Hallo, Hallo dear hearts!
I am quite sure it won’t be too much of a surprise I like to seek out other imprints by Harlequin Books every so often throughout the year? I have sorted out my top favourites to read regularly are *Harlequin Heartwarming* & *Love Inspired: Suspense* however, this gives quite a bit of wiggle room to seek out their other imprints and find other authors who might be writing stories which are going unnoticed by me throughout the year as they’re writing under imprints I might not regularly have access too and/or have more trouble borrowing through ILL’ing (interlibraryloaning). This is one keen reason I enjoy hosting spotlights like this one today as it gives me a chance to know which authors I might want to seek out next and which stories I might fancy reading within their other imprints.
Harlequin Books has long held a curiosity of interest for me as a reader – as I’ve moved from different imprints to the ones I currently focus on reading the most out of – although, I still mourn the loss of Love Inspired: Historical. I also read a lot of Mira books in the past before settling on Heartwarming. Heartwarming to me held within its scope of writers and stories the kind of stories I was seeking out of Mira but didn’t always feel were executed the way I hoped they might be as a reader who loves relationship based romances. This is why the Romance and Special Edition imprints are on my radar as sometimes, I surprise myself and find a Heartwarming-esque story within their imprints as well.
I’ve only read a handful of stories by this particular imprint and am still sorting out if it is a good fit for me overall or if its just an imprint I’ll read every odd moon but keep with LI: Suspense and Heartwarming full time. I have an extract to share and a few takeaways after I read the extract to share with you as you decide if you want to pick up this title yourself, too.
If you’re a regular reader of Harlequin novels and imprints, which imprints are your top choices and favourites? Which writers and/or their series are making an impression on you as a reader and which do you think might be a wicked good fit for me as well? I’d love to hear your thoughts – especially if you read Heartwarming, Romance or Special Edition imprints by Harlequin on a semi-regular basis as you’d have the best feedback to share.
For This Christmas
Subtitle: He was successful in business but not in love
by Caro Carson
He was successful in business but not in love in this great romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Caro Carson
His book changed her life…
But he no longer believes his own advice.
After nearly dying in a plane crash, business icon Eli Taylor has become a recluse, until a chance encounter at a small town’s Yule log lighting leads to an evening spent as the fake boyfriend of his superfan Mallory Ames. When she finds herself homeless for the holidays, he invites her to stay with him—if she’ll return the favor and be his fake girlfriend, so he can show his siblings what a loving partnership should look like. Their arrangement will end when the new year begins…or will it?
From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness.
Places to find the book:
ISBN: 9781335894977
Published by Harlequin Special Edition
on 1st December, 2020
The Masterson, Texas series:
The Bartender’s Secret (book one)
The Slow Burn (book two)
For This Christmas Only (book three)
Published by: Harlequin Books (@HarlequinBooks)
Converse on Twitter via: #ChristmasReads and/or #HolidayReads
as well as #ChristmasRomance and #ContemporaryRomance
About Caro Carson
Despite a no-nonsense background as a West Point graduate and U.S. Army officer, Caro Carson has always treasured the happily-ever-after of a good romance novel. After her military service, she worked in the healthcare industry with a Fortune 100 company, talking science with doctors who were rarely handsome bachelor Texans like the doctors in her books.
Now a USA Today bestselling author and RITA™ award winner, Caro is delighted to be living her own happily-ever-after with her husband (who actually is a handsome Texan) and their two children. They live in the great state of Florida, a location which has saved the coaster-loving theme park fanatics a fortune on plane tickets.
Enjoy reading an Extract from ‘For This Christmas Only”
“People get excellent advice all the time, but that doesn’t make them successful. You were smart enough to recognize which advice could work for you, and you were dedicated enough to implement it.”
He spoke with authority, but there was something in his expression that said she wasn’t his underling. She was important. She mattered. It didn’t remind her of anyone else in any movie at all. This was just him. Talking to just her.
“Don’t cry over Cinderella again. You aren’t anything like her. It’s very clear that she doesn’t measure up to you.”
Mallory looked at her leading man under the starlight, and she felt one last tear slip from the corner of her eye to roll elegantly down her cheek like a bit of movie magic.
Eli ran his finger up her cheek, stopping it in its tracks and whisking it away.
“I’m sorry I agreed to this fake date,” she whispered.
“Why is that?”
“Because I would kiss you right now, if we were real.”
I love when a story wants to flip the script a bit about what you felt you might see happening in the romantic plot as it unfolds and where it really wants to direct your attention next! It is a bit of a popular exploration these days – the fake dates, the fake fiances and the fake holiday boyfriends – generally speaking there isn’t anything *fake!* about the set-ups or the feelings or the ways in which the couple in question soon learns (sometimes the hard way!) that sometimes when you’re faking being committed to someone you’re already halfway convinced that you need to own the connection & make things official!!
I look forward to seeing how this knits together but I was a bit smitten with the idea this is another story which expounds on a familiar trope of romance I continue to see play out time and time again and no, it never grows old!! If anything, each of the stories which deals with this situation has a refreshing spin on it and gives you a wholly good chance to see how two unexpected persons end up madly in love with each despite their intentions not to be in relationship at all!!
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