Holidating by Sarina Bowen
Boyfriend: a complete holiday novel with a hilarious premise.
Rent a boyfriend for the holiday. For $25, I will be your Thanksgiving date. I will show up in a nice shirt, talk hockey with your dad and bring your mother flowers…
Everyone knows it’s a bad idea to introduce your hockey crush to your messed-up family. But Abbi really needs a date for Thanksgiving, even if she can’t say why. But when she tears Weston’s number off of a flyer, she accidentally entangles Moo U’s star defenseman in a ruse that neither of them can easily unwind.
Crossroads: a novella of missed connections, broken dreams and two hearts that just won’t quit. Damien Rossi drives a taxi but dreams of more. Specifically, he dreams about Nicolette Overland, his favorite client, a lonely beauty who lives in an actual mansion on a hill.
Nicolette can’t stop thinking about the hunky guy with the soulful brown eyes, either. She looks forward to every Christmas holiday when she knows he’ll be waiting for her at the airport. But when she screws up her courage to finally tell him how she feels, it might be too late…
Blonde Date: a novella of hot nerds, basketball and revenge. Katie is done with bad boys after some very poor treatment by a fraternity guy. Now, facing a holiday Greek event, she needs a date. A nice guy this time. Good thing a certain nerdy basketball player wants to audition for the role…
Note: Boyfriend (68k words) is separately available, Crossroads (35k words) is brand new, and Blonde Date (30k words) has been previously published.
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Boyfriend
1. Stick with the Usual Favorites
2. People Get Restless
3. Are We Really Doing This?
4. Mr. Smooth Has Fled the Building
5. Tiny Eggrolls, Pigs in Blankets
6. Can You Drive a Stick?
7. A Little Overheated
8. World War Griggs
9. Smells Like Woodsy Goodness
10. A Whole Lot Messier
11. Merry Christmas, Abbi
12. Did She Just Moan My Name?
13. Four Times More Awkward
14. Not Getting Kicked Out of The Biscuit
15. Something Came Up
16. The Shape of You
17. I Feel Like a Superhero
18. Pinch Me
19. Make It a Good One
20. Maybe I Don’t Need to Know
21. Is That a Euphemism?
22. Where the Magic Happens
23. This Might Take a While
24. A Lot of Broken Hearts
25. Property of Abbi and Weston
26. Not Thinking Big Enough
27. A Lovers’ Quarrel Without Lovers
28. Some Boneheaded Thing
29. Because I Wanted to See You
30. You and I are Already Buds
31. All That Gratuitous Sex
32. Shoot!
33. Epilogue: Totally Worth it
Blonde Date
Part I
Part II
Epilogue
Crossroads
1. On the radio: “She Will Be Loved” by Maroon 5
2. Voicemail from Nicolette (19) to Damien (20)
3. On the Store’s Sound System: “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”
4. On the radio: “Irreplaceable” by Beyoncé
5. On the Sound System: “Apologize” by Timbaland, featuring OneRepublic
6. On the Radio: There is no radio
7. On the Airport Sound System: “Jingle Bells”—the Michael Bublé Version
8. On the Bookstore Sound System: “Underneath the Tree” by Kelly Clarkson
9. On the Sound System: “Cheap Thrills” by Sia
10. Soundtrack: lonely silence
11. Soundtrack: Auld Lang Syne, and Rossi family squabbling
12. On the Radio: “Blue Christmas” by Elvis Presley
13. On the Radio: Simple Gifts
14. Soundtrack: the nervous thump of his own heart
15. Soundtrack: Piano Music and Nerves
16. Soundtrack: Heavy Breathing
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