Tropes of this book:
✓ Fake dating
✓ Golden retriever hero
✓ Age gap
✓ She falls first
✓ Sports romance (pro hockey)
✓ Dual POV, slow burn to steamy
✓ Interconnected standalone
5 out 5 stars- I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone :)

Okay hear me out every book has the second act breakup, but this one starts already broken up..... What do you do to either get closer to your ex-- or try to move on? I wouldn't say join a reality show.. but this is what the FMC and MMC do :) now go read this book you won't regret it :)

Hero (Adrian) and heroine (Elena) pose as a married couple to get inside a dangerous, wealthy circle. Through deception and high-stakes threats, and secrets, their fake relationship turns into a something more and forces them to decide whether the feelings they've developed are worth risking everything for. I really loved this book will for sure be buying more of Lilly Manning's books.
Tropes
❤️ Forced proximity
🔥 Slow-burn romance
🛡️ Protective hero
🤝 Partners-to-lovers
🎭 Hidden identities and secrets
⚠️ Romantic suspense
💖 HEA (Happily Ever After)