Ice Mechanic

A female mechanic is used to customers who assume she works the front desk. When a sweet-talking hockey player brings in his Lamborghini and treats her as someone to flirt with, she fixes the car anyway and expects that to be the end of it.

It is not. He comes back to her garage with a different request: he wants her help restarting his career. His offer is a fake-dating arrangement. She gets publicity for her new business, and her cheating ex gets to watch her be fussed over by the player he admires most.

The player is Chance, and he plays the part a little too well. The fake attention, the fake dates and the fake kisses start to feel real to her, and she begins to doubt that a star athlete could truly want a woman like her.

This is a contemporary sports romance built on a fake-dating setup, with a light, flirtatious tone and a workplace in a garage rather than a locker room. It is the first book in the Lucky Strikers Hockey Romance series by Lia Bevans.