It’s the season for giving, and by giving, I mean hosting awesome giveaways with all sorts of great prizes and books! This time, we have Sarah Morgan‘s From Manhattan with Love series, plus a Kate Spade watch and earrings. Thanks to Harlequin for sponsoring!
The total prize pack retails for around $285.00 USD and includes:
– Champagne at midnight metro watch from Kate Spade
– Crystal square studs from Kate Spade
– 1 print copy of Sleepless In Manhattan by Sarah Morgan ( A | BN | K | G | AB )
– 1 print copy of Sunset in Central Park by Sarah Morgan ( A | BN | K | G | AB )
– 1 print copy of Miracle on 5th Ave by Sarah Morgan ( A | BN | K | G | AB )
Hopeless romantic Eva Jordan loves everything about Christmas. She might be spending the holidays alone this year, but when she’s given an opportunity to house-sit a spectacular penthouse on Fifth Avenue, she leaps at the chance. What better place to celebrate than in snow-kissed Manhattan? What she didn’t expect was to find the penthouse still occupied by its gorgeous—and mysterious—owner.
Bestselling crime writer Lucas Blade is having the nightmare before Christmas. With a deadline and the anniversary of his wife’s death looming, he’s isolated himself in his penthouse with only his grief for company. He wants no interruptions, no decorations and he certainly doesn’t appreciate being distracted by his beautiful, bubbly new housekeeper. But when the blizzard of the century leaves Eva snowbound in his apartment, Lucas starts to open up to the magic she brings…This Christmas, is Lucas finally ready to trust that happily-ever-afters do exist?
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway except that I got to go shopping online which means I didn’t have to wear shoes or real pants. Void where prohibited. Open to US residents where permitted by applicable law. Must be over 18 and have sunglasses on hand to combat the shine on those earrings. A watch in the hand is worth three books in the bush. That’s how it goes, right? It’s totally okay to have champagne on hand for celebrating or commiserating. Comments will close Monday 28 November 2016 around noon EST and winner announced same day.
To enter, leave a comment with your favorite holiday tradition! It could be as big as a beach trip every 4th of July or simply baking a particular type of cookie for Christmas.
Best of luck to everyone!
UPDATE: Our winner is Stephanie! Congratulations, Stephanie and keep an eye on your inbox! Thanks to everyone who commented and I hope you have a great holiday season!
Xmas Eve dinner with just my husband and kids, roast beef, popovers and asparagus. The best part, it is at my house and no screwy relatives to deal with
My favorite holiday tradition is the sweet potato smidgen. What can I say; I’m a glutton.
My daughters take Dad to Woonsocket, RI for weinies at New York lunch. It is a resurrection of childhood for all of them. (Leaving me alone in the house-yay!)
For me, it’s belting out out every Christmas carol I know alone in my car at the top of my lungs between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I have to hit at least one verse of every one I know in that time span, cause I’d hate to forget one and have to sing it after the holiday.
Incidentally the From Manhattan with Love series has moved Morgan right back to my auto-buy list. Can’t wait for Miracle on 5th Ave. next week!
Every year my family heads out to cut down our own Christmas tree
Sending out old fashion mail with a hand written note and a stamp on the envelope!
My favorite tradition is lounging around with my family after we all stuff our faces with food ❤️
We do a “free gift exchange.” My sister, mom and I spend two years accumulating things we didn’t pay for as gifts for all the family members. Items range from free samples of cosmetics to nonperishable food that was BOGO at the grocery store to things people put in a “free” pile at garage sales. The best was the year my sister raided the doomsday bunker they found on their new property. I got enough tin foil to last a year, plus some really awesome nightgown patterns circa 1977. We laugh. A lot.
It’s all about the music for me. Each year we have an evening where we meet with the same group of folks (harder to schedule now that we have to factor in the far flung adult children) for dinner, followed by an evening of playing and singing Christmas carols. A few years back we banned the brass instruments (too loud for singing along) so just those of us playing strings or keyboards play along. And every year we wish heartily for better, more interesting arrangements to play!
Our family always sees a movie on Christmas day… and if Leonardo DiCaprio has a movie out, we always see that one. Not sure when this tradition started, but it has led to some great (and sometimes very seasonally inappropriate) cinema experiences over the years.
Putting up the Christmas dinosaurs in my parents’ yard after Thanksgiving. My parents make the dinosaurs together and try to add a new one every few years. We’re up to 8.
We enjoy decorating the tree together every year, and making toffee bark to share with friends and family 🙂 Mmm…
I love baking cookies with the kids during the holidays
My favorite Christmas tradition is eating tamales & tres leches cake for Christmas Eve. Yay Texas!
On Christmas Eve we would go to a movie and eat Chinese food. I miss this tradition, but we did this for close to 15 years.
Our winter holiday tradition is to go to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert. We get a group of 8 together, get all dressed up for a fancy dinner, then go to the late show of the concert and rock out. We’ve done this 11 of the last 12 years, and this will be our 12th time – this year it’s on New Years Eve!
My cousin and I head out for brunch at the diner on Christmas before heading back for the big meal.
My favorite tradition is making a no-bake, idiot proof marshmallow-date loaf on Christmas eve. I’m no cook, and apparently that fact was obvious early on, since my grandmother picked this recipe specifically for me as a child.
I love going to the movies with my sisters on holidays like Christmas or Easter.
Making cookies! My daughter’s friends come help decorate. Different crew every year. 🙂
We make all the kids listen at Alice’s Restaurant on Thanksgiving.
My favorite holiday tradition is going out to dinner on Christmas Eve with just my immediate family so we can enjoy the holiday before everyone else descends upon us the next day and we’re so busy with hosting chores. We always watch either White Christmas or Scrooge(Albert Finney version) right after we come back from the restaurant.
Christmas = baking 5 types of cookies, pies, cupcakes, brownies, and peanut butter fudge with my mom
I love having a baking/candy making day with my family.
My favorite traditions revolve around food! I love eating roast beef and Yorkshire pudding on Christmas.
I love mpaking homempde cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning
My favorite holiday tradition is when I bake my family’s decades-old recipe for sugar cookies on Christmas Eve, followed by midnight mass. All with my family, of course!
A favorite tradition that’s newly formed for my husband and baby and me is buying Christmas ornaments for each other and decorating our tiny NYC window Christmas tree
My extended family (as many as can come) get together every Christmas Eve- there is always so much good food and the time always seems so short.
New Years Day Scrabble marathon, with a dictionary planted next to my Dad’s elbow. You know, just in case.
My favorite holiday tradition is that for Christmas, a friend of my grandma’s always makes our family Potica bread (a Slovenian holiday sweet bread). It’s seriously the best bread ever (which is saying something since I adore carbs of all varieties)!
Latkes!!!!
I love making spritz cookies for our family tradition. It always makes it feel like the holidays.
My immediate family does gift-giving on Christmas Eve. Once we were adults it seemed silly to get up early to open presents and my brother lives over an hour away, and we have actual Christmas celebration at an aunt’s house with the extended family so there isn’t a chance to do it there. Plus we get to sleep in!
Going to our zoo’s Holiday in Lights event.
Every year we get to open one present on Christmas Eve and I was always so disappointed that it was pajamas. Now it is one of my favorite traditions.
Fireworks on winter solstice
We always go to see the huge gingerbread village at a hotel near my house. They serve free hot chocolate and gingersnaps in the lobby too. We have pictures of my son in front of the display every year–starting when he was an infant. Very cool.
My favorite holiday tradition is when my whole family-Mom, Dad, bro, sis-in-law, two nephews and Grandma-go for a horse-drawn carriage ride and drink hot chocolate on Christmas Eve. We’ve always gone to look at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve, but since my oldest nephew was born, we’ve added the carriage ride. Since I live in Texas, there’s not much snow but it usually is cold and it’s just fun to see all the lights and drink hot cocoa and be bundled up. Such fun. 🙂 ❄️⛄️
So fun to read everyone’s different traditions and see a few that were shared by my family. I, also await Thanksgiving as the “Go” for listening to Christmas music. As an adult, my favorite part of Christmas has become the music.
When I was a child there was one night set aside to drive around looking at Christmas lights. We, also were allowed to open one gift on Christmas Eve, usually games to occupy ourselves until the allowed 6:00 a.m. parental wake up.
My mom also loved her Christmas tree and the years we had an artificial tree she had to be pursuaded (in late January) that we really didn’t need Valentines added to the branches. Good times.
Favorite holiday tradition? Going to the movies on Christmas Day night