Unwrapped by Cassie Cole

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

My yearly gift-wrapping fundraiser gets a lot of volunteers.
But I’ve never had helpers like these three guys.

Riley, Harper, and Logan are Rangers for the National Parks Service.
They’re as charismatic as they are handsome.
And they’ve got their eyes on me .
We’re getting hot and heavy during the holidays.
Wrapping gifts and unwrapping each other.

Not to mention taking care of all the dogs at my shelter.
And when Harper uncovers a major problem with my charity’s finances?
I’m going to need all the help I can get.

Can we avoid a holiday disaster,
Or will there be a romantic Christmas miracle?

UNWRAPPED is a sizzling, stand-alone Reverse Harem love story filled with mystery, suspense, and boatloads of holiday cheer. HEA guaranteed!

Unwrapped

Grand Canyon Adventure!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😟🤭😤😘

The heroine: Christie – she has a small farm and runs a no kill animal shelter called Happy Bones, which takes overflow dogs from the other shelters in Flagstaff, Arizona. Over the Christmas season, she is offering free gift wrapping at the Flagstaff mall in order to try to get voluntary donations for her shelter. She broke up with her longtime boyfriend Pierce two weeks ago and is still waiting for him to give her all the financial information for her shelter.

The Heroes: they are park rangers at the Grand Canyon from the National Parks Service.
Riley – He is outgoing and friendly. He supplies the Phantom Ranch Canteen by hiking down into the canyon each day with supplies and out each night with garbage.
Harper – he is a bit on the shy side, though he works in Grand Canyon Village educating tourists on the Canyon.
Logan – he is grumpy and flakey and doesn’t care what anyone thinks. He is a back country ranger who patrols the trails further into the canyon and helps hikers if they get low on hydration or bitten by snakes and such.

The Story: Some of Christie’s volunteers for the gift-wrapping service quit on her, so prior to Black Friday, she is waiting for her new volunteers to arrive while manning the gift-wrapping stations herself. Then two of her three volunteers showed up and she was surprised at how handsome they were. Apparently the third volunteer was a bit flakey, but hopefully he would show up soon. The handsome guys were able to commit to helping out every Wednesday and Sunday till Christmas. Their good looks sure didn’t hurt the donations either.

I have to say that even though I have been absolutely loving all of Cassie Cole’s reverse harem romances. I have to wonder what her fascination with gingers is. So far, just about every book of hers I have read has included a redhead. Mostly they are one of the guys, but in one it was a daughter of one of the guys and I think one was the heroine. Since redheads are less than 2 percent of the population, it seems like she uses them way more than average. Not that there is anything wrong with being a ginger.

This book was super steamy, I really liked how Harper was shy in real life but so dominant in the bedroom. I love how each of the guys is different in their own way and just as sexy as the others. The side storyline about the charity was good, though I could see the conflict in the story coming from the very beginning and I just wanted Christie to step up and deal with it, but she let it go on for far too long. I also loved that they all went hiking into the Grand Canyon. That was interesting on another level, and it just made me think how fit these rangers must be from hiking like that on the daily.

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