This HaBO comes from Liz, who is looking for a romance she read over two decades ago:
I read this book over 20 years ago, so I know it’s a long shot that someone else will remember it.
It’s about rival movie critics, who host a television show together. The female critic is being stalked by someone taking inspiration from the “Twelve Days of Christmas” song. For example, at some point, I think, she receives dead doves. There’s also a particularly hot sex scene in (maybe) the male critic’s kitchen and she is wearing a white button down shirt.
That’s all I got.
Though it doesn’t seem like a lot, those are some pretty specific details. Sound familiar to anyone?
‘Open Invitation’ by Tiffany White has two rival co-hosts on a movie review show, but I’m not sure if there’s a stalker since I DNF’ed it. I’d be willing to try again though if I knew there was a Christmas-inspired creep.
I just finished Open Invitation and there was no Christmas stalker. But that’s immediately where my mind went at the beginning of the HaBO!
Santa Claus is Coming by MJ Rodgers? It’s a 1993 Silhouette Intrigue.
THE TWELVE THREATS OF CHRISTMAS…
On the first day of terror
Belle Breeze received a plastic vulture in a plam tree – and a menacing note signed ‘Santa.’ She disregarded the odd offering as a slightly silly joke.
On the second day of terror
the package contained two bloodied gloves. For once, the opinionated movie critic reversed her decision.
On the third day of terror
the danger escalated with the arrival of three poisoned pens that wreaked havoc in the studio and brought Max Wilde to Belle’s side.
In their search for Belle’s tormentor, the competing critics temporarily put their fiery feud aside…and found another kind of passion. But Belle doubted whether she’d live long enough to enjoy it, for…
The twelfth day of terror
was rapidly approaching. And her sinister Santa was coming…
The Twelve Threats of Christmas sounds awesome. I have to find it somewhere.
“The Twelve Threats of Christmas” is just the blurb headline. The actual title is “Santa Claus is Coming”.
“Santa Claus is Coming” sounds like either a threatening romantic suspense title or an erotica that I never EVER want to read
@Mara, your comment reminded me of an Xmas episode of Golden Girls where Blanche confesses her love of men in Santa outfits. According to her, it’s the “hot, sweaty flannel” coupled with the “black patent leather jackboots.” 😀
Yeah, I’m sure this has to be “Santa Claus is Coming,” Harlequin Intrigue 254 from 1993. The heroine is being stalked because of a movie review she wrote (or gave on the TV show) I remember the first “gift” she received was a model of a vulture in a palm tree; I think one was Christmas tree ornament bulbs that had been shattered all over her living room floor.
Not one of my favorites by Rodgers (I remember thinking the killer was too obvious) but it was pretty clever and creative. And it’s nice to be reminded of a time when romantic suspense wasn’t all cops and soldiers and secret agents. I mean really–RS with a hero and heroine who are movie critics in LA? You’re not going to see that in the genre today. Sigh.
Ah, I see the vulture in the palm tree is mentioned in the blurb above. Mea culpa.
I think we should all get together on this site and joint write “Santa Claus is Coming”…how awesome would that be?
@Mary Star: I totally remember that episode of GG! I think Monica on Friends also has the hots for Santa… what a bizarre TV trope
I find this cover creepy.
ww.amazon.com/Santa-Claus-Coming-M-Rodgers/dp/0373222548/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1443033504&sr=8-1&keywords=Santa+Claus+is+Coming+by+MJ+Rodgers
@Olivia – Shapeshifting raindeer (imagine what you could do with Rudolph’s bright and shiny red, uh, nose)… and Mrs Claus’s orgies with the elves.
But, you know, if billionaire gay dinosaurs are a thing (as everyone at SBTB knows they are), the reindeer, etc. have probably been done to death, too. But I bet we could do it better 😉
What ***is*** it with billionaires, anyway? I am getting really bored with billionaire stories.