Hi everyone, and welcome to the fifth of six Christmas release bulletins for 2022. I hope you found some good books last week 🙂 You can find all my reads up to date here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/3337074-r-j?shelf=christmas-2022&view=reviews or follow me on BookBub here – rjscott.co.uk/bb
Without further ado, this is this week’s crop of Christmas goodies – if I have read them, then there is a brief review – if I haven’t read them yet, then you can bet they are on my Christmas TBR list! ❤️
Kisses,
RJ XXX
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Comment below which book you’re excited for, or which cover you love, or just to say hi. One random commenter will win a $10 Amazon gift card.
Closes 8 December – 7am London
Last week’s $10 Gift Card winner
CINDY MERRILL (please email me and tell me which country Amazon you use – rj@rjscott.co.uk)
In no particular order, this week’s collection includes…
Handy Dandy Checklist:
- Rick R. Reed – An Open Window – https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081XVR3K1
- Beth Bolden – Winning the Season, Piranhas #4 – https://readerlinks.com/l/2932981
- Garrett Leigh – Christmas On Firefly Hill – https://bit.ly/3MDeoLx
- Marie Sexton – Winter Dreams (Winter Magic, Book 2) – https://readerlinks.com/l/2933136
- C F White – Irish Charm (Flying into Love #3) – https://mybook.to/IrishCharmFIL3
- Stella Shaw – Haven Holiday: Love at the Haven 7 – books2read.com/havenholiday21
- Rye Cox – The Holiday Disaster – https://readerlinks.com/l/2732775
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Kristian Parker – Christmas at Queens Crescent – bit.ly/3UYKjch
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I loved this book *THIS MUCH* – gritty as per usual from Garrett, but with holiday cuteness 🙂 Garrett Leigh – Christmas On Firefly HillThe single dad and the rootless vagabond. Expect: a shy, hunky firefighter and an ethereal dancer down on his luck. A sizzling contemporary MM age-gap holiday romance. Mild hurt-comfort, found family, and friends-to-lovers galore.
Firefighter Logan Halliwell doesn’t have much time for romance. A relentless work-life-balance and an expensive divorce have sucked the festive cheer from his days. All he wants is to be a good dad. A fun dad. Especially at Christmas.
He doesn’t know how lonely he is until he meets Remy Collins, a gorgeous fire dancer at a sultry summer festival.
Their instant connection blows his mind, but their fleeting encounter is over before Logan can catch his breath. One kiss and they’re strangers again. That wicked brush of lips nothing but a dream.
Long months pass. Then fate brings them together again at the summit of Firefly Hill, and absence has only strengthened the current thrumming between them. The heat. The precious chance of true happiness they both so desperately need.
Only fear stands in their way.
And Logan’s dangerous job.
It takes a tough lesson and a dose of winter magic to learn that loving each other means Christmas all year round.
Christmas On Firefly Hill is an MM holiday romance, featuring a burly single dad firefighter, and a vagabond dancer/jewellery maker. Delivering a guaranteed HEA, all the Christmas feels, and a hefty dose of British snark.
https://bit.ly/3MDeoLx – new release, 1 December 2022
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Winter Oranges (book 1) is one of my favorite Christmas books – Book 2 was different, but I loved it. Marie Sexton – Winter Dreams (Winter Magic, Book 2)(Sequel to Winter Oranges, which will be on sale for 99c Dec 1-15.)
What happens when a player gets played?
Actor Dylan Frasier is known as one of the biggest playboys in Hollywood, infamous for seducing men and women alike. He’s also half in love with his two best friends. Unfortunately, Jason and Ben are madly in love with each other, leaving Dylan the odd man out. When Ben suggests an extended Christmas vacation at a resort modeled after his favorite 80s TV show, Dylan reluctantly agrees. Sure, his heart breaks a bit every time he sees them together, but it’s a vacation in the Bahamas. How bad can it be?
At first, the resort seems like any other. Dylan plans to work on his tan, get laid, and hunt for Hollywood’s most in-demand director – not necessarily in that order. Then he meets Connor, a tennis instructor still hurting from a bad breakup. Connor knows Dylan’s reputation and refuses to be seduced. Dylan sees Connor as just another conquest, but this tropical island isn’t as mundane as it appears. It has its own kind of magic, and it’s about to make things interesting.
https://readerlinks.com/l/2933136 – new release, 28 November 2022
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This was so lovely. Short, sweet, and sighs… lovely. Rick R. Reed – An Open WindowTwo men. One Christmas Eve that changes the courses of both their lives.
Henry’s homeless and only wants a warm place to sleep on the coldest night of the year. A forgotten open window in a darkened house entices him inside with the promise of warmth and comfort. He knows it’s wrong, but he promises himself he’ll be out before the owner wakes on Christmas morning.
Except he oversleeps and the homeowner, Jim, discovers a bearded stranger sawing logs under his dining room table. When the shock and the drama that ensues dies down, Henry and Jim discover they might have found, quite unexpectedly, the Christmas miracle they’d both been longing for — love and home.
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Aww, this was so sweet – proper trapped by snow loveliness Rye Cox – The Holiday DisasterWhat do you call being stranded with your brother’s best friend? A Recipe for disaster? Or a dream come true?
Ethan Wang
College is supposed to be my chance to start over. To leave high school behind and focus on my studies to become a vet. Then, I board a plane on winter break and find myself seated next to my brother’s best friend. The same guy I had a huge crush on even though he always seemed to have it out for me.
It should be a quick flight filled with awkward small talk, but plans change when the plane’s engine fails and we have to land in the middle of nowhere. After a sequence of ill-fated events, we’re forced to share a B&B with only one bed. Trapped in a room with a man I’ve hidden my feelings from for years… What’s the worst that could happen?
Kingsley Sharp
I usually get what I want, thanks to my mastery at charming my way into anyone’s heart. That, however, hasn’t been the case with my best friend’s brother. We got off on the wrong foot, and I want nothing more than to win him over.
Now with us stranded together, my chance has come. Stuck in a small town full of snow drifts and holiday cheer, I’m determined to use this disaster to make this a magical holiday neither of us will forget.
The Holiday Disaster is a standalone MM romance with college-aged characters. It’s a fun blend of sweet and steamy moments featuring brother’s best friend, one bed, first love, slow burn, and opposites attract tropes.
https://readerlinks.com/l/2732775 – new release , 27 December 2022
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I’m a huge fan of the Haven series – this is no exception. If you’ve read the Haven books, don’t miss this from last year. Stella Shaw – Haven Holiday: Love at the Haven 7Sentimental discoveries and badly-kept secrets. Is it the perfect Christmas at the Haven Hotel?
It’s the first Christmas at the Haven Hotel since Rick inherited it from his aunt, and he’s spent all year getting things back on track. When he and Eliot find a box of Auntie’s mementoes in the basement, highlighting a very unconventional theatrical career, he decides to hold a party to honour her. But there are way too many obstacles preventing him getting his friends together in one place, this close to Christmas. Or so everyone keeps telling him.
Rick loves his partner Eliot, and is very fond of his friends. But a man’s patience can only stretch so far. The day of Auntie’s birthday turns out to be a very confusing and distracting time for him—and everyone except him seems to be in on it. From covert meetings, to secret recipes, to mysteriously vanishing decorations, and even through a very hot but surprising seduction, Rick is led astray until the day is almost over.
And then his friends show another side of their meddling. Auntie Pop had love and respect from many of the escorts at the Haven, and it looks like her day will be fondly remembered after all. And Rick and Eliot may have the chance at last to make their own special commitment—that’s if Rick ever forgives all the subterfuge!
books2read.com/havenholiday21 – 99c promo price for 1-31 Dec
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C F White – Irish Charm (Flying into Love #3)Can a bit of Irish charm save an injured soldier from his wrenching heartache?
Injured ex-soldier, Kane Taylor, has lost everything—the job he loves, the use of his trigger hand, and the love of his life. Moving to remote Donegal in Ireland to fix those lost links with his deceased partner’s ancestors is the only thing keeping his memories alive.
Publican Declan McCafferty has everything—a job he loves, a community he adores and a revolving door of lovers. But when he sets eyes on the new sexy, brooding regular customer at his pub staring solemnly into his Guinness night after night, Declan realises he needs one more thing—him.
Kane isn’t ready to give himself to another man, but the charismatic and charming publican is hard to resist. Can a fling be such a bad thing?
It is when Declan discovers Kane is the only man in his life he’s not willing to let go.
Irish Charm (Flying into Love #3) is a standalone contemporary. hurt/comfort, opposites attract MM romance featuring an ex-military alpha male recovering from heartache and a cheeky Irish publican allergic to commitment.
https://mybook.to/IrishCharmFIL3 – new release, 28 November 2022
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Beth Bolden – Winning the Season, Piranhas #4Coach Asa Dawson has fallen wildly in love only twice in his life.
First with football.
Then with Scott Callaway.
But Scott isn’t just the one who got away.
He’s the one person—the one man—Asa hoped might finally show him how all-consuming passion could be.
Instead, fate (and football) intervened and they never got the chance to explore their attraction. Their friendship ended in ruins, Scott left, and Asa’s been torn between hating him and loving him for the last seven years.
Asa doesn’t think he’ll ever see him again, but when his bad habits catch up to him and he doesn’t have a choice but to accept help, he’s horrified—and exhilarated—to learn Scott’s been hired to assist him.
With the final stretch of the Piranhas season falling during the holidays, maybe what Asa and Scott have needed this whole time was a little Christmas magic to remind them the most important job isn’t to win the season—but to finally win each other’s hearts.
https://readerlinks.com/l/2932981 – new release 2022, 1 December 2022
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Kristian Parker – Christmas at Queens CrescentJeremy Brookes is having a mid-twenties crisis. After losing his mother, he’s taken up his father’s offer to move from Canada to London to start a new life. The problem is, he has no idea how to do it. His billionaire father has some ideas… Once Jeremy is installed in the exclusive neighbourhood of Queens Crescent, he will have to sort his life out pretty damned quick if he’s to avoid a lifetime at the pharma company where his father is CEO and his stepmother rules HR. Jeremy isn’t cut out for that life or that of a spoiled rich kid, worrying where his next designer label is coming from. Then he happens upon Stuart Monroe, the handsome Scottish florist with a shop around the corner. As the only socialist in Kensington, Stuart’s lowly background makes it a challenge to be surrounded by such wealth. Instantly drawn to this rebel in their midst, Jeremy decides to do the sensible thing: go undercover as Stuart’s new shop assistant to get to know the enigmatic stranger better. What could possibly go wrong? |
The Holiday Disaster by Rye Cox. I’ve really enjoyed this author’s Corio Heights series, plus who doesn’t love some forced proximity, only one bed, Christmassy romance goodness? I’m adding this one to my Christmas TBR list.
I have to many to list happy holidays and I hope you have a great holiday
I’d like to read irish charm
I’m looking forward to too many to list. LOL
I hope you have an amazing holiday season!!
I requested an arc for Holiday Disaster. I really hope I get it. Love the beautiful smile on the cover-guy’s face.
If I don’t qualify, I’ll buy it.
It promises to be a fun story.
Just got Christmas at Queens Cresent for the weekend. Sounds like a lovely story and I like seeing UK Christmas stories.
I loved reading Winning the Season. A great addition to the Piranhas series and wonderfully festive. Looking forward to reading Garrett’s story next, I love their Xmas story every year <3
Hi! Just want to wish you a Merry Christmas, and say that Marie Sexton’s Winter Dreams sound lovley.🎅
Haven Holiday looks absolutely amazing and I’d love to read it.💜 thank you so much ☺️ happy holidays 😊 🎄🎅☃️
Open Window is one of my favorites, and I re-read it most years. I have Marie Sexton’s new book ready to go, but I think I’ll re-read Winter Oranges first.
I love holiday stories!
Winning the Season.
Wow, that cover of Rick Reed’s An Open Window… Even the blurb is a good read. I love to see long-term HEA’s in action. I up and bought it even tho my TBR list is LONG! It had to be done. Besides, it’s Christmas.
Christmas on Firefly Hill is definitely on my list. Thanks so much for the generous competition.
The holiday disaster sounds like it might be hilarious. My wish list is getting longer
An Open Window
This is a great list. I have several on my TBR.
You are my random winner – please email rj@rjscott.co.uk and tell me what country amazon you buy from 🙂 XXXXXX
I am excited about Marie Sexton’s Winter Dreams. I cannot wait to read it this season.
Christmas at Queen’s Crescent looks interesting. I bought it and look forward to reading it. I’ve already read Christmas on Firefly Hill and I thought it was great.e
I am pretty excited about all the books. I would like to read “Holiday Disaster” It seems like it would have some humor in it. Work has been stressful and a RomCom seems fitting.
Thank you for the giveaway opportunity!
I’ve add them ALL to my wish list!
Garrett Leigh’s cover is hot and I started it today. I got an ARC of Winning the Season and it was everything I wanted in a book. It was wonderful.
Garrett Leigh, Marie sexton and cf white are all favorite authors of mine so hard to choose just one
I like Marie Sexton’s stories, so I’m looking forward to reading this sequel. Many of the other titles look intriguing and are going on my very long want-to-read list! Happy holidays to you and yours.
I’ve picked up the ones by Garrett Leigh and Marie Sexton.
GARRETT LEIGH – CHRISTMAS ON FIREFLY HILL
I am looking forward to reading Wining the Season. I have started the series and can hardly wait to read this one!
I’m excited about Christmas On Firefly Hill.
Thank you. Picked up Stella Shaw’s book from your recommendations. looking forward to your next list.
I’m looking forward to Garrett Leigh’s book.
Garrett Leigh’s new book, Christmas on Firefly Hill. I’ve enjoyed all of the previous books she wrote. This will be just as good 👍
I’d like to read Christmas on Firefly Hill
I loved the Marie Sexton, Winter Oranges!
I read everything by Garrett Leigh have to read this one.
Christmas at Queens Crescent appeals to me!
Stella Shaw’s Haven Holiday #7, sounds right up my alley as I used to be in the performing arts. I’m definitely going to check this one out.
Can I have Garrett Leigh’s cover model for Xmas. I just want to snuggle with him while I read the book😊
I read Winter Dreams by Marie Sexton. Loved the first book in this series and the second was just as good.
I’m always drawn to a book, first by it’s cover, then by it’s synopsis, if both appeal to me, I’ll get the book.
While all these books appeal to me, I’d definitely start with The Holiday Disaster.
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Winter Dreams by Marie Sexton
Happy Holidays….
I’m soo excited for Holiday Disaster 🤗 I can’t wait 😍 thanks so much 💜 Happy holidays 🎅☃️🎄🎅☃️🎄
The Holiday Disaster
They all sound and look great. I would have to say Winter Dreams by Marie Sexton.
The Holiday Disaster by Rye Cox is the first on this grouping that I would love to read. Merry Christmas and thanks for a chance to win.
Winning the Season and Christmas on Firefly Hill are fantastic!!
Wow! Eight books to add to.my TBR list. Thanks.
They all look good
They all look great. I have read Winning Season by Beth Bolden and loved it. i bought but haven’t read yet so it’s what I’m looking forward to most. I also opened up the buy links in your email and now have so many more holiday books to read. Now if I hadn’t committed so much of my time to baking.
Everything to the TBR list! Thank you!! Hmm.. most excited to read Winter Dreams & Winning the Season!
I love the cover of Christmas on Firefly Hill
Rye Cox’s Holiday Disaster. I’ve just started reading this Author and I’m reading everything I can by them right now.
Firefly Hill by Garrett Leigh, just finished last night. BTW-loved the latest Railers Christmas Story
I’ve been wanting to read the christmas rescue. I’m convinced to grab it. 🙂
I hope that you’re having a great holiday season.