Fake Dating My Brother’s Best Friend

A Sweet Grumpy Sunshine Hockey Romance

I’m fake-dating my brother’s best friend on national TV, because my bakery won’t survive if I don’t.

Jake Mitchell—my brother’s best friend and my almost boyfriend—is back.
He’s the NHL golden boy who walked away nine years ago when my brother forced a choice, for my sake.

Business is bleeding; late invoices, quiet mornings, numbers that don’t forgive.
But the Sweethearts Bake-Off is the only shot I have at keeping the lights on.
The catch? It’s couples only.

So I text Jake before noon, expecting silence...
and he says yes.

Now we’re a team: contracts signed and cameras already circling.

He steadies my hands on live TV.
He steps between me and a rival trying to humiliate me on air.
Off camera, he isn’t acting anymore, and we both feel it.
So I fall.

Then it hits: my brother is the only reason my doors are still open. If he finds out I have fallen for Jake, he will pull his money. Jake will walk again to protect me, just like before.

Losing him again, on camera, would rip through me in a way I won’t recover from.

Fake Dating My Brother’s Best Friend delivers a friends-to-lovers, second-chance clean romance with a grumpy-sunshine pull and a cinnamon-roll hero. All the swoon, none of the spice.