The Maverick's Christmas Countdown

I truly enjoyed this book. Lots of family dynamics, lots of sisterly love, a renewed love story, teens who are good kids, a soon to be born baby, a dad who is kind of an a$$ and his wife who tries to keep the peace. Add on Allison, who is the only daughter still unmarried and her dad who is doing his dad thing by trying to get Allison to marry one of HIS friends! Enough already! Allison decides to ask her neighbor, Rowan, to pretend to be her boyfriend to get her dad to ease up.

I always did love Harlequin Romances! It's the holidays and her father has decided that it's time for her to "settle down". Allison has kissed a lot of frogs so now she's not even looking. But when her controlling father steps in, yet again, what's a girl to do? Make up a fake boyfriend of course, and why not go for it and make him a doctor too. Rowan is her neighbor and he's house sitting while she's away. He informs her that his girlfriend has broken up with him. Again. And he's had enough. This time. He's a great guy and he's funny as well as good looking. How could his girlfriend do that to him at Christmas? She has an idea. She needs help because she is helping her pregnant sister take care of her house and three teenagers and he can come and stay with them for the holidays. Matter of fact, he can help her in a totally different way! It'll be easy, she already has a small crush on him and when it's over, he'll be going back to his "on-again, off-again" girlfriend. So when did h

THE MAVERICK’S CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN by Heatherly Bell is part of the multi author continuity from Harlequin but stands well alone. Allison Taylor is home for the holiday season to support her older sister Charlotte through the last weeks of her pregnancy and celebrate with her family. To give her friend and neighbor Rowan Scott a break, and to get her overbearing father off her case, she invites Rowan to join her in exchange for pretending to be her boyfriend. Heatherly Bell has created chara