Delightfully Steamy Holiday Romance

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The Trouble with Christmas by Amy Andrews has:

☃️Fake Dating
🌻Sunflower artist with bite
🦡Grumpy cowboy recluse
🎅Matching ugly Christmas sweaters
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All Suzanne St. Michelle wants is to find her muse and to enjoy an over top Christmas full of lights, holiday sweaters, and silly ornaments, a Christmas her artsy NYC parents usually avoid like the plague. Hiding out in a cabin on a Montana ranch seems like the best place to do both, but her cabin comes with a side of grouchy, Grinch-y rancher.

Joshua Grady is just fine avoiding most people in his small community, besides his nosy Aunt and Uncle. His Aunt and Uncle who just saddled him with an unwanted tenant during the most difficult time of the year, Christmas and the anniversary of the car accident that took the lives of both his parents and his first love. And not only is Suzanne too chatty, too nosy, and too friendly, she's also too gorgeous for her own good and making Grady feel things. Things he hasn't felt in many years.

Suzanne is also having trouble as her muse seems to only want to paint Grady. And when Suzanne's parents' decide to come to her for Christmas, she accidentally makes up a relationship with the very man who she can't get out of her head to try to stave them off.

Grady is horrified Suzanne has been painting him and that she's told her parents they're dating. Oh, and that he's Christmas's number one fan. Great.

Agreeing to her scheme only if Suzanne will give up her paintings, Grady finds himself falling under Suzanne's spell, ugly holiday sweaters and penis cookies and all.

Absolutely delightful, the kind of raunchy Christmas romance I want and need. Andrews writes delightfully fun stories and I just ate this one up. The lingering grief issues Grady faces are not overwrought and perfectly blend in with the humor and heart.

PLUS this is really steamy, and I loved how these two just had so much sexual tension, so much. They argue and their heat just melts off the page. Yum. My favorite kind.