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Love and Hockey · Book 6

The Flirting Game

by Lauren Blakely

Published
12 December 2025
Pages
283
ISBN-13
9781964048413
Type
novel

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About this book

The Flirting Game (18 December 2025 per Goodreads and Audible UK, 404 pages) is Love and Hockey #6: hockey player Ford becomes interior designer Skylar's neighbor and then her client, and after a kiss in their shared backyard the two stage a revenge fake-dating arrangement following her breakup. It follows The Overtime Kiss; a bonus novella, The Rival Upgrade, followed rather than a numbered close to the series.

Its place in Love and Hockey

The Flirting Game is book 6 in the Love and Hockey series. It follows The Overtime Kiss. It is followed by The Rival Upgrade. See the full Love and Hockey reading order.

Love and Hockey is Lauren Blakely's contemporary MF sports rom-com series, publisher-tagged "An All New MF Hockey Rom Com Series with Heat, Heart, and Humor!" Each entry pairs a new couple -- mostly players on, or people connected to, the same pro hockey team -- inside tropes like friends-to-lovers, forbidden workplace romance, marriage of convenience, age-gap romance, single-dad-and-nanny, and neighbors-to-lovers fake dating. The series opened with The Boyfriend Goal in August 2024 and ran through six novels by…

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