REVIEW - Christmas Bride (Convenient Marriages #5) by Noelle Adams

The Book
Release Date: 6 October 2020
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When Ruth gets set up on a blind date with Carter Wilson, she agrees to go out with him as a favor to a friend. But she's not interested in Carter. He might be the most attractive man she's ever known, but he's too rich. Too indulged. Too nice all the time. Right now, her career comes first in her life, and even if it didn't, she's looking for a man with rougher edges.

Plus, she suspects he might still have a thing for a woman he can never have.

Carter wants to get his friends and family to stop trying to fix him up, so he suggests a scheme that might help them both. They can pretend they fell in love and fake an engagement until Christmas. His friends will back off, and she can use the social events in the very wealthy town of Green Valley to line up a lot of new contacts for her interior design business.

All she has to do is pretend she's going to marry Carter. It should be easy. It's not like she'll ever be his bride for real.

My Review  3 STARS
**My thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

 This is another fun and light novella that follows the same thread as the rest of the series in which they get engaged.

Carter we have met in a previous book and he is put on a blind date with Ruth after not reacting very well when his brother and best friend Summer end up together for real after he suggested that they marry for a cash injection.  It is only after that he realised that he had more than friendly feeling for Summer, but it was too late.

It is Ruth that suggests the fake relationship and engagement to get their friends and families off their backs and Carter agrees to help spread the word of her business around too to help her.

Ruth brings the fun out of Carter and makes him a happier person and both are equally honest and a little blunt, but both safeguard their feeling so eventually the truth gets blurted out when they both finally realise that they want the relationship and the engagement to be real.