Heart Trick

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Heart Trick is a fake dating hockey romance novella from bestselling author Kristen Granata. This is book 1 in a series of interconnected standalone novellas.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My new neighbor is a jerk. Sure he's the embodiment of tall dark and handsome and he looks like he could crush a watermelon between his muscular thighs. But he has managed to become enemy number one within the first forty-eight hours of moving into the apartment next door.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I may have retaliated and escalated the situation. I'm not above being petty and I'm determined to make him break first.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until he sees my cheating ex-boyfriend giving me a hard time outside our building and steps in to help. If it weren't for the pictures in the press the next morning I would've assumed his act of kindness was just a fever dream. But my face is everywhere-labeled as hockey star Trenton Ward's new girlfriend.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now my grumpy neighbor's agent wants to run with this story. Apparently his image needs some sprucing. (I can't imagine why with such a charming personality.) I agree under one circumstance: I get to use him for inspiration in the new romance book I'm working on.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I swear I meant it in the figurative sense when I signed the contract.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But after a few fake dates and a toe-curling kiss Trenton turns into my experimental guinea pig for all my spicy scenes. I may be fake dating one of the NHL's best goalies but out of all the things we do faking it is not one of them.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Only falling in love wasn't in the fine print.</span></p>