Last Christmas, Ellie was crying on the floor of Powell's Books when she met a woman with whom she immediately fell in love with. Literally — they spent 15 hours together and then they slept together (a HUGE deal for Ellie, who, as a demisexual, normally takes a LONG time to first trust and respect someone before finding them sexually attractive). And then as quick as it started, it ended. Almost a full year later, Ellie is struggling with a dead-end job and a week away from eviction when handsome real estate heir Andrew drunkenly suggests a marriage of convenience: he gets access to a $2 million trust while Ellie gets 10 percent to help get her on her feet. All they have to do is tie the knot, stay married for a bit, and then divorce — oh, and spend a week at Andrew's family's cabin at Christmas. Despite her reservations, Ellie agrees, only to learn that Andrew's sister is the woman from the year before, and what do you know, they still have some SERIOUS feelings for each other.
OK, so it's kind of a convoluted plot, with a whole bunch of tropes shoved in (there's even a "there's only one bed!" situation at one point), and WAY too much Christmas music for my grinchy heart... but it's a sweet and funny book, and an homage to While You Were Sleeping (probably my favorite romantic comedy ever), and I totally loved it. My one complaint is that Ellie's beautifully described web comics appear here as text. I get the complications of having interstitial comics in a romance novel, but man, that would have made this really good book great.
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