Wednesday, November 4, 2026

*`New Release & Review: Fake It Under the Mistletoe by Claudia Burgoa`*

 🎄𝐅𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞+!

📕𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐰'𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲

Fake Engagement

Hockey Romance

Grumpy x Sunshine

Big Loud Mexican Family

Found Family

Forced Proximity

He Falls First

Meddling Tías

A cat with very strong opinions

Available in Kindle+

There are three things people should know before letting me near an injured professional athlete.

One, I am very good at my job.

Two, my bedside manner has been described as "aggressively cheerful in a way that feels humanly questionable."

Three, I will absolutely threaten a grown man with resistance bands if he lies to me about his pain level.

Crew Wolfcraft lies about his pain level. Constantly.

He also has a hip that's one bad twist from ending his career, a charity weekend he'd rather die than attend, and the conversational range of a man being held hostage. I've been hired to keep him upright through Christmas. That's the job.

Then a reporter asks a question under the mistletoe, Crew opens his mouth, and my grandmother's ring—the one on my hand, the one being resized, the one I am absolutely not engaged with—becomes a headline.

I don't correct him.

In my defense: my Tía Marta has lined up a dentist, an architect, and a firefighter for me to meet before Christmas Eve.

Now there's a tamalada, four aunts with a group chat and no fear of God, a cat named Don Gato Corleone who has chosen him over me, and a man who was supposed to leave in January learning my grandmother's recipes like he's planning to stay.

I can rehab a hip in eight weeks.

I have no idea what to do about the rest.

From USA Today Bestselling Author Claudia Burgoa comes a grumpy-sunshine fake-engagement romance about a big, loud Mexican-American family, a hockey player with a bad hip and worse coping skills, and one very small lie that refuses to stay small.

Review:

4.5 Stars

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this one. It combines so many things I love; Christmas time, a hockey player, grumpy/sunshine, a big loud family, and a cat with a strong personality. I mean having the kitty Don Gato had me sold right away. Then you throw in Montse and Crew's first meeting and I knew I was going to love this one. Some of my favorite parts are when they are with Montse's family. They were so much fun and her family is big, loud, and fun, but also welcoming. A fake engagement may be the best thing to happen to these two because it forces them to spend a whole lot more time together and that's where the magic happens. I read this in a day. It's a fast read, but I was just so into Montse and Crew's journey. I loved the epilogue so much. It was the perfect touch to end this book on in my opinion. 


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