The Proposal Play

Love and Hockey, Book 3

De: Lauren Blakely

Narrado por: Vanessa Edwin, Robert Hatchet

Performed with duet narration by Vanessa Edwin and Robert Hatchet!

My plan when I win a date in Vegas with my brother’s hockey star best friend? Poker and go to sleep early. Instead, I wake up with a ring on my finger and the sexy athlete naked in my bed.

But Asher’s my best friend too so we’ll get this annulled and laugh about this secret for years to come.

Trouble is our wedding pics went viral overnight.

Now everyone thinks we’re a real couple. We race back home, where I’ve just landed the big art commission of my dreams and he’s launching a sports charity so we need to look like we meant to tie the knot.

Easy enough. We’ll claim we’ve been secretly in love, while staying in separate rooms for the rest of the hockey season.

The last thing either one of us wants is to ruin a decade-long friendship by falling into bed again.

But I experience a new side of my husband at home. He cooks for me, encourages me…and buys me so many toys.

And, it’s more fun to share your toys with a friend.

We’re just enjoying temporary marital benefits.

Except, the more times he calls me his wife, the more I start to wonder if Asher was ever pretending?

And if my heart is ready to take the biggest risk of all.

Tropes: brother’s best friend, friends to lovers, marriage of convenience, marriage pact, he’s been secretly in love with her for years, forced proximity, my wife, pro hockey

©2024 Lauren Blakely Books (P)2025 Lauren Blakely Books

Five Stars!

This series keeps getting better! I loved the sweet story and wonderful spice, the narration was fantastic

Fire and ice and oh so much spice! Audio Gem!!

The Proposal Play is like a long, slow tease that you don't want to ever end....

The delicious tale of Maeve and Asher will keep you on your toes. There is something to be said for best friends who know each other's highs and lows and show up for each other. You route for them individually and even more so as they navigate as a "couple".

This story is poised as the classic friends to lovers trope but with a fresh twist. In the Proposal play, you don't feel like you are being told the same old story. Blakely breathes energy into their friendship turned marriage of convenience and edges the readers with their spicy honeymoon phase!

Vanessa Edwin encapsulates the creative free spirit that is Maeve. She brings our heroine's artsy side to life with the optimism and anguish that you can hear in every word Edwin utters.
Robert Hatchet is a new narrator for me and he does not disappoint as our Hero. He brings Asher's helpful yet dominant side to life and makes you want to obey his every command.

The bonus to the audio book is this is told in the Duet style that I feel makes the story come to life! Do yourself a favor and order the audio book ... you won't be disappointed!

The Proposal Play is like the sweetest torture you could dream up and the pay off is a kin to all the presents under the Christmas Tree this holiday season!

My favorite Lauren Blakely book

Loved this book. Loved this audio! The characters and storyline were such a good time. The narrator’s did an awesome job with the performance and emotion. 💗

My favorite book in the series!!

The Proposal Play by Lauren Blakely is my favorite book in the love and hockey series. How could it not be when it combines brothers best friend, friends to lovers, and fake marriage all in one. Let’s not forget it’s a hockey romance too. What more could you want? Asher and Maeve are absolutely adorable together. I could listen to their story all day long and not get bored. Asher is the kind of man women fantasize about. Having him as a best friend would be amazing in itself, but having him as your husband would be a dream. Maeve is lucky enough to have him as both. Hold on tight and see if this just for fun fake marriage between two best friends will ruin their friendship or turn into something more.
The narrators were fantastic!!

YES!! to The Proposal Play

The Proposal Play is the 3rd book in Lauren Blakelys Love and Hockey series. This story follows two best friends and the…predicament they have found themselves in. Maeve and Asher are besties and have been for over a decade. Asher is also teammates and friends with Maeves brother. During a play auction for charity, Maeve has to bid on Asher and gets egged on by her brother to do so. When she wins, they take off to enjoy the night together (as friends) but wake up in the same hotel, same bed and each with a ring on their finger…THAT finger. They talk about getting in annulled right away, but when word gets out about their nuptials, they decide to let it ride out for a little longer. Soon Maeve is moving into Ashers place to make it seem authentic, Asher is cooking for her, and he buys her some toys ;-). Soon the lines begin to blur, feelings that have been locked up are busting out, and the bedroom gets hott hott HOTT!!!

This book was such a fun read, I love a friends to lovers, especially when there is a siblings friend aspect. From the start these two clearly were just the best of friends, the way the interacted felt very genuine. Maeve is so head strong and I love that about her, she could ask her brother for help, or Asher, but she wants to get her accomplishments all on her own. Asher is such a cinnamon roll, and way more than people see of him on the outside, which is why him and Maeve work so well together. I even liked that Maeves brother was the instigator of it all when we normally see the brother playing the overprotective guy.

This was narrated in duet by Vanessa Edwin and Robert Hatchet. These two were simply PERFECT for Maeve and Asher, no one could have done them better. Vanessa gave Maeve her headstrong attitude in her voice, and Robert really brought that friendly kind of goofy at times tone. But when both characters were vulnerable, they both portrayed that to a T. I had such fun listening to both in this story.