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Friday, September 22, 2017

Upcoming Release: Chasing Christmas Eve by Jill Shalvis + Review & Excerpt!

   

From New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis comes the next sexy, standalone novel in the Heartbreaker Bay series... Don’t miss the amazing excerpt and giveaway below, and order your copy today!

   

About CHASING CHRISTMAS EVE:

Meet cute...

Run for the hills—temporarily. That’s Colbie Albright’s plan when she flees New York for San Francisco. Wrangling her crazy family by day and writing a bestselling YA fantasy series by night has taken its toll. In short, Colbie’s so over it that she’s under it. She’s also under the waters of a historic San Francisco fountain within an hour of arrival. Fortunately, the guy who fishes Colbie out has her looking forward to Christmas among strangers. But she’s pretty sure Spencer Baldwin won’t be a stranger for long.

Make merry...

Spence’s commitment to hiding from the Ghosts of Relationships Past means he doesn’t have to worry about the powerful—okay, crazy hot—chemistry he’s got with Colbie. Just because she can laugh at anything, especially herself... just because she’s gorgeous and a great listener…just because she “gets” Spencer immediately doesn’t mean he won’t be able to let Colbie go. Does it?

…and hope for a miracle.

Now the clock’s ticking for Colbie and Spence: Two weeks to cut loose. Two weeks to fall hard. Two weeks to figure out how to make this Christmas last a lifetime.

   

Order CHASING CHRISTMAS EVE in ebook or paperback, releasing 9/26/17!

 

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EXCERPT:

Colbie Albright stood in the crowded LaGuardia Airport staring up at the flight departure board. Her chest was tight and her throat felt like it was closing in.
Classic anxiety, she told herself. Just breathe right through it.
Not that her body listened to her brain. Her body rarely listened to good sense.
In any case, it was December 1 and people were rushing all around her like chickens without their heads, while she stood still trying to figure out her choice of destination. Her only requirements were warm and tropical. An exotic beach would fit the bill perfectly.
Aruba.
Jamaica.
Oooh, I wanna take you…
Great, and now that Beach Boys song was stuck in her head. Doing her best to shake it off, she eyed the board again. So many choices for a twenty-eight-year-old runaway with a packed bag and no regrets.
From inside her purse her phone vibrated and she grimaced. Okay, so there were regrets. Buckets of them that made her suitcase feel like a thousand pounds and sucked the air from her lungs, but she refused to let herself turn tail and go back.
She was doing this.


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REVIEW: 

4 stars
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 What a super sweet book! This was another great addition to the Heartbreaker Bay series. This is Colbie and Spencer's book. Colbie is a popular author who writes under a pen name. She is also under a lot of stress. Her younger brothers and mother are helpless and depend on her for everything, which is only getting worse. On top of that, Colbie has terible writer's block. So two weeks before Christmas, she runs away to Heartbreaker Bay, where she hopes to vacation, cross some items off her bucket list, and get her groove back in a way that will hopefully help her finish her book. There she runs into, literally, Spencer, and falls into the famous "love wishing fountain". Spencer is a hot nerd, a genius techie businessman. He works all the time and is having trouble figuring out how to solve a problem with his current project. He has had a bad experience with relationships in the past and he doesn't think he is capable of putting his all into his work and being in a relationship. But he is attracted to Colbie and feels bad for knocking her into the fountain, so he gives her a place to stay during her vacation. The two become friends and find they really like each other, so they begin a short term relationship during Colbie's vacation. That leads to them falling in love, but Colbie plans on leaving on Christmas Eve to return to her family. The two must figure out if there is a way for them to be together and get the HEA they deserve. 

I really liked both Colbie and Spencer. They were precious together. They were both inexperienced in love and kind of clueless, but were well-meaning people who were taken by surprise by each other and can't help but fall in love. The story was fun, sweet and low angst. There was very little pushing away or unnecessary drama

I really am enjoying this series. I think this book may be my favorite so far. I hope this series doesn't end anytime soon. I really enjoy the small town atmosphere and the group of friends in the series. Overall, Chasing Christmas Eve was a really good book and I definitely recommend it!




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And don’t miss the previous books in Jill Shalvis’s Heartbreaker Bay Series, SWEET LITTLE LIES, THE TROUBLE WITH MISTLETOE and ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE, now available! Grab your copies HERE!



  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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