Thursday, January 2, 2025

COMING SOON: THE PROPOSAL PLAY (LOVE AND HOCKEY) BY LAUREN BLAKELY

 





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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!


💒Marriage of Convenience
👥Brother’s Best Friend
⏰Long Time Best Friends to Lovers
💍Marriage Pact
🏆Player Charity Auction
💜Found Family
🏒Hockey Romance
❤️It's Always Been You
🔟He's Been Falling in Love with Her for Ten Years
🐶They Adopt a Dog

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Narrated by Vanessa Edwin and Robert Hatchet 




Cover Illustration and Design: Qamber Designs & Media


About THE PROPOSAL PLAY (Coming 1/8/2025):

A brand new brother’s best friend, marriage of convenience, hockey romance from Lauren Blakely!

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.











Narrated by Vanessa Edwin and Robert Hatchet 


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REVIEW: THE PROPOSAL PLAY (LOVE AND HOCKEY) BY LAUREN BLAKELY The Proposal Play (Love and Hockey Book 3)The Proposal Play by Lauren Blakely
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Audio/Ebook Review: The Proposal Play (Love and Hockey) by Lauren Blakely, Narrated by Vanessa Edwin and Robert Hatchet

The Proposal Play brings a sweetness that has slowly disappeared from romance. Blakely never loses sight of the connection between Asher and Maeve. That interaction makes for a charming blend of tempestuous attraction and heartfelt romance that bleeds over into Edwin and Hatchet's narration. Every emotion speaks to the soul and tickles the funny bone along the way. How could anyone not fall in love with these characters?

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EXCERPT REVEAL

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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. 


******


Asher
“You know my track record. No one wants to marry a broke artist who’s bad at romance.”
“You’re not bad at romance,” I say gently. You just pick dickheads who don’t appreciate you. She looks to her brother and Reina with a happy sigh, then turns back to me with a helpless little shrug—like she wants what they have but doesn’t think she’ll ever have it.
Something comes over me—maybe it’s the champagne, or maybe it’s just that weddings make you think about, well, weddings. Whatever it is, I say casually, “Don’t worry. If it comes down to it, I’ll marry you.”
She pauses, then arches a skeptical brow. “You’re suggesting a marriage pact, Callahan?”
Seems I am.
I don’t back down from a challenge—not one thrown at me or one I throw down. Besides, she seems to need certainty right now. “Sure,” I say. “If you ever need a husband, I’m your guy.”
A laugh bursts from her, but then she schools her expression. “Fine,” she says primly, adopting a regal air. “Since you made such a heartfelt proposal, I accept your marriage pact.”
“I’ll hold you to it,” I say.
“You do that.”
Then I dip the f*ck out of her here on the dance floor. Her back bows and her foot pops up, but she holds on tight, laughing brightly. The sound of her laughter knocks something else loose inside my head as I tug her back to standing. Possibly a few brain cells that slept through the last eight years of friendship. Because…Maeve is pretty and charming and f*cking adorable. How did I miss what’s been right in front of me?
Her laugh, like wind chimes, sounds prettier than it has before. Her perfume, like wildflowers on a sultry summer day, hits differently now. Her lush lips are suddenly impossible to look away from. How much champagne did I have tonight? A couple of glasses? But even so, I’m not a lightweight. I’m more than six feet tall, and I’m sturdy as f*ck.
As I try to count my cocktails, I glimpse one of the bride’s uncles dancing near the band. He’s cutting the rug, twirling his wife, but when he pulls her back into his arms—bam.
He bumps right into Maeve’s back. She pitches forward in my arms, slamming against my chest, her chin tipped up, her eyes wide. “Oh!” 
She’s breathless.
And she’s also suddenly a very dangerous four inches closer to me. I’m barely aware of anyone else on the dance floor, under the tent, in the whole damn city. I look down at my best friend’s sister, mesmerized without warning. It’s like I’ve never quite seen her clearly until tonight—from the hair to the lips to the laughter to the dance, to her this close to me. “I’ve got you,” I say softly, holding her hips tighter, keeping her near. 
She glances down, too, but doesn’t pull away. “You…do have me, Asher.”
She sounds surprised. Maybe confused. That makes two of us. I swallow roughly and simply echo, “I do.”
I don’t move. 
She doesn’t either.
Her body fits mine in a whole new way. Our hips flush, her breasts pressed to me—everything temptingly aligned. Her raspberry lips are so close that I can tell it’s not the makeup making her look so pretty tonight. 
She is pretty.
Did it take me crossing these final four inches to notice Maeve like this?
No idea, but I’m noticing Maeve like this now. Oh hell, am I noticing my friend.



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. 

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