Fifth Holiday Book of the Season

 A Newport Christmess  by Jess Heileman 

I really enjoyed the audiobook narrators for this. Quinn and Landon are both divorced. She has been hired to make the centerpieces for Nikki's wedding. He is the brother of the bride. She is staying in his house, but doesn't realize it's house until he shows up. He is convinced that Nikki is trying to play matchmaker, but Nikki tells them both that she has other people in mind for each of them. When he hears who she has in mind for Quinn, it's an immediate no and he steps in. He proposes that they be each others fake dates to the wedding. But, they start developing real feelings for each other from spending time with each other. He takes her on this hike and while there they run into his ex, and he gets some much needed closure. She is still really struggling. In fact, one day when things are going well, she decides to look at her ex's instagram feed and goes into a tailspin. She posts a photo of her and Landon and then her ex calls. She agrees to talk with him after the holidays because she needs to know why he left. But, then on the day of the rehearsal dinner he shows up. She leaves with him and they end up back at his hotel so they can talk in private. He basically didnt' have a good reason for leaving, but now he's jealous that she's moving on. She has no feelings for him and calls Landon but he doesn't answer. She sees his truck; hes dropping off another girl at the hotel and she gets jealous and hides, then ignores his calls, until she doesn't. She tells him she's staying at a hotel and not going to the wedding with him and ends up in tears in the hotel lobby and said girl comes to her rescue. She finds out that the girl has a boyfriend, that Nikki set her up with. She ends up going to the wedding. She and Landon make up. She spends Christmas with him and his family, and finally stands up to her family about how she doesn't want to be with them for the holiday and that she's stronger than they think she is. The epilogue is several years in the future, with them happily married with kids. She is a successful social media influencer and we can assume he is still a lawyer. I liked that the epilogue was so far in the future; it let us know that things really did work out.