The Cupcake Cottage: A FREE Fake Relationship Hockey Romance (Friends to Lovers)

Jean Oram

May 2022 · Hockey Sweethearts Book 1 · Oram Productions

About this ebook

A free best friends to lovers hockey romance.

My coach is playing matchmaker.

And that’s a problem because I work with this beautiful and distracting woman.

Also, she’s my best friend’s ex making her very off limits.

I also might be crushing on her. Hard.

That’s a hat trick of reasons to say no. But if I don’t follow coach’s playbook on and off the ice I’ll be benched. Kind of like my heart.

If I say yes to this fake-dating plan…well, it could save my reputation (nice guy, wrong place, wrong time, etc., etc.) as well as get me those deals I so desperately need. It could even help out my teammates who’ve worked too darn hard to have their captain trash it all because he’s afraid to fake it with his friend.

To hold her hand.

To kiss her in front of the cameras.

To show her how she should be truly treated by a boyfriend—pampered and cherished.

And maybe to show her how I really feel…

Laugh, cry and fall in love along with these two meant-to-be characters as they stumble their way toward true love. This sweet romance is set in the same charming small town world as Jean Oram's The Cowboys of Sweetheart Creek, Texas series. Enjoy! (These are slow burn, closed door hockey romances.)

Ratings and reviews

ARC for honest review with no compensation Received from Prolific 4.5 stars The Cupcake Cottage is book 1 in the new series Hockey Sweethearts by Jean Oram. This sweet, romantic read is well written with lots of depth to the story. You can’t go wrong with any book written by Ms. Oram! Even though this is the start of a new series we get to see old friends from prior series too! We start with Daisy Mae, Maverick and Myles who have grown up together and now Maverick decides it time to step it up to win Daisy Mae’s heart…read on to see how it all ends…

Daisy-Mae seemed to have a lot of jobs and I wondered if that was because she couldn’t figure out what she liked. She did like crushing on the hockey players with Violet especially her ex’s friend Maverick. She was pretty gutsy at times in the book, speaking up for what she thought was right or not, so I was surprised she wasn’t more vocal with Maverick about what was wrong with their romance. It started out as a publicity stunt, but real feelings emerged and still she keep feeling uncertain and insecure. It didn’t help that she had a brash mother who wanted her to manipulate men to get ahead and pounced on Daisy-Mae during signs of trouble. Maverick assumed he was doing what was best for them financially while Daisy-Mae was feeling like they were on their way to a breakup. I admired him for assisting another who was being abused even at the risk to his career.

The first book in the Hockey Sweethearts series. Daisy-Mae Ray and Maverick Blades, number 53, captain of the San Antonio Dragons. have a history she is his best friends ex. he needs help with his image and she comes to his rescue. I enjoyed seeing these two with all their ups and downs get a HEA. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.