Santa’s coming soon, and there’s really only one thing you want under the tree: romance. So take a look at these great Christmas romance books and tell the Big Guy exactly which ones you need…
Set in the Scottish highlands, “Christmas Fling” by Lindsey Kelk (HarperCollins, $18.99) is a fun book. Through a series of mishaps, Laura and Collum have been thrown together, but Laura isn’t really looking for love. When Collum’s parents meet her, though, they assume she’s Collum’s new girlfriend and she has to go along with the ruse. Is the tension between them love or no-L?
Normally, the women who live at the Biedermeier Hotel are busy but things really ramp up at Christmastime. In “Christmas at the Women’s Hotel” by Daniel M. Lavery (HarperVia, $22), everybody rushes to make sure Manhattan is as festive as possible. Fans of Lavery’s “Women’s Hotel” will want this holiday installment.
Sometimes, you need a novel that’s familiar, and “Christmas at the Nantucket Restaurant” by Pamela Kelley (Sourcebooks, $20.99) might be what you need. A restaurant run by a newcomer, a staff that wants her to fit in, a little strife, a mysterious ex and a tantalizing new man… what else could you want?
Coming home for the holidays is always so, well, romanticized, but the reality is sometimes different. In “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” by Jenny Bayliss (Putnam, $19), Fredericka returns to her hometown for the holidays, but she’s not all that excited about it. But then she rekindles a friendship with her former BFF, a boy who’s now handsome man (!). As if that’s not enough to make life interesting, a journalist is in town to cover the local Christmas Mart, and he’s yummy, too. Home for the holidays? Yes, please, if it’s like that.
If second-chances are what you want for Christmas, then try “Christmas at the Ranch” by Julia McKay (Putnam, $19). It’s been a whole decade since the disaster at the ranch where Emory used to spend time as a teenager. Ten years since she fell in love with Tate Wilder and things fell horribly apart. But now, all grown up, Emory needs a vacation – badly – so why not go where she felt happiest? Indeed, and this book will make you happy, too.
And finally, if you need something very different, try “A Case of Life and Limb” by Sally Smith (Bloomsbury, $28.99), a holiday mystery set in 1901. It’s Christmas Eve and Gabriel Ward is working hard on a libel case, having been hired to represent a famous music star. It’s a perfectly quiet time to work at the Inner Temple, until a severed hand arrives there and it’s up to Gabriel and the London Police to figure out the identity of a killer afoot.
Or a-hand. You know.
If these Christmas books aren’t enough for you, or if you need something different, head to your local library or bookstore, where they’ll be able to steer you to a whole lot more Christmas novels. You’ll love ‘em. Season’s Readings!
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