Kiss Her Once for Me

Returning with a joyful romantic comedy, the author of The Charm Offensive tells the story of a lady who pretends to be engaged to her landlord.only to be seduced by his sister.

Ellie Oliver, a new immigrant to Portland, met a lady in a bookshop on Christmas Eve and, over the course of one night, fell in love. Ellie Oliver had her ideal career in animation. However, she finds herself adrift, alone, and in need of money after being betrayed the next morning and losing her job shortly after.

Finding work at a local coffee shop, she’s just getting through the days—until Andrew, the shop’s landlord, proposes a shocking, drunken plan: a marriage of convenience that will give him his recent inheritance and alleviate Ellie’s financial woes and isolation. To maintain the pretense, they decide to spend the holidays together at his family's cabin. But Ellie is stunned to learn that Andrew's new fiancée is Jack—the enigmatic lady she fell in love with on that enchanted Christmas Eve the previous year—when Andrew introduces her to his sister. Ellie now has to decide between the danger of something genuine and the security of a fictitious relationship.

Kiss Her Once for Me is the gay Christmas romantic comedy that's ideal for lovers of Written in the Stars and One Day in December. It's one you'll want to curl up with by the fireplace.