This is a sweet, uncomplicated romantic holiday novella. It centres on Hannah, a woman who is a few weeks out of a whirlwind Vegas marriage to a stranger, who left the moment she found out she was pregnant. She comes home to her family in the beautiful Southwest of Western Australia, determined to raise her child alone and forgo romantic flings for the foreseeable future. Matteo throws a spanner in the works when he turns up to her family shop to buy a houseful of furniture. The events in the shop ooked me out a bit - consent is not an afterthought, people! - but the rest of the story is rather sweet. It's nice to have two characters who are equally keen on sex, not one pushing for it against the other's wishes. I did find the jumping from one MC's head to the other a little disorienting at times, but that's a matter of taste and style, not a fault as such.

There's not much time in a novella to get from "I don't want to get involved right now" to the Happily Ever After, but the insta-love wasn't too insta- for me. And I was delighted to spend some book-time in the Southwest at Christmastime, a happy stamping ground for me.