Dirty Puck (Charleston Copperhead Country)

Fake girlfriend. Zero feelings. One dirty pucking mess. I don’t have time for romance. I barely have time to breathe. Two jobs. One amazing son. Zero room for anything else. Benny is my whole heart—he’s on the spectrum, nonverbal, and worth every second of hustle it takes to give him what he needs. One job pays for our roof. The other pays for his therapies. I’m not looking for love. I’m not even looking for friends. But somehow, I’ve found myself in a no-strings arrangement with Baker Reece, star goalie for the Charleston Copperheads and walking temptation in skates. We’re not friends with benefits—we’re just… benefits. And that works for me. Until it doesn’t. When Benny loses access to the therapy he needs, everything starts to fall apart. The only school that can help him is out of reach—until Baker shows up with a proposition. (Yes, he actually called it that.) His mother is dying, and the one thing she wants most in the world is to see him settled. He needs me to help with that. I need the money to get Benny into the right school. In return for playing his doting fake girlfriend, he’ll cover six years of therapy and tuition. No feelings. No catch. Just a harmless little lie. But I guess there’s no such thing as a harmless lie, because the longer we pretend, the more real it starts to feel. And the one thing I swore I wouldn’t risk—my heart—might be exactly what’s on the line. Dirty Puck is a flirty, emotional fake-dating hockey romance starring a no-nonsense single mom, a hotshot goalie with a soft spot, and a love story they never saw coming.