Sumner and Britta do marriage of convenience right. This hot and steamy arrangement is full of yearning in the most delicious ways. Funny, tender, and achingly sweet, Same Time Next Year is yet another home run for Tessa Bailey.

3.5 ⭐️ || 3 🌶️
This short story started off so cute and then the writing completely fell apart. I usually LOVE Tessa Bailey's work but I personally think that this would have been much better as a full-length book rather than a novella. The story and characters had so much potential but ultimately fell off the deep end of being cringe towards the end.

Pros: "where's my wife?" golden retriever energy
Cons: everything about the front yard soup scene

Thank you Net Galley and Amazon for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

4.5⭐️ This was an excellent novella. He falls (hard) first, marriage of convenience, hockey player. The only thing I really struggled with was the spice seemed to tip toe just a little bit too far. Some of the description/dirty talk could have been left out and would have been fine. The communication from Sumner was incredible. I loved his patience and focus on talking things out.

Thank you to Amazon & NetGalley for an ARC of this book, in exchange for my honest opinion.

I was so excited to learn that Tessa Bailey has written a short story for an Amazon original, that I squealed when I saw it!

This is a novella but it is on the longer side with 144 pages. So a short and quick read, but the signature banter and spice that comes with Tessa’s work is present throughout the story. The ending was super cute, and overall this was an enjoyable “bonus” read from one of my favorite authors!