by Hayden Hall
❄️Christmas Falls, Season 1:
Grinch Kisses by DJ Jamison Snowbody Loves You by Jacki James Get Frosted by Amy Aislin
When a sunshiny cinnamon stick with paws-itively purrfect holiday plans meets a grumpy Grinch neighbor with a smokin’ hot… chimney, bells aren’t the only thing jingling.
I spend all year gearing up for the Christmas Falls festival season. Those five weeks are showtime for the animal shelter, and I’ve got it down to a science to help all my four-legged friends find their furever homes.
My well-oiled machine goes off track when I discover a massive leak at the shelter. And Grandpa, my only family, is recovering from a hip replacement, and I can’t stop worrying about our latest shelter dog. To put a star on the top of my anxiety tree, Roman, my Scrooge neighbor, is giving me a hard time about the festive decor on my half of our duplex. It’s not my fault I’ve got more Christmas spirit in my pinky than he does in his entire broad-shouldered body.
But something about Roman tells me he could love Christmas and this town as much as I do if he just gave them a chance. I don’t care if I’ve got a thousand other priorities on my list, I’m making it my holiday mission to get him to let down his guard and show me the wonderful and caring man behind the terse talk and award-winning RBF. It’s like opening a present on Christmas morning and seeing exactly what you wanted from Santa.
It’s all tinsel and sugar cookies until my heart decides it wants Roman under the tree. But his New Year’s resolution is to leave town, and I can’t let myself fall for a man who doesn’t plan to stick around.
Christmas Falls is my forever home. How do I convince him it could be his?
Christmas Falls: Season 2 revisits a small town that thrives on enough holiday charm to rival any Hallmark movie. It’s a multi-author M/M romance series.
Tis’ the season for holiday stories and series and I’ve dived into Season 2 of a holiday favorite, Christmas Falls.
Christmas Falls, that small town in Illinois whose residents lives for all things Christmas. It’s alive in every aspect of the town’s culture, from the names on its streets to the shops to the festivals it’s renowned for.
Through each book, different authors have been building a sense of community and connected relationships. Shops and couples from prior stories pop up in current books and romances under development.
DJ Jamison’s couple starts with Mason of the Holiday Hope Foundation (coat drive, angel tree, raising awareness of the needs of the community). He’s a good man, still finding his way into the community and with the Foundation, as he’s given new funding and support for expansion. And it’s Christmas.
Into his path comes a man in need of help in every way possible. Ford has lost his job, is barely coping when his ex-wife’s lawyer calls unexpectedly, asking him to come pick up Charlie his young stepdaughter . His ex wife is going to rehab and Charlie needs a guardian and a safe place to stay.
An adorable child at Christmas, a proud overwhelmed man who loves his kid deeply even if she’s not his biological child, a foster dog even, and a magical town. And a giving heart in a man who lives to help others.
Yes, definitely a heartwarming, holiday story that I absolutely loved. Even the ex-wife wasn’t a terrible person but one of a layered personality who loved a child she couldn’t care for.
There are a few quibbles but this is a terrific story and one I definitely enjoyed. Add it to your holiday reading list!
And check out all the books in the Christmas Falls series, both 1 and 2.
❄️Christmas Falls, Season 2:
The Snuggle is Real by DJ Jamison ❤️
Flake It til You Make It by Beth Bolden ❤️
12 Dates of Christmas by Brigham Vaughn Here Comes Santa Paws by Lee Blair Under the Mistle-Foe by Rye Cox Christmas Beau by Amy Aislin No Business Like Snow Business by J.A. Rock & Lisa Henry Frost Impressions by Kelly Fox
Promise Yule Be Mine by Rhys Everly Mingle All The Way by Hayden Hall
❄️Christmas Falls, Season 1:
Grinch Kisses by DJ Jamison Snowbody Loves You by Jacki James Get Frosted by Amy Aislin
When my ex-wife lands in rehab, I get a surprise for the holidays. A 7-year-old girl who’s got no place to go. I love my former stepdaughter like she’s my own, but I have no idea how to give her everything she needs.
In a holiday-crazed town like Christmas Falls, it seems inevitable I’ll let her down.
Unless I finally let go of my pride and accept help from the new director of the Holiday Hope Foundation. Mason West is eager to lend support however he can. And when I let him, he goes above and beyond.
For Charlie’s sake. Not mine. Even if I maybe, kind of, wish that it was for me.
I’ve never been into men before, but Mason is so sweet, so giving, so…perfectly sized to snuggle in against my holiday sweater. Maybe if I can figure out what all this means, I can gain more than a daughter for the holidays.
Maybe I can keep the gift I’ve always wanted most—a family of my own.
Christmas Falls: Season 2 revisits a small town that thrives on enough holiday charm to rival any Hallmark movie. It’s a multi-author M/M romance series.
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 