Piney Peaks and the Christmas House are the stars of this book, and they sound like the perfect spots to put on my bucket list! There's a bakery, Christmas decor, snow, and everything else to make anyone's Christmas loving heart happy. We see Ves and Elisha go through years of history in the Christmas house and fall in love along the way. Thank you Netgalley and GP Putnams Sons for the free ecopy in exchange for an unbiased review.

Such a fun Christmas read! I loved the storyline and the cute small town. Definitely recommend this one for a fun Christmas RomCom read!

Super cute winter themed story. These are such a comfort read for me and I adored the characters. I can’t wait to snag a copy

special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC of this book!

MAN I JUST WANT IT TO BE CHRISTMAS ALL THE TIME!! and this book just further proves that!!! i want to crawl inside the pages that describe this town's setting so bad and live there forever, truly. loved this little holiday romance and how much i related to both MC's. even more bonus points for all of the food descriptions that had me wanting to start holiday baking in the middle of may...so excited to read other books by this author!

I received a free copy of, Wrapped with a Beau, by Lillie Vale, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Elisha is not the most honest person, saying she has permission to film in the perfect house for her sequel to Sleighbells, is not true at all. Ves is in town to sell to sell his aunts house, not let a film crew film in it. Sparks fly between Elisha and Ves, will she be able to film in the perfect location, and fall in love at the same time? A nice read for the cold holiday months.

The story line was cute! It felt like a happy hallmark movie. The town sounded so beautiful and sweet! However, there was not enough character or relationship development for me, I didn’t really connect with them and feel their journey. Their feelings didn’t get discussed a lot until the very end, and it wasn’t as deep as I like. The title didn’t make sense to me either. There were very cute moments in the book that were swoon-worthy! Overall this was a cute, Christmas-y slow burn!

Well, this was adorable! Even though it’s May, this book put me in a festive mood. It’s like a Hallmark movie but with some spice.

Elisha wants to put her hometown back on the map, and she plans to do that by securing a historic Christmas house as the filming location for an upcoming sequel to a beloved holiday movie. Ves inherited the house from his great-aunt and he’s only in town temporarily. When Elisha offers to help him clean up the place, sparks begin to fly.

Wrapped with a Beau was cute, charming, and witty, with super likable characters. Highly recommended if you enjoy Christmas romances!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

What a cozy AND spicy read. When it starts as a mutual beneficial fake dating, to a real dating with a time limit, is it possible to become a happily ever after?

Elisha loves Christmas and her hometown. Ves has legitimate hang ups about Christmas and wants out of this small town he finds himself in temporarily. They can both help each other out in more ways than one.

I thought this book was very cute. Elisha and Ves had banter, steam, and the right amount of realistic problems that didn’t overtake the story too much. I throughly enjoined it.

Thanks NetGalley and PENGUIN GROUP for the ARC.

I received this book as an ARC and hate to rate it so low but I was not a fan. The writing felt middle grade and immature to me. The characters were annoying and not likable imo. The *sexy* dialogue made me laugh most of the time. “Hot nudge in his pants”? Sorry but it’s not doing it for me. There were also a lot of pop culture references which I wasn’t a fan of.

This book is absolutely adorable! It felt like such a unique twist on the small town holiday romance trope and I loved every second of it. Lillie Vale has quickly become one of my auto buy authors!

Such a sweet, feel-good romcom! All the Christmas feels of a Hallmark movie, but in book form.

Supportive family (for her) and friends (for both), which I always love in a book. Would like to see a sequel focusing on a specific character… but can’t name names or it might spoil a plot line.

Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review. Watch for Wrapped with a Beau to come out September 26, 2023.

If you are looking for a sweet and spicy small town romance set at Christmas then this is the book for you. I thought Elisha and Ves had fun banter and were a good match. I did think this was going to have a little more of an enemies-to-love trope but I still enjoyed it.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Hallmark Vibes but with some well placed spice. This book is a great addition to the Holiday TBR pile.
Tropes: Small Town, Meet-Cute, Opposites Attract, Found Family, Girl Next Door, Grumpy/Sunshine

This wintry holiday book gave me the warm fuzzies. Found the characters to be likable and I enjoyed the two main characters chemistry. There were a few parts that were a bit slow for me but overall just an enjoyable read. I *almost* wished it was snowy outside with my stockings hung on the fireplace... well *almost*

3.8 stars - rounded up

Thank you to NetGalley, Putnam Books, and Lillie Vale for this ARC in exchange for an honest review. Grab your copy when it is released in September!

This was so good! The perfect Christmas Romance. I absolutely loved yhis and could so see this as a hallmark Christmas movie. Loved this!!!
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Wrapped with a Beau is a very cute, slow burn holiday romance. This one will keep you warm in December!

Ugh, I hate to rate books so low, but even more than that, I hate not finishing a book…but not as much as I absolutely hated the dialogue in this book. I was seriously annoyed in the first chapter, but by the fourth I could have screamed. Even Elisha’s inner voice was cringey and obnoxious to me. It’s such a shame because this had so much potential - a Christmas classic movie gets a sequel in the same hometown, with romance and old houses and CHRISTMAS! This book should be right up my alley but unfortunately I couldn’t get into it and had to give it up. Also, there were a whole lot of not-so-jolly F-bombs flying. I’m not completely opposed to curse words in books, but it felt super out of place for a holiday book. Maybe I’m just used to Hallmark and more wholesome reads, but it was too much for me. I think this style of writing just isn’t for me and I think a lot of readers will really enjoy this book, so don’t take it from me, give it a chance. As for me, I probably won’t read from Lillie Vale again.

I'm not sure what it was but I was expecting more enemies to lovers and while this wasn't that it was a sweet and easy to read Christmas romance.

Elisha has returned home to Piney peaks, and she is determined to get her small Christmas town back on the map. She enlists her neighbors help, but she unfortunately passes away and now it's on her Grumpy great nephew Ves. Ves Hollins wants to get in and out of Piney peaks as quick as he can, but he's not expecting to ambushed by Elisha Rowe, and he's definitely not expecting to get involved with her plan to save the town.

I wanted to love this one, and while I did enjoy it, it just wasn't what I was expecting.

I’m not a Christmas person. To me, Christmas means anxiety and overstimulation and disappointment. Christmas is one long panic attack followed by seasonal depression and gray blah.

But this book?

It made me see why people love Christmas.

It’s charming and welcoming and reading it was like putting on a really comfortable pair of pajamas after a long day, except those pajamas are also the kind that make your partner think you might be feeling some kind of way. Elisha and Ves have chemistry that leaps off the page, and thankfully it culminates in a joyful amount of open door spice.

Lillie Vale always makes me laugh out loud, but Wrapped With a Beau also made my Grinchy little black heart grow a couple of sizes, too.

Elisha Rowe is facing the first Christmas without her neighbor and elderly friend Maeve Hollins, the woman who owned Piney Peak's "Christmas House" (as featured in a classic Christmas movie). So when she looks out the window one morning and sees someone moving around in the supposedly empty house. she heads across the street to confront the guy... only to discover that he's Ves Hollins, Maeve's great-nephew and the man who inherited the house. Not a good meet-cute, especially since Elisha serves as the town's film liaison and needs Ves's signature on a release form to use the house in the 50th anniversary sequel to the classic movie!

Ves, an author of middle-grade fantasy books, just wants to get the house cleaned up and put it on the market so he can get back to his life. He's not at all impressed with Piney Peaks or Elisha the chaos magnet, even if she IS attractive and funny and surprisingly honest and helpful. So when she offers to help him clean up the house, is it so surprising that he starts feeling more friendly toward her? And maybe a little more?

This delightful holiday romance features a heroine whose sunny idealism and mishap-prone encounters with the hero are grounded in an inner strength that even surprises Elisha herself. It's clear that she is well loved by her friends and community, though they see her -- and her attraction to Ves -- more clearly than she does. Ves first appears stiff and haughty on the page, though we quickly discover that he uses that standoffishness to hide a vulnerable, lonely self. Their romance feels believable, though the side plot with Elisha's ex-fiance Bentley doesn't really do them any favors, provoking moments of jealousy and possessiveness that bordered on red flag territory.

Enjoyable, with the holiday sweetness tempered by a bit of sexiness. 3.5 stars rounded up.

Thank you, G. P. Putnam's Sons and NetGalley, for providing an eARC of this book. Opinions expressed here are solely my own.

Even though I read this book in May, I was feeling all of the holiday vibes. I love winter, and this book made me wish it was winter right now! There are so many things to like about this book:
- Elisha is an amazing character. I loved that she was so confident in herself, and she was surrounded by an amazing family and great group of friends. I like that she was kind of quirky, and she was very well established. She had an amazing career, and she was very determined.

- Ves was a great compliment to Elisha. He is a writer, and he was back in town to settle his great aunt's estate. He had only visited the town when he was young, but he was quickly swept up by all that Piney Peaks has to over. His family was not really there for him, but he has a found family in Elisha's family and friends.

- Sleighbells and the town of Piney Peaks created a fun setting. The movie Sleighbells was filmed there 50 years ago, and now, the sequel is going to be filmed there. The townspeople were so friendly and welcoming, and I would love to live in a place like that.

-The romance and the spice- It was a slow burn, but then, it picked up and it brought the spice and the steam! Elisha and Ves had chemistry for days! I loved their text messages and their banter. They were so much fun to root for.

Things that I didn't like:
-Bentley- I didn't think it was necessary for Elisha's ex to be a part of the story. I think that it was a waste to focus on him because it didn't really go anywhere. If it was to set up a love triangle, it would have been better, but it seemed like a plot point that didn't have an ending.


Overall, this is a fun slow burn romance with spice and steam. The chemistry between Ves and Elisha leaps off of the page. I love stories with found family, and this one really delivers.

Thanks to NetGalley and Putnam Books for an ARC of "Wrapped With A Beau" which publishes on September 26.