by K.M. Gillis
Series: The Ottawa Otters #3
Community rating: 5/5 from 1 rating.
Oh what fun...
Bailey Gates is one of the PWHL's top goalies. As a member of sports' most admired family, she's used to performing under pressure. Being the maid of honour in her brother's Christmas Eve wedding should be festive family fun…except her cheating ex-boyfriend is the best man, and her overbearing mother is determined to reunite them. For the first time in her life, Bailey is the one who needs saving.
Enter Austin Crawford. One of the NHL's most talked-about players, he's as likely to make the highlight reels as the gossip pages. A chance encounter with Bailey last Christmas made him realize he wants more than hookups and headlines. So when the goalie he's had a crush on for the last year offers him a way to clean up his image, he agrees before she can change her mind.
A fake relationship will improve his brand and get her family off her back. It's only until New Year's. Only for the cameras. Only pretend. But as the holiday wedding draws closer, so do they. And when Austin shoots his shot Bailey discovers she can guard her net but not her heart.
Faking Seasons Bright is a holiday hockey romcom. It is the third book in the Ottawa Otters standalone series. Tropes include: NHL Player + PWHL Goalie, Fake Dating, Reformed Playboy, He falls first and harder
Genres: Sports Romance, Hockey Romance, Rom-Com, Holiday Romance
Tropes: He falls harder, Reformed Playboy, Fake Dating, He falls first
380 pages
Published: 2026-10-14