Monday, 21 July 2025

REVIEW - The Fake Husband Play (That Steamy Hockey Romance #1) by Lili Valente

The Book
Release Date: 25 July 2025

What’s a girl to do when her longtime hockey crush offers her a marriage of convenience?
Say YES. Obviously.

I’ve spent three years lusting after Grammercy Graves on my (supposedly anonymous) hockey romance podcast—breaking down his stats, his plays, that panty-melting Cajun accent...

The entire internet knows he’s my dream guy. What they don’t know? I’m a broke single mom who just lost her job—and the health insurance my daughter needs.

When Grammercy finds me crying in a supply closet at a team party, he offers the wildest 
Fake marriage. Real benefits. One year.
No strings. No S-E-X. Just shared coverage and a room with my name on it.

But he’s so good with my daughter. So generous, so funny, so kind.
And when it’s just the two of us? He treats me like I’m someone special.

Like I’m his.

Soon, every kiss for the cameras turns into a kiss we can’t stop, and it’s getting harder and harder to remember this is all pretend.

There’s just one secret that could ruin it all—my podcast, the one that proves I wasn’t telling the whole story when we first “met.”

When he finds out, will he walk away…
Or make my wildest fangirl fantasies come true?

My Review    5 STARS
**My thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

The author has done it again.  Bringing a book that has the feels, the laughs and certainly wanting to turn page after page to see what happens next.

Grammercy first sees Elly when she is walking out of her office after having just been fired and there is something about her that just captivates him.  After that he finds himself driving along the same street trying to find her until he finds the single mum at a fundraiser he has to appear at as one of the scantily clad waitresses.

Finding her later crying in a closet, her finds himself having fun with her until a phone call from her nanny  has them both racing to the ER.

Grammercy shows that he still has the background roots that he was raised with along with a large heart and Elly shows us how single mums cope when everything seems to be against them.

I really did enjoy this book and cannot wait to read the books for the other team members.

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