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Hockey Romance Book Recs 🏒⛸️
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items For the Hockey Romance lovers who may have just watched Off Campus season 1 and need something to fill the void.
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The Undone Series
Off the Ice Series
The Vancouver Storm Series
D.C. Stars Series
IceHawks Series
Hockey Boys of Loft 3B
The Undone Series
🎧📚🌊✨
Waterfell University athletes and students are discovering and accepting the love they deserve on and off the ice.
A friends-with-benefits angsty story about an angry figure skater who doesn’t want to ask for help, and the broken golden boy hockey captain who desperately needs it. TROPES: hockey player x figure skater, friends to lovers, he falls first, black cat...
Unsteady (The Undone #1)
A friends-to-lovers slow burn about a hopeless romantic tutor, the smiling but sad hockey player beneath it. A story about friendship, grief, and the underlying truth that we are all easy to love, by the right person. TROPES: hockey player x tutor, f...
Unloved (The Undone #2)
A dual timeline second chance romance between a girl who continues to punish herself, and the boy who wants nothing more than to take care of her. TROPES: hockey goalie x equipment manager, second chance, dual timeline, soft boy, traumatized girl, ye...
Unbound (The Undone #3)
An angsty romance between two outcasted loners who were once soul mates, unable to escape the string of fate that binds them. TROPES: hockey player x coach's daughter, second chance, forced proximity, found family
Undone (The Undone #4)
Off the Ice Series
🏒⛸️🩰✏️🥀
Dalton University hockey players find love hot enough to melt an ice rink.
Hockey team captain Aidan Crawford becomes the the subject of a Summer Preston's research project due to one of his reckless mistakes. The problem? Regardless of wanting to become a sport psychologist, Summer was doing everything she could to avoid h...
Collide (Off the Ice #1)
A newly drafted hockey player is facing the challenges of fame & scrutiny, an aspiring ballerina is in desperate need of an online presence… What better solution is there than to fake date each other?? TROPES: hockey player x ballerina, fake dati...
Spiral (Off the Ice #2)
Sierra is struggling to get back on the ice after having a life-altering accident on the ice. Dylan has been kicked off the hockey team for his reckless behavior. With the need to rebuild her confidence, and find a new pairs partner, these two seem l...
Revolve (Off the Ice #3)
Kian is desperate to get his degree before he heads to the NHL, so he joins a study group led by his coach's daughter, Scarlett (he doesn't know her dad is his coach). Scarlett is doing her best to finish her senior year without falling back into her...
Embrace (Off the Ice #4)
The Vancouver Storm Series
🎤🏒⛸️💖💒🧢
Spicy, laugh-out-loud contemporary romances centered around the Vancouver Storm professional hockey team and the women that change their lives. – [All books can be read as standalones].
Grumpy goalie + high school crush + forced proximity. He acts like he hates everyone, but he's secretly obsessed with taking care of her. TROPES: grumpy x sunshine, slow burn, boy obsessed, pro hockey, forced proximity (boss vs assistant + roommates)...
Behind the Net (Vancouver Storm #1)
Fake dating an arrogant hockey star to get back at your ex... and then accidentally falling for him. TROPES: fake dating, ex’s rival, pro hockey, golden retriever, hero, forced proximity
The Fake Out (Vancouver Storm #2)
Best friends, roommates, dating lessons, practice kisses, and a very jealous hockey player who doesn't realize he's in love until it's too late. TROPES: best friends to lovers, shy girl & popular guy, roommates, dating lessons, sharing a bed, for...
The Wingman (Vancouver Storm #3)
Fake marriage with the grumpiest man alive. They spend the whole book arguing while acting like a married couple. TROPES: marriage of convenience, dislike to lovers, hockey player x team doctor, one bed, “my wife”, jealous mmc, forced proximity
Gloves Off (Vancouver Storm #4)
Single-dad hockey coach falls for the team owner's daughter. Lots of pining, caretaking, and "this is a terrible idea" energy. TROPES: single dad, age gap, black cat x golden retriever, coach x owners daughter, he likes everyone but her, neighbors
The Wild Card (Vancouver Storm #5)
D.C. Stars Series
🏒⛸️🎤🧁🧘♀️🪩
Each book follows different people connected to an elite NHL team, so you get emotional storylines, great character development, and a cast that feels like one big family. It's one of those series where you end up loving every character and never wan...
[This will be a seven book series]
Female NHL player + star player teammate + friends with benefits. They keep insisting it's casual while having absolutely zero ability to stay away from each other, and the tension is chef's kiss. TROPES: friends with benefits, dislike to lovers, he ...
Face Off (D.C. Stars #1)
Divorced heroine who wants to improve her dating life + awkward but ridiculously talented goalie + accidental Vegas marriage. They start with a no-strings-attached arrangement, wake up married, decide to roll with it for the season, and then spend th...
Power Play (D.C. Stars #2)
A single mom/private chef moves in with a golden-retriever hockey player who hires her to cook for him, and it's basically a masterclass in "if he wanted to, he would." He's sweet, thoughtful, amazing with her daughter (learns sign language for her),...
Slap Shot (D.C. Stars #3)
This one's definitely more emotional than the others. After a devastating accident changes his life forever, Riley, a star hockey player falls for the athletic trainer, Lexi, helping him rebuild his confidence. It starts as a friends-with-benefits si...
Hat Trick (D.C. Stars #4)
Grumpy NHL coach + figure skating queen + forbidden-ish age gap/“don’t touch my player’s little sister” situation. He’s supposed to stay away from her, she’s supposed to be figuring out life after burnout, and instead they end up working together coa...
Sin Bin (D.C. Stars #5)
IceHawks Series
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The IceHawks is an interconnected standalone hockey romance series by author Mads Rafferty, centered around professional hockey players facing high-stakes personal and romantic hurdles.
[This will be a six book series]
An NHL star trying to fix his public image after a difficult personal loss ends up entering a fake PR relationship with his very guarded personal assistant, who only agrees because she needs the money for her mother’s medical care. What starts as a s...
Breaking Point (IceHawks #1)
A famous NHL player suddenly finds out he has a young daughter and hires a woman recovering from a serious illness as a nanny, and as they adjust to caring for a child together, what starts as a practical arrangement slowly turns into something much ...
Fighting Chance (IceHawks #2)
Hockey Boys of Loft 3B
BOOK 3 IS COMING AUGUST 2026
🏒⛸️🏨🛋️🩰
The Hockey Boys of Loft 3B follows a group of NHL rookies sharing a luxury loft in San Francisco as they adjust to life in professional hockey. Alongside the pressures of their careers, they navigate close friendships, romance, and the complications ...
Rookie NHL goalie trying to stay locked in on his first pro season ends up living with a girl who’s starting over after a reputation scandal, and she is absolutely not helping his focus. She steals his jerseys, has a chaotic little cat, and somehow g...
Rookie Season (Hockey Boys of Loft 3B #1)
Penn Matthews is an NHL player trying to move on from his past and focus on his career and supporting his sister, until his downstairs neighbor Hazel Palmer shows up in his life after a painful breakup. They decide to team up on a fake dating scheme ...
Rival Season (Hockey Boys of Loft 3B #2)
Maple Hills Series
⛸️🏒☀️🏕️📚💖
College romances with lots of chemistry, lovable characters, and interconnected stories. Each book follows a different couple at Maple Hills University, but all the characters stay connected, which makes the series even more fun to read. The romance,...
The hockey romance that started my obsession 🙂↕️🫶 Figure skater who’s laser-focused on Team USA + hockey captain forced to share a rink + instant frenemies-to-lovers energy. Anastasia & Nate start off absolutely hating each other, but between ...
Icebreaker (Maple Hills #1)
Two Maple Hills students (Aurora + Russ) who hook up at a party and immediately try to pretend it meant nothing end up as summer camp counselors together, and suddenly they’re stuck spending the whole summer dealing with their unresolved chemistry wh...
Wildfire (Maple Hills #2)
A hockey captain who’s overwhelmed with responsibility and a bookish academic overachiever team up when she starts tutoring him after he accidentally crashes her book club. It starts as a simple study arrangement to get them both through a stressful ...
Daydream (Maple Hills #3)
The Darling Devils Series
⛸️🏒💖
Young-adult hockey romances with dislike-to-lovers tension, slow-burn chemistry, and all the swoony moments. The books follow interconnected characters, and each romance is packed with drama, heart, and the sweetest happily-ever-after.
[This will be a four book series]
Violet swears off dating hockey players after getting her heart broken, so naturally she decides the best solution is to fake-date her ex’s biggest rival instead, Reed. He’s the intimidating, rumor-filled captain of another team who’s supposed to be ...
Rival Darling (The Darling Devils #1)
A never-been-kissed senior ropes in her lifelong best friend, a scary hockey enforcer, to help her learn how to date, but what starts as “dating coaching” quickly turns into something way more complicated when it becomes obvious Grayson has been in l...
Grumpy Darling (The Darling Devils #2)
Parker is trying to step out of his brothers’ shadows and ends up clashing with the coach’s daughter, Kenzie, who also happens to be an insanely good goalie. Even though they can’t stand each other at first, they’re forced to work together to save th...
Wild Darling (The Darling Devils #3)
Bexley U Series
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Spicy college sports romance with tons of chemistry and drama. The Bexley U series follows interconnected standalones about athletes at Bexley University and the girls they fall for, even when they probably shouldn’t. You get a mix of tropes like fak...
A college girl accidentally ends up living in the male dorms thanks to an admissions mix-up and becomes roommates with the hottest, cockiest hockey player on campus. To make things more complicated, she finds out her boyfriend has been cheating, and ...
Weak Side (Bexley U #1)
A coach’s daughter finds out the hockey team has a bet about who can sleep with her first, so she flips the game and starts messing with them instead. But one player doesn’t fall for her act, and their rivalry turns into a tense, high-stakes push and...
Ice Bet (Bexley U #2)
Brother’s best friend who also happens to be a hockey defenseman has made it his personal mission to sabotage every one of her dates. When she finally needs his help after a scary situation, he agrees to teach her how to date properly, but the more t...
Puck Block (Bexley U #3)
Others!
One-off hockey books OR books in a series that I haven't finished (YET).
A woman gets stranded in the Canadian Rockies during a storm and ends up taking shelter in a remote cabin with five professional hockey players, only to discover one of them is connected to her past in the worst possible way. What starts as a chaotic...
Kiss and Don't Tell (The Vancouver Agitators #1)
Two high school classmates who work the same diner shifts and constantly clash (he’s a hockey-obsessed jock and she’s an arts kid who wants nothing to do with his world) end up stuck together even more when a misunderstanding turns her into his suppo...
Heart Check (Varsity #1)
Childhood best friends Dani & Alec reconnect when she moves back to Minnesota, but the sweet nerdy boy she remembers has turned into a full-blown hockey star who thrives on the attention. When they get thrown into a fake dating situation, things ...
Fake Skating by Lynn Painter
In the midst of grieving the loss of both of her parents, Aurora Greene finds her old ice skates while cleaning out her old house, deciding she wants to reclaim her joy with figure skating. However, she didn’t realize getting back into it would come ...
Wonderstruck (Liberty Grove University #2)
A single mom trying to rebuild a stable, safe life for her son ends up unexpectedly taken in by a fiercely protective NHL player with a rough reputation but a very soft heart underneath it all. What starts as him simply helping them get back on their...
Broken Harbor (Sparrow Falls #3)
Rylan Keller is trying to start fresh at a new college, but ends up at the same school where her dad coaches the men’s hockey team. She then gets stuck tutoring the team’s most reckless, party-loving player. Aidan Phillips is the definition of troubl...
Against All Odds (Holt Hockey #2)