Review: Luck of the Draw

Luck of the Draw by Kate Clayborn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The second in a series about three best friends who win the lottery.

Zoe Ferris was a driven corporate lawyer before she won the lottery, regularly clocking up 70 hour working weeks, answering emails at weekends and climbing the greasy pole just as fast as she can. But her most recent work for a pharmaceutical company kept her awake at nights and when she won the lottery she quit her job, fully intending to travel the work. Instead, she's stuck in a rut, paralysed by guilt for every crappy thing she's ever done. Prompted by one of these new age help books, instead of creating a hope jar, Zoe creates a guilt jar, with notes of all the people she's insulted, belittled, made cry, or generally screwed over in her life ... and it's a big jar. Like the Ten Steps for AA, Zoe intends to make amends to all those she hurt.

The first card she pulls out is one of the worst, the family of an addict who died taking a drug which her client said would wean him off narcotics, Zoe was the one who bought their silence with a blood money cheque. But when she pulls up at their house she finds they have moved and their other son, Aidan, is living there. Aidan wants nothing to do with Zoe at first, but when she offers to do anything to make amends he makes a ridiculous offer, pretend to be his wife for six weeks to help him secure a former wilderness campground for his ambitious addict rehab centre plan.

Zoe might want to make amends but even she can tell this is crazy talk, but she consents to be his fake fiancé and help him with his presentation to the former owners who are considering bids from several other couples who want to own the camp, many of whom Aidan (and his brother Aaron) went to camp with as a boy.

A charming, thought-provoking enemies-to-lovers, fake-fiancé romance.

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