Fake Date, Real Heat
(2026)(The third book in the Small Town Hockey Romance series)
A novel by Piper Sullivan
🔥An older player and a curvy rookie reporter fake-date their way into real feelings in this forced proximity, age-gap, college hockey romance����️🏒
All I wanted was one killer byline to save my job.What I got was a deal with the team's broodiest player.
And an invitation to his ex-wife's wedding!
Simon Moreau. Redheaded and older , devastatingly attractive, and chasing one last shot at the big leagues.
I'm a grad student and reporter, terrible at skating, and with one month to keep my job or face being tossed out on my very ample rear end.
His offer? He'll teach me hockey if I'll be his plus-one at his ex's wedding.
We'd keep it professional.
Absolutely no noticing the heat in his eyes when he steadies my hips, or how his hands feel when he's teaching me to handle my stick.
Then a blizzard left us snowed in at a fully-booked hotel with only one room left.
And suddenly "professional" meant sharing a bed with the man I was supposed to be writing about, not catching feelings for.
Except fake started feeling real the minute my viral profile lifted Simon into the spotlight.
And scrutiny.
When a photograph and relentless gossip threaten both our careers, his messy emotional divorce baggage collides with my integrity as a journalist and my deadline.
Now we're facing an impossible choice.
Protect our ambitions or risk everything for a love that was never supposed to exist.
Tropes:
❤️Fake Dating
❤️Hockey Romance
❤️College Sports romance
❤️Small Town
❤️Age gap (Older man younger woman)
❤️Forced Proximity
❤️Only One Bed
❤️Slow Burn
❤️Workplace Romance
❤️ Angsty with emotional pay-off
❤️ Off-limits
Genre: New Adult Romance
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