<p><strong><em>My hockey career is on fire, so when my best friend from high school (and the girl I'd always want) shows up on my doorstep in trouble, I have a choice: turn her away (not likely!) or propose.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Back then, Josephine Baxter was the unattainable debutante who took pity on the kid from the wrong side of town.</p><p><br></p><p>We were unlikely best friends. And she was the girl I'd never have. At least not like that.</p><p>Five years later, Joey shows up on my doorstep on the same day she's supposed to be getting married with a plea for help.</p><p>Of course, I take her in. And when her tight-laced, controlling parents show up, demanding she return and go through with the wedding?</p><p>I tell them we're engaged.</p><p>She's the girl I always wanted, the one who was always out of my league.</p><p>And now that she's here, wearing my ring and sleeping in my bed? It feels like destiny. But we both know it can't last.</p><p>Because guys like me never end up with the girl.</p><p><em>Puck Proposal is a full-length, standalone hockey romcom in the Wilcox Wombats series.</em></p>