Green Card Christmas

Title: Green Card Christmas

Series: Just a Guy with A Goal #2

Author: Jen Atkinson

Publisher: Independently Published

Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Romcom, Christmas

Source: Kindle Unlimited

My Review:

While this is the second book in the Just a Guy with a Goal series, it can easily be read as a standalone novel.

 Poor Stella is down on her luck, depressed, and just wants to live on Willow's couch. However, Willow has plans, and Stella is in the way. She gets her to go to a soccer game with her, which has Stella connecting with Roman, whom she hasn't seen in nine years. Roman immediately gets all protective and wants to solve all of Stella's problems.

Read for:

🎄brother's best friend

🎄marriage of convenience

🎄he sees her

🎄she sees him

🎄dual POV

🎄the Christmas tree

🎄Roman's advice from Lucca

🎄found family

🎄Roman's relationship with Mason

🎄skunk scene

★★★★/5

  

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Synopsis (Goodreads):

She needed a lucky break. He wanted to be left alone. Was marriage really the answer?

Roman Graves has made a name for himself as one of the top midfielders in the U.S. lower division soccer league—and as the Red Tails’ resident grump. He wants two things: solitude with a remote cabin in the woods, far from his overly friendly teammates. But team rules say no wife, no off-site housing. And Roman? Very single.

Enter Stella Everly–creative soul, introverted dreamer, possibly cursed, as well as the little sister of Roman’s late best friend. Stella is recently jobless, homeless, and desperate to keep every failure hidden from her worrywart parents. When a misunderstanding leads Roman to believe that she is about to be deported (she’s not!), he swoops in with a solution to save them both: a beneficial, no-attachment marriage.

It’s supposed to be temporary. Problem solving. A means to an end.

But for Roman, feuding with Stella is healing his heart. Tearing down her walls might be making his own crumble, all while bringing peace to his soul. He's breaking all the rules of this fake marriage, finding himself again, and he is most definitely falling for the girl.