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Meet Me in Montreal: The Holidates Series, Book 43
One week. One bed. His rules.
Santino
It was love at first sight for firefighter Santino Donahue when he met Vanessa Watson. The bookish, reserved beauty was his opposite but sensuously irresistible. He bet everything he’d win her heart, and he did, until he made a reckless decision that burned her trust.
Three years later, he still can’t let go. Those divorce papers? Forget it, not signing them.
When Vanessa goes on the Holidates app to find a plus-one for the Montreal Jazz Festival, Santino crashes the date and proposes a new one week with him in the City of Saints will change her mind about the divorce. And he’ll do whatever it takes to make sure he wins.
Vanessa
Brash, over-the-top, and probably too young for her, Santino was big, blue-eyed trouble from the start. His proposal for one last week playing house in Montreal is as bold as he is, but at least she won’t have to play third wheel to her brother and his wife, the perfect couple.
He has one she has to agree to whatever he desires, including sharing a bed. Letting him back into her heart? Not happening. But dreamy summer days indulging in the city’s rich culture with Santino make it hard to resist the sweet, dirty things he whispers in her ear at night.
Just when it seems a new future together is possible, a dangerous obsession explodes into the open. Now it’s not just their marriage and their hearts on the line. Everything could go up in flames….
Meet Me in Montreal is a BWWM second chance millionaire firefighter romance. It can be read as a standalone but it is strongly suggested that Ciao, Amore be read first. Expect some humor, tons of emotion, angst and high heat. There are some dark themes, but no cheating and an HEA guaranteed. It is for readers 18+. Please see the content warnings.
The Holidates Series
Need a date for a holiday event? A family dinner with nosy relatives pestering you about settling down? The Holidates App is the perfect answer to your busy lifestyle needs. With this dating app, find the perfect rental date; both parties set the terms and conditions, absolutely no strings attached.
Join your favorite instalove authors every month of the year for a new holidate story gone bad...or oh so right. Holidates will prove tested and true to give you ALL the feels and become your new favorite app.
Santino
It was love at first sight for firefighter Santino Donahue when he met Vanessa Watson. The bookish, reserved beauty was his opposite but sensuously irresistible. He bet everything he’d win her heart, and he did, until he made a reckless decision that burned her trust.
Three years later, he still can’t let go. Those divorce papers? Forget it, not signing them.
When Vanessa goes on the Holidates app to find a plus-one for the Montreal Jazz Festival, Santino crashes the date and proposes a new one week with him in the City of Saints will change her mind about the divorce. And he’ll do whatever it takes to make sure he wins.
Vanessa
Brash, over-the-top, and probably too young for her, Santino was big, blue-eyed trouble from the start. His proposal for one last week playing house in Montreal is as bold as he is, but at least she won’t have to play third wheel to her brother and his wife, the perfect couple.
He has one she has to agree to whatever he desires, including sharing a bed. Letting him back into her heart? Not happening. But dreamy summer days indulging in the city’s rich culture with Santino make it hard to resist the sweet, dirty things he whispers in her ear at night.
Just when it seems a new future together is possible, a dangerous obsession explodes into the open. Now it’s not just their marriage and their hearts on the line. Everything could go up in flames….
Meet Me in Montreal is a BWWM second chance millionaire firefighter romance. It can be read as a standalone but it is strongly suggested that Ciao, Amore be read first. Expect some humor, tons of emotion, angst and high heat. There are some dark themes, but no cheating and an HEA guaranteed. It is for readers 18+. Please see the content warnings.
The Holidates Series
Need a date for a holiday event? A family dinner with nosy relatives pestering you about settling down? The Holidates App is the perfect answer to your busy lifestyle needs. With this dating app, find the perfect rental date; both parties set the terms and conditions, absolutely no strings attached.
Join your favorite instalove authors every month of the year for a new holidate story gone bad...or oh so right. Holidates will prove tested and true to give you ALL the feels and become your new favorite app.
430 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 11, 2025
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July 30, 2025
Idk how I even came across this book but it was so needed! Ive had nothing but duds lately & I truly liked this book. A satisfying second chance romance.
September 15, 2025
Meet Me in Montreal: The Holidates Series, Book 43 by Lynn Yorke is an incandescent, age-gap, second chance, holiday romance. I love how Ms. Yorke gives her readers interconnected books so that we can revisit favorite characters while making new memories with our current book friends! Santino and Vanessa appeared briefly in Ciao, Amore; Santino was instrumental in Nico and Dani’s love story. And while Santino and Vanessa are very visible in Ciao, Amore their story was just a peripheral part of that storyline. The construction of Meet Me in Montreal allows readers to experience the trajectory of this angsty love story while seeing the elements that derailed their promising journey. Santino and Vanessa meet when his firefighting unit is called to a site; the site also happens to be the apartment building where his grandmother resides. Vanessa is stuck in an elevator and as soon as Santino meets her, for him it is love, love, love at first sight. The book does a time jump and when we next see the pair they are separated, and Vanessa is determined to make that separation permanent while Santino is hanging on with all his heart in the hope of reconciliation. Many factors contributed to their relationship’s downfall: Santino’s age, parental interference, poor communication; but the biggest factor was Vanessa’s insecurity and her belief that no one would ever CHOOSE just her. Not her mother, not her job, not her friends nor even her adoring husband! Her current situation is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, what she expected was manifested, even if clouded in misunderstandings. Santino was so heartbreakingly real in his devotion that it was hard to understand how/why Vanessa resisted his pleas. I liked this story immensely even when Vanessa made me want to scream 😊. In addition, Ms. Yorke gave her readers a lovely selection of secondary characters that we want to see again, especially Scott Malone, Jace, Antoinette and her mysterious husband, and even Virgil Li. This story also had its share of villains and annoyances (can anyone say Zoe?) but they were handled in a judicious fashion. I can’t wait until Ms. Yorke takes us on our next Holidate or any excursion.
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July 13, 2025
Packing my bags! 🧳
I've thoroughly enjoyed every book Lynn Yorke has contributed to the Holidates series and this one was just as exceptional as her previous works. I LOVED Santino and Vanessa's story. The author writes some of the most erotic and spiciest scenes I've ever read while delivering a love story that's real and messy with an epic dinner scene that's made for the big screen! The secrets and the drama brewing in the background keeps the story exciting and makes you root form the main characters. I can't wait to see where Lynn Yorke takes us next.
I've thoroughly enjoyed every book Lynn Yorke has contributed to the Holidates series and this one was just as exceptional as her previous works. I LOVED Santino and Vanessa's story. The author writes some of the most erotic and spiciest scenes I've ever read while delivering a love story that's real and messy with an epic dinner scene that's made for the big screen! The secrets and the drama brewing in the background keeps the story exciting and makes you root form the main characters. I can't wait to see where Lynn Yorke takes us next.
September 13, 2025
To be honest this book was a hard slog. It had no reason to be that long. I'm not sure why I was so determined to finish it but maybe it's because it started off great and then went downhill. I've noticed with a lot of black authors and romance books they have this insatiable need to ghettofy everything to the nth degree. Especially when the conflict of comes to head. The situation with Bobby and Zoe and Ling and Scott was so ridiculous long overdrawn and embarrassing. I literally felt second hand embarrassment for these characters that are not even real.
She's a great author don't get me wrong but I think she needs to dial it down with the crazy conflicts and keep her books shorter.
She's a great author don't get me wrong but I think she needs to dial it down with the crazy conflicts and keep her books shorter.
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