✨ THE THIEF WHO SAVED CHRISTMAS by @angelacasellaauthor releasing November 14!
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🎄RomCom
🔥Holiday/Christmas Romance
🎄Small Town Romance
🔥Reverse Grumpy Sunshine
🎄Bad Boy
🔥Close Proximity
🎄He Falls First
🔥Set in a coxy inn
🎄ASD rep
He’d like to be the man in her life, but she already has one-hundred-and-seven collectible Santa
Clauses.
Ryan
I’m not a ho-ho-ho kind of guy. My brother and I were raised in foster care, and the closest thing we had to a father was a career criminal who’d sooner steal Christmas than save it. I followed in his footsteps, I’m ashamed to say, and did things for him that I regret. Like taking a priceless Christmas ornament from a Colonial Williamsburg inn.
I’m trying to be a better man, and the first step is returning that ornament. Except I’m too late. The owner passed away and left the inn to her granddaughter, Anabelle—a high-strung, Christmas-obsessed loner whose cat takes an immediate dislike to me. But Anabelle needs my help. Her inn’s in trouble, and her ex is planning a hostile takeover. Besides… I may have come to make amends, but I stay because I’m falling for the woman who loves Christmas. And I’m damn well going to save it for her.
Anabelle
When Ryan Langston booked a room in my inn and said he was staying indefinitely, I knew something was wrong. No one stays indefinitely. Most people seem to be in a hurry to leave. But the longer he stays, the less I worry about what brought him here… Because this chaotic, charming man is exactly what my life’s been missing.
A standalone Christmas romcom from the USA Today-bestselling author of Jingle Bell Hell and Matchmaking a Scrooge
Excerpt
“Do you trust me?”
“More than I probably should,” I admit. Because even though I know next to nothing about him, I do trust him. My grandmother trusted him, but that only provided the foundation for my trust.
“I don’t want it to be more than you should. I want to be worthy of it.”
There’s an intensity to his words, and I feel that warmth inside of me growing and reaching toward him. I maintain my grip on him, letting our clasped hands connect us.
“What else can you tell me?” I ask through parched lips. “I should warn you that I’d like to know everything.”
His mouth twitches with a near smile. “I’m from New York City, born and raised, I’m allergic to peanuts, I’ve never had a relationship longer than a month, and I’ve never believed in Santa Claus, but I thought the Grinch was real until I was six.”
My mouth drops open briefly before I can collect myself. “You told me your mother said your father was Santa Claus.”
He huffs. “Of course you remember that. Well…she lied about everything else. I knew she was lying about that too.”
“But how can you believe in the Grinch and not Santa Claus? What would he even steal if Santa hadn’t brought Christmas?”
His eyes seem to twinkle with the reflected lights from the Christmas tree when he says, “I didn’t have all the answers. Before I met you, I never much cared about Christmas, but I like the way it lights you up from the inside. Like you’re full of Christmas lights. I could listen to you talk about Christmas for hours and not get bored.”
I find myself leaning toward him, wanting to suck up his words as if I’m dry stone. The only person who’s ever liked to listen to me monologue about Christmas is Jo. And no one has ever, ever told me I’m lit up from the inside. I’ve always just been Anabelle, the quiet girl. Or sometimes Anabelle, the girl who doesn’t know how to shut up when she should. “Tell me more, Ryan. I want more.”
Meet Angela Casella:
Angela Casella lives in Asheville, North Carolina in an almost-one-hundred-year-old house with her daughter, two dogs, and an ever-changing number of fish. She worked as a developmental editor for years, both as a freelancer and at Random House in NYC before she started writing (inspired by her friend and frequent co-author Denise Grover Swank!).
Now, it’s become an addiction, and she’d rather not be cured, thank you very much. She comes from a loud Italian American family, so she basically has a PhD in bickering…er…banter.
Connect with Angela Casella:
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