I am so glad that I had the opportunity to review this book.  Initially when I requested it, I thought it was the first in the series, thinking maybe the publisher was doing a re-release? Nah, just a similar color scheme.  Straight to the library I went to immediately read the first two books and two novellas.  I feel HARD for this series.  It's so good, fun but serious, but not in a take itself too serious, serious way.  I was so excited to finally read about Isaac and just as a I suspected, this was my favorite book in the series. Julie and Sierra write so beautifully.  This is odd, but honestly what I loved the most, was the elevated vocabulary.  I don't know how many times I used the highlight function on my Kindle to learn what words mean.  They were always used in a way that I had an understanding of what they meant, but I learned SO MANY new words via this series and specifically A Jingle Bell Mingle.  It wasn't done in a pretentious way, either.  I literally kept saying to myself, "Jeez these women are so smart." and it truly shows in the writing.

I loved the dynamic between the two MCs. Nepo, Southern California babies.  Both dealing with grief in some way.  I did get annoyed with Isaac for constantly going back to his wife and his grief, but honestly, if I were to put myself in his shoes, would I not feel the same way? 

The spice was spicing and honestly, Sierra and Julie write some of the BEST spice. 

Hands down, five stars.  I hope these two pair up in the future and continue to write.  I'll be pre-ordering it in a Christmas Notch second.

I was offered a free ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.