The blog tour for CHASING CHRISTMAS EVE, by Jill Shalvis, is making a stop here today!
Chasing Christmas Eve
Series: Heartbreaker Bay #4
Author: Jill Shalvis
Publisher: Avon Romance
Releases: September 26, 2017
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” Spence 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.
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He laughed, a rough rumble that was more than a little contagious but she controlled herself because, hello, she was once again dripping wet before the man who seemed to make her knees forget to hold her up.
“I didn’t mean to scare you,” he said and pushed off the wall to come close.
She froze, but he held up his hands like, I come in peace, and crouched at her feet to scoop up the clothes she hadn’t realized she’d dropped.
Leggings, a long forgiving tee, and the peach silk bra-and-panty set that hadn’t gotten so much as a blink from the TSA guy.
But it got one out of Spence. He also swallowed hard as she snatched them back from him.
“Hold on,” he said and caught her arm, pulling it toward him to look at her bleeding elbow.
“Sit,” he said and gently pushed her down to a weight bench. He vanished into the bathroom and came back out with a first aid kit.
It took him less than two minutes to clean and bandage the scrape. Then, easily balanced at her side on the balls of his feet, he did the same for both her knees, which she hadn’t noticed were also scraped up.
“You must’ve hit the brick coping as you fell in the fountain,” he said and let his thumb slide over the skin just above one bandaged knee.
She shivered, and not from the cold either. “Not going to kiss it better?” she heard herself ask before biting her tongue for running away with her good sense.
She’d raised her younger twin brothers. Scrappy, roughhouse wild animals, the both of them, so there’d been plenty of injuries she’d kissed over the years.
But no one had ever kissed hers. Not surprising, since most of her injuries tended to be on the inside, where they didn’t show. Still, she was horrified she’d said anything at all. “I didn’t mean—”
She broke off, frozen like a deer in the headlights as Spence slowly lowered his head, brushing his lips over the Band-Aid on her elbow, then her knees. When he lifted his head, he pushed his glasses higher on his nose, those whiskey eyes warm and amused behind his lenses. “Better?”
Shockingly better. Since she didn’t quite trust her voice at the moment, she gave a jerky nod and took her clothes back into the bathroom. She shut the door and then leaned against it, letting out a slow, deliberate breath. Holy cow, she was out of her league. He was somehow both cute and hot, and those glasses . . .
Jill Shalvis
New York Times 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 bestselling, award-winning books wherever romances are sold and visit her website, www.jillshalvis.com, for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.
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Colbie Albright needs a break from her current reality, her author life is blowing up, her family is in her business, and it's a daily struggle just to have a moment to herself. So she decides to pack a bag and set out a little vacation and get in some much needed "me" time. Which takes her to San Francisco, it has the historic appeal that she was looking for, the warmer weather she was craving, and a super sexy knight in shining armor that comes to save the day when she is accidentally knocked into a water fountain. From there the sparks start to fly, and these two start to take a shine to one another, problem is there little love affair will end in a few short weeks, when Colbie must return to the life she momentarily left behind...
The moment that Colbie splashes into Spencer Baldwin's life he can't help but be drawn to her, she is beautiful, funny, and the best thing to wander into his sheltered life in a long time. He tends to want to help folks and his friends have watched that come back and bite him in the past, but he reassures them that she is different, that they can trust her like he does. It's not like he is planning to get involved with her, he just wants to help her out and give her a place to stay for the month... but little does he know fate has other plans for them!
Chasing Christmas Eve is a delightful, clever, and light-hearted tale that is sure to warm the hearts of readers and leave a smile on their face! I am no stranger to Ms. Shalvis's wonderful tales, she is my go-to author when I am looking for a funny read to lift my spirits and curl my toes... and to this date she has yet to let me down. I thoroughly enjoyed this latest offering from her, the story line was very engaging, the characters were well drawn, and it gave me the holiday feels I hoped to find! Highly recommend you get your hands on this one, Ms. Shalvis's endearing characters will pull you into their world and make you feel right at home in a matter of minutes!!
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this title.
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