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HE KNOWS IF YOU'VE BEEN BAD OR GOOD....
Picture-perfect Evergreen, California, nestled on the shores of Reindeer Lake in the snowy Sierras, is the perfect place for a no-strings holiday fling with a gorgeous Latin lover. Workaholic Kimberly Michaels didn't come to Evergreen only to enjoy herself, though; she's there to consummate a development deal in which her company will take over the town -- whether the town wants it or not. Ricco Maza, whose sister owns the quaint B & B where Kim is staying, may be the hottest man she's ever met (and the only one who can persuade her to relax enough for an orgasm!) but if he discovers why Kim is in town, she'll soon be finding more coal and switches than kisses in her Christmas stocking. And as Kim's frosty winter nights steam up with her sexy Santa, she realizes she's going to have to make a choice. Is winning the deal truly the most important thing in life, or will this jaded cynic let Santa finally give her a little taste of Christmas magic?
- Sales Rank: #3559378 in Books
- Published on: 2008-10-28
- Released on: 2008-10-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .90" w x 4.19" l, .36 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 352 pages
Review
"Tabke masterfully creates sexual tension...." -- Romantic Times
About the Author
Karin Tabke is a bestselling author of historical and contemporary romance, the CEO of her own business, and wife of a veteran police officer. Her books include the first three novels in the Blood Sword Legacy series: Master of Surrender, Master of Torment, and Master of Craving; the contemporary romance Have Yourself a Naughty Little Santa; and three erotic novels, Good Girl Gone Bad, Skin, and Jaded. For more information visit her website at KarinTabke.com.
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One
"Well, put chains on the damn tires!" Kim orderedthe car rental guy over the phone.
"Sorry, lady, the advisory is clear. Stay off the roads. Emergency vehicles only."
Shit! Nick would kill her if she wasn't in Evergreen by the end of the day. "Look, I have to be in Evergreen by this afternoon. How much do you want to make that happen?"
"Lady, 80 is closed. It'll be twenty-four hours before the plows will have it cleared, and that's if the snow stops right now. Taking 82 into Evergreen will be another two, maybe three, days. Nobody is going in there, and nobody is coming out."
She slammed down the phone and whipped back the heavy curtains of the window, blanching as bright light pierced her corneas. A whiteout glared back at her. Snow! It was freakin' everywhere! The blizzard of the decade was not supposed to hit for another twenty-four hours. She only needed an hour to get to Evergreen. Like a petulant child, Kimberly threw herself in a tantrum on the rumpled bed in her hotel room. "I don't want to be here!" she shrieked. And despite the immaturity of the action, it felt really good. She didn't let loose often, but when she did, it always made her feel better.
She smiled and warmed. Like last night.
Just as quickly as it erupted, her smile waned. Guilt assailed her, although it shouldn't have. It wasn't like she was officially engaged or that her soon-to-be intended gave two shits who the hell she slept with. Frustration gripped her, and the fact that she felt anger at Nick right now bothered her on several levels. She didn't love him. He didn't love her. Their impending nuptials were a business merger, pure and simple.
So why was she pissed?
She relaxed and settled more comfortably back into the sheets. Let's think this through, Kimberly. Just as you would an acquisition.
Last night had been an anomaly. Plain and simple. Not only from the one-night stand angle but also from the pure carnal indulgence of the encounter. Her skin warmed. Yes, last night had been a stress release she hadn't realized she'd needed. And for that value alone, it had been worth it. A girl couldn't buy that kind of de-stressor. And knowing her physical health was directly tied to her mental well-being, Kim had no regrets.
She closed her eyes and relaxed back into the thick, downy pillows. A long breath escaped her and she pressed her hand to her chest, the rapid thud of her heart belying her casual dismissal of the gravity of her late-night tryst.
What if she ran into that hunky stud she'd twisted up the sheets with last night? If she couldn't get out of Reno, neither could he. She twirled a long blond strand of hair between her right index finger and thumb. Heat spattered across her cheeks. If she looked in the mirror right now, she would see that her neck and chest were red and splotchy. She hated that. It was a dead giveaway that she was nervous or embarrassed, or, well, anything other than the hard-ass persona she had worked a lifetime to perfect. In her business, perception was everything. And despite her iron will to tamp it down, the heat continued to rise in her cheeks.
For crying out loud, it wasn't like she was a prude or anything, but, oh, good Lord, the things that man had done to her last night! And she didn't even know his name! She flung herself over and cradled her hands under her cheek. A slow, dreamy smile curved her lips. His spicy, masculine scent still lingered in her hair, on her clothes, and on her skin. She closed her eyes and inhaled him deep into her lungs. God, last night had been incredible.
She hadn't wanted to shower. It would wash away the last trace of him, and she wanted the subtle reminder of him for just a little longer. Her body thrummed. She wanted more than a reminder. She wanted him again. Hell, maybe she should go back up to his room and while away the hours....
Kim rolled over onto her back and squinted against the bright light of the snow streaming through her window. But she knew she wouldn't go upstairs. For a lot of reasons, the number one being he was the kind of guy who liked women too much. And she was the kind of woman who had been burned by his type one too many times.
Stupid, stupid, Kimberly. Always going for the men who gave women like her a token glance before they moved in on the supermodel type. Except this guy, last night. For reasons only known to him, he had paid no attention to the high-maintenance girls flitting around him like annoying gnats on a sweaty dog. Not that Kimberly didn't have high-maintenance fees -- she did, but she just never felt she could compete with those exotic sex-kitten types. She was more, well, basic. "A handsome natural attractiveness," Forbes had said when she'd been interviewed last year. "Not the kind to distract in the boardroom, but a solid beauty who would withstand the ravages of time." Great; she felt like a Chevy.
As one of the three "Women of Steel" Forbes had featured, she'd found the article a letdown. In her eyes it had screamed that she couldn't do anything right in her personal life, but watch the hell out when it came to acquisitions. She was Land's Edge's number one gun for hire, and she always landed her mark. Always.
Kim smiled despite dredging up painful reminders of why she was still single. Again. It didn't matter really, because last night, basic had trumped sexpot, and she had had the night of her life. Thanks to vodka-fortified bravery, she had been all too willing to follow that hot Latin stud up to his room, and there she'd discovered firsthand what all of the fuss was about. He was big, he was sexy, and he'd been the most passionate lover she had ever had the pleasure of slipping between the sheets with.
He'd made her feel things she had never felt before, including a natural orgasm. Multiple natural orgasms. Boy, she'd really been missing out.
When their gazes had caught and locked across the smoky lounge, time had stopped for her. Even from a distance she'd been able to see straight into his dark, soulful eyes. She'd felt like something had knocked into her chest, and it had scared the crap out of her. She'd quickly looked away and prayed he would go away. He hadn't. He'd approached her in the crowded bar and said she looked like she'd needed some company. She might have a knack for picking losers, but she wasn't naive. She'd rolled her eyes and turned away from him, giving him the classic brush-off. He'd persisted. His low, husky laughter had done things to her insides she'd tried to ignore. When he'd sat that tall hunky body of his down beside her and bought her a drink, she'd known she would have jumped through hoops right then and there had he asked her to.
Kim's lips tightened. Because the cold, ugly truth was that he'd nailed exactly how she'd been feeling at that exact moment. Talk about timing! She had needed some company. She'd cocooned herself away for so long in her work that she hardly remembered what it was like to feel attracted to a man.
Figures, the minute she lets her Stay-the-Hell-away-from-Me sign down, one swoops in for the kill. For crying out loud, did she have a Hit-on-Me-I'm-Lonely sticker on her forehead? Kim looked up at the ceiling. She was thirty-eight, divorced -- twice -- and didn't even own a cat. She owned a swank condo in the Hollywood hills, which, even four years after she closed, didn't have furniture except a bed and the requisite office furnishings. Her life was lived out of a suitcase. And hell if she could remember the last time she'd let a guy see her naked.
She grinned. But she'd hit the jackpot last night.
It hadn't taken long for him to touch her hand and give her that look. And it had taken her brain only a fraction of a millisecond to stand up and follow him up to his room. She had no regrets, except maybe she would have liked to have stayed longer. She didn't even know his name, and it didn't matter. Guys like him didn't remember girls like her, and she would be the better for it.
Such was her emotionally unencumbered life. And that was exactly how she wanted to keep it. Emotionally unencumbered. Speaking of emotionally unencumbered, Kim reached across the bed, dug her cell phone out of her black Chanel bag, and hit a button.
"Gold," a deep male voice answered. She scowled at the voice. It wasn't like he didn't have caller ID and know it was her.
"Hello, Nick, it's Kimberly."
"What do you have?"
Her scowl deepened. How was that for Hey, honey, how are you? It bothered her that all of a sudden Nick's aloofness bugged her. Theirs was a purely platonic relationship, but one that they both agreed would be better served united. A merger. Neat and clean -- just like an acquisition for them both. He didn't want kids, neither did she. He wanted to own the world, so did she, and they both knew that together, there would be no one or nothing that could stop them. They were, in Kim's mind, sharks of the highest order, and she didn't have a problem with that. She had long ago tired of getting her feelings hurt by picking the wrong men and diving headfirst into relationships that left her holding the bag. With Nick it was a corporate merger. She smiled. Yeah, she couldn't wait.
"Hello to you too."
"Kimberly, I've got a lot on my plate right now. Knock off the drama."
"Of course! I mean just because we're engaged, how silly of me to expect a smidge of emotion from you." She hated that she'd just said that. It showed weakness.
"We'll be officially engaged when Evergreen is in the palm of my hand."
"Yes, boss."
Nick sighed on the other end of the phone. She could see him now in his penthouse office in the Century Building in L.A. Standing at his window peering out over the smog-laden city, knowing he owned a nice chunk of it, and hungry to own it all. He'd come out of the welfare system in L.A. He'd scholarshipped to Stanford, where he'd earned degrees in business and law. He was the most driven man on...
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Have Yourself a Naughty Little Santa
By mnix
Kimberly Michaels can't remember the last time she got really down and dirty with a man. As a major ball buster in the corporate world, she is constantly busy and does not have time for a personal life. Craving the anonymity of a one night stand, Kimberly searches for a stranger at the hotel bar. Once she reels him in, they indulge themselves with each other all night long. As she sneaks away the next morning, Kimberly wishes she could stick around but she knows that relationships are not for her and almost mourns that she will never see him again. It is a good thing she didn't send a mourning wreath because she comes face to face with her mysterious lover after she arrives in Evergreen, the town she has been sent to scope out the details for a corporate takeover. Ricco Maza, the lover she never knew she wanted, is skeptical of her motives but he can't keep his hands off of her. What will he do when he finds out that she is going to be the one to close his town down?
Kimberly and Ricco's attraction to each other and the magnetism which drew them together is fiery and immediate. Their love scenes were hot and burned the pages of Have a Naughty Little Santa. But that is where their connection ended for me. I could never establish why they wanted the other to stick around except for the sexual aspect of their relationship. Both had been devastated by love before and didn't want to be hurt again and that was understandable. What wasn't understandable was the fact that their feelings caused this relationship to seem dirty and underhanded. I never felt that they truly loved each other until the very ending of Have a Naughty Little Santa and because of that, I just could not relate nor fully enjoy what I know others have raved about. Karin Tabke will remain an author of mine to buy - I just think the theme and characters influenced my judgment on Have a Naughty Little Santa.
Talia
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Meaningful romance any time of the year
By Jennifer A. Ray
One all-night marathon of good, old-fashioned steamy and anonymous sex is just what Kimberly Michaels needs right now. She found just that in the arms of a hunky stranger at a hotel on her way to the small town of Evergreen, California. Leaving his hotel room without waking him, she never expected to lay eyes on her mysterious lover again.
When she comes face to face with him again soon after and discovers he has some pretty intimate ties with the very town she is there to spy on to gather ammunition for a corporate takeover, she is understandably unsettled. Ricco Maza seems to see right through her claims that she is simply in Evergreen for a vacation. Worse, she finds that close proximity to the handsome detective has her libido going into overdrive. Even more devastating is the effect this Lothario has on her heart, knowing that he will never commit to one woman.
Every now and then I read a book that makes me wonder why in the world it took me so long to find the author and galvanizes me into shopping for their entire backlist. That is what happened for me with Karin Tabke's HAVE YOURSELF A NAUGHTY LITTLE SANTA. What I expected from this book was a sweet and sexy little holiday themed tale. What I got was that and much more - a story that comes to life on the every page, tweaking the readers' emotions along with the characters and leaving you feeling that you've experienced the story yourself.
Both the hero and the heroine are people who have been emotionally damaged in their youth, leaving them with strong walls built around their hearts designed to keep them safe from that dangerous thing called love. Kimberly handles her fear of love by brokering a relationship for business purposes only; Ricco simply runs at the first sign of commitment altogether.
When these people meet, the attraction is instant and explosive. Good thing for them, too, else neither might have stuck with it long enough to find there was something much more real and lasting underneath all that passion. As they both realize how much they have come to love each other, each must heal the wounds of their past so they can come together in a healthy way for their happy ending.
HAVE YOURSELF A NAUGHTY LITTLE SANTA is a beautiful love story about two people who find the strength together to heal themselves.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Evergreen
By Karli
Another scorcher in the Hot Cop Series, this standalone novel focuses on Ricco, who is taking a break from his job in San Jose to spend the holidays with his family in Evergreen. On the way, he meets Kim, but wakes to find a complete turnaround. She is gone, beating him at his own game. Kim is also headed to Evergreen, but to scout it for weaknesses for a takeover by Lands Edge and her soon to be fiance, CEO Nick Gold. She is the one undercover this time, and Ricco is the one who stands to loose.
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