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Dirty Girls’ Top Christmas Reads

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I love a good Christmas story.  I got a list of Kay’s favorites and put together this list of the Dirty Girls’ favorite Christmas romances.  Our list ended up heavy on the contemporary and historical. If you have other favorite holiday romances, please add them in the comments!
 

Contemporary
Only Us: A Fool's Gold Holiday Novella (Fool's Gold, #6.1)
Only Us by Susan Mallery – This is the sweet story of the veterinarian and and a pet groomer set at Christmastime in the town of Fool’s Gold. (Kay)

Home for the Holidays (Harlequin Superromance, #1599)
Home for the Holidays by Sarah Mayberry – I don’t konw if I’ve ever read a Sarah Mayberry book I didn’t like.  This is one of my favorites.  The instant dislike between these two is very believable, which makes their journey all the sweeter. (Anne)

Holiday Sparks
Holiday Sparks by Shannon Stacey (this novella is part of the Naughty and Nice anthology)  I loved this Carina Press Anthology.  My secret confession is that I very excitedly bought the Carina 2011 anthology, Holiday Kisses, and I have yet to read it! (Anne)

Lone Star
Lone Star by Josh Lanyon (part of the Men Under the Mistletoe anthology)  This is the novella that introduced me to Josh Lanyon, and started the Adrian English Glom of December 2011.  (Anne)

Historical
A Season of Seduction (James Family, #3)
A Season of Seduction by Jennifer Haymore – This is a story of second chances and what a person truly deserves. (Kay)

Scandal of the Season (The Spinster Club, #4)
Scandal of the Season by Christie Kelley – A fun story of a woman posing as her enemy’s mistress and her shock at her delight in it all. (Kay)

Breaking Brodix by Anne Rainey

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Breaking Brodix (Blackwater, #3)
Grade-C
Hotness Level-Inferno
Kink Level-Low
Series-Blackwater #3
Reviewed by Kay

Brodix is one of the Jennings brothers of Blackwater. He’s the financial guy, helping with the Grand Opening of the family restaurant. He and his brothers have privacy issues with their lives prior to adoption by the Jennings family.

Sarah Greer is a divorced reporter in their small town and she’s trying to live down a lead who gave her false info she went to print with. She wanted to do a human interest story on the Jennings’ and hopes it will help with increasing profits at the restaurant.

Brodix agrees she can interview him and him only. They go have dinner and then sex at his house. Feel a little rushed with the way I’m reviewing it? I felt that way when I was reading it. This wasn’t a bad story just a short one and short love stories are very rushed. I really like the series and am awaiting the next one.

Retreat Hell! She Just Got Here by Heather Long

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Retreat Hell! She Just Got Here (1 Night Stand, Always a Marine, #2)
Grade-C
Hotness Level-Inferno
Kink Level-Low
Series-1 Night Stand, Always A Marine #2
Reviewed by Kay

This is the second installment in a short story series. It involves Jazz, Logan and Zach. Logan and Zach do a favor for a friend of theirs. Jazz wants to feel girlie since she is always around alpha males and some of those males have to report to her. She has a spa day and then goes to basically an escort service where she meets Logan and Zach.

Logan was injured while on deployment and discharged on permanent disability. His injuries are severe enough he fears he may be emasculated for the rest of his life. Zach just wants his best friend back but if he gets to have sex with a hot girl in the process, hell yeah.

It really was kind of a sweet story in that Logan’s fear of rejection was dealt with. Also through Zach’s desire to see his friend whole again. I was grateful for no I love yous with this story, just an agreement that they would get together on her next leave. Whether I’d read more in the series remains to be seen.