A Very Bossy Christmas is live!

A funny, sexy, fake romance, enemies-to-lovers romance that had me completely hooked from start to finish.

 

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Audiobook is coming in December and will be narrated by Connor Crais and Mackenzie Cartwright!

 

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Blurb

What’s the actual last thing you’d ever want your executive assistant to see you doing the morning after you had hot, drunk, angry sex with her in a terrible hotel room? Dancing around your terrible hotel room to “Come and Get Your Love” like Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy—naked? Yeah. Me too.

And yet, here we are. 

This isn’t even the most unprofessional thing that’s happened between us in the past couple of weeks.

The first was when I agreed to let her have Christmas Day off, but only if she goes with me to three family gatherings as my fake girlfriend.
The second was when she caught me belting out a Christmas song on stage in the awful hotel bar.
The third was the hot, drunk, angry sex that followed, but I do not regret it.

And she hasn’t even found out the real reason I need her by my side this holiday season.

I need to pull it together before I do the dumbest, most unprofessional thing of all—fall head over heels in love with the only assistant who’s lasted more than a month at the job and claims to hate me and my moods more than she hates eggnog.

And I’ve seen how much she hates eggnog.

 

 

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Review

5 stars!

Oh, I love this book! A funny, sexy, fake romance, enemies-to-lovers romance that had me completely hooked from start to finish. With epic chemistry and banter, and a love story that had me laughing and swooning, I adored every moment of this one!

Declan Cannavale is a corporate lawyer, Maddie Cooper is his executive assistant. He’s cocky, arrogant, a workaholic and a nightmare to work for, but she keeps him in his place with her feisty, no-nonsense, take-no-crap attitude. They bicker and argue constantly, but when Declan needs a date for family his family’s Christmas gatherings, Maddie is the only one that comes to mind. So, promising her a week off in exchange for being his fake girlfriend, the deal is made.

“Are you seriously for real right now? You want your family to think that I’m your girlfriend?”
“Yes.”
“You want me to lie to your family?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“Because I promised my mother that I would attend these events, and she is under the impression that I have a girlfriend.”
“Why would she have that impression?”
“Because I told her I have a girlfriend.”
“And you don’t have a girlfriend?”
“What do you think?”

I LOVE the dynamic between these two. From text messages to faked professionalism and fiery confrontations, every moment between them absolutely sizzles with chemistry and their non-stop fighting feels more like foreplay. They are both attracted to the other, though they’ve never so much at hinted at it, but now they are getting drunk together, flirting over Christmas karaoke, and travelling away from home, and the walls are coming down. All of that sexual tension is set to explode, and it’s hot, hilarious, and a fantastic reflection of all that they are to each other.

“Tell me you want me.” The way he says it, it’s an order, and for once, I am loving this bossy tone.
“I want you, Declan.” He loosens his grip so I can lean in and take his earlobe between my teeth, tugging and then sucking on it, and then I whisper into his ear: “I want you to do and say every filthy thing you’ve ever wanted to do and say to me.” The deep, guttural sound he makes is so satisfying. “And I’m going to do the same. To you.”
His hands are on my hips now. “Fucking hell, I’m going to split you in two.”
My hand slips to the glorious bulge in his pants. “Fuckin’ A. I’m going to ride you like a one-horse open sleigh.”

The sexy time is sizzling, but Declan and Maddie’s connection is a whole lot deeper than just their mad lust, and I loved watching the depth of their feelings come to the surface as everything starts to shift between them. Things get even more intense when Declan’s family enter the picture, and Maddie finds out the real reason he needs her. There are family dramas to deal with, but most of all, Declan and Maddie need to figure out what’s actually going on between them, because suddenly, their fake relationship doesn’t feel quite so fake anymore.

I don’t want to lose her as an assistant, and I don’t want to lose her as a girlfriend. I want all of it to be real, and I want all of it to last.

It’s a beautiful story, and I love the way it unfolded. It felt real, I laughed and swooned, and I felt everything right along with them. I love Declan and Maddie individually, and as a couple, and I could not get enough of their epic banter and their fun, playful relationship.

I loved meeting Declan’s family, and I’m so excited that we’re going to get a novel for his younger brother, Eddie. That already sounds like a fantastic setup, and I can’t wait for more!

This book left me with a huge smile on my face. I loved every moment of it!

5 stars!

An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

 

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About the Author

Before writing steamy romantic comedy novels, Kayley Loring got a BFA in creative writing from a Canadian university and had a fifteen-year career as a screenwriter in Los Angeles (under a different name). She mostly wrote PG-13 family comedies that studios would pay her lots of money for and then never make into movies. In 2017 she decided to move to the Pacific Northwest and write about all the fun stuff that she wasn’t allowed to write about in those PG-13 scripts. Now she’s breathing cleaner air and writing dirtier words. It’s an adjustment she’s happily getting used to.

 

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