From slapshots to sweethearts — these titles score on romance!
Wake up, Nat & Darcy by Kate Cochrane
Cut from Team USA before her shot at gold, Natalie Carpenter lands a guest-hosting gig on for winter games coverage—alongside her ex, Darcy LaCroix. Once college teammates turned bitter rivals, their on-screen chemistry sparks a frenzy (#PuckingHotties), forcing them to fake the heat for ratings. But as old wounds resurface and sparks reignite, Nat and Darcy must decide if their story is really over—or just beginning again.
Hailey Taylor Emery has a hunch that Sniper87, her favorite client at Fetch—the anonymous virtual assistant service she runs with her ex-husband—is actually gorgeous hockey superstar Matt Eriksson. It’s against the rules to check his file, but she’s pretty sure she spends every day texting her lifelong crush and catering to his every need. Still processing her recent divorce, Hailey is perfectly content for this to be nothing but harmless online flirting…until Sniper87 wants to meet her. Face to face. Cue: utter panic.
Rhys Koteskiy took a brutal hit that left him with a concussion and a new discomfort on the ice. Plagued by nightmares and panic attacks, Rhys wonders if he’ll ever play hockey again. Sadie Brown is staying focused this semester – no matter what. Drowning in debt, custody hearings for her younger brothers, and skating practices, she’s just trying to make it to the next day. When she accidentally witnesses one of Rhys’ panic attacks and attempts to help him, a sort of understanding strikes up between them. No questions asked. Just comfort. Rhys is desperate to feel anything. Sadie wants to stop feeling so much. But healing doesn’t mix with secrets, and they’re both skating on thin ice.
She’s an ambitious honors student who hates hockey. He’s a carefree team captain who lives for the game. When Summer Preston’s grad school dreams hinge on studying Aiden Crawford, neither is thrilled—especially after a disastrous first impression. But as their banter melts into something deeper, they’ll have to decide if love is worth risking their carefully laid plans.
The Game Changer by Lana Ferguson
The “darling of baking” on TV, Delilah Baker, with her numbers dwindling and her producers turning up the heat, teams up with Ian Chase, a pro-hockey star in need of a PR makeover, to boost both their careers, but when they take things up a notch, they might both get burned.
The Au Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey
Jumping at the opportunity to be a live-in nanny for hockey veteran and newly single dad, Burgess, 26-year-old aspiring marine biologist Tallulah, while helping her tween charge fit in, helps Burgess get back on the dating scene, but when boundaries are crossed, they find their hearts on thin ice.
Goalie Tucker Taylor, benched due to health issues, visits his sister in England. An accidental plunge into an icy pond sends him back to 1812, where he meets the captivating Lizzy Wooddash. Lizzy dreams of a life surrounded by books, free from the expectations of marriage. In Regency England, only widows enjoy such freedom. A visitor from the future might be the husband of her dreams. Once married, they can figure out how to return Tucker to his time, and his absence will make Lizzy the widow she wants to be. But as sparks fly, they realize that matters of the heart rarely follow plans. Can their love withstand the test of time, or will Lizzy get what she wanted along with a broken heart?
The new PR director for the NHL’s hottest team, Poppy St. James, meets her match in party boy defenseman Lukas Novikov who is a PR nightmare, but when a phone call from home leads to a drunken mistake and an unplanned pregnancy, nothing could prepare her for what comes next.
