Holiday Romance

One night stands don’t turn into happily ever after.
Rachel is living at home and working a toxic job. Three months ago Seth, her boyfriend of three years, broke up with her when she expected him to propose. She think’s she’s moving on until he shows up at her family’s Chanukah party with Golda, everyone’s enemy! The two are now engaged after starting an affair back in April. Rachel does something crazy and sleeps with Max, the new professor at the local university and her brother-in-law’s colleague. She only expects it to be a one night stand, but as she gets to know him for the next eight days, she realizes there’s something more between them.

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