Cold Feet at Christmas

Debbie Johnson

Nov 2014 · Sold by HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

‘Fun, sexy and fabulously festive’ Jane Costello

Running out on your wedding shouldn’t be this much fun!

A remote Scottish castle on a snowy Christmas Eve. A handsome husband-to-be. A dress to die for. It should have been the happiest day of Leah Harvey’s life – but the fairytale wedding turns sour when she finds her fiancé halfway up the bridesmaid’s skirt just hours before the ceremony!

Fleeing the scene in a blizzard, Leah ends up stranded at the nearest cottage, where she collapses into the arms of its inhabitant – a man so handsome she thinks she must have died and gone to heaven!

And when Rob Cavelli suddenly finds himself with an armful of soaking wet, freezing cold, and absolutely gorgeous bride on the run, he’s more than happy to welcome her into his snowbound cottage this Christmas...

‘Superb...like a fabulous breath of fresh air and I fell in love with the warm, witty, sexy writing style from the very first page’ Holly Martin

Ratings and reviews

DNF at 75%. Leah Harvey finds her fiance boffing one of the bridesmaids at their wedding and runs off (in the groom's vintage car) only to find herself stranded in the Scottish countryside. Dressed only in a flimsy silk wedding dress and Jimmy Choo stilettos (does he even do flats?), she starts walking cross-country in the snow towards distant lights. The lights belong to a lonely cottage, rented for the season by Rob(erto) Cavelli, an American billionaire who hates Christmas and likes to spend the season alone, drinking whisky, in a scottish cottage he rents every year. One thing leads to another and Rob and Leah decide to have a no-strings attached holiday fling. But when Christmas is over Rob invites Leah to come to Chicago to start afresh, the deal being that they must go back to being just friends. Of course both Leah and Rob have deep dark secrets that colour their beliefs and behaviours, in Rob's case this makes him a hypocritical, judgemental, neurotic, unhinged, self-obsessed jerk. In Leah's case this makes her a bit of a doormat, although apparently irresistible to the opposite sex. I was under the mistaken impression that this was a novella, I started reading it months ago, lost interest and picked it up again this week hoping that the Christmas season would make the book more engaging. Sadly it didn't, when Leah and Rob got to Chicago all I wanted to do was wring Rob's neck and give Leah a good shaking. Having read 75% of the novel I couldn't bear to read another page which is a pity because Debbie Johnson is a must-read author for me.

Hard to put down,not my usual type of book but a great read

Loves this book... got so involved with the story I couldn't put it down and finished it in 4 days! Such a good read.

About the author

Debbie Johnson is a best-selling author who lives and works in Liverpool, where she divides her time between writing, caring for a small tribe of children and animals, and not doing the housework.
She worked as a journalist for many years, until she decided it would be more fun to make up her own stories than to tell other people’s. After trying her hand at pretty much every genre of writing other than Westerns and spy dramas, she has settled on women’s fiction that seems to make people laugh and make people cry, often at the same time.
Her books include The Birthday That Changed Everything, Pippa’s Cornish Dream, and Summer at the Comfort Food Cafe, all published by HarperCollins. She also ghost-wrote model and presenter Abbey Clancy’s debut novel, Remember My Name.
Follow her on twitter @debbiemjohnson, or at www.facebook.com/debbiejohnsonauthor – but be warned, she mainly talks about dogs.