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On the 2st Day of #Bookmas… We bring you a Festive giveaway from Avon Books
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, is one of America’s preeminent romance houses, and has been publishing award-winning romance and women’s fiction since 1941. Originally founded as Eos Books in 1999 and relaunched in 2011 as a global brand, Harper Voyager publishes some of the most notable names in science fiction, epic fantasy, and urban fantasy. https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/avonbooks
Here’s a look at Avon’s Holiday Romances:
WRECK MY PLANS
A sweet and spicy holiday romance between a spirited artist who returns to her small town for Christmas and her older brother’s best friend, a serious architect who pushes all her buttons—but whom she can’t seem to stay away from.
Lena’s plans are simple. Surprise her family for Christmas, don’t tell them she lost her job, and most importantly, spend the week relaxing with the people she cares about.
But when she arrives in Juniper, she discovers she’s not the only unexpected guest this year. Her older brother’s best friend, Gavin, is back after disappearing three years ago without a word. He has the kind of charm Lena has always been drawn to. But she knows he’s also the kind of temptation she needs to stay far away from.
Gavin has built his architecture career out of planning strategies for dealing with the unexpected—but he didn’t have a strategy for the possibility of seeing Lena again. Though he’s been dreaming of her since the day he left, he can’t risk giving in to his feelings when they could upend the only family and home he has ever known.
New plan: try to be friends again. Just friends.
But as the pieces fall into place about why Gavin left, staying friends is the last thing on his mind…and on Lena’s. All the plans they’ve made might end up completely wrecked. And for once, maybe they want it that way.
JINGLE BELL MINGLE
What happens when there’s no room at the inn and you and your potentially demonic cat become roommates with your grumpy one-night stand?
Part-time adult film actress/one-time adult film director/makeup artist Sunny Palmer has accidentally sold her very first screenplay to the Hope Channel. That was six months ago. Fast forward to a looming deadline, an uninspired Sunny has returned to the source of her inspiration in Christmas Notch, Vermont, to immerse herself in the local Christmas miracle on which her fever dream of a movie pitch was based.
Isaac Kelly, former boy band heartthrob and the saddest boy in the music biz, is the latest owner of the town’s historic mansion. After his years of heartbreak following his young wife’s death, Isaac’s record label is done waiting for new music. What better place to attempt his first holiday album than a snow-covered mansion where he can become a hermit in peace?
But after their best friends’ wedding leads to them waking up together in a freezing motel room with questionable wiring and a broken shower, Isaac takes a chance and asks Sunny to stay with him at his home. Surely the place is big enough that he’ll hardly see her or her unhinged cat. But when the two discover they’re both creatively blocked, they make a handshake deal: Isaac will help Sunny hunt down the truth behind the local lore, and Sunny will find Isaac a new muse.
And with these two opposites under one roof, there’s no way this jingle bell mingle could go off script…right?
I’LL BE GONE FOR CHRISTMAS
Bee Tyler needs a break. In the bustling San Francisco tech community, no one ever seems to stand still—especially her perfect sister and business partner, Beth. So when her best friend suggests a getaway on the wildly popular house-swap app, Vacate, Bee decides a countryside retreat might be exactly what she needs.
Clover Mills has had a year. Between losing her mother and making the complicated decision to leave her fiancé, sticking around the idyllic Christmas obsessed town of Salem, Ohio, just doesn’t feel right. So when she hears about Vacate, she jumps at the chance to spend the holidays in the unfamiliar city of San Francisco.
Soon enough, Bee is living in Clover’s cozy Salem cottage, and Clover is living in Bee’s sleek San Francisco apartment. As Clover can’t seem to stop running into Bee’s frustratingly gorgeous sister, Beth, and Bee finds herself spending more and more time with Clover’s ultra charming ex-fiancé, Knox, the two women realize that this Christmas they may find just what they were looking for and more…
MOST WONDERFUL CRIME OF THE YEAR
The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room two days before Christmas.
Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt:
She’s the new Queen of the Cozy Mystery.
He’s Mr. Big-time Thriller Guy.
She hates his guts.
He thinks her name is Marcie (no matter how many times she’s told him otherwise.)
But when they both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting their host to be the most powerful author in the world: Eleanor Ashley, the Duchess of Death herself.
That night, the weather turns, and the next morning Eleanor is gone.
She vanished from a locked room, and Maggie has to wonder: Is Eleanor in danger? Or is it all some kind of test? Is Ethan the competition? Or is he the only person in that snowbound mansion she can trust?
As the snow gets deeper and the stakes get higher, every clue will bring Maggie and Ethan closer to the truth—and each other. Because, this Christmas, these two rivals are going to have to become allies (and maybe more) if they have any hope of saving Eleanor.
Assuming they don’t kill each other first.
The laugh out loud holiday “romystery” that you’ve been waiting for!
WINDOW SHOPPING
A sizzling, feel-good, opposites-attract holiday romance from Tessa Bailey, #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer and Wreck the Halls!
Two weeks before Christmas and all through Manhattan, shop windows are decorated in red and green satin. Stella is standing alone outside a famous department store, when a charming man asks her opinion on the décor.
It’s a tragedy in tinsel, she says, unable to lie. Then he asks for a better idea, with a twinkle in his eye. She didn’t know he owned the place, when he put her on the spot, and now she’s working for that man, trying to ignore that he’s hot.
But as a down-on-her-luck girl with a difficult past, Stella knows how to make a good opportunity last. So she gives it her all, working without stopping. Trying to resist temptation, because she’s just window shopping.
Giveaway: A stack of Holiday Romances from Avon Books!
1 Winner will receive a print copy of each of the titles noted below:
- Wreck My Plans
- Jingle Bell Mingle
- I’ll Be Gone for Christmas
- Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
- Window Shopping
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Jennifer
They all caught my attention. I’ve been hearing really good things about a few of them. They all look really good.
erahime
All are very nice holiday books, but the first book I gravitate to is the Tessa Bailey book, which I’d read before and would love to read again.
Amy Donahue
They all sound like fun reads!
holdenj
I love Ally Carter and look forward to holiday romance.
janinecatmom
All of the books sound good. I’ll be gone for Christmas would be the one I would read first.
Susan S.
They all look like great reads.
Diana Hardt
They all caught my attention. They all sound really interesting.
Pam Conway
They all sound good!!
Texas Book Lover
They all sound good but if I had to pick one The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year would be my first choice!
Kim
I’ll Be Home for Christmas. I love the cover. I also like the idea of swapping locations.
debby236
I liked The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year. It sounds wonderfully quirky.
Lori
A Jingle Bell Mingle caught my eye.
Pennie
They all sound great but I really want to read The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year.
Audrey Stewart
Jillian Meadows is a new author to me, so I am most excited to read her book, ‘Wreck My Plans’.
Kathleen O
They all sound like good reads.
Debra Shutters
They all sound good and thank for the chance 🙂
Linda Moffitt
I Love the title I’ll Be Gone For Christmas
SusieQ
Love Tessa Bailey, but they all look great!
Glenda M
Wreck My Plans caught my notice because it’s the only one i haven’t heard about until now. They all sound great!
Rita Wray
They all sound good. I especially like Jingle Bell Mingle, sounds like a fun read.
Susan C
All sound like great reads but Iʻm intrigued by The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year!
Barbara Bates
I like Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey. Her books are always good!
Sonia
They all caught my attention but I definitely want to read Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey.
Nancy Jones
They all look great, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year and Window Shopping.
lori h
Wreak My Plans because I enjoy that particular trope.
Charlotte Litton
Tessa Bailey caught my attention.
Penney Wilfort
Great set of books they are now on my to get list soon! Thank you for doing this contests
Trudy
They all sound like fun reads.