The Christmas Ruse

A Short Holiday Novella

Two weeks before Christmas, just three years ago, Dior Bourgeois was left at the altar in front of her friends and family. This experience left a bitter taste in her heart about love and the holidays. Despite her apprehensions about the upcoming holiday season, she decides to attend her best friend’s holiday dinner without a clue she was being set up with someone.

Having her mind and her heart made up, Dior wasn’t interested in taking another chance at love. However, surprisingly, just a few hours after meeting Don, he checked off almost every item on her ‘build-a-man list.’

Their relationship developed quickly, and in a few short weeks of being together, Dior became the happiest she’d been in years.

But you know what they say: if something seems too good to be true, it probably is, which makes her begin to question whether Don was being truthful or masking his menacing intentions.