Priceless by Lena Matthews
Urban Fairytales, Book 3
Samhain Publishing
Multicultural, Contemporary
ISBN: 978-1-935348-31-3
Reviewed by Nikki

Nia and Eric Athers are young and in love. Thanks to Eric’s student loan debt, they live paycheck to paycheck but as long as they have each other nothing else matters. Nia works two jobs to help make ends meet and saves for everything. This year Nia has saved enough to buy Eric a flat screen TV for Christmas. However, Eric’s sentimentality may not only prevent Nia from buying his special gift, but ruin Christmas for both of them.

Priceless is Lena Matthews’ adaptation of The Gift of the Magi and it, just like the original, makes you go awww. Even when Eric was acting like a stubborn cuss, it was easy to see the love and affection between him and Nia. While Eric had trouble believing the depths of Nia’s love for him, their affinity made the giving up their most prized possession for the other’s benefit believable.

If you’re familiar with Lena Matthews’ work, you’ll be pleased to know that Priceless has all that you’ve come to expect from Ms. Matthews – hot, kinky sex, witty dialog and a scene stealing secondary character. In this book, Julia is our scene stealer and we’d all be better people if we had a friend like her. I’m hoping that Ms. Matthews will write Julia and Dominic’s story. Although Priceless is set during Christmas, it is a story that you can enjoy all year long.