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Sure. My next one is called Christmas in Spite of you by K.C. mills. Okay. So Christmas in spite of you. Listen, I love this. Okay, so it starts off with Noel. Noel has. It's almost Christmas, but she is trying to start her own business. Business. And she has been starting her own business. And, like, she's basically, like, waiting for a job to drop in her lap. And once that happens, right? And I think, like, you know, like, all prognosis is good, that it's going to happen, but until that happens, she's essentially, like, maxed out on her credit cards, doesn't have any money, right? Like, essentially. And, like, the book opens with her essentially getting the email that's like, we'll get back to you in January. And she's like, like, right, like, I cannot afford. Like, you know what I mean? And now, meanwhile, she's basically been, like, hiding from her parents a little bit, like, just how tight things are, because she's just like, I made this choice, and I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna, like, live by it. So her friend gives her this idea of essentially, like. So Noelle is supposed to go home and visit her family for Christmas, and her friend gives her the idea of essentially putting her apartment up on, like, Airbnb for the week, like, as a way to make money, right? You'll make money. Now, the thing that's always so funny in these books is like. Like, they're gonna make money immediately. Like, you're not gonna get paid for 90 days, Noel. But whatever. Okay, so Noel decides, like, this is a good idea. Puts her place up on, you know, it's not called Airbnb, but it's basically Airbnb. It's not really, though, because it's like more like a. A. It's more like a holiday situation where you're, you know, you're renting someone else's house and their stuff's gonna be in it. It's not really like, airbnb has, like, that, like, it's just like, a hotel vibe or whatever. Okay. So anyway, she, though. She gets sick, and her friend is like, noelle, you have to make sure, like, you know, she's all doped up on, like, NyQuil or whatever. You have to make sure that you cancel the reservation or else you're gonna have to, like, pay it back or whatever. So Noelle's, like, in the depths of her NyQuil fuzziness, like, starts the process and is, like, watching the, like, you know, watching it load. And here's like, a confirmation and is, like, passes out. Well, two days later, who shows up to her apartment? And, like, there's, like, a code on the door, right? So he's able to, like, go right past, you know, the front desk or whatever. Is Canton. Now. Canton is. He walks into this apartment now. He's like this, like, kind of master of the universe type, very rich, wealthy, trying to close a business deal in Atlanta. That's why he's going there. And the reason that he was really interested in this particular apartment to rent is the guy he is going to try and, like, do a deal with lives in the same building. So it's like, right, Like. So he's like, I can't just stay anywhere. Like, this is going to really allow me to, like, close the deal with this guy. So he, like, goes into the apartment, and he's like. And he's talking to his, like, assistant. She's like, how is it? Did you get in? And he's like, yeah, but it's kind of, like, messy in here. She's like, what do you mean? He's like, well, there's, like, boxes, like, with Christmas stuff. And he's like, there's dishes in the sink. And, you know, the assistant's like, that's outrageous. I'll call and get someone in to clean it. He's like, no, it's fine. I can do it. So he's like, in the kitchen doing the dishes when Noelle, who has been sound asleep in her, you know, in the sleep of the sick in the dead, wakes. Wakes up and is like, oh, my God, someone broke into my apartment. And then he's like. And she's like, yeah, but why would they be doing the dishes? So she comes out and there's this very handsome man in her kitchen looking for garbage bags. To which I say, noelle, grab this man.
