Holly and Nick Hate Christmas
A Novel
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- 8,49 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
When a Christmas-hating woman’s brother sets her up with a fellow Grinch and it backfires, she decides to out-Christmas her date by kicking off a festive battle of wills in this “irresistible” (Publishers Weekly) enemies-to-lovers holiday romcom.
Holly Sinclair has hated Christmas for as long as she can remember. Who names their Christmas baby Holly in the first place? She was teased mercilessly growing up. Holly Berry, Holli-days, Holly Jolly . . . not to mention the fact that her birthday is often totally overlooked amidst the season.
To make matters worse, instead of getting the promotion she was expecting, Holly’s been downsized—which is just fancy holiday talk for fired. Now Holly has to go home single, unemployed, turning thirty, and only a tinsel strand of faith. Bah, humbug.
Holly’s big brother, Ryan, has dragged his best friend, known holiday-hater Nick Kinsley, home with him. But when Holly discovers that Nick’s here to be her pity date, she decides the best revenge is to play along . . . and Christmas like she’s never Christmas’d before. Commence Operation: Naughty List. The fact that she’s attracted to Nick is totally not the point. She’ll teach him a lesson, one ho ho ho at a time.
The holiday grows more complicated when Holly and Ryan find out their parents asked all the siblings to come home for Christmas this year, but refuse to say why. The rest of the Sinclair siblings descend, each with their own sleigh full of secrets. Rumors spread as everyone tries to guess the reason for their parents’ demand—and Nick turns out to have a secret of his own. Will this be a Christmas to forget? Or will Holly and Nick discover there is so much more?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Two cynics find unexpected joy in the holiday season and each other in this fun romance from St. Amant (Where I Found You). When Holly Sinclair gets laid off from her job as a social media manager two weeks before Christmas, it's just one more reason to despise a holiday that falls on—and always overshadows—her birthday. Her sympathetic older brother Ryan persuades her to head home to Ohio, where he reintroduces her to his friend Nick Kinsley, who hopes to be Holly's date to their parents' holiday bash. But when it turns out Nick's only there to persuade the Sinclairs to invest in his summer camp nonprofit, an irritated Holly decides to get even by feigning over-the-top, grating holiday cheer. Nick's annoyed but can't help the attraction he feels toward Holly, who likewise struggles to keep plotting against someone so handsome and likable. With plenty of flirty banter and holiday hijinks, the narrative sprints toward its sweet conclusion but leaves enough room for character development to keep readers emotionally invested in the enemies-to-lovers romance at its center. This is irresistible.
