Audiobook Review: The Lies We Play by Claudia Burgoa, narrators Grace Grant, Robert Hatchet, and Stephen Borne

 

Blurb: 

I had two men, one secret marriage, and a love the law refused to name.

Then came the accident.

When I woke up, Halston Saint Claire was hidden behind his family’s money, lawyers, and lies. Creed Lafontaine was gone. Everyone around me insisted the rings, the vows, the three of us—it was all trauma talking.

So I did what broken girls with color-coded calendars and trust issues do best.

I survived.

Now I live in Florence, restoring damaged art and pretending the past doesn’t still have its hands on me. Until one forged document drags me back into the Saint Claire world, where old money buries truth, families weaponize concern, and the two men I never stopped loving are closer than I’m ready for.

Creed remembers everything.

Halston remembers in fragments.

And I remember enough to know our love wasn’t the lie.

It was the thing everyone tried to erase.

Now the three of us have one chance to uncover what really happened that night, reclaim the marriage stolen from us, and decide whether a love built for three can survive ten years of betrayal.

Because in the Saint Claire world, love was never the most dangerous thing.

It was the lies we played to survive it.

Tropes:
🏒Why Choose / MMF
🏒Secret Marriage
🏒Second Chance Romance
🏒Forced Separation
🏒Amnesia
🏒Hockey Romance
🏒Old Money Family Drama
🏒Romantic Suspense
🏒Hidden Conspiracy
🏒He remembers her body before his mind catches up
🏒The marriage was legal, but the love was always three
🏒Touch her and find out
🏒Found family over blood family
🏒The body remembers what the world erased

Amazon: Amazon.com: The Lies We Play: A Why Choose Hockey Romance eBook : Burgoa, Claudia: Kindle Store

Audible: The Lies We Play Audiobook by Claudia Burgoa

Bookbub: The Lies We Play: A Why Choose Hockey Romance by Claudia Burgoa - BookBub

Goodreads: The Lies We Play: A Why Choose Hockey Romance by Claudia Y. Burgoa | Goodreads

My Review - 4 of 5 stars - 

Quite a tale of love lost, secrets, danger, and reunion of love. Three people, Livia, Halston, and Creed, found love together, but there were those who did not want that. I felt for Livia and Creed when a tragic accident caused a great rift, and they lost each other. Their families kept them apart through many different ways. I loved how these three never stopped loving each other despite believing they had been abandoned. Creed's amnesia was used against him. A very steamy story with plenty of heartbreak and a love so strong they came back to each other.
Grace Grant, Stephen Borne, and Robert Hatchet did a wonderful job with the tension, joy, tears, and other emotions that moved through this story. I enjoyed the story more.

This is my unsolicited review.

Narrator Reveal: The Lies We Play by Claudia Burgoa, narrated by Grace Grant, Stephen Borne, and Robert Hatchet

The Lies We Play

by Claudia Burgoa

Narrators:

 Grace Grant @msgracegrant 

 Stephen Borne @stephenbornevoice 

 Robert Hatchet @readbyrob 

Release day: August 19th 2026

Cover: The Pretty Little Design Co.

Tropes:

🏒Why Choose / MMF

🏒Secret Marriage

🏒Second Chance Romance

🏒Forced Separation

🏒Amnesia

🏒Hockey Romance

🏒Old Money Family Drama

🏒Romantic Suspense

🏒Hidden Conspiracy

🏒He remembers her body before his mind catches up

🏒The marriage was legal, but the love was always three

🏒Touch her and find out

🏒Found family over blood family

🏒The body remembers what the world erased 

Blurb:

I had two men, one secret marriage, and a love the law refused to name.

Then came the accident.

When I woke up, Halston Saint Claire was hidden behind his family’s money, lawyers, and lies. Creed Lafontaine was gone. Everyone around me insisted the rings, the vows, the three of us—it was all trauma talking.

So I did what broken girls with color-coded calendars and trust issues do best.

I survived.

Now I live in Florence, restoring damaged art and pretending the past doesn’t still have its hands on me. Until one forged document drags me back into the Saint Claire world, where old money buries truth, families weaponize concern, and the two men I never stopped loving are closer than I’m ready for.

Creed remembers everything.

Halston remembers in fragments.

And I remember enough to know our love wasn’t the lie.

It was the thing everyone tried to erase.

Now the three of us have one chance to uncover what really happened that night, reclaim the marriage stolen from us, and decide whether a love built for three can survive ten years of betrayal.

Because in the Saint Claire world, love was never the most dangerous thing.

It was the lies we played to survive it.

 

Cover Reveal: The Lies We Play by Claudia Burgoa

The Lies We Play

by Claudia Burgoa

Release day: August 16th 2026

Tropes:

🏒Why Choose / MMF

🏒Secret Marriage

🏒Second Chance Romance

🏒Forced Separation

🏒Amnesia

🏒Hockey Romance

🏒Old Money Family Drama

🏒Romantic Suspense

🏒Hidden Conspiracy

🏒He remembers her body before his mind catches up

🏒The marriage was legal, but the love was always three

🏒Touch her and find out

🏒Found family over blood family

🏒The body remembers what the world erased

Cover: The Pretty Little Design Co.

Blurb:

I had two men, one secret marriage, and a love the law refused to name.

Then came the accident.

When I woke up, Halston Saint Claire was hidden behind his family’s money, lawyers, and lies. Creed Lafontaine was gone. Everyone around me insisted the rings, the vows, the three of us—it was all trauma talking.

So I did what broken girls with color-coded calendars and trust issues do best.

I survived.

Now I live in Florence, restoring damaged art and pretending the past doesn’t still have its hands on me. Until one forged document drags me back into the Saint Claire world, where old money buries truth, families weaponize concern, and the two men I never stopped loving are closer than I’m ready for.

Creed remembers everything.

Halston remembers in fragments.

And I remember enough to know our love wasn’t the lie.

It was the thing everyone tried to erase.

Now the three of us have one chance to uncover what really happened that night, reclaim the marriage stolen from us, and decide whether a love built for three can survive ten years of betrayal.

Because in the Saint Claire world, love was never the most dangerous thing.

It was the lies we played to survive it.

 

Release: Lost in Overtime by Claudia Burgoa with my review

Lost in Overtime

by Claudia Burgoa

Release Date: April 15, 2026

Two hockey rivals.

One woman they never stopped loving.

And the one thing neither of them is willing to admit out loud.

Blurb:

Two Rivals. One Woman. No Choosing.

Alberto Wade and Callaway Winthrop were my best friends first—until one night broke us, and the three of us stopped being an us.

Now they’re enemies in the league, an “infamous rivalry” splashed across headlines like it’s just hockey.

It isn’t.

It’s me.

It’s what they’ve always wanted and have never been able to agree on.

It’s the way their hate on the ice has always sounded too much like longing off it.

Now, a shocking trade and an emergency back home drag us back into the same orbit. Older. harder. Still dangerous. Still looking at me like I’m the only thing they’ve ever wanted.

They still want to win.

They still want me.

I still refuse to choose.

But second chances come with scars, secrets, and promises we never got to finish—until a single mistake turns into two pink lines . . .

I’m pregnant—with a baby that isn’t theirs.

The timing is brutal. The fallout is inevitable. And the only way we survive what comes next is if they stop making me choose—stop pretending their rivalry is the only fire between them—and finally admit what’s been burning between all three of us all along.

Because this time . . .

They’re not just fighting for a season.

They’re fighting for us.

USA Today Bestselling Author Claudia Burgoa delivers a deeply angsty MMF why-choose hockey romance featuring two pro-hockey rivals, the woman they can’t stop loving, hurt/comfort, found family, and a love that risks careers, reputations, and the one thing they never meant to want—each other.

Tropes:

🏒MMF

💜Second Chance Romance

🏒Hockey Romance

💜Forced Proximity

🏒Rivals-To-Lovers

💜Bi- Awakening

🏒Best Friends to Lovers

💜Possessive/Protective Heroes

🏒Surprise Pregnancy (Not Theirs)

Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJFX8FD2?tag=usalinktagdefault-20&geniuslink=true

My Review - 4 1/2 of 5 stars - 

4 1/2 stars. This was full of angst, doubt, love, and steam. Three friends took that step beyond friendship and broke apart. Circumstances brought them all back together, and they realized they needed to work things out as their hearts were still entangled. Fear of exposure held them back for a bit, but the love was stronger. I enjoyed the takedown of Callaway's family and loved how Callaway (Cally) and Alberto (Monty) took on support of Vesper's baby immediately. A hot story with plenty of ups and downs, very entertaining.
The narrators did a wonderful job. I always enjoy Erin Mallon and Gomez Pugh. Robert Hatchet was new to me, and I look forward to hearing more from him.

Audiobook Review: Lost in Overtime by Claudia Burgoa, narrators Erin Mallon, Gomez Pugh, Robert Hatchet

 

Blurb: 

Two Rivals. One Woman. No Choosing.

Alberto Wade and Callaway Winthrop were my best friends first—until one night broke us, and the three of us stopped being an us.

Now they’re enemies in the league, an “infamous rivalry” splashed across headlines like it’s just hockey.

It isn’t.

It’s me.

It’s what they’ve always wanted and have never been able to agree on.

It’s the way their hate on the ice has always sounded too much like longing off it.

Now, a shocking trade and an emergency back home drag us back into the same orbit. Older. harder. Still dangerous. Still looking at me like I’m the only thing they’ve ever wanted.

They still want to win.

They still want me.

I still refuse to choose.

But second chances come with scars, secrets, and promises we never got to finish—until a single mistake turns into two pink lines . . .

I’m pregnant—with a baby that isn’t theirs.

The timing is brutal. The fallout is inevitable. And the only way we survive what comes next is if they stop making me choose—stop pretending their rivalry is the only fire between them—and finally admit what’s been burning between all three of us all along.

Because this time . . .

They’re not just fighting for a season.

They’re fighting for us.

USA Today Bestselling Author Claudia Burgoa delivers a deeply angsty MMF why-choose hockey romance featuring two pro-hockey rivals, the woman they can’t stop loving, hurt/comfort, found family, and a love that risks careers, reputations, and the one thing they never meant to want—each other.

Featuring:

🏒 Why choose romance
🏒 MMF romance
🏒 Hockey romance
🏒 Second chance romance
🏒 Rivals to lovers
🏒 Best friends to lovers
🏒 Public rivalry, private longing
🏒 Pregnancy twist (Not Theirs)
🏒 Found family
🏒 Hurt/comfort
🏒 Emotional / angsty romance
🏒 Forced reunion

Amazon: Amazon.com: Lost in Overtime: An Angsty Why-Choose Hockey Romance eBook : Burgoa, Claudia: Kindle Store

Audible: Lost in Overtime Audiobook by Claudia Burgoa

Bookbub: Lost in Overtime: An Angsty Why-Choose Hockey Romance by Claudia Burgoa - BookBub

Goodreads: Lost in Overtime: Second Chance, Hockey MMF (Why Choose) Romance by Claudia Y. Burgoa | Goodreads

My Review - 4 1/2 of 5 stars - 

4 1/2 stars. This was full of angst, doubt, love, and steam. Three friends took that step beyond friendship and broke apart. Circumstances brought them all back together, and they realized they needed to work things out as their hearts were still entangled. Fear of exposure held them back for a bit, but the love was stronger. I enjoyed the takedown of Callaway's family and loved how Callaway (Cally) and Alberto (Monty) took on support of Vesper's baby immediately. A hot story with plenty of ups and downs, very entertaining.
The narrators did a wonderful job. I always enjoy Erin Mallon and Gomez Pugh. Robert Hatchet was new to me, and I look forward to hearing more from him.

This is my unsolicited review.

Teaser: Lost in Overtime by Claudia Burgoa

Lost in Overtime

by Claudia Burgoa

Release Date: April 15, 2026

Genre: Hockey, Second Chance, MMF Romance

Goodreads: Lost in Overtime: Second Chance, Hockey MMF (Why Choose) Romance by Claudia Y. Burgoa | Goodreads

Preorder: Amazon.com: Lost in Overtime: Second Chance, Hockey MMF (Why Choose) Romance eBook : Burgoa, Claudia: Kindle Store

USA Today Bestselling Author Claudia Burgoa delivers a deeply angsty MMF why-choose hockey romance featuring two pro-hockey rivals, the woman they can’t stop loving, hurt/comfort, found family, and a love that risks careers, reputations, and the one thing they never meant to want—each other.

Teaser: Tomorrow though, tomorrow I’ll have her in my arms, and if I play this right, she’ll choose me. This time I’m not letting her slip away— not again.

Cover Reveal and Preorder: Lyrics Remain Unchanged (Heartbreak Mixtapes #2) by Claudia Burgoa

Lyrics Remain Unchanged by Claudia Burgoa releases on February 25th!

MMF Best Friend's Little Sister Romance

https://geni.us/LyricsRemain

Available With Kindle Unlimited

Book 2 of the Heartbreak Mixtapes series, a nostalgic romance

 

Narrator Reveal: Lyrics Remain Unchanged (Heartbreak Mixtapes #2) by Claudia Burgoa, narrators Vivienne LaRue, Jason Clarke, Lance West

Breaking: @claudia_b30 revealed the cast behind her upcoming MMF rockstar romance, and they’re PERFECT.

• Eddie (fixer): @jasonclarkereads

• Barret (musician): @lancewest.reads 

• Cleo (our girl): @viviennelarue

Performance: Duet narration (three performers) —so chemistry is 🔥.

Vibes: fake-death twist • NYC/WA setting • media storm • found family • triad HEA.

Get the audio alert/preorder via @claudia_b30

Audio Release: 2/18—one week ahead of the ebook! 

#Audiobook #NarratorReveal #DuetNarration #MMFRomance #WhyChoose #ClaudiaBurgoa #HeartbreakMixtapes #RockstarRomance #HighAngstHighHeat #TriadHEA #RomanceBooks #NewRelease #LyricsRemainUnchanged #JasonClarke #VivianneLaRue #LanceWest 

Cover Reveal and Preorder: Lyrics Remain Unchanged (Heartbreak Mixtapes #2) by Claudia Burgoa

Claudia Burgoa has revealed the cover for Lyrics Remain Unchanged!

Fall 2000. She disappears. The city talks. Two men know the truth.

Meet @Claudia_b30 next MMF rockstar romance: high-angst, high-heat, fake-death twist, found family feels, and a triad that refuses to fade to black.

If you love why-choose + dirty-tender kisses + a fearless HEA… this one’s for you. 

Setting: Washington (2000)
Him & Him: Eddie (fixer Media Tycoon) + Barret (bruised-bright musician)
Her: Cleo—done surviving, ready to choose both

Audio news dropping soon, and it is spicy (and [duet]). 

Preorder  https://geni.us/LyricsRemainUnchanged
Release: February 25th


Drop a 🎸 if you’re ready for Eddie, Barret, and Cleo—then tag your reading buddy who loves high-angst, high-heat romances!

Cover Info:
Designed by: @byhangle
Photographer: @wanderbookclub

#CoverReveal #MMFRomance #WhyChoose #RockstarRomance #HighAngstHighHeat #FoundFamily #TriadHEA #Bookstagram #RomanceBooks #NewRelease #claudiaburgoa #EmotionalRomance #HeartbreakMixtapes