By Leah Brunner
DC Eagles Book 3
Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice rating: 🌶️
Audiobook rating: 🎧🎧🎧🎧
Pub date: 4/11/2024
Blurb
My best friend—and unrequited love—has a hole in her heart. Literally and figuratively.
First, Amber’s fiancé left her when she told him she was pregnant, and then her daughter's birth left her with complications from a heart defect she didn’t realize she had.
I’m devastated.
Of course I offer to pay for her surgery, but Amber (stubborn woman that she is) insists on wanting to pay me back, which I don't understand. As captain of an NHL team, I have plenty of spare cash, and I’m more than happy to help. I want to help.
So I come up with a plan.
I’ll marry Amber, my health insurance will cover her surgery, I’ll help with the baby, and the gold band on my finger will get my parents—who seem to think I'm incapable of love—off my back.
It's a win-win for both of us.
Two years of platonically wedded bliss before we amicably go our separate ways, and remain best friends, as always.
Only, how am I supposed to let Amber go when I’m not only in love with her, but also with her baby girl… who now feels like my own.
And I might have to let her go sooner than I ever wanted to.
Category: Sports Romance
Read if you Like:
🏒 Marriage of convenience
🏒 Hockey romance
🏒 Closed door
🏒 Single mom
🏒 Friends to lovers
My Thoughts:
I have enjoyed all the books in the D.C. Eagles series but this one is a new fav! I loved Amber and Remy's connection and how dedicated to her he was. I also loved his connection with Nella her daughter. This book was so incredibly sweet and I loved the mental health representation.
Remy has always been in love with Amber and it's so cute to see them finally figure out that they should be together. I loved how she understood and supported Remy so well. Remy has high-functioning autism and I loved how Leah Brunner showed his struggles as well as him being able to be flexible and competent despite them.
If you like a sweet hockey romance, a marriage of convenience, friends to lovers or a single-parent romance this is for you! It is a closed-door romance so perfect for fans of a hockey romance who prefer lower spice. I can't wait for the next in the series!
I listened to the audiobook of this title and enjoyed it! Alex Picard and David Bendena did the narration. They were both new to me narrators. Overall I enjoyed the audiobook but there were some sound effects like baby cries I wish the narrators hadn't attempted.
Thanks to Dreamscape Media for providing me with an ALC. All opinions are my own.
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