Life in Rook & Ronin’s world has been bliss for fifteen years. Rook, Veronica, and Ashleigh are still BFF’s raising their kids together. Ronin, Spencer, and Ford have managed to go legit and stay out of trouble. And they have a pack of kids running around the eight thousand square foot Vail mansion they all share for the holidays—begging for gifts, and fun, and love.But every HEA has problems. love.
But every HEA has problems.
Five is fifteen and getting ready to go off to college. He’s put it off as long as he could in order to stay close to Princess Shrike, but his stay of execution is over and in three weeks he’s off to Oxford. But Five can’t leave until he gets the only thing he’s ever wanted. The heart of his Princess.
Ford and Ashleigh never had any more children after Five. And now that Kate is sixteen, Ashleigh is out of her head with desire for just one more chance to have a baby in the house.
Rook and Ronin have two beautiful daughters, but Sparrow is growing up too. And she just got a job offer that has Ronin crazed with paternal worry.
And Spencer is the father of a fifteen-year-old princess who looks way too much like her Bombshell mother for his comfort level.
Join the whole Rook & Ronin gang for a Team Christmas you will never forget.
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awe this is such a cute ending to the series. i loved these check ins with everyone. i cant believe the next generation is happening
Fifteen years have come and gone for the Team and they have ten….count “em, 10 children between from infant to teenage. Times have changed and although there are new sets of challenges facing Rook & Ronin, Ashleigh & Ford and Ronnie & Spencer, one thing that has not changed is their love for one another. They will rise up and meet each new set of circumstances successfully because that’s what they do.
Weeeeee *throws glitter everywhere * I loved this so hard! This story made me so happy, I can’t stop smiling! I love, love, love them all so much! It’s great to see the place where everyone is at 15 years later. It makes my cold dead heart start to grow a little with all the love and happy in this book.
I am a huge Spencer lover so I pretty much loved everything with him in it. Holding a baby. Boom. Ovaries explode. Him talking to Five about Rory. I want to do several inappropriate things to his body. The end with him and his Bomb. Gah! Great big girly sigh!
What a great novella for “The Team” fans! I can not wait for Five and Rory’s book!!
“That Special First Kiss”
Joy is the overriding emotion I felt after reading this lovely Christmas novella. The reader involved in the entire series cannot help but feel absolute uplifting joy as these characters have grown into Mommies, Daddies with very special children. That they have come through the sorrows and troubles in the nighttime of their lives, That they took their special someone gifted to them by Fate or Providence or the Lord above and made some unique and beautiful offspring. “Joy comes in the morning” – Psalm 30
At Christmas the gigantic Vail mansion is filled with the three families celebrating separately and together. This is the year that things will begin to change. Rook gently told Ronin that he needed to be more present in his little girl’s lives so as not to miss the years they come into their maturity. He finds the trust he needs to have in Sparrow and Rook to allow Sparrow to do some equestrian modeling. Ford finally reads the subtle clues and messages about Ashleigh’s desire to have another baby and despite his worries, he is on board with having another child and ready to get to work.
Spencer’s Bombshell is feeling blue and unattractive. She is recovering from her newest of the 6 children she has: All little girls and one next to the last in line a boy. These minor problems work there way to solutions as the stillness and the newness of the eve before the day we celebrate the power of love which was gifted to mankind and all he earth.
Most notably is a teenage love that may turn out to be a forever love between Five, Ford’s son and Rory, Spencer’s first daughter. Ford is off to study at Oxford in England. While Rory will have the normal American High School experience. They will change and only the future knows how they will change and if their love will survive. Ford needed his first kiss to be with Rory and she needed her first kiss to be with Ford. The extraordinary boy that he is, he created a very special phone app for her because…”Because I’m going to make sure , no matter what happens , there will always be an us.” – Five While Rory may not have the genius level left brain intelligence, Rory is surprisingly emotionally intelligent and her genius is in her interpersonal skills.
This novella was like looking at a snapshot of time. Love in action in all relationships both in the family unit and the members of the team interacting with one another. There is so much more promise in the strong foundations of love. Come what may they are prepared to guide their children through to their dreams. They stand by each other through thick and thin. And from this rich soil of love and family already two beautiful blossoms have sprouted both reaching out to each other through a first kiss to one day bring forth even more joy as they negotiate the challenges of their circumstances of separation and different paths of learning.
The book was sweet,very sexy,a little tension but nothing to make the reader overwrought. It was a lovely commentary on how fast life slips by one and we all must try to pay attention and appreciate those we love before it is too late. There is such joy in holding close your little loves and your important loved ones. The reader finds themselves wishing upon the brightest star for good things as Rook is wont to do on Christmas Eve. How perfect! A guiding star!