Synopsis:
A Forbidden Father’s Best Friend Romance. A Marriage of Convenience Under the Mistletoe.
He was my father’s best friend, until my father betrayed him. Ten years later, he walks into my life as revenge with a wedding proposal wrapped in tinsel and bad timing.
Tristan Hamilton is the silver fox billionaire lawyer my father once called a partner. He’s Scrooge personified. I’m the woman who starts decorating before the leaves have finished falling, who treats every London Christmas market like sacred ground, who believes mistletoe, fairy lights, and a cup of mulled wine can fix almost anything.
He can’t stand carols, cheer, or anything wrapped in tinsel.
Yet somehow, with the advent calendar counting down and my father’s law firm, now my responsibility, drowning in debt, Tristan is the one man with enough money, and enough motive, to save it before my debtors close in, before Christmas Eve arrives.
The Christmas Clause: My hand in marriage. No prenup. No exit clause, ever.
The Payoff: His fortune to save my company and my family name before the holidays are over.
It’s supposed to be simple. A transaction dressed up in snow and bad timing, somewhere between the fake proposal, outings to Winter Wonderland and the real wedding under a canopy of holly.
Except amid the mistletoe and the mulled wine, and a festive themed dinner on his yacht, I start wanting this marriage to be more than a deal.
Just two people trapped by a contract, thrown together for the entire festive season. His townhouse strung with fairy lights. His family’s Christmas Eve lunch. His bed, snow gathering on the windowsill outside.
Then a freak snowstorm strands us overnight with nowhere to sleep but one room, one bed, one flickering fire, and a decade of tension neither of us can outrun anymore.
He thinks he can marry me under the mistletoe, ruin my father through me, and never once fall for the woman he married to do it. He’s wrong.
And this Christmas, with the whole city glowing gold and the countdown to midnight running out, I intend to make him admit it.
Review:
When Tristan & Opal run into each other at a Christmas market, it sounds like the beginning of a love story, at least for Opal. Little does she know that Tristan has a hidden motive and that their meeting was part of a plan to use her to get revenge on her father for something he did years ago, something Tristan never got over.
I love myself a good revenge story that becomes something more. Did I understand Tristan holding a grudge? Yes. Was I on board with him using Opal as a pawn to get there? Absolutely not. Did it make for a good story? Absolutely. Especially with me having a suspicion of what would happen along the way. Opal is such a likeable character, and her financial struggles, as well as her concern about paying her employees, made me respect her instantly. Watching her not know that she wasn’t to blame for the company losing business was painful.
Tristan knew exactly how to get her to trust him in order to get what he wanted. Little did he know that she would become so much more to him, and watching him become the man she deserved was a growth story I was completely invested in.
The audiobook was done very well, and be prepared to stare into the abyss at certain moments and hope that no one can hear what you’re listening to. There were some very hot and spicy scenes in there that made me pause and wait until that stupid grin left my face.
🌙 Recension: The Frosty Fiancé ((The Hamiltons #2) by L. Steele
📚 Genre: Holiday Romance
📅 Release Date: November 5, 2026
📖 Publisher: Laxmi Hariharan
👤 Narrator: Aaron Shedlock, Zara Hampton Brown, Roxy Isles, Laxmi Hariharan
📗 available in various formats – included in Kindle+
📱 Read as: Audiobook
💸 I received a free copy and am voluntarily leaving a review.
🗣️ Language: English
📆 Pages / Listening Length:11h 14min
⭐️ 4/5
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