Hot Winter Nights Book Review

I saw this in the new release section when I went to the library to find some new reading material.  Hot Winter Nights: A Heartbreaker Bay Novel by Jill Shalvis was a new release and I didn't know where it was in the series.  I looked it up after reading it which is not like me but I figured that if it was good, I would look into the rest of the series.  This was the 6th book in the series.

Who needs mistletoe?  Most people wouldn’t think of a bad Santa case as the perfect Christmas gift. Then again, Molly Malone, office manager at Hunt Investigations, isn’t most people, and she could really use a distraction from the fantasies she’s been having since spending the night with her very secret crush, Lucas Knight. Nothing happened, not that Lucas knows that—but Molly just wants to enjoy being a little naughty for once . . .Whiskey and pain meds for almost-healed bullet wounds don’t mix. Lucas needs to remember that next time he’s shot on the job, which may be sooner rather than later if Molly’s brother, Joe, finds out about them. Lucas can’t believe he’s drawing a blank on his (supposedly) passionate tryst with Molly, who’s the hottest, smartest, strongest woman he’s ever known. Strong enough to kick his butt if she discovers he’s been assigned to babysit her on her first case. And hot enough to melt his cold heart this Christmas.

Molly was running the investigation office but wanted to do more.  All of the men at the firm wanted to protect her and didn't want her to do dangerous work.  Molly went to the bar on a night that Lucas, her co-worker, mixed pain meds with whiskey and she helped him home.  Because he was not doing really well, she decided to stay there but Lucas couldn't remember the night.  Molly used that against him to black mail him into helping her with an off the books case.  Lucas knows that if something happened between them that his best friend who is Molly's brother would kill him.  Molly and Lucas work together to help the older women who are working at the Santa's Village that stop paying them all that they expected.  They decided that something that Molly could help them get their money but they found so much more.  I hope that you pick it up and find out what is going on at Santa's Village.  I thought it was a super fun and quick read that was great to read. I am going to check out others in the series to see if there are some more fun reads.  I hope that you enjoy the series as well.