This Christmas

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart.*
The very next day you… stomped it into a million pieces and left town without a backward glance.
Jerk.
Allison
I know that’s not how the song goes. But, for me, that’s exactly what happened. I met the man of my dreams on Christmas Eve. We shared one magical night of passion and I thought—well, it doesn’t matter what I thought. Because, Christmas morning, he left me under the mistletoe and I never heard from him again.
Until he shows up at my best friend's apartment in the middle of December this year. And I discover that not only did I not know my mystery lover’s true name, I never knew his identity, either.
The one night stand I had last Christmas? He’s one of the partners for the firm I work for. So he’s my boss.
Even worse?
He’s my best friend’s brother.
Max
It’s tough running a company. There’s no time for anything—and that includes falling in love. I haven’t been in a relationship in over a decade. It never used to bother me, though.
And then I met her.
With long legs, bright green eyes, and a body built for sin, I abandoned my "no distractions" policy and had my wicked way with her for the night. It didn’t take long for me to realize that I wanted more than that—but an emergency call had me on the first flight out of Salem.
By the time I could return to search out my Christmas lover, I realized that I had no way of finding her again. The name I moaned? It's not hers.
I don’t know why that bothers me so much considering I lied about my own.
Now she wants nothing to do with me. I don’t blame her.
Doesn’t mean that I’m going back to California without a fight. She says it's just sex? I'm willing to do everything I can—including playing the part of her new boyfriend for her visiting parents—to prove how wrong she is.
And how right I am for her.
* **This Christmas is the second novella in the Holiday Hunks series. A sweet yet undeniably steamy second chance/fake boyfriend contemporary romance with meddling family members, a wayward feline, and a spark of Christmas magic—and they'll need every bit of it to get these two workaholics together. A Sarah Spade HEA guaranteed!