TITLE: Snow Inn Love
AUTHOR: Elle Christensen
SERIES: This short story was a part of the Snowed Inn for Christmas Anthology that released November of 2021, so it’s no longer in print. Elle Christensen, Rochelle Paige and Fiona Davenport all had stories in that anthology that they expanded upon and released as their own individual stories.
SERIES ORDER: Can be read in any order. All the stories happen around the same time so there’s no chronological order they have to be read in.
RELEASED: Anthology: 11/19/2021; On It’s Own: 11/22/2022
RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
BLURB:
For the love of snow-people everywhere!
Santa has his work cut out for him when it comes to Raven Ashley, the cheerful owner of The Snowed Inn and Lodge, and the grumpy businessman, Caleb Adler. Falling in love while snowed in to her cabin might not be the Christmas miracle it seems once Caleb's secrets come out.
Snow Inn Love includes two additional epilogues from when it was published in the Snowed Inn anthology.
“Caleb was salted caramel hot chocolate, and now I was stuck drinking bitter, black coffee.”
MY REVIEW:
Out of the three books I’ve read in this “series” so far, I think this one is my favorite. I felt it had more story, and the humor kept me invested.
Raven is a fiercely independent woman who has a penchant for using Christmas words instead of curse words, and equates people and feelings to all flavors of hot chocolate (see quote referenced above.) She’s also the owner of Snowed Inn & Lodge, the prime setting for this series. Oh, and did I mention she’s a virgin? If you’ve read my other reviews for and/or have read any of the books in this "series", you’re probably sensing a pattern right about now.
She meets Caleb, a guest at the inn, and like all other books within this “series”, sparks fly! Caleb is hiding a secret but the more he gets to know Raven and fall in love with her, the more guilt he feels. Will Raven forgive him if she learns his secret?
Caleb, in true Elle and Fiona fashion, is a man not looking for love, but he ends up being smacked upside the head with it, and it turns him into a possessive Neanderthal! For a short story, I liked how he grew as a character through the story and how he enjoyed his time with Raven and her use of Christmas words for curses, and her hot chocolate analogies.
Check this book out if you like steamy holiday romance, forced proximity, possessive hero, virgin heroine, Christmas and hot chocolate. If it wasn’t so late (it’s 1:30 AM), I’d make some now.
SIDE NOTE: Once again, Elle used one of her expanded epilogues to tease Jake’s story! Whereas in my previous reviews for the books in this series, I was hoping that Jake would get his story. In this story’s epilogue, Elle all but confirms that Jake is getting a story, and we finally get to know the heroine’s name (Hannah) and that it’s a Las Vegas/Oops We Woke Up Married trope. I’m not sure when she plans on releasing the book, if it released already, or if she’s even writing it, but I’m hoping that it comes out soon, because the Las Vegas/Oops We Woke Up Married trope is one of my favorites to read!
Bonus Quote below:
“Because you sound like someone wrapped tinsel around your Christmas balls and made you a soprano.”
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