She has until Christmas to get married or lose everything. He needs a wife to keep the only family he has left. This should be simple.
Evie Holloway never planned to come back to Ivy Hollow. But when her grandmother's will reveals an impossible condition—marry by Christmas or forfeit the family estate to developers—she has no choice but to return to the small town she left behind and the crumbling Victorian she can't afford to save.
Taking a job at The Wisteria Inn to make ends meet, Evie tells herself this is temporary. Earn some money. Find a loophole. Avoid the memories around every snow-dusted corner. What she doesn't plan for is Graham Aldridge: buttoned-up, impossibly stubborn, and in desperate need of a wife for reasons he won't explain.
Graham doesn't do complicated. He does contracts and solutions. And right now, the solution to keeping custody of his seven-year-old niece—the only family he has left—is proving to a skeptical judge that he can provide stability. A wife would help. A real relationship would be better. But he doesn't have time for real, and the sharp-tongued woman who spilled coffee on him at the inn seems equally uninterested in romance.
A marriage of convenience. Sixty days. A simple arrangement with clear terms and an expiration date.
Except nothing is simple when you're sharing a house with a man who reads bedtime stories in ridiculous voices, a seven-year-old who asks if Evie will stay forever, and a town that's already planning the wedding of the century.
The contract says this ends after Christmas. Evie's heart didn't read the contract.
A sweet, closed-door holiday romance featuring a woman running from roots, a man afraid he isn't enough, and a little girl who just wants a family for Christmas.
Genre: Romance
Evie Holloway never planned to come back to Ivy Hollow. But when her grandmother's will reveals an impossible condition—marry by Christmas or forfeit the family estate to developers—she has no choice but to return to the small town she left behind and the crumbling Victorian she can't afford to save.
Taking a job at The Wisteria Inn to make ends meet, Evie tells herself this is temporary. Earn some money. Find a loophole. Avoid the memories around every snow-dusted corner. What she doesn't plan for is Graham Aldridge: buttoned-up, impossibly stubborn, and in desperate need of a wife for reasons he won't explain.
Graham doesn't do complicated. He does contracts and solutions. And right now, the solution to keeping custody of his seven-year-old niece—the only family he has left—is proving to a skeptical judge that he can provide stability. A wife would help. A real relationship would be better. But he doesn't have time for real, and the sharp-tongued woman who spilled coffee on him at the inn seems equally uninterested in romance.
A marriage of convenience. Sixty days. A simple arrangement with clear terms and an expiration date.
Except nothing is simple when you're sharing a house with a man who reads bedtime stories in ridiculous voices, a seven-year-old who asks if Evie will stay forever, and a town that's already planning the wedding of the century.
The contract says this ends after Christmas. Evie's heart didn't read the contract.
A sweet, closed-door holiday romance featuring a woman running from roots, a man afraid he isn't enough, and a little girl who just wants a family for Christmas.
Genre: Romance