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The Tycoon's Festive Houseguest
Holiday houseshare?Tycoon Gabe doesn’t do Christmas—it only gifts him painful memories. But Gabe’s brooding is interrupted when he stumbles upon his employee, Aurelia, taking refuge in his department store! Not totally immune to the festive spirit, as her boss he feels compelled to offer newly evicted Aurelia a safe place to stay. Yet he’s entirely unprepared for her sunny personality to warm his sprawling home…or for their lonely souls to find solace in each other. Gabe soon wishes she could stay. If only she wasn’t out of bounds…
Perfect for fans
🎄 Festive romance
💸 Billionaire
Perfect for fans
🎄 Festive romance
💸 Billionaire
185 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 23, 2025
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December 26, 2025
This was a lovely and (mostly) sweet Christmas story. Tycoon doesn't really do our hero, Gabe, justice. I mean a good man though a touch grumpy at times with the name Gabriel too?! A Christmas miracle.
Our heroine, Aurelia (which also makes me think of Love Actually) is in charge of the toy department at the historic Belfast department store that Gabe has recently inherited. Aurelia's life is in chaos due to the departure of her ex and not being able to pay her bills. Gabe has the opposite but no less chaotic problem. What do you do with an ageing department store when the land is actually worth more?
Cut to a chance meeting at a bed at said department store in the wee hours and you have our hero and heroine's friendship and relationship move to a different level. A now homeless Aurelia is about to experience Gabe's cold ancestral home and bring back to it some of his mother's warmth. I loved the comedy of their proper meeting and the level of detail in the decorations. Also the description of the house as something like a large nineteenth-century pile put me in mind of the mansions of the industrialists of that time with new money (such as the Mackintoshes who created the chocolates Quality Street that still exist today).
So far, so good. I liked watching these two interact very much. I did not like the trip to Lapland quite so much, though it was cute, allowed the characters to develop more and I learned some nice Christmassy details. I think I would have liked to have more of them getting to know each other in the house, never mind the store which of course we did see.
Along with the epilogue this was a satisfying Christmas read that I really enjoyed.
Our heroine, Aurelia (which also makes me think of Love Actually) is in charge of the toy department at the historic Belfast department store that Gabe has recently inherited. Aurelia's life is in chaos due to the departure of her ex and not being able to pay her bills. Gabe has the opposite but no less chaotic problem. What do you do with an ageing department store when the land is actually worth more?
Cut to a chance meeting at a bed at said department store in the wee hours and you have our hero and heroine's friendship and relationship move to a different level. A now homeless Aurelia is about to experience Gabe's cold ancestral home and bring back to it some of his mother's warmth. I loved the comedy of their proper meeting and the level of detail in the decorations. Also the description of the house as something like a large nineteenth-century pile put me in mind of the mansions of the industrialists of that time with new money (such as the Mackintoshes who created the chocolates Quality Street that still exist today).
So far, so good. I liked watching these two interact very much. I did not like the trip to Lapland quite so much, though it was cute, allowed the characters to develop more and I learned some nice Christmassy details. I think I would have liked to have more of them getting to know each other in the house, never mind the store which of course we did see.
Along with the epilogue this was a satisfying Christmas read that I really enjoyed.
October 4, 2026
so sweet and spicyyy ;)
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