Excerpt Reveal: ‘The Proposal Play’ by Lauren Blakely (January 2)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely, comes the next standalone hockey romance in her Love and Hockey series, THE PROPOSAL PLAY! This sexy, brother’s best friend, marriage of convenience, best friends to lovers, hockey romance brings all the feels, heat and spice! Releasing January 8th in all formats, and free to read in Kindle Unlimited, check out the excerpt below and pre-order your copy today!
The Proposal Play
(Love & Hockey #3)
Author: Lauren Blakely
Publication Date: January 8, 2025
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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.
Trouble is, 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.
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Maeve
“How about we make a bet?”
He raises an eyebrow. “What kind?”
“If it lands on black this time,” I say, leaning in closer, some new desire, some shimmery curiosity driving me on. “I get another kiss.”
A slow, knowing smile spreads across his face. “You’re betting for a kiss, wife?”
When he says it like that…
Impulsively, I add, “It’s been so long since I had a good kiss I wasn’t sure I remembered how to kiss.”
His clever eyes glimmer, then briefly flick behind me, maybe to the man standing on my other side. “Is that so?” Asher asks, focus solely on me.
“Yes.”
“And you want your husband to help you remember how?” he asks, voice gravelly as he loops an arm around me, his hand curling around my waist.
Possessively, once more.
Moving me a little further away from the red-headed man. For a few heavy seconds, he stares at the man with a get the f*&k away from my woman in his eyes.
My pulse shoots to the moon.
When Asher’s gaze returns to me, I answer him. “Yes,” I say, and I sound breathless. I feel breathless. Maybe it’s because tonight, the usual friendship rules don’t apply. Maybe we can break them this once and return to normal tomorrow.
When we leave Vegas, we’ll leave this all behind.
About Lauren Blakely
A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that’s cute but spicy. Lauren likes dogs, cake, and show tunes and is the vegetarian at your dinner party.
My obsession with reading started over 30+ years ago when I went to my first Scholastic Book Fair and found R.L. Stine's Fear Street series. Later, I came across Anne Rice's novels at my public library when I was fourteen when my obsession with vampires started. I was the girl who preferred to be a vampire over a princess any day. My husband says I would leave him a heartbeat for a vampire that looked like Spike or Angel (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) or Damon Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries. (It's true, though, and he's accepted it.)
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