I loved this book. Everything about it, really. Mostly Carolina and her fierce walls and beautiful heart. But Kenzie too with her tremendous capacity for kindness and low drama. It hooked me from the get go with Carolina’s debate whether to reconcile with her estranged sisters and carried me all the way through with the slow burn relationship build. I thought it was all really well done and the fact it took place in Sintra, Portugal was icing on the Christmas cake. A refreshing take on a bunch of tropes- age gap, fake dating, holidays. I devoured it.

Short summary: Carolina isn’t sure she should accept her sister’s invitation to join them at their family villa for the holidays when they haven’t spoken in 20 years. Kenzie doesn’t know why she agrees to Alice’s hare-brained plan to be fake girlfriends at her family’s home over the holidays. But they both accept and try as they might, the night owls/workaholics can’t seem to avoid each other in the library late each night, or the spark that flashes between them.

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