Puck and Presents
(2025)(The second book in the Blizzard Bay Bruisers series)
A novel by Harley Storm
He humiliated me five years ago. Now he wants to pretend we're in love.
Winter Hayes came home to Blizzard Bay for one reason: to give her daughter the stable life she deserves. Covering the local hockey team was supposed to be simple—until she discovers the arrogant player who publicly embarrassed her is now the star winger and the face of the franchise.
Garrett Reid has spent five years trying to outrun his past mistakes. When an old video threatens to destroy his reputation right before Christmas, his publicist has a solution: fake date someone respectable. Someone who'll make him look like boyfriend material.
Someone like the beautiful journalist who can barely stand to be in the same room as him.
Winter needs exclusive access for her career-making feature. Garrett needs damage control. It's a business arrangement—attend holiday events together, smile for the cameras, and part ways after New Year's. Simple.
Except nothing about Garrett is simple anymore. Not the way he makes her four-year-old daughter laugh. Not the way he shows up when Winter needs him most. Not the way he looks at them both like they're his whole world.
When Winter's past threatens everything she's built, Garrett has a choice: walk away like everyone else, or prove he's the man she never believed existed.
But Winter's been burned before. And Garrett's never been anyone's forever.
Can a fake relationship become real when Christmas magic isn't enough to heal old wounds? Or will they lose their chance at the family they both secretly want?
Genre: Romance
Winter Hayes came home to Blizzard Bay for one reason: to give her daughter the stable life she deserves. Covering the local hockey team was supposed to be simple—until she discovers the arrogant player who publicly embarrassed her is now the star winger and the face of the franchise.
Garrett Reid has spent five years trying to outrun his past mistakes. When an old video threatens to destroy his reputation right before Christmas, his publicist has a solution: fake date someone respectable. Someone who'll make him look like boyfriend material.
Someone like the beautiful journalist who can barely stand to be in the same room as him.
Winter needs exclusive access for her career-making feature. Garrett needs damage control. It's a business arrangement—attend holiday events together, smile for the cameras, and part ways after New Year's. Simple.
Except nothing about Garrett is simple anymore. Not the way he makes her four-year-old daughter laugh. Not the way he shows up when Winter needs him most. Not the way he looks at them both like they're his whole world.
When Winter's past threatens everything she's built, Garrett has a choice: walk away like everyone else, or prove he's the man she never believed existed.
But Winter's been burned before. And Garrett's never been anyone's forever.
Can a fake relationship become real when Christmas magic isn't enough to heal old wounds? Or will they lose their chance at the family they both secretly want?
Genre: Romance
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