*Can be read as a standalone. A holiday short story based off the international bestseller, For the Love of an Outlaw*Outlaw grizzly shifter, Trigger Massey, has been on the naughty list most of his life, but things are different now. He’s got a new mate, is in a race to save his ranch, and is the brand-new alpha of the Two Claws Clan. Add to that, his mate, Ava, has a serious problem with … Ava, has a serious problem with Christmas, and Trigger has his work cut out for him. This is his first Christmas as leader of his Clan, and he’s taken it as a personal challenge to make it perfect. The only problem? Ava never wanted perfect.
Ava Dorset just needs to get through December, set up her business, save the ranch, and be the best mate she can be to Trigger. He’s a big brawler, who raises his fists first and asks questions later. They’re fresh out of a war with the local cougar clan and looking to stay on the straight-and-narrow until she can get their business off the ground, but the boys find trouble wherever they go and they’re demolishing her plans. All she needs to do is get their focus off the holiday, and back on saving the ranch, but the more Trigger works to get her holiday spirit back, the more she thinks perhaps December isn’t so bad.
Content Warning: Explicit love scenes, naughty language, and piles of sexy shifter secrets. Intended for mature audiences.
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I purchased and read this novella around Christmas time. I hadn’t had a particularly Christmassey themed read and this one seemed like it would fit the bill perfectly. I should point out that I did not know at the time of purchasing this novella was listed as bk1.5, for some reason I got into my head that it was a prequel!! If you check this book out now on Amazon it is listed as bk2. So yep once again I did what is becoming my speciality and read the first two books in the wrong order!
However, it does state on this novella that it can be read as a standalone.
I do enjoy a good shifter clan series and as the title suggests the shifters in this series are “Outlaw Shifters” too which I kind of interpreted as usual shifters with even more attitude! Lol! The cover depicts a hot looking human who we learn in the novella is a shifter.
The book centres on the characters of Ava a fairly new mate to Trigger Massey. Along with Ava’s brother Colton, they make up the at present small clan based on the Two Claws Ranch owned by Trigger and worked & lived on by Trigger, Ava & Colton, Kurt & his son Gunner.
Trigger has found out from Colton that Ava hates Christmas, it brings back too many bad childhood memories. So, she isn’t interested in “doing Christmas” whereas Trigger loves it and decides he is going to convert Ava into loving Christmas again. He decides they will start new traditions that they want to repeat every year. Though Trigger would love to buy her an expensive gift, money on the ranch is still too tight to enable him to do this, which is why he settles on setting up his very own version of the 7 days of Christmas! Or as he names them, 7 Days of Outlaw Christmas.
I almost immediately fell in love with the whole Two Claw Clan. It was amusing to read how the physically strong, moody shifter goes all soft and gooey over having a Christmas for his mate Ava to remember and enjoy. Ava may come across as quite nerdy and maybe quiet but when she says how something needs doing or how she wants something done, Trigger will move anything in the way of him delivering what his true mate wants.
I adored the whole sibling rivalry between Colton and Ava with their love/hate relationship. Ava may come across quiet but she can be loud and bossy when it comes to getting things done and she will go to whatever lengths needed to protect her clan.
My immediate thoughts upon finishing this brilliant novella were, wow when can I read more? I thought this was a great novella with a Christmas theme within it and certainly made me want to read much more about Ava, Trigger & Colton etc.
Title: A Very Outlaw Christmas
Series: Outlaw Shifter #1.5
Release Date: #AlreadyReleased
Author: T. S. Joyce
Reviewer: Ingrid Stephanie Jordan
Serial: Standalone, No Cliffhanger
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Ms. T.S. is letting us spend Christmas with her at 1010 – cutting out and baking those special Christmas cookies. Making the cabin smell like a bakery and outside smells fresh and krisp. This is a cute, short but sweet Christmas story.
Trigger Massey aka: Tig is a Outlaw Grizzly Bear Shifter who inherited the Two Claw Ranch in Darby, Montana. Ava Dorset is Human and hates Christmas, her mate is going to try and change that. Trigger brings together the Spirit of Christmas to his family, Ava, Colton, Kurt and Gunner.
A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book and my comments here are my honest opinion
Trigger Massey, and the naughty list, poor man he has been on that list his entire life so far, but Ava Dorset has managed to change that, when she blew into his life again.
Trig now has a new mate, and trying to save his ranch and somehow has managed to become Alpha of a brand new Clan, Two Claws Clan.
This is going to be their first Christmas not just as a clan but having a mate to share his life with.
He wants to make this holiday the best he can for Ava, but Ava has a thing against Christmas, bad memories and she has not celebrated this holiday in ages. Can Trig change her mind and make it special for her and for the Clan.
If you want to read a great and soft Christmas story this is one of them, I know how Ava feels, and I know how hard it is to celebrate the Holidays. To have a man at her side to make is special and to make sure she loves it, is a special thing, I would call it a Christmas miracle.
Putting the joy back in Christmas
This was such a fantastic holiday follow up to the previous book! I love that we got to see more of the characters and what shaped them. The author really put the fun in the holidays with the clans outlaw way of celebrating. I found the humor entertaining and I was crying right along with the characters by the end. I enjoyed this book and can’t wait to read the next book in the series.
In this book Trig is trying to get Ava interested in Christmas. Her and Colt (her brother) had a crappy life, Colt raised her But with money hard to come by and her dad left, Christmas is not big thing for her. Trig is trying to hold the ranch together and getting used to being the alpha.