The second of our gay Christmas romance novels, this one also takes place in upstate New York with a grumpy older guy and a younger energetic guy who has resigned himself to not finding love by staying in his home town. But this time the older guy is a military cop about to retire, and guys, it is really hard to read romance novels about cops these days!!! This author writes a lot of military romances, which I generally have an easier time with than cops, even military cops, but boy.
In this story the conflict is that Nick, the cop, is going to move away after he retires, so his romance with Teddy, the social worker who plays Santa's elf for charity every year in the small town he grew up in, has a built-in expiration date. Which is fine, except we all know that Nick doesn't actually want to move away, etc. etc., and even for a Christmas romance novel the conflict feels pretty strained. Still, I did actually like both Teddy and Nick, the cop issue notwithstanding, even if I've generally enjoyed other books by this author more.
Grade: C
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