Marika Ray

Home Run Fiancé

This single parent dating experiment is about to go viral... Jameson When my eight-year-old son starts asking question about love, I decide to use a magazine article on how to woo a woman to prove, once and for all, that romantic love doesn't exist. Companionship, habit, mild fondness, sure, but not that thing called love. I have my hypothesis ready and I'm dead set on experimenting on my new neighbor, the single mom who does the weirdest things. But my experiment goes awry in unexplainable ways... Lily-Marie When dating apps fail me spectacularly, I decide to go old school and use a 1950s magazine I dug up at a yard sale to help find Mr. Right. Fifty Ways to Find a Husband. Sounds legit. Problem is, my new neighbor, Mr. Science Professor, keeps blocking my attempts. And keeps losing his shirt. How does a book nerd have so many muscles anyway? Thing is, my kids like his son and we start spending a lot of time together, which is distracting me from my ultimate goal: to find a husband to sweep me off my feet and be a good father to my kids. Things get comical quick when my best friend records everything in her daily newspaper column. I can't help but wonder if single moms like me can actually catch a husband. Or will this Mom-Com go viral as an epic train wreck?

Mom-Com

Uber Bossy

Desperately Seeking Househusband

Grumpy As Hell

Ridin' Solo

Sometimes you have to fake it till you make it, in life and in matters of the heart. Walker I practically have Widower stamped on my forehead as a speaker traveling the world talking about my experience losing my wife to cancer as newlyweds. Which has always suited me just fine. Until a woman all wrong for me jumpstarts my heart with her comical bad luck at the airport. If I help her out, even for just this weekend, will I also have to throw away my lucrative career as the permanently grieving husband? Jemma This final yearly trip with my old friends from high school has gone from bad to worse with a broken suitcase handle and my clothes strewn all over the baggage belt. Tall, dark, and handsome has witnessed all my humiliation with that condescending smirk, yet somehow I crave more time with this total stranger. When he offers to get my so-called friends off my back, who am I to say no? But somehow between fake kisses and real conversation, the lines blur on what's pretend and what's true love. But what happens in Colorado, has to stay in Colorado. Doesn't it? The Faking It series books are all stand alone sweet romances about fake relationships turning out to be more real than ever suspected. When true love is on the line, you can't fake your feelings...

The Widower's Girlfriend

Smarty Pants

Love Bank

Guarding the Princess

Sylvie Stewart

He's a hot, shirtless hockey player…and he’s my fake date for my ex-husband’s wedding. Talk about a hot flash to beat all hot flashes.

The wedding bells are ringing and my ex-husband is the groom! When my grown kids hook me up with a fake date to my ex-hubby's tropical island nuptials, I expect sun, sand, and plenty of fruity cocktails - not steamy nights with a shirtless pro hockey player!

Roman might be all swagger on the ice, but this growly, egotistical male model of perfection has a soft side too. While I battle dresses made for twenty-somethings, awkward run-ins with my ex, and unwelcome hot flashes, Roman is there to distract me with flirty compliments, stay up late with me when I can’t sleep, and make me feel vibrant and ageless.

As good as it feels, none of this is real, and Roman is way out of my league. Who’s going to believe this gorgeous, famous, muscle-bound athlete would ever date a scatterbrained, hot-flashing, insomniac nerd with twenty stubborn extra pounds around the middle?

But as the big day approaches, we grow closer. Wedding activities lead to beach walks at sunset, and his oh-so-talented fingers twist my hormones up in a whole new way. Gazing into Roman’s eyes, I start to wonder if he could be my shot at a real happily ever after.

That’s the thing about vacations, though; at some point, you need to return to reality.

Hot Flashes and Hockey Slashes is a single dad pro hockey romance with plenty of spice and a game-winning HEA. It’s the first book in the Hot Flash Hookups series, and can be read as a standalone.

Tropes:
-growly alpha hero
-menopausal woman at her ex husband’s wedding
-slow burn
-one bed
-pro hockey
-forced proximity/fake wedding date
-single dad

Hot Flash Hookups, Book #1

Hot Flashes and Hockey Slashes

Side Hustle

Unfriend Me

One Night Bride

All I have to do is appear as a judge on this cooking show in Hollywood and my restaurant will open to rave reviews. What I absolutely shouldn't do is sleep with one of the contestants and ruin everything I've worked so hard for. But he's sweeter than the maple syrup he dripped all over my naked body last night...

Marika Ray

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