New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis returns to Heartbreaker Bay with a fun and festive holiday novella! Order your copy for just $0.99 today!
About ONE SNOWY NIGHT:
It’s Christmas Eve and Rory Andrews is desperate to get home to the family she hasn’t seen in years. Problem is, her only ride to Lake Tahoe comes in the form of the annoyingly handsome Max Stranton, and his big, goofy, lovable dog Carl.
Hours stuck in a truck with the dead sexy Max sounds like a fate worse than death (not), but Rory’s out of options. She’s had a crush on Max since high school and she knows he’s attracted to her, too. But they have history… and Max is the only one who knows why it went south.
They’ve done a good job of ignoring their chemistry so far, but a long road trip in a massive blizzard might be just what they need to face their past… and one steamy, snowy night is all it takes to bring Max and Rory together at last.
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EXCERPT-
When Rory came out of the woods, Max really wanted not to
care that she was wearing more snow than clothes and shivering, but he couldn’t
do it. He watched while with shaking hands she carefully shook off before
climbing into the truck. Then she stripped out of her jacket that clearly
wasn’t waterproof.
This
left her in a soft off-white sweater that was damp and clinging to her like a
second skin. She wore a white lace bra, also damp, and not doing much to hide
the fact that she truly was cold. And he was absolutely concentrating on that
and how she looked like she needed a hot cheeseburger, and not her nipples, two hard little beads threatening to poke through
both the lace and the material of her sweater.
Had he
thought of her as the sweet, girl-next-door type? Maybe if the girl next door
was pinup material, because damn.
Sitting there with her long waves clinging to her face and shoulders and chest,
giving him peekaboo glimpses of her perfect breasts, he couldn’t remember why
he didn’t like her and didn’t want to like her.
“What?”
she said, wrapping her arms around herself. “You’ve never seen cold nipples
before?”
Yes,
but not ones that made his mouth water to taste. Kiss. Nibble. Suck into his
mouth… “Did you see any bears?”
Rolling
her eyes, she pulled a hair tie from around her wrist and used it to contain
the wet mass of waves on top of her head.
He
handed her a towel, but she shook her head. “I’m fine.”
“Yeah,
if fine is drenched and cold,” he said.
“Take it. It’s not the same one I used on Carl.”
“I
wouldn’t care about that,” she said. “But you might have to stop and put on
chains soon and you’ll need a towel for yourself.”
“We’re
not going to need chains,” he said. “I’m in four-wheel drive and we’ve got good
tires. Now use the damn towel, you’re dripping all over the place.”
As he
knew it would, this galvanized her into action and she ran the towel over
herself in jerky motions. When she was done, she was still shivering, and after
a hesitation, she pulled off her damp sweater.
This
left her in a white camisole and aforementioned white lace bra, neither of
which were all that significant.
Review-
I love Jill Shalvis and everything she writes. Her books are comfort reads for me so obviously I picked up One Snowy Night which is a novella set in her Heartbreaker Bay series. Now I have to clarify, the last book I read in her Heartbreaker Bay series which was The Trouble with Mistletoe was kind of a disappointment for me. One Snowy Night on the other hand didn't disappoint me but it didn't blow me away either.
Firstly, I am not very fond of novellas so I knew I had to keep my expectations low for One Snowy Night. This is the story of Rory and Max. Rory is one of the girls whom we'd met in The Trouble With Mistletoe. She works in a pet shop and is in general trying to get her life together. Rory had a hard past. She had some bad experiences which made her wary to trust anyone. I liked Rory. Once we get her backstory its easy to understand her.
Now Rory needs to get home for Christmas. She wants to fulfil the promise she's made to her family. But she's stuck and her only mode of transportation is Max and his adorable dog. Max and Rory have history from high school and its not the good kind. Max is still holding a grudge but Rory is determined to talk it out with him. I liked Max but I didn't find anything super special about him.
Max and Rory are stuck travelling home together and obviously sparks fly in closed quarters. Finally things are cleared up between them and they start seeing each other for who they are in the present. That also comes with accepting their feelings for each other. I liked Jill Shalvis' writing style but I definitely wanted more time with Max and Rory which was just not possible with a novella format. So overall even though I liked One Snowy Night it was an average read for me.
*Note: A copy of this book was provided by the author/publishers via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. We thank them.
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About Jill Shalvis:
New York Times and USA Today 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 sexy contemporary and award-winning books wherever romances are sold and click on the blog button above for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.
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