★★★★ Saving the Sheriff by Roxanne Snopek
YES!
+Frankie is rescuing reindeer! Well, they're elk being used as reindeer. She also is kinda committing grand theft auto...
+Red attempts to bring her in for question, but they're caught in the blizzard. And stranded together is my second favorite romance trope.

NO!
-Use protection!

★★★Loving Mindy by Karen Erickson
Loving Mindy was a super cute, quick, holiday novella. It's all about Mindy who is the sister of Jane and Cam (whom we've met previously) and Josh who is a friend and coworker of Chris. The two grew up together, and were the best of friends until high school. Josh had confessed his feelings to Mindy, but then she started dating someone else, and they wound up married. Now, Mindy is divorced, and her ex decided to get married over the holiday and whisked their sons away to Hawaii, leaving her all alone. That is until Josh's car breaks down near her house, and then they get snowed in while waiting for the tow truck.

I love stranded together romances! Loving Mindy actually has a double dose of that, since first Josh was just waiting for a tow that never came. And then the storm worsened and they got snowed in. Of course, being in such close proximity forced them to face their feelings from the past, and brought them even closer together. There's also plenty of holiday cheer crammed into these few pages. It does start out a bit sad, since Mindy thought she was going to be alone at Christmas. But soon she's decorating cookies and listening to Christmas tunes with the one who got away. Perfect.

★★ White-Hot Holiday by Coleen Kwan
My feelings toward White-Hot Holiday are all over the place. I really liked it in the beginning! Aaron is taking a short vacation, and visiting his friend Luke (yep, that Luke!). When he pulls up to the house, he's greeted by a very attractive young woman. Although it's not a very warm welcome, since he's just run over some of her Christmas decorations. Naomi is Luke's niece, and she's all about celebrating Christmas right! Aaron on the other hand is a complete Scrooge, but he can't help but get caught up in helping Naomi decorate and take care of the holiday rush at the store.

White-Hot Holiday started off great! It seemed like it was going to be the perfect holiday novella, with Aaron being the Grinch and Naomi being quite enthusiastic. I also loved getting a sunny, hot Christmas in Australia rather than the typical white Christmas. But once Aaron and Naomi start getting to know each other better, it just got boring. I don't feel like we got to know these two that well in these few pages, so their problems were very one dimensional. Naomi just had a bad break-up, so she's still worried that every man is going to treat her the same way. And Aaron...doesn't like Christmas? That middle portion was just dull because of that.

But then Christmas happened and I wanted to climb into my Kindle! It was so fun, and yummy! But then Aaron gives Naomi his gift, and I cannot even understand her logic. He got her a plane ticket to visit him in New York after he returns home. She freaks out about not uprooting her life for a man again, and moving overseas when she doesn't want to. Um, what? Has she never heard of a vacation?! He didn't ask her to move, just come to visit so they can see each other again and see where this is going. Then the story caught my attention again, only to end with my least favorite romance ending! Why!?

I really wish White-Hot Holiday had worked better for me. I really enjoyed the Christmasy parts, but the romance wasn't hot, or even interesting, at all.

★★★ An Officer and a Rebel by Cindi Madsen
An Officer and a Rebel was a cute, quick, opposites attract, holiday romance! It also uses my favorite trope: stranded together! Kelsey is on her way to visit her mother for Christmas when she wrecks her car during a snow storm. Of course, she's in the town where she grew up, and her high school sweetheart's older brother is the cop to come rescue her. Nate invites Kelsey to stay at his house and wait for the storm to pass. Little does Kelsey know, but Nate use to have a crush on her and seeing her again has stirred up old feelings.

I thought this one was really cute, but I did want more out of it. I loved Kelsey trying to bring some holiday cheer to Nate's sad, lonely existence. But they decided that they were in a relationship (after hooking up) and then broke up a few hours later, which was super fast even given the minuscule page count. I don't think that the extra drama from that was really necessary, since they had enough things to worry about to make their relationship work. I still enjoyed it though and now I want some freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.