It will take a Christmas miracle for two very different souls to find each other in this perfectly festive fairy tale of New York!

Hopeless romantic Eva Jordan loves everything about Christmas. She might be spending the holidays alone this year, but when she’s given an opportunity to house-sit a spectacular penthouse on Fifth Avenue, she leaps at the chance. What better place to celebrate than in snow-kissed Manhattan? What she didn’t expect was to find the penthouse still occupied by its gorgeous—and mysterious—owner.

Bestselling crime writer Lucas Blade is having the nightmare before Christmas. With a deadline and the anniversary of his wife’s death looming, he’s isolated himself in his penthouse with only his grief for company. He wants no interruptions, no decorations and he certainly doesn’t appreciate being distracted by his beautiful, bubbly new housekeeper. But when the blizzard of the century leaves Eva snowbound in his apartment, Lucas starts to open up to the magic she brings…This Christmas, is Lucas finally ready to trust that happily-ever-afters do exist?

I picked up this book for my reading challenge (a book set in a place I’ve visited) and to try a book by a new-to-me author. I’m not sure how/why I picked up a Christmas book in September, but I went with it.

It’s a sweet book, but I didn’t completely engage with it. For me, it was a bit wordy (I skimmed quite a bit) and there were a few plot points that sort of fizzled (days later, they’re still talking about the blizzard and we never really see if Lucas changes his mind about Christmas). I loved the dialogue, though, and seeing them grow closer together.

Overall, it was an easy read and sweet romance, just a bit long for me.

R-rated for some sex and swearing. Get your copy here!