The Proposal Play (Love & Hockey 3) by Lauren Blakely-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 8,2025

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.

But 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.

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REVIEW:THE PROPOSAL PLAY is the third instalment in Lauren Blakely’s contemporary, adult LOVE AND HOCKEY erotic, hockey romance series. This is professional hockey player Asher Callahan , and artist Maeve Hartley’s story line. THE PROPOSAL PLAY can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Asher and Maeve) THE PROPOSAL PLAY follows the best friends to lovers/ fake marriage between our story line couple. Asher Callahan is a left-winger for the San Francisco Sea Dogs professional hockey team, but Asher is a strong believer in superstition, and Maeve Hartley is the key to his success. A fundraiser, a winning bid,and a weekend in Vegas finds our couple married but keeping their Vegas wedding a secret is virtually impossible in the age of social media, as is the awarding of the opportunity to paint a mural for the San Franciso Sea Dogs. As the days turn into weeks, the marriage quickly becomes something more but there is a growing number of non-believers, and as such our couple find themselves defending a ten year friendship, and marriage in the face of accusations and heart break.

The world building follows the careers of both Asher and Maeve, as well as the friendships and family enmeshed in their lives but Asher struggles with issues from the past, and his obsession threatens the emotional sanity of our story line hero.

The relationship between Asher and Maeve is a best friends to lovers/ marriage relationship, Asher is also best friends with Maeve’s brother Beckett, and in this, if the relationship fails, there is a possiblity of failure for friendships as well. Asher has been in love with his best friend’s for as long as he can remember, and in this, he is willing to take a chance on their marriage, even it Maeve is struggling with the potential fall-out for everyone involved. The $ex scenes are intimate, provocative and passionate.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters including Maeve’s Brother Beckett, and her agent Angelina, as well as several teammates, Asher’s fathers John and Carlos, Maeve’s aunt Vivian, and social media influencer Miranda Blush.

THE PROPOSAL PLAY is a story of family and friendships, relationships and love, obsession and worry .The premise is lengthy, entertaining and engaging; the romance is fated and impassioned; the characters are desperate, dynamic and charismatic.

Reading Order and Previous reviews
The Boyfriend Goal
The Romance Line

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Reviewed by Sandy

 

It’s a soulful, lingering kiss that thrums deep in my bones. She’s soft in my arms, her breath gusting across her lips. A whimper crosses them too, and it sounds like a plea for more.
I want to swallow all her sounds, let them lead me on into the night.
Because they are not platonic.
They are not friendly.
They are unbearably sexy and needy.
Maeve Hartley tastes incredible, and this kiss rattles through my entire body, touching every damn corner of me. I don’t let go. As I kiss her more deeply, I’m struck with a cold, new clarity. It wasn’t merely affection I felt all along. It wasn’t simply lust either. It’s a whole lot more than basic attraction.
I’m wildly, annoyingly obsessed with my best friend.
Otherwise known as…my wife.

A #1 New York Times Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that’s hot, sweet and sexy. She lives in California with her family and has plotted entire novels while walking her dogs. With fourteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than eighty times, and she’s sold more than 2 million books. In October she’ll release HARD WOOD, a sexy, standalone romantic comedy. To receive an email when Lauren releases a new book, sign up for her newsletter! laurenblakely.com/newsletter

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