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Blurb
Christmas. New Year’s Eve. Valentine’s Day. Summer Vacation. Halloween. Pick your holiday and strap yourself in for some epic love stories from your favorite novels by New York Times Bestselling author Karina Halle.
This collection of five sexy, funny, thrilling, & emotional novellas bring together some of the most beloved characters from such books and series as The Forbidden Man, The Nordic Royals, Experiment in Terror, Dirty Angels, and The McGregors into one amazing anthology.
*The Off-Season: Retired captain of Real Madrid Luciano Ribeiro and his fiancée Ruby Turner have recently moved to the remote Portuguese island of Madeira, expecting peace and quiet. With former teammate Alejo Albarado and his wife Thalia showing up alongside their old coach Mateo Casalles and his wife Vera, the island gets turned upside down. Luckily for the men of Real Madrid, it’s nothing they can’t handle. Featuring characters from Love in English, The Forbidden Man, & The One That Got Away.
*Christmas with the Cartels: Revered drug lord Javier Bernal thought he’d get to have a nice, quiet Christmas with his wife Luisa and young son Vicente. That is until he’s having a very Scrooge-like visitation from the ghost of Christmas past, making him face all the horrible things he’s done…and the people he’s lost. Luckily, Javier is one to roll with the punches, even when a rival cartel threatens to spoil their holiday. Featuring characters from the Dirty Angels Series.
*Ghosted: Every day is Halloween for married ghost-hunters Dex and Perry Foray. But this year, that thin veil between the living and the dead is more vulnerable than normal, and when they’re given the opportunity of a lifetime to contact the dead wife of a desperate man, they end up creating something they can’t undo. Featuring characters from the Experiment in Terror Series, Veiled and The Devil’s Duology.
*A Nordic New Year: King Aksel of Denmark and his wife Queen Aurora are helping Prince Magnus throw an intimate New Year’s Eve party in the rugged mountains of Norway, alongside Prince Viktor, Prince Orlando, and their loved ones. But they get more than they bargained for when they’re snowed in with no end in sight. Featuring characters from The Nordic Royals Series.
*Arrow Through the Heart: Being born on Valentine’s Day has always been an annoyance to Lachlan McGregor, never mind the fact that it was the day his mother gave him away to an orphanage. But this year, his brother Brigs, and his cousins Linden, Bram, Keir and Mal have decided on the biggest birthday party, with everyone flying out to be with him in Scotland. But when his estranged mother comes back in his life, it pushes Lachlan to the brink, with only his love Kayla Moore to save him. Featuring characters from The McGregors (The Pact, The Offer, The Play, The Lie, and The Debt).
Review
4 nostalgic stars!
This is a fantastic collection of novellas and short stories from Karina Halle that tie into some of her most-loved series.
These stories are definitely not standalones, and will contain spoilers for their series, so read at your own risk! But if, like me, you’re a mad Halle fan, then you will love revisiting these worlds and the characters that we love so much!
HOLIDAY NOVELLAS
A Christmas Cartel
Featuring characters from the Dirty Angels series
POV – Javier from The Artist’s Trilogy and the Dirty Angels series
This is a fun little take on A Christmas Carol as drug lord and Cartel king, Javier Bernal travels away with his family for Christmas, and gets visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, who show him a very unpleasant vision of himself. It’s brutal, but gives him the push he needs to step up and be a better husband and father to his wife and their young son.
Dark and gritty, but still romantic and sweet, this is a really cute read.
The Off-Season
Featuring characters from Love, in English, The Forbidden Man, & The One That Got Away
POV – Matteo and Vera from Love, in English
This is a fun little bonus, where we get to see the Real Madrid boys and their girls from Karina’s sports romances come together for Luciano and Ruby’s (from The One that Got Away) wedding. It’s a quick read, but a wonderful chance to catch up with Matteo and Vera, seeing them so very hot for each other and still so much in love.
“Love can bring you to your knees. When your heart decides on what it wants, nothing can stop it. Nothing.”
Arrow Through the Heart
Featuring characters from The McGregors series.
POV – Lachlan and Kayla from The Play
This is a sweet but emotional story, where we get to revisit the tragedy of Lachlan’s past and see his wife, Kayla, try to give him a wonderful birthday by inviting his entire family to Scotland for a surprise visit. I loved seeing this group all together (kids in tow), and getting a glimpse into where they are all at. But when Lachlan’s estranged mother shows up, it brings all sorts of demons to the surface for him, allowing Kayla to shine as she goes all out to show her man just how much he is loved.
The way her heart connects to mine is nothing short of a miracle, and the way she stands behind me, beside me, in front of me, all to support me every way she can is remarkable.
I can’t imagine my life without her.
Sweet, sexy, dramatic and emotional, this was a gorgeous little revisit to my favourite couple from the McGregor series. I loved seeing them still together, strong and so very much in love.
Ghosted
Featuring characters from the Experiment in Terror series, Veiled and The Devil’s Duology
POV – Dex from Experiment in Terror
Ohhh, I loved this! Being back in the EIT world is what I was most excited about from this anthology, and this story is written entirely from Dex’s POV, which means the whole thing is just gold!
I cannot express my love for this man. Hilariously sarcastic and crude, confident yet emotionally vulnerable, and madly in love with his now-wife, Perry, being back in his unique perspective was just amazing!
This appears to be the beginning of the story that will be told in Came Back Haunted, and I am already hooked! Scary and exciting, and already all kinds of sexy, I can’t wait for more!
A Nordic New Year
Featuring characters from the Nordic Royals series
POV – Aurora and Aksel from A Nordic King, Magnus from The Wild Heir, Stella from The Royal Rogue, Maggie from The Swedish Prince
This is a fun little story where we get to see Prince Magnus of Norway bring all of the Nordic royals together for a child-free couple of nights to celebrate the new year and cut loose where nobody can see them. Alcohol and complete freedom brings about lots of unexpected fun (King Aksel twerking) and sexy times.
Great to catch up with these couples and get a brief look into their lives.
ADDITIONAL SHORT STORIES
Previously released only in anthologies, or for a limited time only.
Dark Paradise
Featuring characters from the Dirty Angels series
POV – new character, Lani
A woman who feels she has nothing to live for is saved by Esteban Mendoza while in Hawaii. He proceeds to show her that life still has meaning, and just how much living she still has to do.
“Sometimes people come into our lives for just a second, just long enough to let us know that hope exists.”
Sweet, sexy and exciting.
Defying the Dust
Featuring characters from The Artist’s Trilogy
POV – Camden from The Artist’s Trilogy
A short story which shows us the first meeting of Camden and Ellie. 13-year-old Camden is fighting to be true to himself and show his individuality in his backwards town, and he’s used to being completely alone… until Ellie moves to town.
“I may be a weirdo, Ellie Watt, but from now on I’m your weirdo. You and I, we need to stick together. No one else understands us.”
That 70’s Interview
Featuring characters from The Devil’s Duology
Interview transcripts – A very surly Sage being interviewed by a radio station, and Dawn interviewing tour manager, Jacob.
Target
Featuring characters from Experiment in Terror
POV – Dex from Experiment in Terror
Set in the middle of the EIT series, when Perry has moved in with a very smitten Dex, the two of them go on an unfortunate shopping trip to the “fluorescent showroom of death”, Target.
Hilarious!
The Baby
Featuring characters from The Pact
POV – Linden from The Pact
This one is so cute! The moments leading up to (and including) the birth of Linden and Stephanie’s first baby.
I know that everything in my life was leading up to this moment. This right here, all of this, is what life is all about, what it’s always been about. And I never knew it until now.
Told with feels, humour, and a little bit of sexy time, this story left me with a huge grin on my face.
A Wedding Set in the Stars
Featuring characters from Love, in English and Where Sea Meets Sky
POV – Vera from Love, in English
The wedding of Vera and Matteo, and OMG, what a swoonfest!
“Mrs. Casalles,” he whispers to me, lips at my ear. “I will love you my Estrella, until the sun burns out and we are the only two left in the sky. And I will love you beyond that. Always and for eternity.”
Fuck.
I am the luckiest woman in the universe.
This one left me feeling all gooey and romantic.
This collection is a must-read for any Halle fan!
4 stars!
An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
Meet Karina
Karina Halle is a former travel writer, music journalist and screenwriter, and The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of over 55 bestselling novels, ranging from horror and suspense to contemporary romance. She lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband, and her adopted pitbull Bruce, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails and devours a lot of books.
Halle is represented by the Root Literary Agency and is both self-published and published by Simon & Schuster, Hachette and Montlake. Her work has been translated and published in 20 languages.
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