The Wrong Guy Bet (Summer Girls, Hockey Boys #3)

Her ex made their breakup go viral. The wrong hockey player just volunteered to help her take the story back.

Piper Quinn can plan almost anything.

Weddings. Festivals. Charity weekends. Even a memorial service involving three ex-wives and an alpaca.

What she cannot plan for is her ex posting a seven-minute breakup video that convinces millions of strangers she is controlling, impossible to please, and far too difficult to love.

So when a charity livestream turns one reckless comment into a thirty-day fake-boyfriend bet, Piper chooses the safest possible hockey player.

Then she opens the wrong envelope.

Ridgeview’s quiet, impossible-to-read starting goalie hates cameras, avoids attention, and sees straight through every polished smile Piper uses to hide how much the scandal has hurt her.

He should refuse.

Instead, he steps beside her, wraps an arm around her waist, and tells the entire internet:

“I’m the boyfriend.”

The rules are simple.

Six public dates.

No jealousy.

No private secrets.

No real kissing.

And whoever develops feelings first loses.

Piper is certain she can survive thirty days without falling for him.

She does not know he lost long before the bet began.

But as their fake relationship becomes the internet’s newest obsession, Piper’s ex starts releasing private messages, altered footage, and secrets that were never his to share.

Someone has been scripting their story from the beginning, and the closer Piper gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to tell which moments were manufactured for the cameras and which ones belong only to them.

To reclaim her life, Piper must stop managing everyone else’s version of her.

And the goalie who has quietly loved her for months must prove that protecting her does not mean choosing for her.

Because the bet may have started with the wrong guy.

Falling for him might be the first thing Piper finally gets right.

The Wrong Guy Bet

is a funny, emotional, closed-door hockey romance featuring fake dating, a viral breakup, he falls first, a quiet protective goalie, forced public dates, high chemistry, found-family chaos, no cheating, and a guaranteed happily ever after.