This was stay up way too late to read in one sitting level of good and I loved it! I'd been excited for Alexei and Georgia's story ever since we first got a glimpse of their delicious mix of mutual disdain and sexual tension earlier in the series. Then we found out as a teaser that they got married but clearly were faking liking each other and I was thrilled because I knew it would mean incredible amounts of banter and even more of that tension, and I was right! To me, this is an enemies to lovers lite because they fully believed their hatred was real but there was always an underlying amount of denial at how attracted they were to the other. It's certainly a marriage of convenience slash fake marriage. Alexei's citizenship (and his parents') still hasn't gone through even though the family immigrated to Canada when he was a child. Now he's 36 and only has 3 years left on his contract with the Vancouver Storm, but knows that with the way hockey is, and his chronic pain from past injuries, he's always one bad hit away from a forced retirement, so he needs the immigration stuff finished ASAP. Coach Ward (who we learn more about and got more hints for his book next!) off handedly says it would be easier if he were married to a Canadian; so, when Jordan, the bar owner/tender at the team's favorite pub and friends with both Alexei and Georgia lets him know that Georgia also needs someone to marry, the two fight it at first but ultimately (reluctantly) agree to help one another out. Georgia needs to get married to receive her hefty inheritance from her awful grandfather, because her sports medicine research program lost its funding and she doesn't want to quit or let her current and future injured athletes down. As the two live together while waiting for both issues to go through, they fight the sexual tension until they can't anymore. He also slowly learns that she maybe isn't the spoiled rich girl he's always thought, she learns that he isn't the grumpy jerk she thought, and it turns out things might not be as fake as they thought. 
The way their experiences together swing so drastically from hurtful and sometimes caustic, to giddy and loving is beautiful and very entertaining. I was so thrilled to get an ARC for this one (thank you!), and well done on another great book, Stephanie!
Out June 17/25.