A visit to her new flat leads Laura to an awkward meeting with her new landlord Callum, and even more awkwardly playing the role of his imaginary girlfriend when Callum’s parents invite them to Scotland for Christmas. This “meet-not-so-cute” leads to a proposal rife with possibility and pitfalls - Laura will pretend to be Callum’s imaginary girlfriend Caroline, and be so insufferable his family won’t want her back. With both Callum and Laura on their own separate paths in life (Callum to be a pastry Chef in Paris, Laura busy training to be a neurosurgeon), what they aren’t counting on is their scorching chemistry.
Sweet as Sticky Toffee Pudding, this charming Christmas romance whisks us away on a sleeper train to the Scottish Highlands with breath-taking views, cosy pubs and plenty of roaring open fires. I was cringing, laughing out loud and kicking my feet in equal measure as Laura and Callum’s ruse takes some wildly unexpected turns in attempts to avoid going completely off the rails. I savoured every delicious heart-warming moment when Callum and Laura got closer. I loved the vibrancy brought to the story by Laura’s best friends, Desi and Joel, and heart and complexity added by the McClay’s family tensions. Christmas Fling feels like a Christmas rom-com classic that will pair perfectly with a hot chocolate and mince pie.
One fake romance. One magical Christmas. One chance to fall in love.
Laura was all set for a quiet solo Christmas - just her, a bottle of wine, and flat-sitting for a stranger. But when the stranger's parents mistake her for his mystery girlfriend, she's swept off to the snowy Scottish Highlands with Callum and his whole family.
Between the cosy sleeper train, charming pubs and breathtaking views, this could be the no-strings-attached Christmas of Laura's dreams.
But stranger Callum is hot, hilarious and their 'fake' chemistry is off the charts.
So is this just a Christmas fling? Or the start of something more?
'Lindsey Kelk is the Taylor Swift of romance writing' Daisy Buchanan
'So funny, so charming, so romantic' BETH O'LEARY
'Everything I could possibly ask for in a romcom' LUCY VINE
'Impossibly funny, wildly romantic and extremely hot - I could not have loved it more' ROSIE WALSH
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About Lindsey Kelk
Lindsey Kelk was a children’s book editor and is now a magazine columnist and author of I Heart New York, I Heart Hollywood, I Heart Paris, I Heart Vegas, I Heart London and The Single Girl’s To-Do List. When she isn’t writing or watching more TV than is healthy, Lindsey likes to wear shoes, shop for shoes and judge the shoes of others. She loves living in New York but misses Sherbet Fountains, London, and drinking Gin & Elderflower cocktails with her friends. Not necessarily in that order.
