Day 4 - Charley Descoteaux
Holiday Weekend (Buchanan House #4)
Ryan Orchard moved from small-town Idaho to Portland almost two years ago and still feels like a hick. When Paulie Nesbitt dumped him, he wasn’t even surprised. Despite losing twenty-five pounds since then, Ryan’s confidence is nonexistent and his life has stalled. Not only is he convinced the career he wants is beyond his reach, he’s given up on relationships. A new job at a familiar restaurant—and his gorgeous coworker—could be just what Ryan needs to believe in himself again.
Glenn Hernandez might be the only nineteen-year-old in Portland who dreads his days off. Between his horrible housing situation and the ever-present temptation to crawl back into the bottle, Glenn prefers to keep busy. He volunteers at the Elliott Foundation House, a homeless shelter helping LGBTQ sex workers. As an alum of the shelter, Glenn finds it hard to leave his past behind. But when the new server at the trendy restaurant where he works catches Glenn's eye and works his way into his heart, Glenn finally has a reason to start a new life.
Book Four in the Buchanan House Love Stories series. This book has been previously published as Buchanan House: Book Five; content has not been significantly altered.
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Competition
One lucky winner will win an ebook from my backlist by telling me – what's your favorite part of a small town Christmas romance? Or do you prefer a big city romance?
Closes 10 December 7am London
Small town. When locals are supportive.
Small town where everyone is supportive and feels like family. I also like an older person or group that fancy themselves as matchmakers, it adds some laughs to the romance.
I like that the characters are familiar with each other and the small town found family feeling.
Small town all the way. I like the idea of knowing everyone you encounter while walking down a street or eating at the town diner. The whole town cares for everyone & welcomes old and new alike.
I always enjoy the tight knit community where everyone knows everything about each and are NOT afraid to try and set them up.
Either way I love them. It’s awesome when everyone knows everyone from a small town. But also sometime bring anonymous in a large town can be nice too
Small towns the sense of community
How fast gossip gets passed around in a small town…just takes a few minutes for everyone to know about or have an opinion about whatever’s going on!
The best part of small town Christmas romances is that everyone knows each other. This also means everyone is in your business all the time.
I like how everyone knows you in a small town.
Everyone knows you in small towns so there is not much you can get away with having lived in a small town my whole life till moving to the city which can be lonely as you only have your closest friends
I like reading small town stories. I love how everyone knows each other and watches out for each other.
the way the whole family gets involved
The way the whole town knows each other & how that relates to the couple good & bad 😊
I love the camaraderie of all the people in the town
I love small town romance because everybody knows your business and usually one side of the family gets in the mix. Making the book hilarious.
Small town. We have a lot of local events that you can go to. Downtown is closed to vehicles for Moonlight Madness. You can shop late but they also have things to do as a family. Face painting for kids. Make an ornament stations. Carolers serenading you. Tree lighting ceremonies. Santa Clause Parade that have 4H and scouting floats. I like the local flavor of the events.
Love the intimacy of the small town romances the magic between the characters
I like when there are family/found family who get involved and seem to cheer the couple on. I also like the little quirks and traditions that are usually shown throughout.
I prefer the small town romance and all the meddling and endearing townsfolk that come with it.
You get a feel of community with small town romances
Small Town Romance can be so much fun especially when you have folks in your business day in and day out. Around the holiday seasons they tend to help each other out and when it’s time to sit and eat a meal you are never alone. The whole town comes a knocking, it’s like a big extended family.
The decoration, usually everyone has decorations, with everyone competing to outdo the other. The smell of baking/cooking being done. Such glorious scents.
You can also find people giving gifts (winter hats, scarfs, mittens, even socks)to each other, like the whole town is doing ‘Secret Santa’
Unpopular opinion here, but I’m all for the big city romances. I’m a big city girl, I live in one of the biggest cities in Europe, and I love the found family in the big cities, where you make a nice group of friends and partners that keeps growing but at the same time you have the freedom of being whoever you are and wearing anything you want without the judgement you’d get in the small towns.
In the holiday movies, I love those small town bakeries that always seem to sell EVERYTHING!
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I guess big city you can be in your own private bubble and noone putting their 2 cents in on how your romance should happen
I like small town romances. The close knit community or family makes it more interesting.
Small town!
My favorite thing about a small down romance, you know everyone. My least favorite thing, you know everyone!!
I grew up in a small town (300 residents on our side of the mountain). I adore the fantasy versions: supportive, caring, & mostly nonjudgmental townspeople. Reality? Sadly, not so much… That said, I enjoy the big city romances as well. Pretty much all romance genres!
Small town – and I love that everyone knows each other, but sometimes there are secrets to uncover, and relationships are about to change when not everything is like the characters thought they knew.
I love Somali town romance so the Christmas aspect would be festivals, decorations, community parties to help local needy
Small town….feels cozy
I enjoy reading small town Christmas romances where they are a supportive, nonjudgmental tight knit community regardless of race, creed, wealth, or gender identity/expression.
I love a small town Christmas story they feel more personal
Small town tree lightning ceremony
You get anonymity in large towns, while small towns provide a supportive but nosy community.
I love the small town. I love how the people can see the magic of the holidays around them and even better if they get snowed in somewhere out in the wilderness together and one is anti-holiday and slowly gets turned back around with the magic and the warmth of the season.
I like small-town where all the people are matchmaking.
I like how everyone is up in everyone’s business. You can’t sneeze with 17 people saying”Bless You “. 🤣🤣
Actually, I like the moment in the big city romance where the protagonist finds friends and it feels like a small town…
The community – the way writers world build I in more detail, such as how everyone knows everyone, or the way people pull together to help one another, and the feeling of family in the general camaraderie.
I’m new to your books, and I look forward to exploring your work!
I like when everyone is in on getting them together and they are clueless.
Small town where matchmakers work to bring ppl together and others support each other
I like the small town stories with the quirky neighbours.
It honestly depends on the story. Big city is fine for standalones but I prefer close knit small town bonds for longer series.
small towns always seem more festive. The town square with the gazebo all decorated
Small town, and I love the quirky side characters!
Small town, when locals are supportive but NOT overwhelming
Small towns, they are just decorated more, have the winter festival, horse-drawn carriage rides through the woods, and in general just how the town comes together to celebrate.
Small town are cozy, cities are dynamic. I prefer the suburbs, which have the options of the excitement of proximity to a city, while getting out to the quaint small village is an option for intimacy.
All the closeness
Nosy in your face townsfolk.
Small town where you return to for Christmas and it just feels like going back home, to your roots.
It’s an intimate setting and often has quirky characters. Cities are busier and impersonal.
I like that everyone knows everyone.
I like how the whole town seems like one big happy (usually) family.
I like small town,
I love it when the town gets involved in the romance
The cheerful decorations all about town, the cozieness.
I like all the small town festivities
I love the community feel of a small-town romance; how supportive everyone is. Usually makes for great secondary characters!
Big city
the caring people
The relationships formed by knowing your neighbors so well
I like it when the lead characters have a community… and that can take place in a small town or a big city.
Happy holidays!
I love the coziness of the small town.
Small town – I’m a country girl 🙂
small town, support system, close-knit people who seem to all know one another’s business, helping hands, and things like farmers markets/flea markets/outdoor crafting events, etc.
I love the forced proximity of a small town romance. It’s like, “everywhere I go I run into this guy!” I love that!
I prefer small town romance in general. mainly because I prefer small towns in real life.
I like both for different reasons. Big City where they keep bumping into each other against all odds. Small Town because of the holiday customs of helping neighbors with getting the tree or lights on roofs, decorating the Town Square tree as a community event.
small town, because of the coziness of it… I love the fact that everybody knows every body, so it feels like a big family
Everyone knows each other.
Small town……but I did read a book recently that was based in big city but it was a small neighbourhood that looked out for each other. Found that to be very sweet as well.
I like it when small-town residents turn out to be tolerant and supportive, and make sure to include the protagonists in the town’s festivities. I’ve seen British authors note that “town” means something else there, that it means a place that has a cathedral. That’s very different from the American concept of “town.” 🙂 I’ve read some cute stories set in villages, though. 🙂
Small towns everyone knows everybody and wants to help.
Small town. At least you know your neighbors
Small town. I love the cozy, family feel and familiarity of a small-town romance.
Small town romances can be fun to read because there is always some drama from at least one of the townspeople. Big city romance is good because normally there are more meddling characters.
Small town – sense of community – especially important at Christmas.
In a small town romance I love the sense of community. The feeling of “home” and “belonging”. That is usually missing in the big city.
Small towns are so much more personal! I love the town traditions….markets or festivals or tree lighting ceremonies.
I like to drive around neighborhoods and look at everyones light displays so I would have to go with a larger city suburb.
I love the quirks of a small town, as I live in a large city.
Small town Christmas where people without a family get together and make their own family Christmas.
Small town romance with everyone interfering
I’ve always wanted to live in a small town that does community things for the holidays like tree lightings and market squares.
I enjoy meeting characters from past books in a series whether small town or big city. I prefer small town since it is more personal to the characters (usually).
Small towns. Everyone knows everyone. Love that kind of feeling
Small towns work for me if one of the MC is bordering on being a scrooge and needs a little bit of the seasonal cheer to see the light.
The best part is the nosy neighbor with a heart of gold. I love matchmaking grandmas or cat ladies who get up into other people’s business. But in a fun way.
When it comes to small towns, I love that people tent to know each other and get involved. There’s a great cozy feeling!
In small towns everybody knows each other.
My tastes have changed over the years. I now prefer small town romances, where there is community, love and support.
small towns b/c everyone is invested in the HEA
The relatability, I’m a small town girl through and through.
With small town romances, there seem to be more opportunities for intimate outings and get-togethers and quiet chances to really get to know each other.
I love the total involvement of the small town in celebrations. Everybody wants to be involved.
Small town. How the whole town gets involved
Small towns – where everyone knows how best to support someone. And who makes the best casserole/cake/cookies, etc.
My automatic answer is Big City, but some of my favorite stories have taken place in small towns. If an author can create a Gilmore Girls-type quirkiness, warmth plus real character development, I’m all in.
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Small town romance, where everyone knows each other and the community comes together to celebrate
I love when everyone tries to get the two together. In a small town it’s usually family or meddling neighbors. In a big city, it’s usually their friends or coworkers. Small towns are my favorite though.
Small town, fun local traditions
I like how the holidays seem to matter more to everyone in the small town stories.
Small town: walking down main Street looking at the Christmas displays, and the older generation plotting on getting a couples together
I prefer a big city romance–the idea that out of all those people, the Universe sorted out someone just for you. Finding your fish in a huge ocean when it would have been so easy to miss each other.
I enjoy how everyone in the small town knows everyone else and gets involved with the project or drama.
I love all the characters in a small town romance.
Small town meddling!