A Crimson Ridge Christmas
Elliott Rose
Crimson Ridge #2.5 & #4.5
Two Spicy holiday Novellas in one Sexy package
Cover and Synopsis
A Crimson Ridge Christmas Cover & Blurb
Two steamy taboo relationships, two cheating exes, one drunken three-way, a hot dad, a snowstorm, and just enough sexy cowboys in ugly Christmas sweaters…
Bouquets & Buckles
My plan was to visit my boyfriend back home in Crimson Ridge for the holidays. Instead I uncovered the worst kind of betrayal. Now, I’m hiding from the guy I just caught cheating on me, while stranded with a snowstorm approaching.
All it took was a slip of my thumb. Instead of dialing my best friend for help, I accidentally called my life-long cowboy crush—my best friend’s father. If we get snowed in together on his ranch tonight, how am I supposed to resist my every teenage fantasy when he’s looking at me like that?
Saddles & Snowfall
Tonight’s college party to celebrate the festive season—ugly Christmas sweaters, holiday cookies and all—is turned upside down by news of my ex-girlfriend’s extracurricular activities. That leaves a bitter taste that not even rounds of tequila shots can chase away.
In strolls an offer to get very naughty indeed. A drunken three-way is the perfect cure to forget about cheating exes, right? Only problem, the hot cowboy who just walked in is the last person I should be putting my hands, or anything else, on. My ex-girlfriend’s brother…
Book Information
A Crimson Ridge Christmas
Published October 2026 by Kensington Publishing.
Genre : Romance, Holiday Romance
Pages : 304 pages, Paperback
A Crimson Ridge Christmas contains two holiday novellas.
The previously independently released Bouquets & Buckles and the never released, Saddles & Snowfall.
Saddles & Snowfall Tropes
Ex’s brother
Grumpy/Sunshine
Rancher / Horse trainer
“You never hooked up with a guy before, cowboy?”
A threesome turned mistaken identity
Snow ball fights lead to snow balling of a different kind
Bouquets & Buckles Tropes
Best friend’s Dad
Gruff Rancher / Pink-haired, Tatt’d Florist
Snowed in on Christmas Eve
Discovering your ex is cheating on you
Whiskey, lingerie, and spitting
Flirty texts
“Our secret.”
Review
A Crimson Ridge Christmas by Elliott Rose
Minor Spoilers
A Crimson Ridge Christmas is a collection of spicy holiday novellas. Bouquets & Buckles and Saddles & Snowfall are interconnected stand-alone novellas from the Crimson Ridge Universe by Elliott Rose. You do not have to read the series. There is no connection to the full length Crimson Ridge novels or overlap of characters.
I received an advanced eARC of A Crimson Ridge Christmas from the publisher for review purposes. As always babes, these are my honest thoughts and opinions.
Saddles & Snowfall by Elliott Rose
slutty glasses & Ugly Christmas Sweaters
Happy Christmas orgasm cornucopia to me.
Saddles & Snowfall was an absolute delight to read. I adored Brad & Flinn. They are both so freaking adorable it is unfit. Brad is from Crimson Ridge but he and his home town bff, Sky, are both in the city for school. Saddles & Snowfall opens just before it’s time for both of them to head home for the holidays. AKA Christmas Party time, university style. Flinn is in town to help pack up his sister and take her home. That sister, who is a miserable bitch by the way, just so happens to be Brad’s ex. Honestly, I don’t know if I dislike her more than Beau’s ex wife or not but the two of them are hateful and are in need of therapy.
Brad & Flinn meet under unusual circumstances with a heaping side of mistaken identity. Their meet-cute was so fitting for a couple of young cowboys in a university town at Christmas. And then Rose takes that cuteness to the next level by having these two snowed in together. I was honestly giddy the entire time I was reading Saddles & Snowfall. So much fun. Personally, I think it is the cutest Crimson Ridge story of the series.
“Goddamn, I want you to make a mess inside these pants. I want to know I did that to you.”
Bouquets & Buckles by Elliott Rose
Just the tip
God, I’ve got to get my ovaries under control and stop drooling over this cowboy.
Bouquets & Buckles is about Brad’s bff, Sky & his dad, Luke. Both characters we first meet in Saddles & Snowfall. While Bouquets & Buckles was independently published first, chronologically it takes place after Saddles & Snowfall. Brad and Flinn are already a couple by time Sky starts hooking up with his dad. Sky has had the hots for Luke for quite some time. Luke on the other hand is only now noticing Sky as anything other than his son’s childhood best friend.
I instantly fell in love with Luke. He is the epitome of grumpy old man and this grinch is hilarious. I loved it. Honestly, I fell in love with both of the Rhodes men. They are fantastic. When Sky gets a flat tire one heartbreaking & devastating night over the holiday break, Luke comes to her rescue. One thing leads to another and because this is Crimson Ridge, they find themselves snowed in together. It’s a remote mountain town in the winter, snow happens.
I didn’t enjoy Bouquets & Buckles as much as Saddles & Snowfall. It was good. The writing, the spice, characters are all wonderful. As it always is with Rose. Brad & Flinn were just so adorable. They were too adorable honestly. Also, I just don’t love age gaps where the characters knew each other when one of them was underage. That said, Rose does make it clear Luke never took notice of Sky. She was Brad’s best friend and he was just happy his son had a friend. It’s not until Sky is an adult building her empire that he notices her.
“No one needs to know. Just the tip.”
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