From New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis comes the next sexy, standalone in the Heartbreaker Bay series, HOLIDAY WISHES, now available for $.99! Don’t miss the amazing excerpt below, and grab your copy today!
About HOLIDAY WISHES:
It’s Christmastime again in Heartbreaker Bay!
When Sean O’Riley shows up at the Hartford Bed & Breakfast for his older brother’s bachelor weekend, he’s planning to get through this weekend as well as he can and fulfill his duties as best man. What he’s not expecting is to come face to face with the woman he lost his virginity to a decade ago—a woman he’s never really forgotten.
The last time Lotti Hartford saw Sean, she told him she loved him while he said nothing. Now, ten years later, she’s just looking for a good time. For once, she wants to be wild and free, and when she sees how good Sean grew up, she thinks he might actually be the perfect candidate.
As the weekend continues, Sean realizes that after a lifetime of being the hook-up king, he’s ready to find happily-ever-after with Lotti. But is she ready to open her heart once again? As Christmas sweeps through the little B&B, love and magic are in the air.
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Excerpt
To say Sean felt stressed was a huge understatement. Give
him a cliff to scale or a bar brawl to break up. Hell, give him a freight train
to try to outrun, anything but having
to pull off being the best man for his brother Finn’s wedding—including but not
limited to keeping said brother from losing his collective shit.
It’s not like Sean didn’t understand. Getting married was a
big deal. Okay, so he didn’t fully understand, not really, but he wanted to. He
really did. And how funny was that? Sean O’Riley, younger brother, hook-up king
extraordinaire, was suddenly tired of the game and found himself aching for his
own forever after.
“We almost there?” Finn asked him from the backseat of the
vehicle Sean was driving.
“Yep.”
“And you double checked on our reservations?”
“Yep.”
“No, I’m serious, man,” Finn said. “Remember when you took
me to Vegas and when we got there, every hotel was booked and we had to stay at
the Magic-O motel?”
“Man, a guy screws up one time . . .”
“We had a stripper pole in our rooms, Sean.”
Sean sighed. “Okay, but to be fair, that was back when I was
still in my stupid phase. I promise you that we have reservations—no stripper
poles. I even double and triple checked, just like you asked me a hundred and
one times. Pru, I hope you realize you’re marrying a nag.”
Pru, Finn’s fiancée, laughed from the shotgun position.
“Hey, one of us has to be the nag in this relationship, and it isn’t me.”
Sean held up a palm and Pru leaned over the console to give
him a high-five.
“Just so you know,” Sean said to Finn, “I didn’t pick this
place, your woman did.”
“True story,” Pru said. “The B&B’s closed to the public
this entire weekend. Sean booked the whole place for our bachelor/bachelorette
party weekend extravaganza.”
“I superheroed this thing,” Sean said.
Finn snorted and let loose of a small smile because they
both knew that for most of Sean’s childhood, that’s what he’d aspired to be, a
superhero—sans tights though. Tights had never been Sean’s thing, especially
after suffering through them for two seasons in high school football before
he’d mercifully cracked his clavicle.
After that, he’d turned to fighting, and not the good kind
either. Finn, physically older by seven years, mentally older by about a
hundred, had single-handedly saved Sean from just about every situation he’d
ever landed himself in. Thanks to Finn, there’d been a lot fewer situations
than there should’ve been and it hadn’t been for lack of trying.
Fact was, everyone knew Sean had taken the slowest possible
route on his way to growing up, complete with plenty of detours, but he’d hit
his stride now. Or at least he hoped so because Finn was counting on him in a
big way over the next week and Sean had let him down enough for a lifetime. He
wouldn’t let him down now.
Sean pulled into the B&B’s parking lot and turned to
face the crowd he’d driven from San Francisco to Napa. And he did mean crowd.
They’d had to rent a fourteen-seat passenger van to fit everyone, and he was
the weekend’s designated driver.
Oh, how times had changed. “Ready?” he asked.
Finn nodded. Pru was bouncing up and down in her seat with
excitement. Willa, her BFF, was doing the same. Keane, Willa’s boyfriend,
opened the door for everyone to tumble out.
It was two weeks before Christmas and the rolling hills of
Napa Valley were lined with grape vines for as far as the eye could see, not
that they could actually see them right now. It was late, pitch dark, and rain
had been pouring down steadily all day, which didn’t detract from the beauty of
the Victorian B&B in front of them. It did, however, detract from Sean’s
eagerness to go out in the rain to get to it though.
Not Pru and Willa. The two raced through the downpour laughing
and holding hands with Elle, Colbie, Kylie, and Tina—the rest of Pru’s
posse—moving more cautiously in deference to the preservation of their heels.
Sean, Finn, and Finn’s posse—Archer, Keane, Spence, and Joe—followed.
They all tumbled in the front door of the B&B and
stopped short in awe of the place decorated with what had to be miles of
garland and lights, along with a huge Christmas tree done up in all the bells
and whistles. This place could’ve passed for Santa’s own house.
Collectively the group “oohed” and “ahhhed” before turning
expectedly to Sean.
This was because he was actually in charge of the weekend’s
activities that would lead up to the final countdown to the wedding happening
next week at a winery about twenty minutes up the road. This was what a best
man did apparently, take care of stuff. All
the stuff. And that Finn had asked Sean to be his best man in the first place
over any of the close friends with them this weekend had the pride overcoming
his anxiety of screwing it all up.
But the anxiety was making a real strong bid right at the
moment. He shook off some of the raindrops and started to head over to the
greeting desk and twelve people began to follow. He stopped and was nearly
plowed over by the parade. “Wait here,” he instructed, pausing until his very
excited group nodded in unison.
Jesus. He shouldn’t have poured them that champagne to
pre-game before they’d left O’Riley’s, the pub he and Finn owned and operated
in San Francisco. And that he was the voice of reason right now was truly the
irony of the century. “Stay,” he said firmly and then made his way past the
towering Christmas tree lit to within an inch of its life, past the raging fire
in the fireplace with candles lining the mantel . . . to the
small, quaint check-in desk that had a plate with some amazing looking cookies
and a sign that said: yes, these are for you—welcome!
“Yum,” Pru said and took one for each hand.
She hadn’t “stayed.” And neither had Finn. They both flanked
Sean, munching on the cookies.
A woman sat at the check-in desk with a laptop, her fingers
a blur, the tip of her Santa hat quivering as she typed away. She looked up and
smiled as she took in the group. That is until her gaze landed on Sean and she
froze.
He’d already done the same because holy shit—
“Greetings,” she said, recovering first and so quickly that
no one else seemed to notice as she stood and smiled warmly everyone but Sean. “Welcome to the Hartford
B&B. My name’s Charlotte Hartford and I’m the innkeeper here. How can I
help you?”
Good question. And Sean had the answer on the tip of his
tongue, which was currently stuck to the roof of his mouth because he hadn’t
been prepared for this sweet and sassy redheaded blast from his past.
Jill Shalvis adds another sweet romance to the Heartbreaker Bay series with this novella surrounding Sean O'Riley and a former lover against the backdrop of Finn and Pru's bachelorette/ bachelor party.
When the gang from Heartbreaker Bay travel north to a B&B for the festivities, Sean isn't expecting to run into Lottie, the girl he gave his virginity to and vice versa. She's not all that thrilled to see him either, as she's angry with Sean for good reason. Seems that Sean never communicated with Lottie after that fateful day.
Fast forward ten years later and Lottie is faced with Sean all over again. She's never really gotten over him, and their time together colored all her relationships after him. She's about to go on a vacation to shake his influence on her when Mother Nature steps forcing road closures, causing Pru and Finn to lose their wedding location.
Sean has to prove to Lottie that he's changed at the same time he's searching for a new location for his brother's wedding. It's a big task, but Sean is definitely up to it because seeing Lottie makes him realize just what he lost ten years ago.
Holiday Wishes is a very sweet second chance love story that melted my heart. Sean is super sexy and his past has made him long for what Finn has found with Pru. Meeting Lottie again just puts all the pieces in place for these two and I loved their story. It's a perfectly sized novella with a double whammy of two relationships finding their HEA.
An ARC was provided for review.
What I thought about Holiday Wishes
Jill Shalvis adds another sweet romance to the Heartbreaker Bay series with this novella surrounding Sean O'Riley and a former lover against the backdrop of Finn and Pru's bachelorette/ bachelor party.
When the gang from Heartbreaker Bay travel north to a B&B for the festivities, Sean isn't expecting to run into Lottie, the girl he gave his virginity to and vice versa. She's not all that thrilled to see him either, as she's angry with Sean for good reason. Seems that Sean never communicated with Lottie after that fateful day.
Fast forward ten years later and Lottie is faced with Sean all over again. She's never really gotten over him, and their time together colored all her relationships after him. She's about to go on a vacation to shake his influence on her when Mother Nature steps forcing road closures, causing Pru and Finn to lose their wedding location.
Sean has to prove to Lottie that he's changed at the same time he's searching for a new location for his brother's wedding. It's a big task, but Sean is definitely up to it because seeing Lottie makes him realize just what he lost ten years ago.
Holiday Wishes is a very sweet second chance love story that melted my heart. Sean is super sexy and his past has made him long for what Finn has found with Pru. Meeting Lottie again just puts all the pieces in place for these two and I loved their story. It's a perfectly sized novella with a double whammy of two relationships finding their HEA.
An ARC was provided for review.
And don’t miss these standalone novels in Jill Shalvis’s Heartbreaker Bay Series!
SWEET LITTLE LIES
THE TROUBLE WITH MISTLETOE
ONE SNOWY NIGHT
ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE
CHASING CHRISTMAS EVE
HOLIDAY WISHES
ABOUT THAT KISS (Coming 1/23/18)
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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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