Synopsis:
Jane and Casey have a no strings attached relationship that is all fun and games until Jane announces she wants to have a baby.
Casey tells her he isn't the man for the job and she better find someone else. Unfortunately, as Jane soon discovers, Casey is the only man she wants. However, Casey has a life filled with secrets. After he reveals all to Jane, will there be any hope of a happy life together?

My Rating: 3/5

This book is marketed as a Christmas story and some of it does take place around Christmas but it doesn't have a strong Christmas feel to it. So, I was a bit disappointed because I wanted something with a bit more of a holiday feel.

Another minor complaint about the marketing is the cover. There is a cute dog on the cover (I love dogs) and it basically plays no role in the book. It really has no business being on the cover.
I loved the plot of this story. Two people who love each other but want different things is a plot I can really get invested in especially when that thing is marriage and children. I have been in a similar situation as Jane before and so I was very much invested in the plot.

This book is part of a series and so there are a lot of side characters. For me, who has not read the rest of the series I would say there were too many. I felt like some just were making guest appearances because they had been in previous books. None of the side characters were very well developed and I felt a bit overwhelmed by their numbers and trying to figure out who was who and why they were there in the first place.

I feel like this book didn't read great as a stand alone and I might have liked it better if I'd started at the beginning of the series. So, if you decide to pick it up I think that you should probably read the other books in the series first if all the side characters are going to be an issue for you like they were for me.
Another thing that didn't really work for me, and this is very much a personal preference thing, is that Casey has a job as a sort of spy in a covert organization. This isn't mentioned on the back cover of the book and if it had been I probably wouldn't have picked it up. I don't enjoy hero's who do that type of work and Casey's job interfered with my love of the book a bit.

I did enjoy all the parts of the book with Jane trying to date other guys and just not hitting it off. There were many funny moments in the book and it was fun to read them even though I didn't love Jane as a character. She was okay. Sometimes I felt like she was being unnecessarily cruel to Casey. The book kind of plays it off as a defense mechanism for liking him and feeling like she can't get with him. But, I still was bothered by it.

As for Casey, I loved how much emotional depth he had but I didn't necessarily like how he handled all those emotions.

I did like that the heat level was appropriate for the story. This book wasn't overdone with the bedroom stuff. It was right on target for the characters and the book.
Overall, it was a fun cute read. It wasn't something I wanted to shout from the rooftops about but I did have a fun time reading it and would recommend if you are a contemporary romance reader. ( )