The Hamiltons #2
The Frosty Fiancé by L. Steele
Published: November
5, 2026
Genre: Marriage of
Convenience, Romance, Audiobook
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.
This is Tristan Hamilton & Opal's story. There is no cheating, and a very
satisfying festive-season HEA.
My Thoughts: There
is so much to this book. The age gap is
interesting as it also has the dad’s ex-best friend trope tied to it. The control that Tristan has over Opal when
having steamy moments made me blush.
Marriage of convenience without a way our had me wondering how their
relationship would work out.
Tristan was not always a likable character, but I never
actually disliked him. Opal seemed naïve
and went into situations without having a way out or an anticipated
outcome. This set up the marriage to be
run by Tristan with Opal just doing as told.
I struggle with this but it seems to work for them.
I listened to this book, so I must mention the narrators, Aaron
Shedlock and Zara Hampton Brown. They are wonderful. I enjoy dual narration; it is my preferred
listening. These two narrators have the
perfect voices for Tristan and Opal.
Thank you Hambright PR for an ALC via Bookfunnel in exchange
for my honest review.
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