Dani and Alec spent their childhood joined at the hip in a small Minnesota town, until her family moved away and the friendship simply stopped where it stood.
Years later she is back, expecting the quiet, bookish boy she left behind, and finds instead the local hockey star in a place where hockey players are treated as something close to royalty. Circumstances push the two of them into pretending to date, and the pretence gets complicated at roughly the speed everyone except the pair involved could predict. Lynn Painter writes the reunion with the humour and second-guessing that made her earlier romances work, keeping the rink and the town as present as the couple.
Why it holds attention:
• A childhood friends to something more premise with a long gap in the middle
• Fake dating handled with comic timing rather than pure misunderstanding
• A hockey-obsessed small town written as a character in its own right
• Written by the author behind Better than the Movies
For young adult and crossover readers who follow contemporary romance and enjoy a sports setting. Available through Boipoka.
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