Santa Maybe (The Duchess Hotel Book 1)
Carla Luna
Have yourself a merry little fauxmance—with a dashing Santa who just might make it real.Rosie Gonzalez isn’t having a wonderful Christmas time. Not when she’s at risk of losing her job as assistant manager of the Duchess—Victoria’s oldest boutique hotel. If she and her team can’t bring in more guests by the end of December, she’ll be let go. Adding to her stress is a calendar filled with family gatherings where her mom will inevitably nag her for still being single.Drew Richardson isn’t faring much better. As if working alongside his ex at Northlife Fitness wasn’t bad enough, now she’s invited him to her December wedding. And since all his coworkers will be there, bailing isn’t an option. To get through it, he’ll need a plus-one for moral support.So, when Rosie recruits him to play Santa for her hotel’s activities, he also proposes a fake-dating scheme to benefit them both. Just for the holidays—nothing more. But as things between them turn from nice to naughty, they’ll have to decide whether a real relationship could be the best Christmas gift of all.
Publication Year: 2024
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Santa Maybe is just the romcom to get you into the holiday mood. It's got some of my favorite tropes -fake dating, secret crushes (oh, the pining!), and the one I can never resist: let's bang it out of our systems. But that last one never works, and, delightfully, it's a complete failure here. Rosie needs to bring more Christmas spirit - and customers - to the troubled hotel where she's a manager. so she asks her friend, personal trainer and part-time Santa, Drew, to make an appearance. He's more than willing to help, especially if they can add a fake-dating scheme to their mutual advantage, specifically, that Rosie will be his date to his recent ex's wedding (ouch!) while he takes the heat off eternally-single Rosie at her family gatherings. What starts platonic soon becomes steamy, with a little Santa kink thrown in to make it extra spicy. You'll swoon for these two once they finally figure out their feelings.
Santa Maybe starts a new series set around the fictional Duchess Hotel in Victoria, and I can't wait to read the next installment!
Thank you to the author, Carla Luna, for the advance review copy!
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