“Just a short trip to Monte Carlo,” they said. “You’ll be back before Christmas,” they said.

Well, Carmen Ortiz has been in the French Riviera for weeks now, and there’s no end in sight. If she can’t complete her impossible mission, she’ll spend the rest of December in a hotel instead of in Tennessee with her family. She’s not used to asking for help, but when her inconveniently attractive bestie shows up and refuses to let her face the music alone, she could just kiss him. And with the weird way he’s acting, he might not mind…

Tim (AKA Beast) has two objectives: get Carmen home to her family for the holidays, and confess the things in his heart that are better shared in person. But when he tracks her down in the glittering nightlife of Monte Carlo, she clearly needs a bodyguard, and he’s the best man for the job. She won’t even consider hopping on a plane—or listening with half a brain to what he wants to tell her—until she completes the secret assignment that’s landed them between the Mediterranean Sea and the Alps in the last few days before Christmas.

Join the Ortiz family for the holidays with this final installment in the series, a closed-door Christmas romcom with bodyguards, banter, and true love. Our black cat and golden retriever protagonists must face their feelings, as well as a wee bit of spy action and danger. This romance is kisses only!