Party Favors by Erin McLellan
Series: So Over the Holidays #4
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: December 1st, 2020
Subgenre: Queer Contemporary Romance, Holiday Romance, Holiday Romance
Synopsis:
Three…
Amanda Ellis knows three things: she’s tired of doing what’s expected of her, she hates her job at her family’s business, and the last thing she wants to do is attend her parents’ boring New Year’s Eve ball with a date her mother picked. A few days of fun with her online best friend is exactly what she needs to ring in the New Year on her own terms.
Two…
Wren Rebello is impulsive and always ready for fun. A last-minute girls’ getaway sounds like the perfect way to spend New Year’s. But even Wren isn’t prepared for the spark of attraction she feels when she meets Amanda in person for the first time. Good thing Wren loves popping Amanda’s cork.
One…
After days spent sharing end-of-year resolutions and the one bed in their cottage, the clock strikes midnight and the ball drops on their time together. As Amanda and Wren go their separate ways, they leave new resolutions unfulfilled. Is there enough New Year’s magic left to turn their online friendship into real-life love?
Excerpt:
You should never meet your heroes. Amanda believed that with her whole heart. Once, when she was twelve, she’d met a boy bander whose poster she had on her wall. It was one of those early formative moments. He’d treated her, and the other screaming preteens, like they were frivolous and silly and nothing special.
Well, today Amanda had flown six hours to meet her online best friend in person for the first time, and she was worried this plan would go the way of that adage about heroes. Except Amanda wasn’t concerned that Wren Rebello would be horrible or any different than she was online, which was funny, fierce, and kind. No, Amanda was scared shitless that she—Amanda Ellis, the disco ball heiress—would be pegged as nothing special. Again.
Teaser #1:
Wren had emailed her a week ago: Do you know what I need? To finally have that girls’ getaway with my online bestie. That’s you, by the way, in case that wasn’t clear. I’ve got a two-bedroom cottage at Father Time Farm and Resort booked from Dec. 29 to Jan. 1 and a New Year’s Eve party ticket with your name on it. A few of my other friends will be there, but they’re all disgustingly coupled up. Please please please? I’m alone for New Year’s. You’re alone for New Year’s. Let’s be alone together.
The problem was that Amanda wasn’t supposed to be alone for New Year’s Eve. She was supposed to escort the honorable Mr. Thatcher Aldridge to her parents’ annual Midnight Charity Ball. Her mother had set it up, of course. The Aldridges were old tech money, whatever that meant, and Thatcher was the marrying age. Didn’t matter that Thatcher was a dick-pic-sending sleazeball who thought Amanda was nothing more than a mannequin for his arm.
Amanda couldn’t handle the bullshit for another night. She needed a break. She needed a real New Year’s Eve. A New Year’s Eve like the ones in movies with the countdown and the champagne and the glitter and the friends.
Her mother sending her a picture of the taupe evening gown she’d selected for Amanda had been the final freaking straw.
So, she’d lost her entire damn mind, sent a text to her parents, a fuck you to Thatcher Aldridge, and jumped on a plane.
She was here now, about to meet her online best friend. A woman she messaged with every day but whose voice she’d never heard. A woman who made her every day brighter and better but didn’t truly know Amanda at all. It was so easy to hide the scared or boring parts when you could curate your every word, every thought.
Purchase Link:
https://www.amazon.com/Party-Favors-Over-Holidays-Book-ebook/dp/B08MCXKP6H
About the author:
Erin McLellan is the author of the Farm College, So Over the Holidays, and Storm Chasers series. She enjoys writing happily ever afters that are earthy, emotional, quirky, humorous, and very sexy. Originally from Oklahoma, she currently lives in Alaska and spends her time dreaming up queer contemporary romances. She is a lover of chocolate, college sports, antiquing, gardening, Dr Pepper, and binge-worthy TV shows.
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