[Review] FAKING CHRISTMAS by Kerry Winfrey

Laurel
Grant is playing house for the holidays—complete with a fake husband
and kids—in this delightful, charming rom-com by Kerry Winfrey.

Laurel Grant works as the social media manager for

Buckeye State of Mind, an Ohio tourism magazine and website. She most definitely does not run
a farm . . . but one tiny misunderstanding leads her boss, Gilbert, to
think she owns her twin sister Holly’s farm just outside of Columbus.
Laurel only handles the social media for the farm, but she’s happy to
keep her little white lie going if it means not getting fired—she cannot be jobless again.

And
keep it going she must when Gilbert, recently dumped by his wife,
invites himself over for the farm’s big Christmas Eve Eve dinner (as
advertised on Meadow Rise Farm’s Instagram, thanks to Laurel herself).
Laurel immediately goes into panic mode to figure out how she can trick
Gilbert into thinking she’s basically the Martha Stewart of rural Ohio
and keep her job in the process.

Laurel and Holly come up with the

perfect plan—all
Laurel has to do is pretend to own the farm for one dinner. But Laurel
shows up at the farm to find an unwelcome guest is waiting: Max Beckett,
her nemesis since Holly’s wedding. The annoyingly attractive man she
hates will be posing as Laurel’s husband just for the evening, but when a
snowstorm traps them all for the entire weekend, Laurel is going to
have to figure out how to survive with her job and dignity intact.
Whatever the case, this promises to be the most eventful Christmas in
ages. . .