Carol [Goodreads Addict]'s Reviews > Santa's Executive

RATING 3.5 STARS



Santa’s Executive is book two in the Holiday, Montana series by Carrie Ann Ryan. This is the first book I have read in this series and it was fine to start with book two. I chose this book to add to my Christmas line up because it sounded like a really different sort of paranormal romance Christmas book. In that respect, it really was. As much as I love my paranormal romance, though, for some reason I couldn’t get into it as much as I wanted to. The characters were sweet but I guess I just didn’t get the warm and fuzzies like I wanted to. So I think that is just my own problem.

Justin Cooper is a thirty four year old elementary school principal. He was drawn to teaching at an early age and made the easy transition into administration. He loves working with children. Lately he has been feeling out of sorts, like something is building inside of him.

Rina Brewer is an elf that lives in the North Pole. She is a list checker, keeping data, old and new, straight. Her office is down in the basement at the North Pole. But she’s not happy at all and wants more. Then she runs across Justin’s file and realizes that no one has taken his case so they could explain to him what is happening to him. So she takes it upon herself to travel to Holiday, Montana and to become Justin’s assistant

Rina and Justin’s reaction to each other is surprisingly strong and puzzling. Neither can understand it. But Rina is steadfast that she must keep thing professional between.them. She has to prove to Santa that she can do more than be a list maker.

“Oh no, no, no, no. This couldn’t be happening. The first man to make her think dirty, dirty thoughts that included a lot of mistletoe and red stockings was the man she’d come here to help. This was not going to end well.”



As Rina begins to train Justin and teach him about his special ability and the role he is destined to play, the connection between them grows stronger. But this isn’t really Rina’s job. She left the North Pole to do this on her own. Can she allow herself to fall for Justin and then have to leave him? Could her heart take it?

“Why did he want this woman? Yes, she was beautiful and kind, but he’d never wanted to think about a home with another woman. What was it about Rina, and why was it moving so fast?”



Of course we have to have an evil villain. Jack Frost turns up in Holiday with a plan of his own. And Jack is very strong. He is second to none other than Santa himself. But there is more than ice in Jack’s eyes, it looks more like pure evil.

This was a short, sweet and sexy Christmas romance but it didn’t hold my attention as much as it should have. Still, I’m glad I read it. From now on when ever I see a room full of happy children I will wonder if they are just happy, or maybe if there might be a little bit of Christmas magic at work from one of Santa’s Executives.