A Lot Like Christmas

by Jennifer Snow

Overview

This Christmas season, love comes where you least expect it.

For Jessica Connolly, there is no better place than her coastal hometown of Blue Moon Bay. She has a wonderful family, supportive best friends, and a successful bakery on Main Street. Unfortunately, every time she designs one of her ex-boyfriends' wedding cakes, she's reminded just how unlucky she is with love...and that she's a good luck charm for men to find their happily ever after. With someone else. The minute they break up. So she's done with love.

Dr. Mitch Jameson is more comfortable traveling the world with Doctors Without Borders than staying in one place. He just needs to survive the holidays in his small hometown before he can leave again. The beautiful, intriguing bakery owner with an aversion to dating might be just who he needs to occupy his restless heart.

From sipping hot chocolates at the local festival of lights to early morning dessert deliveries, Jessica and Mitch rediscover the spirit of the holidays. But when the 25 days of Christmas are over, will their romance be over, too?

Each book in the Blue Moon Bay series is STANDALONE:
* A Lot Like Love
* A Lot Like Christmas
* A Lot Like Forever

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781649370907
Publisher:	Entangled Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	09/28/2021
Series:	Blue Moon Bay Series , #2
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	769,997
Product dimensions:	4.70(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jennifer Snow is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of more than thirty-five romance and thriller novels. Publishing with Entangled, Grand Central, Harlequin, Berkley, and Thomas & Mercer, she has more than ten years of experience crafting stories that connect with readers worldwide. Her books have been translated into five different languages and have been optioned for film and television. Jennifer is the writer of the Mistletoe series of screenplays and is known for her romantic comedies and female-driven dramas for TV and film. She lives in Torrevieja, Spain, with her husband and son.

jennifersnowauthor.com

Editorial Reviews

08/30/2021

Things get stickier than fruit cake when a transient holiday fling sparks lasting love in Snow’s delightful second Blue Moon Bay novel (after A Lot Like Love). Vivacious 29-year-old bakery owner Jessica Connolly has had every detail of her wedding planned out since childhood—she’s just missing the groom. All of her recent exes have gone on to marry the next woman they date, making her doubt she’ll ever get her own chance to be a bride. Enter 39-year-old Mitch Jameson, who returns home to Blue Moon Bay, Calif., for the month of December after years away with Doctors Without Borders. When he notices Jessica, their 10-year age difference does nothing to deter him from asking her out. He’s honest about what he can offer her, given his plans to leave again on Christmas Day, but their temporary tryst gets complicated when their emotions get involved. Can they figure out how to join their lives without creating resentment? Though some of Jessica’s antics along the way come off as immature, Snow makes up for it by filling her small town with well-shaded characters, strong neighborly ties, and heaps of holiday spirit. This cute, cozy outing is sure to please. Agent: Jill Marsal, Marsal Lyon Agency. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

2021-09-17
In Snow’s latest romance, a 29-year-old woman finally meets the perfect guy, but his wanderlust may be an insurmountable obstacle.

Jessica Connolly loves living in Blue Moon Bay, California. She’s surrounded by friends and family, and she operates a successful bakery in the center of town. She’s constantly baking cakes for other people’s weddings, including those of multiple ex-boyfriends, but she worries she’ll never have reason to create a cake for herself. Then one day, Dr. Mitch Jameson walks into her bakery, recently returned from a Doctors Without Borders trip to Cambodia. With his movie-star good looks and engaging personality, it seems like he’d be a great catch for anyone, but Jess knows better; she’s been friends with Mitch’s younger sister, Lia, for years, and she’s well aware that Mitch never sticks around in Blue Moon Bay more than a few weeks at a time. Even so, as he picks up his family’s Christmas order, sparks begin to fly. Jess isn’t surprised when he mentions that he’ll be leaving town on Christmas for his next assignment. Even so, their chemistry is undeniable, and when he asks her to dinner, she accepts. As they grow closer, Jess worries she’s setting herself up for heartbreak. Meanwhile, Mitch wonders if it’s time for a change to his nomadic lifestyle. Told alternately from both perspectives, the story effectively follows both Jess and Mitch as they dive deeper into a relationship, each one reevaluating their own beliefs and goals. Although both characters are eminently likable, they also struggle with anxieties that are more complex than the novel’s accessible, upbeat prose would initially suggest. The story also delivers steamy sex scenes and a well-rounded cast of charming supporting characters. However, it also leaves multiple intriguing plot threads dangling without resolution. Still, the narrative’s insightful exploration of self-sacrifice, self-doubt, and personal evolution is sufficiently compelling to keep readers satisfied.

A warmhearted holiday love story of baked goods and new beginnings.

Kirkus Reviews