CONTEST: Wild Holiday Nights

So here's a very cool contest for you all. I have in my possession five paper copies of the upcoming Harlequin Blaze, Wild Holiday Nights - with stories from Samantha Hunter, Meg Maguire, and Debbi Rawlins. Comment on my blog for a chance to win. If only five of you comment, you all get the book. Otherwise, I'll throw it into a random decider thingy.

Here's the blurb:

Satisfy your Christmas cravings with…  

HOLIDAY RUSH by Samantha Hunter Cake guru Calla Michaels is canceling Christmas to deal with fondant, batter and an attempted robbery. Then officer Gideon Stone shows up at her door. Calla thought her kitchen was hot enough before…  

PLAYING GAMES by Meg Maguire With her plane grounded on Christmas Eve, Carrie Baxter agrees to share a rental car with her secret high school crush. Sure, Daniel Barber is hotter than ever, but he's still just as prickly, too. It's gonna be one looong drive…and an unforgettably X-rated night!  

ALL NIGHT LONG by Debbi Rawlins Overworked paralegal Carly Watts needs Jack Carrington's signature, but he'll do whatever it takes to buy more time before selling his grandfather's company. Including having one very naughty night before Christmas! 

Now, that doesn't give you nearly enough information to say what these stories are really about, so I'll try to give you a little taste. Each story takes place right over Christmas. At least one character in each story wants to get home for Christmas, even if they can't. With the size of the stories (3-in-1 Blaze only gives you about 75 pages per story), they are very compact with no outside characters contributing to the romance. They have very little conflict and none of the characters take very long to ruminate about if love is important to them.

Oh, and being Blaze novels, they have a little bit of sexytimes, but they were actually a lot tamer than what I've been reading lately. None of the relationships quite made it to happily-ever-after, but all of them gave an indication that everything would work out.

Holiday Rush by Samantha Hunter was a friend-of-the-big-brother story. It was sweet and fun. There was a burglary and a "bad guy", but it was all packaged up all neat and tidy in a short amount of time. Once or twice, we heard that "oh, we couldn't break big brother's trust", but honestly, it's a short story. None of that stops them for long.

Playing Games by Meg Maguire was un-put-down-able and made me cry. The emotion was spot on, even though neither of the characters seem to like each other at the start. This one was a friend-of-the-ex story, but I loved seeing how they both had feelings for each other for so long. It was a little gritty, with a dirty hotel and a snowstorm and I felt it was very signature Meg Maguire.

All Night Long by Debbi Rawlins definitely amused me. There were a couple places I laughed out loud. The word choice and explanations were lots of fun. It's got a business owner/lawyer falling in love with a paralegal/almost lawyer. They had only met once before, so there was a bit more Insta-Lust in this one, but it also left the characters at the earliest stage of their relationship. I felt it was a good compromise for the length. We didn't find out much about HOW they would work things out, but I was happy with their attraction and their personalities.

So, once again, comment here to win. Eligibility ends on Friday, November 14th, 2014. If you win and send me your address quickly enough, I will mail the books out on November 15th so you'll have lots of time to enjoy, possibly even before they hit shelves.