"Ah things we do as teenagers can come back to haunt us"
Reviewed by Sandra Wurman
Posted January 5, 2019
Romance Holiday | Holiday
Just knowing HOLIDAY WISHES is part of the Heartbreaker
Bay series is enough to make it part of my must read
list. Actually anything by Jill Shalvis winds up on that
last. HOLIDAY WISHES is a novella so you know it will be
short and sweet, emphasis on sweet since it is by Jill
Shalvis. Sean O'Riley best man for older brother Finn and
soon to be sister-in-law Pru. Destination a beautiful B&B in
Napa Valley with a van filled with friends. Ah, a B&B whose
innkeeper is one Charlotte Hartford, a name and face from
Sean's past. Lotti and Sean shared a sweet albeit not so
innocent moment while teenager in high school. Lotti had definitely been the one that got away or to be
more accurate, the one Sean let get away. Even though he
really did like her he let her letters and calls go
unanswered until finally they just ceased. A rookie mistake,
but let's remember he was a teenage boy. It is now obvious
that Lotti had not forgotten Sean or forgiven his very
awkward end to their friendship. Needless to say best laid plans were upstaged by Mother
Nature and everyone was being waylaid at the B&B. That meant
Lotti misses her planned vacation. Finn and Pru's wedding
plans had to be revised. And Lotti and Sean were going to
have to spend time together even though she was doing her
best to keep her distance. Hard to do in a small intimate B&B. Good setting for romance even if the two were least likely
to ever get over their clumsy ill-timed teenage non-
relationship beginning. So much time has passed perhaps it
was fate that would give them a chance to see if there had
really been anything more than friendship. The Finn wedding party is officially flying by the seats of
their collective pants. All original plans have been dealt a
losing hand compliments of mudslides and road closures. But
Sean is not going to let anything come between his brother
and Pru. Finn has spent years taking responsibility and its
Sean's turn to pick up the slack. With Lotti it just may
turn out okay. With Lotti on board Sean may pull out a
miracle and what better time for one. Finn and Pru need one.
But then again so do Lotti and Sean. It's time to finish
what they barely started a decade ago and Christmas is the
time for glad tidings and love. Beautiful little story about holiday love and magic written
with care by Jill Shalvis. Just the right amount of heart
and soul which fits the recipe for a romance that needs a
bit of spice.
SUMMARY
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
just hoping to make it through the weekend. 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 the
wild and free one, and Sean – the good time guy – is the
perfect candidate. But as the weekend continues, Sean realizes that after a
lifetime of being the hook-up king, he’s ready to find
happily-ever-after, and he wants it with Lotti. But will she
open her heart to him again? As Christmas sweeps through the
little B&B, he can only hope love and magic are in the air.
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