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Secret Santa (Harlequin Blaze)

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Book Description: A NAUGHTY BUT NICE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION.

HE'D BETTER WATCH Out by Janelle Denison - Amanda Creighton has always been the epitome of good--until the day her inner vixen convinces her to tease the office bad boy with a gift he can't possibly resist....

THE NIGHTS BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Isabel Sharpe - When her Secret Santa leaves Cathy Ann Johnson barely-there lingerie, she can't help but think the gift comes with an invitation to model it. So she seduces Santa--the wrong Santa....

MISTLETOE MADNESS by Jennifer LaBrecque - Tatiana Allen believes in giving her job as a restaurant critic her all. Heck, she's even working over the holidays! So how does she end up with Cole in her stocking?

---This is definitely a nice Naughty Christmas Anthology! I enjoyed all three offensive-office-behavior stories. In the workplace, especially around the holidays, one should never tease a tiger, one should never assume, and one should enjoy their job. Three interesting, well-written short stories combining Christmas and the office creating a quick, fun must read!

This anthology contains 3 loosely related short stories: all the H/h work for Connoisseur, a food and travel magazine, and the stories take place during the week before Christmas and kick off with the Secret Santa played in the office. There's no need to read the stories in any particular order - or even read all of them, for that matter.

HE'D BETTER WATCH OUT by Janelle Denison (4 stars)
Nice H/h with good chemistry and interesting plot with a touch of humor. There wasn't a definite HEA but that was good considering the whole story lasted only a week. It would have been completely unbelievable to have the H/h making wedding plans in such short time. On a side note: I don't know how the hero managed to keep his job after being caught in flagrante delicto with a co-worker in the boardroom; maybe the heroine's father (his boss) was more liberal than the average employer.

THE NIGHTS BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Isabel Sharpe (2 stars)
The hero was bland, the heroine was a stammering idiot, the secondary characters (her two friends) were annoying, the plot was unbelievable and I didn't like the author's writing - she took forever to give the readers an insight into the hero's mind, which wasn't a smart move considering how short the story was.

MISTLETOE MADNESS by Jennifer Labrecque (5 stars)
Charming, sweet and funny H/h and well-developed plot that kept a smile on my face the whole time while I was reading this story. The HEA was completely believable considering how the H/h had known each other and had been skirting around a love/hate relationship (aka foreplay) for some years.

I don't know what I was thinking, reading a Christmas anthology in July, but it was fun. :) I'm giving this book an overal 4-star rating for the first and the last story only, as I've already erased the second one from my mind.