Baby, It's Cold Outside

By: Jennifer Probst, Emma Chase, Kristen Proby, Melody Anne, Kate Meader

Narrated by: Deacon Lee, Madeleine Maby, Rebekkah Ross, Sebastian York

New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling indie authors Jennifer Probst, Emma Chase, Kristen Proby, Melody Anne, and debut author Kate Meader come together to write a sizzling romance anthology.

Outside it may be frosty, so turn the heat way up with these stories of desire!

Can a determined woman executive and a playboy billionaire survive being stranded together in a snowstorm? Jennifer Probst depicts an encounter almost too hot to handle…

Drew and Kate play an encore to Tangled in this sexy take on a “Christmas Carol” by Emma Chase. When a Christmas Eve argument condemns Drew to a troubled night, three dream women teach him that no gift could be more tantalizing than Kate…

With Kristen Proby, ski slopes are quite delightful. Grace Douglas is sure she’ll never learn to ski, but instructor Jacob Baxter could teach her lessons of a different kind…

Can a southern California transplant survive Montana’s deep snows? Melody Anne, author of the bestselling Andersons series, melts the icy drifts completely away with the heat between sexy Hawk Winchester and brand-new teacher Natalie Duncan…

What could be hotter than a firefighter? Kate Meader shows how hot it can get as Beck Rivera and heiress-turned-tattoo-artist Darcy Cochrane discover that nothing ignites holiday flames like rekindling a lost love…

3 out of 5

I listened to this book of stories because of Emma Chase. I have listened to other books by her and this story was about two of her characters in another book. I’d never heard of the other authors, and really like the first author Kristin Proby. Then there were two authors in between and honestly they could’ve been written by 8th graders with porn involved. So poorly crafted and the narrators added to the pedestrian stories about nothing.
It’s really important to have great narrators… they can sometimes help a poor story along. But an uninspired narrator and stupid plots don’t help. I’m still on the fence about the last story, but Sebastian York was the male narrator.. honestly he could read a phone book and I’d listen. I am going to find some other books by Kristin Proby. I think I might like her books.

A mixed bag of holiday stories - the first three from familiar series

It would have been handy to have had a brief introduction to each story placing it into which series each story was part of in case the reader was unfamiliar or wanted to hear more. The five short stories varied and were an anthology not meant to relate to each other which seems to have resulted in some confusion in the reviews. The books details indicated this but didn’t elicit the series of each or in what order they fit with other books in each series so it appears to be a bit confusing. The narration was also mixed with stories performed by familiar pros - Madeleine Maby, Sebastian York but stories 3&4 were read by Elizabeth Louise and Deacon Lee who were only so-so. Not a bad choice if you like some of these series but would be great if it had been added to the Romance Package.

Saving Grace

I have only listened to Saving Grace by Kristen Proby, so I'm limiting my review to that audio. This is a novella that connects with Proby's Love Under the Big Sky series, and I absolutely loved this! The same narrators from that series did this story- Deacon Lee and Elizabeth Louise- did a fantastic job!

Mixed feelings

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Get rid of some of the stories and develop others.

If you’ve listened to books by the authors before, how does this one compare?

It felt juvenile. The problem with short stories is that the ho from meet/cute to madly in love. There's no character development so it feels unbelievable.

Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

The performances were all great. This is a collection of some of my favorites, BUT having the narrators read more than one short story was a little confusing. It ft like the characters were crossing over.

Any additional comments?

I checked this out specifically because of Emma Chase. Drew's story made me sad. I think I'd suggest saving the money and credit.

Great book with short stories

loved how the book covered every important part in a short story. All the stories were completed with detail.