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Romancing the Holidays Collection
by L. Austen Johnson
on November 5, 2020
Genres: Sweet Holiday Romance
Pages: 180
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★ 4 Holiday Romance Novellas in One! ★
Lucky Fall (St. Paddy’s Day)
Pawsitively Perfect (4th of July)
All Thanks to you (Halloween)
Beaver Creek Resort (Christmas)Dive into these heartwarming, cozy, and funny stories. The Romancing the Holidays Collection is a series of four short holiday romance novellas that will help you traverse the year and celebrate year-long cheer with characters you’ll fall in love with.
**Every story in the Romancing the Holidays Anthology can be read as a standalone**
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Lucky Fall
After her parents’ death, Sarah felt like there was no luck left in the world. With her siblings’ newly out of the house, she’s free, for the first time in years, to do something just for her. So when her best friend surprises her with tickets to Dublin for the week of St. Patrick’s Day, she’s thrilled. She’s on a mission to reconnect with her parents’ past and visit the places in their photographs.But when she falls—literally—into the arms of an attractive if snarky Irishman at a pub, Sarah might just have to add another quest to her list: find out said man’s name…and relationship status.
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Pawsitively Perfect
After a rough breakup and particularly difficult winter, veterinarian Leigh feels ready to engage in the outside world again. That is until her dog, Pogo, slips his leash in a park and invades the picnic of gorgeous ex-Marine, James. It’s doubly humiliating when Leigh finds out that James just so happens to be the head of the non-profit that she’s is expected to work on an event.Can Leigh get over her embarrassment and her fear of being hurt again to seize the reins—erm, leash—on love? Or do the two different types of “vets” just not mix at all?
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All Thanks to You
When aspiring vet tech Rosalie meets a guy at a Halloween black cat adoption party—perhaps even The Guy—she fails to understand that he’s asking her out. They say goodbye with only the promise of a cat adoption in their future, and she thinks that is that…until she walks into her younger sister’s parent-teacher conference and realizes Jonah from the cat event is Mr. Keene, high school English teacher extraordinaire. She wants to date this lovable nerd, but after her bad luck with past relationships and her experience seeing her parents get divorced, she’s afraid to let Jonah in.Will she find love with a fellow cat-lover, or will it all fall to pieces by the first snow?
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Beaver Creek Resort
Claire is fine being a single mom. Contrary to what her sister Sydney thinks, she doesn’t need anyone new in her life, not after Mitch cheated on her when she was pregnant five years ago. And she absolutely doesn’t need a cheesy, Christmas-themed singles' event at the Beaver Creek Resort to help her find someone suitable.Besides, the only attractive man she’s even met at the ski resort so far is the guy she crashed into earlier, and he was a total jerk. It’s not like he’s going to show up to the singles event and magically become charming and nice and caring…right? That’d be a Christmas miracle.
Romancing the Holidays by L. Austen Johnson is a great little collection of short stories for all the holidays.
Will these four girls find their happily ever after?
Lucky Fall
In Lucky Fall, we have Sarah and her friend that also happens to be her coworker, go to Ireland for Saint Patrick’s Day. They get there, and Sarah feels like she’s seeing her parents everywhere as she remembers their stories and goes to the places they did. She meets a handsome guy, and maybe just maybe, her parents had a helping hand in their oldest daughter meeting someone in Ireland. This story is super cute, and I’m giving it a five-star rating.
Pawsitively Perfect
In this next story, it’s just funny from the first chapter to the end of it. In the fourth of July holiday book, we are now with a veterinarian who has a big dog that’s only a year old, so very energetic. Leigh is so adorable in here, and I love how her coworkers can easily see her emotions. Can Leigh, though, get over her issues about her last boyfriend so she can enjoy having a new love life? Hopefully, she can with a potential new man in James. I think the two of them will be cute together. Another cute story that I couldn’t help but laugh out loud at certain points. Another five stars.
All Thanks to you
Office manager Rosalie from Pawsitively Perfect is part of this new couple. She meets a great guy on Halloween but didn’t get that he was asking her out. Rosalie next sees him when he adopts a cat and then even more when she talks to her sister’s high school English teacher. I have to say that I’m a bit iffy about this story because I’m not too certain about Rosalie’s character. Even though I get some of her motives but not all of them, I guess. This one will be four stars.
Beaver Creek Resort
This last one is about a single mom deciding that it’s time to throw her hat back into the dating game…during Christmas at a resort. Claire has gone five years without being with someone, and she’s decided now is a perfect time to try it again. Well, until she realizes that the person she is falling for lives in Colorado while she lives across the country. This one is another cute one, and I like Claire and Tessa. They are adorable together, and I think this one is a good one to end this holiday romance collection. For the last one, I’m giving it 5 stars.
Five Stars
Romancing the Holidays by L. Austen Johnson has many sweet romantic holidays reads perfect for reading at any time of the year. Ms. Johnson has done a fabulous job writing all of these, and I liked each one of them. Overall, I’m giving this collection five stars, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to read about holidays any time of the year.
Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of Romancing the Holidays by L. Austen Johnson.
Until the next time,
Happy Reading!
About L. Austen Johnson
L. Austen Johnson is an award-winning writer, designer, and disability advocate. She studied English, Archaeology, and Astronomy in university, which may explain her love for stargazing and time-traveling. She holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.A. from the University of Chicago.
She’s an avid reader, a sometimes songwriter, and an attempter of various art projects. When she’s not working, you can find her searching for animals to pet, singing off-key in the shower, and learning the art of making the perfect cup of tea.
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2021 Goodreads Reading Challenge
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