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Their Playoff Arrangement: A Fake Dating Hockey Romance
Their fake romance will either turn their lives around...or upside down.
The coach’s daughter is beautiful, spirited, and totally off limits. But NHL hockey player Liam Caldwell is stuck in a scoring slump, and he’ll take whatever luck he can get, including Kate Sullivan’s playful kiss. Good news — it breaks his slump. Bad news — video of the kiss goes viral. They can’t admit it was impulsive, not with the playoffs looming. So they agree to a fake romance — no strings, no feelings. It can’t be anything more — at the end of the season, Liam will move on to another team, and Kate’s business and family are in Hollow Valley. So why, as the days count down and their nights heat up, are the goodbyes getting harder?
Mills & Boon Special Edition — Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness.
The coach’s daughter is beautiful, spirited, and totally off limits. But NHL hockey player Liam Caldwell is stuck in a scoring slump, and he’ll take whatever luck he can get, including Kate Sullivan’s playful kiss. Good news — it breaks his slump. Bad news — video of the kiss goes viral. They can’t admit it was impulsive, not with the playoffs looming. So they agree to a fake romance — no strings, no feelings. It can’t be anything more — at the end of the season, Liam will move on to another team, and Kate’s business and family are in Hollow Valley. So why, as the days count down and their nights heat up, are the goodbyes getting harder?
Mills & Boon Special Edition — Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness.
272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published May 26, 2026
About the author
Laurel Greer
74 books450 followersUSA Today bestselling author Laurel Greer loves writing about all the ways love can change people for the better, especially when messy families and charming small towns are involved. She lives outside of Vancouver, BC with her law-talking husband and two daughters and is never far from a cup of tea, a good book, or the ocean—preferably all three.
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September 29, 2026
Who’d have thought I’d pick up a hockey romance? Still, this sounded fun when I read the blurb in the bookstore so home it came. The premise is simple: One supposedly lucky kiss leads to a fake dating arrangement: she gets publicity for her hockey school and he gets pregame kisses to keep his scoring streak alive. A perfectly sensible business arrangement that’s only supposed to last for the season. Nothing that could possibly get complicated (other than the fact that our heroine Kate is the coach’s daughter!)
I loved this book. These two were adorable together. Their chemistry was off the charts, and their insistence that this is all for the cameras fooled no one except, occasionally, themselves. I believed in them as a couple long before they did.
I also loved the fact that the hockey felt authentic. I’d guess the author spent some time around the ice, or researched the living daylights out of this. The book was also light and easy to fly through, with enough seriousness to give the story some meat. Mostly I just kept turning the pages and smiling. Sometimes a book hits exactly the right spot, and this one did. Highly recommended!
One other note: this feels like it’s setting up to be a series. I’ll tell you right now, that I certainly hope that’s the case. Count me in on the next volume, Ms. Greer. I want more!
I loved this book. These two were adorable together. Their chemistry was off the charts, and their insistence that this is all for the cameras fooled no one except, occasionally, themselves. I believed in them as a couple long before they did.
I also loved the fact that the hockey felt authentic. I’d guess the author spent some time around the ice, or researched the living daylights out of this. The book was also light and easy to fly through, with enough seriousness to give the story some meat. Mostly I just kept turning the pages and smiling. Sometimes a book hits exactly the right spot, and this one did. Highly recommended!
One other note: this feels like it’s setting up to be a series. I’ll tell you right now, that I certainly hope that’s the case. Count me in on the next volume, Ms. Greer. I want more!
May 26, 2026
THEIR PLAYOFF ARRANGEMENT is the first in Laurel Greer’s Lucky Shot hockey romance series. Kate Sullivan comes from a hockey family, with her older brother playing on the professional team coached by their father, and having played herself as far as women could prior to professional hockey being an actual option. When new-to-the-team Liam Caldwell is struggling through a rough patch, a teasing kiss aligns with a winning goal, and before the two of them know it, they’re embroiled in a surprisingly pleasant fake-dating situationship…. That it irks Kate’s gruff dad and protective brother is just a fun bonus.
Laurel Greer characters shine, and Liam and Kate are winners all the way. With generous hearts and innate kindness, these two don’t have far to tumble from pretending for the hockey public to far too real feelings. It is a real pleasure to see their genuine care for each other steadily growing and enjoy the sweetness of their time together, as much as they are allowing themselves to…. Ms Greer gives Kate and Liam space to work out their fears and room to be brave. Love the warmth of the Sullivan family and the team and their friends. Eagerly anticipating the next in this series.
Laurel Greer characters shine, and Liam and Kate are winners all the way. With generous hearts and innate kindness, these two don’t have far to tumble from pretending for the hockey public to far too real feelings. It is a real pleasure to see their genuine care for each other steadily growing and enjoy the sweetness of their time together, as much as they are allowing themselves to…. Ms Greer gives Kate and Liam space to work out their fears and room to be brave. Love the warmth of the Sullivan family and the team and their friends. Eagerly anticipating the next in this series.
June 6, 2026
First in the Lucky Shot Romance series, in which Kate Sullivan, daughter of a coach and a coach herself--to children wanting to play ice hockey--should be off limits to any of the professional players her father coaches. But Liam Caldwell doesn't follow that particular rule when he teases Kate to kiss him for luck and so he'll stop missing getting the puck into the goal at games.
She kisses him and what starts a run of goals he's makes also pushes them into turning--without wanting to--their fake dating into something more real than either imagined would happen.
A super story that fits right into what's going on around the country and the world with the increase in interest and activity with women's ice hockey and other women's professional teams. Worth reading and imagining what else will happen with a few lucky shots at the goal, whatever it happens to be.
She kisses him and what starts a run of goals he's makes also pushes them into turning--without wanting to--their fake dating into something more real than either imagined would happen.
A super story that fits right into what's going on around the country and the world with the increase in interest and activity with women's ice hockey and other women's professional teams. Worth reading and imagining what else will happen with a few lucky shots at the goal, whatever it happens to be.
August 5, 2026
I am so excited about this new series by Laurel Greer! I absolutely loved this story. I couldn’t put it down. Both main characters, Liam and Kate are the perfect couple. I loved the obstacles they faced and the secondary characters added a nice touch to the story.
Laurel did a fantastic job at creating a hockey romance that’s fresh. A great take on the fake dating troupe!
Laurel did a fantastic job at creating a hockey romance that’s fresh. A great take on the fake dating troupe!
July 22, 2026
review to come
August 28, 2026
Great characters! Read it in a day, cute but not saccharine, exactly what you want from a romance novel.
May 26, 2026
THEIR PLAYOFF ARRANGEMENT is the first in Laurel Greer’s Lucky Shot hockey romance series. Kate Sullivan comes from a hockey family, with her older brother playing on the professional team coached by their father, and having played herself as far as women could prior to professional hockey being an actual option. When new-to-the-team Liam Caldwell is struggling through a rough patch, a teasing kiss aligns with a winning goal, and before the two of them know it, they’re embroiled in a surprisingly pleasant fake-dating situationship…. That it irks Kate’s gruff dad and protective brother is just a fun bonus.
Laurel Greer characters shine, and Liam and Kate are winners all the way. With generous hearts and innate kindness, these two don’t have far to tumble from pretending for the hockey public to far too real feelings. It is a real pleasure to see their genuine care for each other steadily growing and enjoy the sweetness of their time together, as much as they are allowing themselves to…. Ms Greer gives Kate and Liam space to work out their fears and room to be brave. Love the warmth of the Sullivan family and the team and their friends. Eagerly anticipating the next in this series.
Laurel Greer characters shine, and Liam and Kate are winners all the way. With generous hearts and innate kindness, these two don’t have far to tumble from pretending for the hockey public to far too real feelings. It is a real pleasure to see their genuine care for each other steadily growing and enjoy the sweetness of their time together, as much as they are allowing themselves to…. Ms Greer gives Kate and Liam space to work out their fears and room to be brave. Love the warmth of the Sullivan family and the team and their friends. Eagerly anticipating the next in this series.
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