The Overtime Kiss (Love and Hockey 5) by Lauren Blakely-review and excerpt
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 18, 2025
Just what every bride dreams of—running straight from her cheating fiancé into the arms of a hot hockey star… and then getting hired as his kids’ nanny.
Tyler Falcon is protective, flirtatious…and frustratingly responsible. We almost did something reckless when he found me alone in my wedding dress, and I blurted out all the things I’d never truly experienced.
Now, the sexy single dad is saving me again with a job I desperately need—and a promise to never mention The Night of 1001 Confessions.
I live in his house. Take care of his kids. Pretend I don’t notice his heated gaze lingering on me after they fall asleep.
Until one night, the tension snaps.
Now we have a deal. Five lessons in seduction. No strings attached.
But he’s not just good in bed. He spoils me with thoughtful gifts and supports my dreams. For the first time, I feel like I belong.
Except…this was never meant to last. I’m his employee. He has kids to protect. And neither of us can afford to make a mistake.
The more nights we spend tangled up together though, the harder it is to pretend it’s just physical. Because I’m not only falling for my boss—I’m falling for the man whose kids have stolen my heart.
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REVIEW:THE OVERTIME KISS is the fifth instalment in Lauren Blakely’s contemporary, adult LOVE AND HOCKEY erotic, hockey romance series. This is thirty-two year old, San Francisco Sea Dogs hockey player and single dad Tyler Falcon, and twenty-six year old, ice skater/teacher/ nanny Sabrina Snow’s story line. THE OVERTIME KISS can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Tyler and Sabrina) THE OVERTIME KISS follows the ‘secret’ and ‘cliched’ relationship between thirty-two year old, San Francisco Sea Dogs hockey player and single dad Tyler Falcon, and twenty-six year old, ice skater/teacher/ nanny Sabrina Snow. Discovering her fiancé had been cheating with a co-worker, Sabrina became the ultimate runaway bride, finding herself at the local skating rink where she taught lessons to the young and young at heart but Sabrina never expected to run into friend and professional hockey player Tyler Falcon, the man with whom Sabrina will fall in love. Tyler is desperate, and needs a new nanny for his school aged children. Sabrina was looking for a job in the face of betrayal by everyone concerned, and our heroine would find herself the live-in nanny for our story line hero. As the weeks and months pass, Tyler begins to act on his attraction, an attraction that started a year before, and finds himself falling for the woman who has never felt loved in her life.
The world building focuses on Tyler and Sabrina’s careers; the care of Tyler’s children, and the potential fall-out if their relationship became public knowledge. A proverbial ‘employer falls for the nanny’ relationship was never meant to be gossip but Sabrina was about to bear the brunt of someone else’s shame.
The relationship between Tyler and Sabrina is a friends to employee/employer to lovers in which our couple enter into the stereo-typical nanny and boss affair. Keeping their relationship a secret is a bit of a struggle, and misunderstanding threatens to tear them apart. The $ex scenes are provocative and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and familiar secondary and supporting players including Tyler’s brothers Miles (Leighton), Tyler’s mother and Sea Dogs owner Lauren Falcon; his children Luna and Parker , and his ex Elle; Sabrina’s best friend Trevyn; her controlling and stifling parents Mr. & Mrs. David Snow, Sabrina’s ex Chad Huntington; as well as several members of the Sea Dogs Hockey club.
THE OVERTIME KISS is a story of betrayal and heart break; family and friendships, acceptance and love. The premise is inviting and entertaining-there is limited conflict between our story line couple; the romance is seductive and fated; the characters are charismatic, determined and lovable.
Reading Order and Previous reviews
The Boyfriend Goal
The Romance Line
The Proposal Play
The Girlfriend Zone
Copy supplied for review
Reviewed by Sandy
Tyler
“Are you a troublemaker, Tyler?”
“Maybe I was. Back in the day,” I say.
Her lips shift in amusement. “Think you’ve still got it in you?”
“Those are fighting words.” I drum my fingers on the counter. “How about trouble in the form of a spicy margarita? Can you handle the heat?”
Her smile falters for just a second, as if I’d asked about more than a drink. “I don’t even know.”
Her blue eyes flicker with something deeper—with uncertainty, maybe, or a vulnerability she’s trying to hide. Or possibly…interest. Since for a moment her gaze lingers on me, roams over me, like she’s trying to figure something out.
Like what she wants me to do to her tonight?
What the f*&k?
That is not a thought I should be entertaining. Too bad my lust-struck mind is already running away with the image, imagining what could have been if she wasn’t wearing that damn ring. Not today, brain. Stand down.
“Let’s find out,” I say, as I resume the role of runaway-bride wingman. I change her order, and when the bartender returns with the margarita, we toast again, her with her cocktail, me with my lager, which—as Ike promised—is incredibly good.
“To the opposite of today.”
“The opposite,” she echoes, her gaze…curious. But I don’t want to read into it even though I want to read everything into it.
A #1 New York Times Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that’s hot, sweet and sexy. She lives in California with her family and has plotted entire novels while walking her dogs. With fourteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than eighty times, and she’s sold more than 2 million books. In October she’ll release HARD WOOD, a sexy, standalone romantic comedy. To receive an email when Lauren releases a new book, sign up for her newsletter! laurenblakely.com/newsletter
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