The Ho-Ho Hook-Up

My life is a spreadsheet
Relationships? Deleted.
Fun? Archived.
Risk? Permanently Deleted.

Four years since my ex-wife walked out on me and our daughter, and I’ve perfected the art of not feeling anything.
Thirty-one. Single Dad.
Believes efficiency is a way of life.
, ‘ , . .

Then Aurora Williams happens.
Blonde. American. Unapologetically reading smutty books in public.
Laughing with her whole body, looking at me like I’m not a grumpy, emotionally constipated CFO with more baggage than Heathrow Airport.

I should walk away.
I definitely shouldn’t use the world’s worst chat-up line.
And I absolutely should NOT accept when she slides her hotel keycard into my hand with a devastating smile.
But, I do it anyway. All of it.

And then I realise I could see myself falling for a girl like her—which would upend my carefully efficient life.
So I slip out before she wakes up, because there’s no way I’m ever taking that risk.
Problem is, I can’t stop thinking about her.

So when fate crashes us together on a busy London street, I ditch efficiency for recklessness .
Because Rory is making me question every wall I’ve built, every rule I live by, and every risk I’ve sworn never to repeat.

Spontaneous isn’t my style.
Messy is off-limits.
And falling for beautiful women who read smut in public, worship ugly Christmas jumpers, and believe in holiday miracles?
Absolutely not happening.
But apparently, she didn’t get the memo.

The Ho-Ho Hook-Up is a 30k spicy Christmas novella, which will be re-released as a full-length novel next year.