Fake it Under the Mistletoe
by Claudia Burgoa
Release: November 4th 2026
Narrators:
Stacy Gonzalez @stacygonzalezbooks
Jason Clarke @jasonclarkereads
Tropes:
๐Fake Engagement
๐Hockey Romance
๐Grumpy x Sunshine
๐Big Loud Mexican Family
๐Found Family
๐Forced Proximity
๐He Falls First
๐Meddling Tรญas
๐A cat named Don Gato Corleone who has opinions
BLURB
There are three things people should know before letting me near an injured professional athlete.
One, I am very good at my job.
Two, my bedside manner has been described as "aggressively cheerful in a way that feels humanly questionable."
Three, I will absolutely threaten a grown man with resistance bands if he lies to me about his pain level.
Crew Wolfcraft lies about his pain level. Constantly.
He also has a hip that's one bad twist from ending his career, a charity weekend he'd rather die than attend, and the conversational range of a man being held hostage. I've been hired to keep him upright through Christmas. That's the job.
Then a reporter asks a question under the mistletoe, Crew opens his mouth, and my grandmother's ring—the one on my hand, the one being resized, the one I am absolutely not engaged with—becomes a headline.
I don't correct him.
In my defense: my Tรญa Marta has lined up a dentist, an architect, and a firefighter for me to meet before Christmas Eve.
Now there's a tamalada, four aunts with a group chat and no fear of God, a cat named Don Gato Corleone who has chosen him over me, and a man who was supposed to leave in January learning my grandmother's recipes like he's planning to stay.
I can rehab a hip in eight weeks.
I have no idea what to do about the rest.
From USA Today Bestselling Author Claudia Burgoa comes a grumpy-sunshine fake-engagement romance about a big, loud Mexican-American family, a hockey player with a bad hip and worse coping skills, and one very small lie that refuses to stay small.



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