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The Proposal Play by Lauren Blakely
Release Date: January 8, 2025
Series: Love and Hockey #3
Pages: 528
Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Sports
My plan when I win a date in Vegas with my brother’s hockey star best friend? Poker and go to sleep early. Instead, I wake up with a ring on my finger and the sexy athlete naked in my bed.
But Asher’s my best friend too so we’ll get this annulled and laugh about this secret for years to come.
Trouble is our wedding pics went viral overnight.
Now everyone thinks we’re a real couple. We race back home, where I’ve just landed the big art commission of my dreams and he’s launching a sports charity so we need to look like we meant to tie the knot.
Easy enough. We’ll claim we’ve been secretly in love, while staying in separate rooms for the rest of the hockey season.
The last thing either one of us wants is to ruin a decade-long friendship by falling into bed again.
But I experience a new side of my husband at home. He cooks for me, encourages me…and buys me so many toys.
And, it’s more fun to share your toys with a friend.
We’re just enjoying temporary marital benefits.
Except, the more times he calls me his wife, the more I start to wonder if Asher was ever pretending?
And if my heart is ready to take the biggest risk of all.
My Review:
For Asher Callahan and Maeve Harley, having been friends for a decade they’ve seen each other go through ups and downs. She is his lucky charm and Asher doesn’t take their friendship for granted. While Asher’s career as a professional hockey player for the Sea Dogs of San Francisco takes off, Harley is still trying to find her footing as an artist. Maeve thinks that no one is going to want to marry a broke artist who’s bad at romance, so Asher makes her a proposition, that if she is ever in need of a husband he’ll marry her. She accepts, not realizing that they would end up just that in order to save Asher’s reputation. Now they have to pretend in front of the whole world that they love each other. But with close proximity, they start to see each other in different light and Asher wants to keep her as his for good. He just needs to convince her that they might just be it for one another.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Proposal, Blakely is such a great storyteller/writer, her stories are always well-developed and full of emotions. We have two characters who have been through similar circumstances, neither thinks that love is in the cards for them. Until they are put in a situation where they have to pretend to be in love with each other that everything changes between them. Asher starts to realize that he might have loved her all this time and wants to be the man she wants. But making the wrong move can jeopardize their friendship as well, one that she is so set on keeping safe. Filled with sweet moments and a little dog in the mix, I would highly recommend checking out this book as well as any other by the author. You will not regret it. :)
***I received an advanced copy from the publisher. All opinions are my own.***
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READ THE EXCERPT:
It’s a soulful, lingering kiss that thrums deep in my bones. She’s soft in my arms, her breath gusting across her lips. A whimper crosses them too, and it sounds like a plea for more.
I want to swallow all her sounds, let them lead me on into the night.
Because they are not platonic.
They are not friendly.
They are unbearably sexy and needy.
Maeve Hartley tastes incredible, and this kiss rattles through my entire body, touching every damn corner of me. I don’t let go. As I kiss her more deeply, I’m struck with a cold, new clarity. It wasn’t merely affection I felt all along. It wasn’t simply lust either. It’s a whole lot more than basic attraction.
I’m wildly, annoyingly obsessed with my best friend.
Otherwise known as…my wife.
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