Christmas off Script Release

Christmas off Script Release

Are you ready for the swooniest Christmas book you’ve ever read? I am sooo in love with this story! Ella and Leo are 😍😍😍 from start to finish, and I know you’ll adore them! I always wanted to write a book set around a Christmas panto, and using Cinderella gave me the chance to write a modern fairytale with the Duke of Somerset’s son Leo, and his best friend from the other side of the tracks, Ella.
We meet them both in Love ad Lib and they appear again in The Upper Crush. Finally they get their own story, and what a story it is!

If you love:

🎄 Christmas

💞 Friends to lovers

🔥 All the festive spice

🤣 A sackful of lols

😍 Your favourite characters from the Foxbrooke series

Then you need Christmas off Script in your life!

True stories, real places, and inspiration for Christmas off Script

This holiday romcom is set firmly in Foxbrooke, which is based on Corsham where I grew up, and Christmas off Script features many real-life places such as Corsham Court which I based Foxbrooke Manor on, the Theatre Royal in Bath, and many other locations around the south-west of the UK where I live.

If you want to see some of the places that inspired Christmas off Script and read excerpts set in each place via the 🐿️ app, then check out the location map here!

Being a Christmas book, I have also taken inspiration from my Christmas-obsessed husband, for whom the festive season finally finishes at the start of February, and then starts up again in March when he starts making Christmas puddings (note the plural)…

There is literally no other human on this planet more captivated by the Christmas season than the man I married. He has thousands upon thousands of hours of Christmas music and films, a bookcase full of Christmas books, and would change our surname to ‘Christmas’ in a heartbeat if I let him. 

He makes mincemeat and mince pies from scratch (over a hundred in October and then freezes them), the Christmas cake in August, and limoncello and lebkuchen just like Leo and Ella. So, not surprisingly, I’ve dedicated this book to him (even though he hates romance novels)…

The Love Position reviews

There have been some FABULOUS early reviews of Christmas off Script – check some of them out below!

 

“This book is a warm hug I think everyone needs….

The story includes some of the funniest lines I have ever read, honestly I was howling! A pantomime was everything I have ever needed in a romance book…

… One of my favourite things about Evie’s writing is the realism used there is no super crazy expectations in bed! It feels so real, like I’m gossiping with Ella and she’s telling me all about it! Evie’s writing never fails to impact my life in every way possible. This book does not disappoint, as someone who really is not a Christmas girlie, this was fantastic and my new staple of a Christmas book to read each year! Wow what a fantastic instalment in the foxbrooke series!

Sophie

 

“A Christmas themed book by one of my favourite authors? It doesn’t get any better than this! This book was everything I hoped it would be and more! It was an absolute joy from start to finish. I was laughing and smiling so much! An instant mood booster and such a sweet escape!
As with all of Evie’s books, her writing is so vivid and lively that I could see every scene playing out in my mind. There is so much spice and lots of laughs too! The ending was perfect! It gave me chills and I couldn’t stop smiling! ”

Lindsey

 

“It is official.  I love Foxbrooke and the entire Foxbrooke family.  Book 5 of the series gives us Leo Foxbrooke’s story.  His friends-to-lovers tale with BFF(FFFFF) Ella was absolutely delightful.  They are both sweet and gorgeous characters with a long lasting special friendship and an intense love of all things Christmas.  Set prior to Christmas, amidst rehearsals for the pantomime ‘Cinderella’, Evie milks Christmas for all it is worth, and I loved every minute of it.  There is plenty of angst, hilarity, swoon and spice, with over the top characters (both delightful and despicable), ridiculous situations, festive puns a plenty, and a whole lot of FUN.  I loved that it all takes place in and around Foxbrooke Manor, where I could wallow in all the Foxbrooke eccentricity and sweetness, and the happily ever after was perfection.  My new ‘must-read’ festive favourite.

Sarah

“Oh. My. Goodness. 🎄 “Christmas Off Script” by Evie Alexander is an absolute festive gem, and I’m completely in love with it! 😍 I’ve adored all of Evie’s books, but this one? Am I allowed to have faves? Because I think this is it. Evie has totally nailed it with this friends-to-lovers story. 💕

Usually, I’m a bit hesitant when it comes to that trope, but Evie has worked her magic again! ✨ I fell head over heels for Leo and Ella…I loved how their relationship unfolded. It felt so real, so natural, and I was rooting so hard for them. 🙌

The pantomime scenes were utterly hilarious. 🎭 I’ve been going to pantos since I was three and really this was one of the funniest scripts ever. I was in stitches reading it. 😂This book is Christmas perfection and will leave you with the biggest smile on your face!! 😁 I can’t recommend it enough! Buy it and read it ASAP! 📚✨

Margaret Amatt

 

“Every time I’m lucky enough to get my hands on a new book by Evie, I know that I’m in for a treat!

I didn’t think I could love any one book more than the others, but combining the usual inimitable style that I’ve come to love with a Christmas theme just made this the best one ever!!

Preparing for Christmas and planning the panto made for the perfect festive backdrop to Ella and Leo’s story and the Foxbrooke family are all out in force which was an absolute joy….

I honestly didn’t stop giggling throughout this one. Cheesy cracker jokes, Christmas puns, hilarious panto lines and props (yes Arthur, I’m looking at you here!) are just some of the gifts in store. With the usual inclusion of pitfalls and super spicy scenes along the way – you’ll have to read to find out how things develop!?I absolutely cannot do this book justice in my meagre words but all I can say is that if you haven’t already read this series – go grab them all now!

Sonja

If you’ve read and enjoyed Christmas off Script, I would LOVE for you to write me a review! They make SUCH a difference and don’t have to be long! You can review Christmas off Script on Apple, Amazon, Google Play, Kobo, Barnes & Noble,Goodreads, Bookbub and on any other platform you like!

Steamy scenes in Christmas off Script

Christmas off Script contains five steamy scenes that are guaranteed to make you hot under the collar. As always, there’s my fabulous invention, the ‘sex index’ at the back of the book where you can easily find and re-read the spicy bits!

Here’s what you can enjoy in Christmas off Script…

Chapter 15 – Time for Cinderella to practise kissing with Prince Charming Humpalot

Chapter 17 – Best friends give the best orgasms

Chapter 18 – After a near-death experience, it’s time to affirm life

Chapter 20 – That’s a novel way to practise for the Christmas quiz…

Chapter 28 – Curtain down, clothes off!

Christmas off Script blurb

🎄 ’Tis the season to fall in love… 💖

Best friends Leo Foxbrooke and Ella Chamberlain love Christmas and each other—in a strictly platonic way, of course. The only secret they’ve ever kept from each other is a mutual crush they had when teenagers. But the timing was never right.

Until now…

Dumped by her boyfriend, Ella’s facing Christmas homeless and alone. The only ray of sunshine in her life is Leo and his family, who welcome her into Foxbrooke Manor. Staying in the bedroom next to Leo’s is a luxury and means more time together prepping for the Christmas pantomime.

Leo always plays a side role, and Ella paints the sets. But as the clock ticks down to Christmas, they find themselves centre stage playing Cinderella and Prince Charming. Rehearsal kisses between best friends should be easy. Right? So why do they feel so real?

Ella can’t risk losing Leo when she’s already lost so much. But as the Christmas countdown heats up, hearts melt, and practice kisses turn into much more. With Leo and Ella falling for each other faster than the snow outside, maybe this Christmas, they can finally rewrite their friendship and unwrap true love…

Christmas off Script is a friends-to-lovers, forced proximity, steamy, standalone romantic comedy with a modern-day Cinderella, her swoony Prince Charming, and more heat than chestnuts roasting on an open fire… No cheating or cliffhanger, but all the Christmas feels, a sackful of lols, and a fairytale happy ending guaranteed in this fabulously festive and magical romcom!

Read Christmas off Script today!

Christmas off Script is available in print, eBook and audio. Click here to get your copy now from our Shopify site, or here to get it from your preferred storefront!

Evie xxx

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