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Game, Set, Love: Sports Romance Books You Don't Wanna Miss
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items From the locker room to the championship game, these sports romances serve up high-stakes drama, passionate connections, and love that goes beyond the field. Whether it’s a gruff hockey player, a charming baseball star, or a relentless tennis pro, ea...
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Hockey 🏒
Football 🏈
Baseball ⚾
Soccer ⚽
Basketball 🏀
Formula 1 🏎
Hockey 🏒
✨ Broken Boy x Good Girl | Forbidden Love | Second Chance Romance This book hurts in the best way. He’s the tortured hockey star drowning in secrets. She’s the one girl he was never allowed to love—his GM’s daughter. Years after heartbreak, they coll...
Ruled Out by Ruth Stilling
🎨 Friends-to-Lovers | Second Chance Vibes | Spring Break Romance This book feels like a soft breath of fresh air. Eve’s healing from heartbreak, Hunter’s facing life after hockey, and one spring break road trip brings them back into each other’s orb...
From Now On by C.W. Farnsworth
✨ Fake Dating | Sports Romance | Opposites Attract Spiral is a perfect blend of high-stakes hockey drama and graceful ballet dreams. Elias is the intense, spotlight-weary hockey rookie, while Sage is the determined ballerina fighting for her big brea...
Spiral by Bal Khabra
🏒 He Falls First | Fake Dating | Opposites Attract Hannah needs help getting the guy. Garrett needs to pass Ethics. One fake relationship later, the chemistry gets very real. Witty banter, major swoon, and just the right amount of spice. This is the...
The Deal by Elle Kennedy
🏒 He Falls First | Second Chance | Redemption Arc Logan messed up — big time. Now he’s trying to win back Grace, the girl he can’t stop thinking about. This one’s a little more angsty and full of groveling, but still brings the laughs and late-night...
The Mistake by Elle Kennedy
🏒 Bad Boy x Good Girl | Opposites Attract | Friends With Benefits Dean Di Laurentis might seem like a cocky party boy, but he’s about to fall hard. Allie is done with hookups, but Dean isn’t easy to shake. This book is sexy, surprisingly emotional, ...
The Score by Elle Kennedy
🏒 Secret Pregnancy | He Falls First | Reverse Grumpy x Sunshine Sabrina is fiercely independent. Tucker is steady, sweet, and so patient. This one hits different — a bit more serious, but still delivers that signature Off-Campus charm with plenty of...
The Goal by Elle Kennedy
🎓 Bonus Content | Four Epilogues | Feel-Good Closure Catch up with Garrett, Logan, Dean, and Tucker as they navigate life after college. It's the perfect wrap-up — full of laughs, chaos, and the softest happily ever afters. A must-read if you loved ...
The Legacy by Elle Kennedy
🎻 Forbidden Romance | Soon-to-be Stepsiblings | Hockey Player x Harpist | Forced Proximity Sig’s dream girl? Turns out she’s his soon-to-be stepsister. Chloe is a sheltered harp prodigy desperate to escape her controlling mother, and Sig offers her ...
Dream Girl Drama by Tessa Bailey
✨ Fake Dating | Rivalry Turned Romance | NHL & Soccer Stars Perfect Deke serves up all the feels with a slow-burn fake dating romance between a charming rookie hockey player and his teammate’s ex—who also happens to be his college rival. The chem...
Perfect Deke by Ruth Stilling
⛸️ Reversed Grumpy x Sunshine | Forced Proximity | Sports Romance Anastasia is a focused figure skater. Nate is the unexpectedly sweet hockey captain. When a rink mishap forces their teams to share space, sparks fly — on and off the ice. Flirty bante...
Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
🔥 Second Chance | Forced Proximity | Camp Setting Russ and Aurora shared one unforgettable night — and then ghosted each other. Now they’re stuck together as camp counselors, and old feelings are impossible to ignore. Emotional, witty, and vulnerabl...
Wildfire by Hannah Grace
📚 Friends to Lovers | Academic x Athlete | Rulebook Romance Henry’s overwhelmed with hockey captain duties and a class he’s barely surviving. Halle’s a bookish overachiever with a secret dream of becoming a writer. When their worlds collide (acciden...
Daydream by Hannah Grace
⛸️ Childhood Friends to Lovers | Fake Dating | Hockey Town Dani and Alec were childhood best friends — until life pulled them apart. Now they’re teenagers navigating fame, feelings, and faking a relationship in a hockey-obsessed town. She remembers t...
Fake Skating by Lynn Painter
🥅 Hockey Romance | Fake Engagement | Roommate Sparks After fifteen years as Boston Rebels’ star goalie, he’s used to scoring wins—but not falling for his new roommate. When a spontaneous kiss turns into a viral “engagement,” Jules and he are forced ...
Fake Shot by Julia Connors
🏒 Second Chances | Friends-to-Lovers | Hockey Romance After a devastating heartbreak, he’s sworn off love and focused solely on hockey—until Luna Johnson, his longtime friend, warms the frozen corners of his heart. Reconnecting sparks desire, tests ...
Frozen Over by Ruth Stilling
🏒 Friends-with-Benefits | College Sports Romance | Rivalry & Heat When Isabelle’s volleyball comeback collides with Nikolai, her brother’s rival and last summer’s secret fling, sparks fly both on and off the court. As old chemistry reignites and...
Wicked Serve by Grace Reilly
🏒 Sports Romance | Surly Single Dad | Quirky Nanny Tallulah’s chance to earn a living as a live-in nanny for hockey veteran Burgess seems perfect—until she discovers he’s as gruff as he is irresistible. Between his surly attitude, his daughter’s mat...
The Au Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey
✈️ Sports Romance | NHL Hockey | Enemies to Lovers Flight attendant Stevie is used to keeping her distance from athletes—until she’s assigned to Chicago’s most infuriating hockey player, Evan Zanders. Between penalty boxes, private planes, and nonsto...
Mile High by Liz Tomforde
⛸️ Sports Romance | Hockey & Figure Skating | Fake Relationship Ex-Olympic figure skater Liora James teams up with New York’s notorious hockey star Riley Huntington for a high-stakes TV show—and a fake romance meant to fix their careers. But as o...
Rinkmates by Nova Banks
🏒 Enemies-to-Lovers | College Hockey Romance | Slow Burn Summer Preston’s academic ambitions and Aiden Crawford’s hockey captain duties couldn’t be more different—until a forced research project collides their worlds. What starts as mutual annoyance...
Collide by Bal Khabra
Football 🏈
✨ Fake Dating | Forbidden Romance | Celebrity Athlete This book is swoony, smart, and so much fun. Emilie is a Type-A event planner with a broken heart, and Zack is a charming NFL player with a secret soft side. When a fake relationship puts them on ...
Your Rule to Break by Rachel LaBerge
🏈 Brother’s Best Friend | Roommates | Grumpy x Sunshine Archer Holland is everything Sabrina should avoid—moody, shirtless, off-limits. But when forced proximity turns into stolen glances and late-night rescues, their tension ignites into something ...
Comeback by Rebecca Jenshak
✨ Fake Dating | Second Chances | High School Sports Romance Catch Me delivers all the feels with Marcela and Theo’s journey from heartbreak to hope. She’s nursing a shattered heart, and he’s hiding his true self behind the pressure of football stardo...
Catch Me by Carlie Jean
✨ Steamy Sports Romance | Single Mom Heroine | Forbidden Doctor/Patient Vibes A sizzling tale of second chances and undeniable attraction. A mistaken-identity one-night stand turns into an intense and complicated doctor-patient relationship, where he...
Quitting the Quarterback by Lisa Suzanne
🏈 Friends to Lovers | Fake Dating | Celebrity Romance | He Falls First Bree is secretly in love with her NFL superstar best friend, Nathan — and accidentally tells the world after one too many tequila shots. Cue a fake dating contract, public appear...
The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams
📖 Enemies to Lovers | Second Chance | Vegas Wedding | Sports Romance When Nora is forced to represent her NFL ex, Derek, sparks — and grudges — fly. What starts as revenge and rivalry turns into a chaotic second-chance romance, complete with secret ...
The Rule Book by Sarah Adams
🏈 College Romance | Second-Chance Love | Slow-Burn Chemistry Indie’s carefully planned future collides with the boy who once walked away. As Sebastian steps back into her life as her tutor, sparks fly, old feelings resurface, and the tension between...
Trouble by Meghan Hollie
🏈 Marriage of Convenience | Sports Romance | Drunken Mistake Turned Love After a wild night she barely remembers, she wakes up married to her sister’s ex-fiancé—a pro football player. What started as a strategic move to claim her family vineyard and...
Wedding the Wide Receiver by Lisa Suzanne
🏈 Sports Romance | Music Star Meets NFL MVP | Second Chance Sparks After a Super Bowl halftime disaster, global pop sensation Willow retreats from the spotlight, while MVP quarterback Tripp Owens adjusts to a new team and city. When fate reunites th...
Your Play to Call by Rachel LaBerge
🏈 Sports Romance | Forbidden Attraction | Steamy One-Night Stand When the coach’s daughter finds herself sitting beside star tight end Asher Nash at a high-profile charity ball, sparks fly—literally. One night of irresistible passion sets the stage ...
Tempting the Tight End by Lisa Suzanne
Baseball ⚾
⚾ Single Mom | One-Night Stand | Sports Romance | Bookstore Rivalry After one anonymous night, Olivia never expects to see him again—until he turns out to be Flynn Holland, the city’s star pitcher and the face of her rival bookstore. Now, he’s everyw...
Spotlight by Rebecca Jenshak
⚾ Single Dad | Grumpy x Sunshine | Nanny Romance | Summer Fling Turned Forever Kai’s a major league pitcher with zero time and even less patience — especially for the new nanny his coach forces on him. Miller, a carefree pastry chef on a creative bre...
Caught Up by Liz Tomforde
💍 Fake Marriage | Workplace Romance | He Falls First | Vegas Wedding Chaos Kennedy needs to protect her career as the team’s athletic trainer. Isaiah, the team’s charismatic shortstop, has been not-so-secretly obsessed with her for years. After a dr...
Play Along by Liz Tomforde
⚾ Sports Romance | Second-Chance Love | Baseball Sparks When her ex lands the job as her new assistant coach, she’s forced to face the past she thought she left behind. Nathan Pierce is baseball’s all-star with a devilish smirk, a knack for stirring ...
The Problem with Players by Brittainy C. Cherry
⚾ Opposites Attract | Slow-Burn Romance | Baseball Sparks Camille, a princess hiding from her royal duties, never expected working alongside Ryker—the focused, all-baseball-all-the-time guy she’s crushed on for years—would be this intense. Drawn toge...
Keep Me by Carlie Jean
⚾ Enemies-to-Lovers | Fake Relationship | Baseball Romance Ace pitcher Whit O’Rourke is focused on reclaiming his career and reputation—until the good girl who ruined him reappears. Forced into a fake-relationship arrangement to fix a fresh scandal, ...
A Little Irresistible by Bree Fleming
Soccer ⚽
📚 Enemies to Lovers | Fake Dating | Brother’s Rival Witty, messy, and full of unresolved tension, this book is a whirlwind of sarcasm, slow-burn glances, and academic blackmail turned emotional chaos. Athalia just wants her twin brother’s attention—...
Lessons In Faking by Selina Mae
⚽ Grumpy x Sunshine | Fake Dating | Enemies-to-Lovers Vibes | Celebrity Romance Hollywood starlet Abigail Hunt needs authenticity for her breakout role—what she gets is Luke Wolfe, the gorgeous but infamously grumpy soccer star. Their fake relationsh...
Relationship Goals by Brittany Kelley
⚽ Small-Town Soccer | Redemption Romance | Slow-Burn Chemistry Adalyn’s big-city career comes to an unexpected halt when she’s sent to coach a struggling kids’ soccer team in tiny North Carolina. Between tutu-wearing players, mischievous goats, and a...
The Long Game by Elena Armas
⚽ Enemies-to-Lovers | High School Soccer | Rivals & Romance Austin Keller just landed his dream spot on Frost Lake High’s championship soccer team—but one dare changes everything. Tasked with kissing the captain’s ex-girlfriend, he sparks a rival...
Stealing for Keeps by Rebecca Jenshak
Basketball 🏀
🏀 Forbidden Romance | Sports Setting | Instant Chemistry This one’s vulnerable, romantic, and full of heart. Brooks is an NBA star recovering from an injury and the emotional fallout of losing the game he loves. Lia is a lifelong fan who never expec...
Your Secret to Keep by Rachel LaBerge
🏀 Fake Relationship | NBA Romance | Slow Burn Ryan Shay, the newest captain of the Chicago Devils, didn’t expect his sister’s best friend, Indy Ivers, to move in—and even less to pretend to be his girlfriend. What starts as a calculated ruse to prov...
The Right Move by Liz Tomforde
Formula 1 🏎
🏎️ Sports Romance | Second-Chance Crush | Formula 1 Sparks Willow Williams has always had a crush on her brother’s best friend, Dev Anderson, but now their worlds collide professionally when he enlists her help to salvage his racing career. As they ...
Cross the Line by Simone Soltani
🏎️ Friends-to-Lovers | Formula 1 Romance | Slow Burn Josie Bancroft just wants to focus on herself after a breakup, but working closely with Formula 1 heartthrob Theo Walker proves far more distracting than she expected. Between high-stakes races an...
Drive Me Wild by Carly Robyn
Others
🤺 Sports Romance | Hollywood Glam | Bad Boy x Good Girl On Guard delivers all the heat and heart you want in a slow-burn romance. Dante, the rebellious Olympic fencer, is trying to clean up his act, while Reese, Hollywood’s beloved “girl next door,”...
On Guard by Kels & Denise Stone
🥎 Fake Dating | Reversed Grumpy x Golden Retriever | Sports Romance Skylar’s focused, fierce, and definitely not impressed by Boston’s newest hockey star. Robbie’s cocky, charming, and secretly dying to prove he’s more than a walking scandal. When h...
Pitcher Perfect by Tessa Bailey
🎾 Enemies to Lovers | Fake Dating | Sports Romance | Small-Town Vibes Bex is fighting to save her late mother’s racquet club, while Niko—the cocky ex-tennis star—needs a comeback after an injury. A pickleball tournament could change everything, but ...
All's Fair in Love and Pickleball by Kate Spencer
♟️ Enemies to Lovers | Chessboard Chemistry | Slow Burn Mallory Greenleaf thought she was done with chess—until a charity tournament pits her against the infamous world champion Nolan Sawyer. Sparks fly over the board and off it as Mallory navigates ...
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
🎾 Workaholic Heroine | Forbidden Attraction | Slow-Burn Romance Olivia Charlton’s life is perfectly planned—until sexy Frenchman Lucas Lamaire moves into her building. As attraction ignites, she must navigate desire, secrets, and past trauma in a sl...
Heart Match by Allane Milliane
⛳ Sports Romance | Grumpy Golfer & Fangirl | Slow Burn Wells Whitaker was golf’s golden boy—until he quit the game and left his biggest supporter heartbroken. Josephine has always believed in him, but now she’s faced with a surprising offer: beco...
Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey
⛸️ Enemies-to-Lovers | Figure Skating Romance | Second Chances Jasmine Santos has spent years chasing her dreams—and avoiding Ivan Lukov, the arrogant skater who’s been both her rival and obsession. When a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity forces them t...
From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata