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Home for Christmas: A Texas Story

Texas Series, Book 9

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Can Connor show River a real family Christmas?

When Connor finds River on the roof of the campus admin building, he doesn’t know what to do. His friend is drunk and shouting into a snowstorm, a bottle of vodka in his hand. The easy part is getting River down; the hard part is insisting River comes home with Connor for Christmas.

River doesn’t have a family or any place outside of college that he calls home. Not that it matters to him; he’s happy being alone for Christmas in his budget motel, watching reruns of Elf. Only, Connor keeps telling wildly improbable stories of the perfect family celebrations at his parents’ ranch in Texas, and it’s wearing River down. He didn’t ask to be kidnapped. He didn’t want to fall in love with the entire Campbell-Hayes family. But he does.

From one Christmas to the next. This is Connor’s year to rescue River, and himself, for them both to mess things up, make things right, fall in lust, and finally, for Connor to show the man he loves what being part of a family can mean.

©2018 R.J. Scott (P)2019 R.J. Scott Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Christmas Winter
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Life proves it's not always perfect great stormes cause serious problems and Jack and the gang dash to help. Life takes a turn for the better for a man named River and love prevails on the ranch
. Another great episode of life on the D ranch.

proves life is not always perfect

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A much loved series comes back to show us how life is treating the residents of The D. It’s a complete story in itself, showing Connor all grown up. He gets his HEA after a shakey start. River takes a lot of convincing, but truly deserves the life Connor and his family offer.
Sean Crisden as always is fabulous as our narrator, listening to him become Jack, Riley and all the other characters, feels like coming home.

Fabulous extra to this series.

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Home for Christmas is a great holiday novella. It’s full of love and family with characters you couldn’t help but be drawn to. It’s a well-done hurt/comfort story with just the right balance of angst and sweetness. Recommended if you are in the mood for a Christmas story about opening your heart to love, hope and future possibilities.

I am a bit torn with the narration. Sean Crisden did a stellar job portraying the different characters and all the emotions really came through, especially River’s and Connor’s. However, I found his reading a little too fast. There were some moments where I thought a slightly longer pause would have been needed. I almost missed some parts where the characters did something because the sentences ran together. Slowing down the audiobook to 0.5X made it sound weird. I’m not sure if the reading speed is how Crisden typically narrates. I have listened to two of his audiobooks by Megan Derr and Riley Hart and I enjoyed how he read them.

a great holiday novella

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