The Christmas Pact

Pages: 159
Published: 2020
Language: English

The Christmas Pact is a standalone holiday romance novella co-written by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward.

Riley Kennedy's inbox is a running annoyance: her emails keep landing with a colleague named Kennedy Riley, who forwards them back with unsolicited commentary and advice she did not ask for. They have never met. When they finally come face to face at the company holiday party, he turns out to be as good-looking as he is infuriating.

Kennedy talks her into a deal. He will come home with her for Christmas and pretend to be her boyfriend; in exchange, she will be his date at a wedding. The arrangement is supposed to be strictly transactional, and predictably is not. It is a short, banter-driven fake-dating romance with the two leads' near-identical names as its running joke.

Prose complexity: 1/10

Romantic Lighthearted Heartwarming Spicy

Fake Dating Enemies to Lovers Workplace Romance

Romance Contemporary Romance Romantic Comedy

Authors

Penelope Ward

Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of contemporary romance, with more than two million books sold and over thirty titles translated into a dozen-plus languages. She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent her twenties as a television news anchor before turning to fiction; her novel "Stepbrother Dearest" became the top-selling independently published Kindle ebook of 2014. She lives in Rhode Island with her family.

Vi Keeland

Vi Keeland is an American author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels. A practicing attorney before turning to writing full-time, she published her first novel, First Thing I See, in January 2013. Fourteen of her novels have reached the New York Times bestseller list, and Bossman (2016) topped both the Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. She has co-authored several novels with Penelope Ward, beginning with Cocky Bastard (2015). Her books have been translated into more...