The Home Ice Arrangement: A Sweet Fake Dating Hockey Romance
By Ella Merritt
Eight weeks of fake dating my childhood best friend should be easy. Except he's now a famous hockey star. I never forgave him for leaving. And apparently, he's been in love with me for fourteen years.
Silas Marchetti is back in Kettle Harbour.
Twelve years ago, he left our tiny coastal town for professional hockey and never looked back. I stayed, built a life, and took over the struggling rink my grandfather left behind.
Now Silas is injured, unsigned, and desperate for one last shot at...
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Eight weeks of fake dating my childhood best friend should be easy. Except he's now a famous hockey star. I never forgave him for leaving. And apparently, he's been in love with me for fourteen years.
Silas Marchetti is back in Kettle Harbour.
Twelve years ago, he left our tiny coastal town for professional hockey and never looked back. I stayed, built a life, and took over the struggling rink my grandfather left behind.
Now Silas is injured, unsigned, and desperate for one last shot at his career.
He needs a hometown comeback story.
I need a new compressor before the Boudreau shuts down for good.
So we make a deal.
For eight weeks, I'll be Silas's girlfriend. We'll smile for cameras, hold hands at town events, go on carefully staged dates, and convince everyone the hometown hockey hero has finally come home.
I even make rules.
No unnecessary kissing.
No romantic gestures.
No talking about the past.
And absolutely no forgetting this is fake.
It should be easy.
Except Silas remembers how I take my coffee. He volunteers at the rink when nobody's watching. And he looks at me like I'm still the girl he grew up with instead of the woman who learned how to live without him.
Then one fake kiss starts feeling dangerously real.
And I discover the one thing that was never part of our arrangement.
Silas hasn't been pretending.
He's loved me since we were seventeen.
Now the problem isn't whether I can fall for him.
It's whether I can trust the man who left me once not to do it again.
The Home Ice Arrangement is a sweet, closed-door small-town hockey romance featuring fake dating, childhood friends to lovers, he falls first, longtime pining, slow-burn tension, forced proximity, meddling townspeople, found family, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
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