Article · Book ListHockey Romance Books for Every Heat Level

She's the Seattle Firebirds' new physical therapist, and her one rule is no dating players. Then there's Tyler Martinez, the team's golden retriever rookie: always grinning, always helping, quietly carrying the weight of looking after his mom. When his mom gets hurt, he begs her to take on the recovery, and she agrees to help on the side. Rules, meet Tyler.

He falls first and he falls hard. If you like your hockey hero more puppy than predator, start here.

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book one of Seattle Firebirds Hockey, a set of connected standalones

Heat

sweet and clean

In high school, she was the girl the popular kids picked on, and Caleb Stone was the leader of those popular kids. Ten years later she's built a whole new life and works at the hometown diner. Then Caleb, now a hockey star and the grumpiest single dad around, comes home to play for the local team after losing his temper on the ice one too many times. He doesn't even recognize her. Awkward!

The past comes knocking with no spice at all, and it's brand new this year.

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book one of Stallions Hockey Romance

Heat

clean, no spice

Heads up

high school bullying and body-image cruelty in her past

Leo Trevi and Georgia Worthington were the perfect couple in high school, until she left him. Six years later, Leo gets called up to the brand-new Brooklyn Bruisers, and on day one he runs into two problems: a coach with a grudge, and the team's icy publicist, who is, of course, Georgia. She wants to keep it strictly professional. Then a press conference microphone catches Leo saying exactly how he feels about her.

Second-chance romance with a very public oops, from one of the names hockey romance readers trust most.

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book one of the Brooklyn Bruisers

Luc Richard is the NHL's hottest player, and not because of his stats. After a tabloid-friendly breakup with a supermodel nearly gets him traded, he agrees to lie low for the off-season back home in Silver Bay, Maine. No spotlight, no women. Then he reconnects with Rose Caplan, who has loved him for about as long as she can remember and is very done being shy, sweet and safe.

Small-town summer, secret crush, a heroine who decides it's her turn. Cozy with a little kick.

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book two of Hometown Players

Jaylen "JJ" Jones thinks his hockey career is over when he doesn't land a contract with the Seattle Rainiers, so he says goodbye to the city with one last night out and an anonymous hookup. Then a roster spot opens up at the last minute. JJ is extremely superstitious, so as far as he's concerned, the girl from that night is his lucky charm, and he needs her around. Aspiring tattoo artist Lucy Ross is not so sure about that job title.

The author is an NHL insider who got famous on BookTok picking apart what hockey romances get wrong, so the hockey in this one is the real deal.

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her debut

Ren Bergman is six-foot-three of pure sunshine with a hockey player's build. Frankie Zeferino is the team's social media manager, a deadpan grump who's been burned by people who saw her diagnoses as a problem instead of seeing her. Ren has known for years she's the one. She's off limits while she works for the team, and now she's planning to leave. So he has to work for it.

He's the soft one, she's the prickly one, and when things get hard, they actually talk to each other. Frankie is autistic and has rheumatoid arthritis.

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book two of the Bergman Brothers, and the only hockey one in the set

Heat

explicit open door

Hannah Wells wants her crush to notice her, and she's willing to step way outside her comfort zone to make it happen. Garrett Graham, the cocky captain of the college hockey team, needs his grades up or he's off the ice. So: she tutors him, and he takes her on a pretend date to make the other guy jealous. You can guess how well the "pretend" part holds up.

So many hockey romance readers started right here, and it's still a great way in. It has its own Amazon Prime series now, too.

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book one of Off-Campus

Jamie Streicher is a grumpy, ego-loaded NHL goalie, and the narrator had a crush on him in high school. Now she's his live-in assistant, after an ex crushed her music career. He's a grouchy jerk on the surface and surprisingly sweet and protective underneath. When he finds out how bad her ex was in bed, his competitive streak kicks in, and he makes it his mission to do better. Meanwhile, she starts writing songs again.

Slow burn, forced proximity, and a goalie who is extremely motivated.

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book one of Vancouver Storm, and it reads fine as a standalone

Carter Beckett is the NHL's best player, on the ice and off it, and he's never wanted for company. Olivia Parker is a teacher who knows plenty of hockey players through her best friend and has zero interest in dating one. So naturally, the ultimate player turns full romantic to win her over.

Carter is a total cinnamon roll who happens to be very, very good at the spicy part.

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book one of Playing for Keeps

Jess Canning is the family screw-up, and she's hosting her brother's wedding for a guest list full of very important people. She cannot fail at this. She also cannot let anyone find out about the "colossal mistake" she made with the best man, hockey player Blake Riley, last spring. Blake is a giant goofball who has never been serious in his life. He is also very, very sure they're more than friends, and he's willing to wait for her to figure that out.

Fake dating and friends with benefits, from two bestselling authors who know their way around a hockey team.

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book one of WAGs, a spin-off of the authors' Him and Us books

Years ago, a dirty hit ended Olivia Hinckley's late father's NHL career with the Minnesota Freeze. The guy who threw it, Erik Parker, got off with barely a penalty, and now he's up for the Hall of Fame. Worse, his son Brody, hockey's golden boy, has just signed with the Freeze. So Olivia does what anyone would do: she hatches a revenge plot. It involves the team mascot costume.

A revenge rom-com with accurate hockey and a heroine in a mascot suit. Yes, please.

Series

her second hockey rom-com, after Shoot Your Shot