Title:
⟫ North’s Pole

Author:
⟫ Leta Blake

Rating:
⟫ 3.5/5

Blurb:
⟫
Located
on the shores of Lake Pend Oreille in beautiful Northern Idaho, Camp
Bay Chalet is a discrete and cosy B&B, popular with both locals
and minor celebrities for its fabulous holiday weekends.

The
pic seen around the world….

The
son of Hollywood royalty, North Astor-Ford has lived his entire life
in the public’s eye. He knows better than anyone that someone is
always watching.

So
when one not-so-innocent picture meant for a hook-up accidentally
ends up cross-posted across all his
social media, North is left humiliated and scared. With no one to
turn to, he flees to Camp Bay Chalet to be close to the one person he
used to count on to protect him from the world.

Liam’s
life has been in a holding pattern since the moment North fired him
three years ago, even if it was for the best. A romance between a
bodyguard and his client would’ve caused exactly the sort of
scandal Liam was hired to prevent.

Now
that North is back in his orbit, Liam’s going to do what he does
best, protect North from the world. And maybe, just maybe, the charm
of a Camp Bay Chalet Christmas will be enough to both heal North and
bring about the romance they’ve both always wanted.

North’s
Pole takes
place in the Camp
Bay shared
universe, but can be read as a stand-alone. Look for more of the Camp
Bay universe
in Stolen
Christmas by
Marie Sexton.

Review:
⟫ Despite the raunchiness of the initial subject matter,
this was a very sweet, quite romantic story with some sexy times
thrown in. North was a really sweet guy – slightly naive and
perhaps even gullible considering his upbringing, and not the
brightest bulb in the box. His humiliation and anguish at the
accidental pic that went around the world was palpable and actually
made me think about real-life celebrities and wonder how they cope
when sex tapes, etc. get released.

Liam
was the official white knight – riding to the rescue and taking
care of North the way he always did in the past. I thought it was
really interesting the circumstances behind him getting fired –
both he and North actually handled that with maturity and quite a lot
of dignity.

Camp
Bay sounds absolutely lovely, especially around Christmas time and
this was all-in-all, a lovely Christmas read. The ages of the MCs
bothered me a bit – they both seemed so long to be riding into the
sunset, but the epilogue definitely helped there – and I quite
enjoyed the read. I haven’t read any other books set in the Camp
Bay verse but I will keep a look out.

I
received an ARC from GRR.