Part of Moonshot Hockey
First published 2027
Sloane Wingrove walks into her five-year high school reunion single and unprepared. When her old crush Danny Marlowe appears, she blurts out that she has a famous boyfriend. The famous boyfriend she names is Danny. He plays along, and suddenly they have a deal: he'll be her wingman, and she'll keep showing up for his games as his good luck charm. Danny is a hockey player deep in a scoring slump with the playoffs closing in. He got a hat trick right after running into Sloane, and he is not letting that go. Sloane spent years invisible to him in high school and has worked hard to be fine on her own. She does not want to hand her heart to a man whose whole life runs on ice time. Danny tells himself a real relationship is off the table while the Stanley Cup is still in reach. But every fake date makes the arrangement feel less fake. Rebecca Jenshak, a USA Today bestselling author, builds the tension through small moments where the coaching sessions and invented romance start to mean something neither of them planned for. The question is whether two people protecting themselves can stop playing it safe at the same time.
Genres: romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance, sports-romance
Vibes: emotional, heartwarming, romantic, tension-filled, witty
Tropes: fake-dating, forced-proximity, friends-to-lovers, second-chance-romance
288 pages · Paperback · Podium Publishing