Dive bartender Blake Pritchard has zero interest in joining in the silliness of his town’s Fall Festival, including a new ghost tour of a house that’s definitely not haunted. Blake’s ex girlfriend and local historian Dahlia Jordan is determined to get Blake into the spirit, and bets him that he won’t last one night at the haunted house without getting properly spooked. This is a very quick, … a very quick, silly, sexy short-read stand alone about second chances. HEA, no cheating, no cliffhanger. Includes a dunk tank, pound cake, dubious points of interest and lots of other Halloween festival shenanigans.
This book contains graphic sexy times. Intended for readers 18 and older!
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What a spooktacular little second chance novella. Loved the Halloween theme and the suspense.
What an adorable Halloween story!!
Blake owns a dive bar in his small home town and his ex-girlfriend, Dahlia has been back in town for the last six months. She’s the new Tourism director for the town and she’s got all kinds of plans for the Halloween Fall Festival. Ones she’s planning on making Blake a part of whether he likes it or not. This is a super fun Halloween story that everyone will enjoy. Grab it today, you won’t be disappointed!!!
Oh my heart! Abby Knox is becoming synonymous with adorable, sexy romances to this reader. Her characters are unique and you can’t help but love them. The Halloween Bet was the best yet, sweet yet spooky! Blake and Dahlia were a couple until it all went wrong. She left town and he became a grumpy bartender. Now she is back and the two years she was gone haven’t dimmed her sparkle. Working as the tourism manager for their town, she has pulled off an amazing Fall Festival. Now she wants him to help her and he cannot bring himself to resist. This couple was so freaking adorable, the banter and their inner monologue of how they really feel left me in a permanent state of delight! All the stars for Blake and Dahlia!
I adored everything about this insta love Halloween story!!
Dahlia is organizing the Halloween festivities for her town when she encounters a small problem. She than turns to the only one who can help. Her hunky ex Blake.
Blake isn’t in the mood for Halloween cheer but there’s no way he can turn down his beautiful ex. So when she needs his help with a haunted house, he’s all in.
Very quick, fun read with a Halloween theme. I enjoyed it very much. 5 star read!!
Seriously can you really get better then a Halloween themed second chance romance? I don’t think so, and this is the perfect holiday read!! I loved everything about this story because it brought out my two favorite loves: a hot romance and some spooky laughs! This author did an amazing job of balancing the character’s romance, with their past, the quarky town, the fun elements to make this the best story.
I loved the characters, their thoughts, actions and humor. I mean a grumpy like bartender, a happy go lucky lady and antics? Yep, loved it all!! This might be one of my favorites from thus author yet (and that’s a bold statement because I love her writing). I highly recommend. I received an ARC and I am leaving an honest review.
Halloween story.
Blake and Dahlia were an item two years ago when he broke her heart and she left town.
Blake now the sole proprietor of the only bar in town still pines over his loss, she made him happy she made him smile he loved her enough to let her go. Dummy.
Dahlia is back after graduating college and receiving her hospitality and historic degrees. She is taking over the historic society. But she lives Halloween so this is their story.
Blake now grumpy and argumentative can’t seem to say no to the always cheerful Dahlia, so when she needs someone to fill in for the town doctor at the dunk tank, he grumpily goes, but he can’t help and rile her up on the walk over, their panter is infectious. So when she talks him into helping judge the pumpkin bunt cake contest, he grumpily agrees, and when she bets him the old Milton house is haunted he grudgingly takes the bet. But something is a miss when all the people she signed up for the ghost tour don’t show up and the page for the tour has been erased from the towns website. What they both get is scared of of their minds Dahlia by fear of ghosts and Blake things become all to real. When he witnesses the love of his life have a break down he rushes into action the only way he knows how clothes off, non sexual skin contact. Yeah that works along with some apologizing and makeup sex. Only to be interrupted by a face in the mirror that is not theirs. Spooky, until Blake is kidnapped and thrown into a trunk? Apparently the mayor and his wife are up to no good. Dahlia is assaulted and tied to a chair. How does she get free, the ghost of the Milton House perhaps? So a year later a new mayor since the previous mayor Hall mysteriously disappeared a year ago, his wife and co conspirators are in jail, guess who the new mayor is, I’m not telling.
Happy Halloween
I received a advance copy of the story from the author for my honest review.
So, I’m sure I’ve read this one before, but for some reason never rated it, marked it as read, or reviewed it!
Well, I decided to reread this again, I’m trying to get in the Halloween mood for my crafts I’m currently doing so I figured what better book than a second-chance romance with a brooding male, who seems to make people around the town hate him along with a perky female who’s all in the Halloween spirit!
Blake wants absolutely nothing to do with the Halloween shenanigans that Dahlia has organized for the town’s Fall Festival. Yet, she somehow suckered him into filling in for the dunk tank, judging a pumpkin pound cake competition, and the worst thing she’s sucked him into? A spur of the moment ghost tour of the little town, ending in a bet that she can get him to believe in ghosts.
What started out as a day full of nuisances, ends with a night that has turned Blake’s life around. Now that he has Dahlia back in his life and in his arms he won’t let her get away again.
**Notes on the story**
-Second Chance Romance
-No partners between the two year split
-Heroine a virgin before she got with hero
-Hero is definitely the kind of grumpy male that makes you laugh and think of ways to make him smile!
I wanted to squeeze in one more Halloween story and I’m so glad I did!! I absolutely adored this!
This second chance romance novella was a perfect mixture of sweet and suspenseful and sexy.
Blake is deliciously grumpy and growly.
Dahlia is delightfully peppy and beautiful.
Put them together and what do you get?
Sparks and tingles galore! And feelings that never went away.
This quick read was cute, it was fun, and made my heart happy.
This was my first read by this author and I look forward to more!
I absolutely love this Halloween read by Abby Knox. ‘The Halloween Bet’ is a thoroughly enjoyable quick read just in time for fright night. I adore Blake in all his flannel shirt, perma scowl, sexy goodness. He’s a grump and nobody writes grumpy male leads like Abby Knox. Delilah is delightful, she’s a fireball of energy and sweeter than Halloween candy. Thrown together during the fall festival these two get their second chance at happily ever after and it is adorable. Treat yourself to this gem of a book – add this charming book to your TBR list and read it while handing out candy .