The Hanukkah Hoax

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She didn't mean to lie about having a boyfriend and she definitely wasn't prepared for a sexy Scottish rugby player to say yes.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Christmas can't come early enough for nice Jewish girl Marisa Silver. Her floundering confectionery business needs a visit from a huge-sorry Santa-cash cow. If not she'll spend her thirties still wearing the two things she wishes she could douse in oil and light on fire: her daytime cater-waiter uniform and her family's perpetual disappointment.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What she needs is a Hanukkah-or Christmas she's not picky-miracle.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What she needs is for the chairwoman of the town's couples-only Crystal Christmas Ball to hire her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What she needs is . . . not to lie through her teeth about having a boyfriend who loves Christmas.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Or correct the assumption that the sexy Scot standing behind her none other than famed rugby player Alec Elms is actually her Christmas-loving boyfriend and a draw that festivalgoers can't resist.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And for some meshuggeneh reason he goes along with her fake-dating charade though it's not without objectives of his own.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Locked into a lie greasier than the most deep-fried of latkes and hotter than a menorah's sparks Marisa tries hard to focus on the endgame: saving her business. But when plaids and promises go flying can her heart-and career-survive the hit if her Hanukkah hoax puts her on the naughty list?</span></p>