Desperate to be left alone is when love appears.

Ava

Visiting my family for Christmas for the holidays is stressful because they’re worried about me. Both of my sisters are happily engaged, and since I’m the oldest, they feel I should be too. In fact, I should have been the first. So with every get-together, they pair me up with my dad’s business partner’s son. He isn’t the catch they believe him to be. I’m desperate not to show up alone this year. Perfect Plus One becomes the answer. It’s just crazy that I have a blast from the past appearing as my fake boyfriend. What am I to do when I don’t want it to be a fake relationship anymore?

Ethan

The second I got injured on the ice and told I can’t play Pro Hockey anymore, life sucked. The pity party slump is hard to get out of. Then my friends decide to pull me out of my funk and place a bet that I lose. They match me to a fake date on the Perfect Plus One website and I’m to fly out to Evergreen Lakes, Nevada and be the fake boyfriend for a woman for an entire week during Christmas—A bet’s a bet. But the instant I spot my curvy dream girl, Ava, as my fake girlfriend, I can’t let her escape me again.

This spicy, fake relationship, romantic short, set in a small mountain town features a forced retired pro hockey player and a curvy law student who’s desperate for a break in matchmaking. This is the first book in the Perfect Plus One series, which can be read as a standalone. There’s NO cheating, NO cliffhangers, and a HEA.

Previously published in the anthology Rent A Date, titled then as His Christmas Angel. There are slight changes, but still the same overall story.