Zoe's Christmas Fake Relationship
(2026)(The fourth book in the Christmas in Birchdale series)
A Story by Ruby Hill
Fake vows. Real sparks. And one Christmas that changes everything.
When Hudson Reed walks up to my truck with a marriage proposal, I nearly laugh in his face.
We’ve been rivals since the eighth grade—and I haven’t forgotten what he did to me that Christmas fifteen years ago. But his grandfather’s will has one final twist: Hudson has to be married to inherit the hardware store. In exchange for six months of pretending, he’ll give me the kitchen renovation I desperately need.
Simple, right?
Except pretend is starting to feel dangerously real.
Hudson isn’t the boy who hurt me anymore. He’s the man quietly covering the difference when my budget runs short and teaching kindergartners to paint sleds, and looking at me like I’m something worth keeping.
The problem? He still thinks this is just a deal.
And when the truth comes out that I stopped pretending weeks ago, I’m terrified that the girl who finally stopped running from Birchdale is about to lose the one thing she didn’t plan on wanting.
Him.
Genre: Romance
When Hudson Reed walks up to my truck with a marriage proposal, I nearly laugh in his face.
We’ve been rivals since the eighth grade—and I haven’t forgotten what he did to me that Christmas fifteen years ago. But his grandfather’s will has one final twist: Hudson has to be married to inherit the hardware store. In exchange for six months of pretending, he’ll give me the kitchen renovation I desperately need.
Simple, right?
Except pretend is starting to feel dangerously real.
Hudson isn’t the boy who hurt me anymore. He’s the man quietly covering the difference when my budget runs short and teaching kindergartners to paint sleds, and looking at me like I’m something worth keeping.
The problem? He still thinks this is just a deal.
And when the truth comes out that I stopped pretending weeks ago, I’m terrified that the girl who finally stopped running from Birchdale is about to lose the one thing she didn’t plan on wanting.
Him.
Genre: Romance
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