• Holiday Hoax

  • A Fake Marriage Billionaire Romance
  • By: Maggie Cole
  • Narrated by: Ava Lucas, Aiden Snow
  • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (181 ratings)

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Holiday Hoax

By: Maggie Cole
Narrated by: Ava Lucas, Aiden Snow
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Little Miss Sunshine will make the perfect fake bride to take home for the holidays…who cares if I’m her boss?

She’s going to drive me nuts.

Nevertheless, her perky everything, endless legs, and innocent eyes will come in handy.

It’ll stop my family from pushing every country girl turned wanna-be Dallas socialite on me.

The town gossips will be disappointed she’s not another one of my fiancées that’ll never make it down the aisle. And they’ll be jealous when every man falls in love with her.

I’ll ignore everyone and work…except when she’s fueling my warped needs.

Although she did surprise me and negotiated a higher prenup for her silly cupcake bakery.

Too bad for her, I’m not a reckless billionaire—my attorney will find the loophole.

Once January 2nd arrives, I’m divorcing her.

Except the more we’re together, the more she’s infiltrating my heart… in ways that have me second guessing our secret arrangement…

Holiday Hoax is a billionaire fake marriage, enemies to lovers, office romance. It’s a slow-burn steamy standalone novel with a grumpy hero who has a broken past and a good girl spitfire heroine who keeps him on his toes.

©2022 Maggie Cole (P)2022 Pulse Press Inc
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  • Categories: Romance

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Rotten Georgia Peach

I wanted a fun holiday romance but I suffered through this instead. It wasn’t bad writing, it was Georgia. She’s a terrible character and a whiny brat throughout the book. She’s dramatic, jumps to conclusions, and gets upset with Sebastian. Rinse and repeat. She can’t trust him because of something he did before he really knew her. Then she acts blameless but she knew what she was getting into when she signed the contract. I don’t feel bad for her at all and I’m really not surprised she only has one friend. And poor Sebastian, he didn’t deserve the way he was treated. Sunshine she is not. If anything, I need to give the author credit for writing a character so awful that I dislike her enough to leave a review.

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🎄I WAS HO..HO..HOPELESSLY ADDICTED🎄

I do love a good ’fake’ marriage story and, when one comes up that’s been written by one of my favorite authors, I one click and dive right in. And Ms Cole didn’t disappoint.. in fact she excelled at pulling me into Sebastian and Georgia’s crazy beautiful world where you know their well thought out temporary marriage plans was somehow going to spectacularly backfire. It was all there.. the attraction, the chemistry, the secondary supportive family, the sizzles, the festive cheer.. and the love. But devastation and heartbreak was waiting too when..…. well that’s Ms Cole’s delicious story to tell. Well, along with Ava and Aiden who were the perfect fit to give Sebastian and Georgia’s hopeful, happy, heartbroken and healed points of view. Their narration brought the wealth of feels, character flaws and growth and secondary cast of family members to life.. along with the well-woven warmth and wonders of forgiveness and the festive fireworks of second chances.

Worth a credit? I was ho-ho-hopelessly addicted to dreams, cupcakes, reforming a broody CEO and happily ever afters.. and yes very creditworthy.

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Very captivating and cute

In the beginning the characters really capture your attention and you get an idea of what is going on but you do get a few surprises. However the characters develop differently and the ending doesn’t really feel complete. Don’t get me wrong it’s an ending but there could have been some more interesting moments but sadly it didn’t happen. The narrators really delivered the story in a great way

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Good, but a little rushed in the beginning

Overall the story was good, but felt rushed in the beginning. There was an element of insta-love (characters’ inner dialogue) pretty early on without any foundation for it. If there had only been a little bit more development between Georgia and Sebastian at the start it could have gone from a good story to a great one. I felt like there was something missing in the story at the beginning, but it definitely got better when they went to visit Sebastian’s family. I really started to enjoy it after that point. Sebastian and Georgia were both likable characters, as were the members of Sebastian’s family. Excellent narrator casting. Ava Lucas and Aiden Snow gave great performances.

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My Thoughts on Holiday Hoax

Some of the things I really liked about this story was the grumpy hero who was willing to fight and do anything he had to in order to win back the love of his life once he messed up. Plus, the leading lady was very likable and stood up for herself. The steamy scenes were on point, so that was another plus. And the ending of the story was satisfying. The cherry on top was the narration which on its own was 5 stars for both performers.

What I didn’t love about the story was the lack of communication. Yes, there were some intentionally kept secrets and that I could deal with. But it was the moments when they should have talked and instead said nothing or when they didn’t say what they really meant when the truth or speaking at all could have fixed it all. I’ve read worse however and, in the end, things were as they should be. I also didn’t like Sebastian’s family sometimes. They seemed oblivious or just uncaring of why he did what he did to begin with. There was no empathy and certainly no apology for their part in things, particularly his parents. And then they came down so hard on him and kept wanting to ignore Georgia’s part even when she kept bringing it up. They really didn’t seem like they were on his side or supported him and that was a big bummer in the story for me.

Overall, this was a cute holiday listen though and I would still pick up another Maggie Cole story in a heartbeat.

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Unexpectedly Awesome

I listen to dozens of fake marriage books this one is by far one of the best. I could not stop listening! I recommend!!

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Love!

I love a good holiday romance!! Workplace romance, fake dating, grumpy boss?? SOLD!! This was my first Maggie Cole book and first time listening to Aiden Snow and Ava Lucas!

This was such a good one! Emotional, spicy, funny!!

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Love story for sure

The female character was in the beginning very forgiving and toward folks that didn’t matter at the time but when it came to listening and giving real forgiveness she really did suck. The male character may have been a jerk but at least he admitted his faults whereas she acted like a shit.

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Crazy good!

I always enjoy Maggies Coles audiobooks. But this baby was just so enjoyable, I loved the storyline and the narration.

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The Perfect Holiday Romance!

Ava and Aiden did such an amazing job bringing this amazing story to life. This had all the appeal of a Hallmark Christmas movie with the added bonus of being oh so steamy! I fell in love with the characters from the very beginning and loved the back and forth between Georgia and Sebastian. Such a fun story, perfect for the holidays!

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