It's Christmas, which means screaming kids, carols on repeat, and angry impatient parents giving me the evil eye. Every year I think this part-time gig as Santa's helper will fill me with Christmas cheer and every year I'm left at Santa's altar while he's off drinking himself into a stupor. It's time I gave up and quit this nonsense already. But then the latest Santa rent-a-drunk—Luke—turns out not to be a drunk at all. In fact, he's a hunky hottie that has me drooling and falling all over myself. I may not get filled with Christmas cheer this year, but maybe I can get this sexy Santa to stuff my stocking...

Scarlet's a force to be reckoned with. This little firecracker has given me the cold shoulder before I could so much as introduce myself. But the moment I slip out of that heat trap of a Santa costume, suddenly she can't look away. Before I know it, she's throwing me into the back of her car and the next thing I know, we're knockin' stockings. Not that I'm complaining. But I want to tame this firecracker and stick around longer than the holiday season. Is this a Christmas fling or the real thing?

Scarlet's Naughty Christmas is part of Max Watson's Bubble Bath Romance collection. Each standalone short story is intended to be read in one sitting—in a hot and steamy bubble bath! Each book features steamy romance with an HEA.