The Hot Chocolate Shop

A Book Club Romance

By: Jennifer Griffith

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A book club, swirling snowfalls of love, and a cup of hot chocolate.

Grant Calhoun is working around the clock in his laboratory in Wilder River to create the perfect hair product. He doesn’t have time for fiction reading, even though it’s always been his favorite pastime. If he doesn’t finish the formula before Christmas, his beloved company—and his grandfather’s legacy—could go down in flames.

Roxanna Reid needs to join a book club to satisfy a professor’s whim before she can get her master’s degree started. Lucky for her, the perfect book club, Twelve Slays of Christmas, just launched at The Hot Chocolate Shop in Wilder River, the small town where she’s temporarily working. Unlucky for her—she can’t join it.

Unless Grant Calhoun joins.

Meanwhile, Roxanna is harboring a secret, one that makes her Grant’s biggest enemy—and neither of them knows it.

Yet.

All books in the Christmas House Romance series are clean, standalone novels by USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Griffith. They all feature Christmas traditions, family love, and swoonworthy and flutter-filled kisses. They're perfect holiday escapes any time of year.

Christmas House Romances
The Christmas Cookie House
The Sleigh Bells Chalet
The Holiday Hunting Lodge
The Peppermint Drop Inn
The Candy Cane Cottage
The Hot Chocolate Shop
Starlight Haven
The Candlelight Chapel
The Mistletoe Lift
Yuletide Manor

Author’s Note: All books in this series of clean Christmas romances celebrate family, tradition, Christmas, belief, and love.

They are all standalone romances, but they do connect in the small town world and can be best enjoyed in a “loop.” Book 1 leads to book 2, and so on, and at the end, book 10 loops back to book 1, with recurring characters.

In other words, a reader can start with any book, read the subsequent book, and then complete the loop.

Enjoyed the Story

I enjoyed this story. I read it out of order and it definitely made me want to read the others in the series. I wasn't thrilled with virtual voice. It was so mechanical. I tried speeding it up and was able to listen to it. However it would have been so much better with real narration.

The AI reader

Couldn’t get into book as AI reader was too bland and monotone. Never want another AI book!!