AUTHOR: Jana Aston GENRE: Romance PAGES: 107 pages RELEASED: 18 November 2021 SERIES: Reindeer Falls #6 SYNOPSIS: My name is Carter Sheppard and I actually like Christmas and my Christmas-themed hometown of Reindeer Falls. In fact, when I learn I have to return home in order to collect an inheritance—my uncle’s dog—it puts life into perspective for me. Sure, playing professional baseball is great. But it won’t last forever and every player needs a long-term game plan. And I just found mine. Wrapped up in the feisty, bespectacled package of the town librarian. Unfortunately, she thinks I’m a player in all aspects of the word, but I’ve got a plan to win her over. Starting with a fake engagement… Sometimes you’ve got to fake it if you want custody of the dog…
Welcome to Reindeer Falls, the most magical and festive town in America, where you can’t not fall in love at all the cute and festive date spots. When baseball player Carter Sheppard arrives back in town after the death of his Uncle Joe and claim his inheritance Rudy, the dog - he’s in the midst of a bit of a crisis. With his bare ass posted all over the internet after a hook-up, he needs someone to help cleanup his image if he has any hope of scoring a sponsorship deal. Enter librarian Lexi Foster, Joe’s neighbour and the woman who has been looking after Rudy. As she drops off Rudy, Carter makes a proposal - they get fake engaged so he can showcase his clean image and score his brand deal, and she can get Rudy once everything is over. It’s a deal Lexi can’t turn down, even though the last thing she wants to do is pretend to be in a relationship with Carter, despite how drop-dead gorgeous he looks. As they start going on dates around Reindeer Falls and enjoying the festivities of the season, fake engagement ring and all, the lines between what is for show and what is real start to blur, and it’s not long before they realise that they’ve been set up from beyond the grave. Fake dating? At Christmas? With a dog? The boy next door? And there’s a bookshop date? YES PLEASE! Jana has rounded out this second Reindeer Falls trilogy with some of my favourite romance elements, and it might just be my favourite in the series? At least this second part of the series? I don’t know, but it was a bloody fun read! Lexi and Carter’s relationship oozed all the chemistry, sexual tension, and swoon, with a nice festive dose of spice. Fake dating is forever one of my favourite tropes as I love seeing the lines blur between the couple as they slowly fall in love for real. Lexi and Carter were no different, and their relationship grew to be super sweet and swoony. Following Lexi and Carter around Reindeer Falls on their dates was so fun, and it once again solidified how much I wish Reindeer Falls was a real town and how much I want to live there! There’s a freaking boat that’s been docked and turned into a cozy bookstore, and there’s sleigh rides at Christmas time, not to mention every other location that has been mentioned or seen in the previous five books! It’s the ultimate Hallmark movie Christmas location with ALL the festive goodness! Again, as with the previous novellas, I do wish this had been given the full novel treatment. Although, I think my main wish would be alternating perspectives - I just really wanted to get inside Carter’s head through all this! Despite it’s length though, Jana was able to give Carter and Lexi a relatively complete story in such a quick read. Book your ticket to Reindeer Falls for the ultimate festive read to round out the reading year with! |
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