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Blurb

What’s the actual last thing you’d ever want your celebrity crush to see you doing when you finally come face-to-excruciatingly-handsome-face with him? Singing and dancing around by yourself to “Dreams” by The Cranberries while drinking straight from a bottle of champagne? While you’re wearing some wedding gown you just found in a closet? Yeah. Me too.

And yet, here we are.
At a mountain cabin I was sent to by the awfully pretty actress/pretty awful human I work for to get things ready for her romantic New Year’s Eve getaway with him.
That’s not even the worst thing about the way I meet Holden Archer.
The actress has been paying me to have textual relations with him, pretending to be her—and she doesn’t even like him!

Is it terrible that a snowstorm prevents us from leaving and the actress from getting here?
Neither Holden nor I think so.
Because it turns out our connection goes back a lot further than those texts.
And just like in all my favorite romantic comedies, it’s what got us here that is the most amazing part of the story.

Will my lack of experience cause me to freeze up when we go from inbox to in person?
Or will a dreamy movie star melt my inhibitions and make all my secret New Year wishes come true?

 

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Review

4.5 stars!

Book #5 in the Very Holiday series, and it’s Piper’s turn for her HEA! This is a gorgeously fun story! A complex but very clever missed connection, celebrity romance that had me giggling and falling in love, and it’s such a great read.

We’ve watched Piper grow up in the earlier books of the series (though you can read this as a standalone) when she was a young girl in love with love, butts, and all things romance. As a 22 year old, not much has changed, except she hasn’t had the chance to really explore love for herself due to her high expectations and the overprotective men in her life. But she remains delightfully optimistic and dreams of a romcom-worthy romance of her very own.

Holden Archer is Piper’s celebrity crush. He’s an actor in a wildly successful fantasy movie series, is hot Hollywood property, and he’s an absolute sweetheart. When he’s pretty much forced into a relationship set-up with an actress, he ends up texting with Piper instead when she’s hired by the actress to flirt with him on her behalf, setting up a funny and banter-filled dynamic. And it tuns out that Piper and Holden have a previous connection as well, which adds an additional twist making the whole situation a hilariously complicated but comedic series of mistaken identities and missed opportunities.

It all comes to a head when Piper and Holden end up getting trapped in a remote cabin during a snowstorm. Truths come out, feelings are revealed, and Piper finally gets the epic romance movie moment she’s always dreamed of. It’s sweet, sexy, and swoonily romantic, and I loved watching these two find their way to each other in such an honest, open, and heartfelt way.

I am falling in love, hard and fast, with Piper Puckett.
I don’t know when it started—I just hope it never ends.

I love these characters so much. The chemistry is so good, and the banter is top-notch. The dynamics that Piper and Holden have with their friends and family are fabulously entertaining, and as I have come to appreciate from Kayley Loring, the character interactions are a real highlight. Shout out to Holden’s awesome younger sister, who is so much fun, and we get to see glimpses of the boys from the previous books in this series, which I loved.

This is such a fun read. Sweet and funny, with a love story worthy of our romantic young heroine. I loved this one.

4.5 stars.

 

A Very Holiday

 

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About Kayley Loring

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.

Rest assured that her funny sexy sweet romances have no cheating or cliffhangers, and always have HEAs!

 

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