The Christmas Plan

Samantha Chase

Nov 2020 · Silver Bell Falls Book 6 · Chasing Romance, Inc.

About this ebook

f only life was a cheesy holiday movie…

Unfortunately for Aspen Harris, her life doesn’t even come close.

Finding herself unemployed just before the holidays, she has no choice but to move back home and in her parents’ house. And that means leaving behind her best friend Gabriel and all her dreams of someday owning her own chocolate shop. So when Gabe suggests she come to Silver Bell Falls to spend the holidays with his family, it seems like the perfect distraction.

What’s so great about holiday movies?

Don’t people realize that living in an actual Christmas town is anything but magical?

Every year, Gabriel Andrews goes home to Silver Bell Falls to help his father run the family Christmas tree lot. When Aspen tells him she has to move to the other side of the country after losing her job, he suggests she come home with him for the holidays. It’s the perfect way to spend as much time together as possible before a whole country separates them.

But this is Silver Bell Falls at Christmas time…between a mother with matchmaking tendencies, tight living quarters and far too much chocolate, it doesn’t take very long for life to start imitating art.

Ratings and reviews

THE CHRISTMAS PLAN is the sixth instalment in Samantha Chase’s contemporary,adult SILVER BELL FALLS romance series. This is videographer Gabriel Andrews, and chocolatier Aspen Harris’ story line. THE CHRISTMAS PLAN can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. All of the story lines in this series take place around the Christmas holidays. Told from dual third person perspectives (Gabriel and Aspen) THE CHRISTMAS PLAN follows in the aftermath of chocolatier Aspen Harris quitting her job, just weeks before Christmas, having finally had enough of the sexual harassment from the man in charge. With her best friend Gabriel Andrews heading home to Silver Bell Falls to help with his family Christmas tree farm, Aspen jumps at the chance to spend the holidays in a ‘real-life’ Hallmark™ movie but Gabriel is reluctant knowing not everything is as it seems especially when it comes to his well-intentioned but meddling family. Having never spent the Christmas holidays in a wonderland of snow, Aspen is drawn to the small town and its’ people, who have taken to Aspen, and her chocolate fancies. What ensues is the building romance between Gabriel and Aspen, and the potential fall-out as Aspen’s time in Silver Bell Falls comes to a close. Aspen Harris’ welcome to Silver Bell Falls is punctuated with orders and requests for her delectable chocolates, and with it an idea is about to form as Aspen considers a different path for her future, a path in which Gabriel struggles to understand or accept. Gabriel wants his best friend Aspen Harris to remain to Atlanta but there is currently no work or opportunity for Aspen to follow. While Gabriel insists that his ‘best friend’ should remain in Atlanta, an new opportunity reveals in Silver Bell Falls. The relationship between Gabe and Aspen is a best friends to lovers romance, a romance in which Gabriel battles between head and heart fearing the loss of his best friend should their romance go sour. Forever reminding Aspen that she is his best friend, Gabriel continues to break a little bit of Aspen’s heart with every reminder. All of the $ex scenes are implied. There is a large ensemble cast of colorful, meddling and familiar secondary and supporting characters including most of the previous story line couples, as well as Gabriel’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Andrews. THE CHRISTMAS PLAN is a sweet, charming and chocolatey story of love and romance, friendships and relationships, family and fun. The premise is delightful and captivating; the characters are energetic and lively.

Return to Silver Bell Falls!! This is a great best friends to lovers holiday romance. A story of the love shared by friends turning into a real love shared by couples. It has conflicts, misunderstandings, truths and love. I was rooting for Gabe and Aspen the whole way through. These two were perfect for each other, it just took them a little time to realize it. The perfect holiday romance.

I absolutely LOVE a good Christmas romance, and the Silver Bell Falls series by Samantha Chase is one of my favorite Christmas series, EVER! The Christmas Plan is the 6th wonderful book in this Christmas series, and I think my favorite or rather second favorite, the 1st being “Christmas in Silver Bell Falls”, the first book in the series. I could not wait for this book to hit my tablet. And yes, I am finished already!!! By the way, I already bought the audio version, and plan on listening as soon as I finish this review. EEK, I can’t wait!!! The Christmas Plan is a ‘friends to lover’ story about Aspen and Gabe. Gabe and Aspen met in college and became best friends, and over the years, neighbors in the same apartment complex in Atlanta, Georgia. Aspen is a transplant from San Diego, while Gabe is from Silver Bell Falls. Aspen is a chocolatier in an Atlanta restaurant. Unfortunately, she has (how to put this delicately) a “handsy” boss, who gave Aspen the ultimatum to “play along or quit”. She quit, and this means, without employment, she must move back home to San Diego and move in with her parents. Gabe is going home for the holidays to help with the family Christmas tree farm and invites Aspen to go along. Best plan, in my opinion, he ever made…. to this point…. I freaking loved watching their eyes open and see the potential coming at them. HOWEVER, life is getting in their way. You see, remember Aspen is a chocolatier, and Christmas is coming, and…. Sorry, ladies, I cannot give anything away. I will say, you do not want to miss this book!! The story is phenomenal!! One of the reasons I LOVE series books, is most of the time you/I get to see how some of the previous characters are doing and what they are up too. Thank you, Samantha Chase, for sharing your fabulous story writing talents with your readers. Particularly now, during these especially horrific times. Thank you for taking my mind off some of my problems for a time. Merry Christmas to you, your family, and my fellow readers. God keep you safe and healthy into and through the new year. I was gifted with a copy of this wonderful book, for my reading pleasure, and my opinions on the book. As you have read my review to this part, I think you can read my opinions. Soooo, what are you waiting for? Go hit that purchase button, sit down, take a load off, and enjoy this book as much as I have. Thank you for reading my review. Have a great Holiday season. Where is my phone, I NEED to go listen this book !!…. SIGH

About the author

Samantha Chase is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller of contemporary romance that’s hotter than sweet, sweeter than hot. She released her debut novel in 2011 and currently has more than sixty titles under her belt – including THE CHRISTMAS COTTAGE which was a Hallmark Christmas movie in 2017! When she’s not working on a new story, she spends her time reading romances, playing way too many games of Solitaire on Facebook, wearing a tiara while playing with her sassy pug Maylene…oh, and spending time with her husband of 28 years and their two sons in North Carolina.