Betting on Santa, by Debra Salonen

Full disclosure: I got the book in a giveaway in a blog where Ms Salonen was a guest.

Betting on Santa, a Harlequin Superromance, is the second of five titles in the multi-author continuity Texas Hold ‘Em. The continuity follows the fates of a group of long time friends from a small town in Texas, known to their families as the Wild Bunch. This installment tells the story of Cole Lawry and Tessa Jamison.

It is a good idea to keep in mind that while in theory continuities function as mini series—in that main characters from one are secondary characters in another one, and vice versa—the writing voice and characterization are naturally different in each book, written as they are by different authors.

Here is the back cover blurb for Betting on Santa: (more…)