Faking It For The Holidays

Genres: contemporary romance, interracial/multicultural
Tropes: businessman romance, slow burn, grumpy/sunshine, holiday romance, fake girlfriend, meaningful family, emotional, meaningful spice (open doors, level 2 baby!)
A mistaken identity. A desperate lie. A Christmas that changes everything.
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Gabriel Winters has everything - a successful company, a corner office, a life meticulously controlled. What he doesn't have is time for love, and certainly not the emotional availability his worried mother keeps pestering him about.
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So when she asks if he's bringing someone to Christmas, he does what any reasonable man would do: he lies.
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Zoe Carter wasn't supposed to be part of the plan. A case of mistaken identity at a coffee shop - she's not the professional companion Gabriel was expecting. But when she agrees to play along, something shifts. Between stolen glances and genuine conversations, the line between pretending and reality blurs.
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As Gabriel's careful walls crumble and Zoe finds herself falling harder than she ever thought possible, the lie becomes impossible to maintain. Now, trapped in a Montana snowstorm with a family desperate for answers, Gabriel and Zoe must decide: Is what they've found real enough to fight for? Or will one carefully constructed lie destroy everything when the truth comes out?
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But sometimes the people worth keeping are the ones worth fighting for—even when everything's on the line.


