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There’s something dangerously bingeable about hockey romance.
Maybe it’s the forced proximity of an entire team traveling together. Maybe it’s the combination of ridiculously competitive men and the women who refuse to be impressed by them. Or maybe it’s knowing that the cocky teammate causing trouble in Book 1 is probably going to fall spectacularly in love by Book 3.
Whatever the reason, hockey romance and Kindle Unlimited are a particularly good combination.
If you're looking for your next sports-romance obsession, these eight hockey romance series offer everything from grumpy goalies and forbidden relationships to fake dating, found family, slow burns, and plenty of spice.
Clear your weekend. You're going to need it.
1. Breakaway Love by L.C. Reagan
Start with: Clear the Ice
Perfect for readers who love: professional hockey, interconnected standalones, workplace romance, slow burns, team dynamics, and plenty of chemistry
The Breakaway Love series follows the players—and the people surrounding them—of a professional hockey team where apparently nobody is capable of keeping their personal and professional lives separate.
It begins with Clear the Ice, when digital content manager Maddie Hart lands a job with the Titans and immediately runs into one major obstacle: grumpy team captain Liam Callahan.
He doesn't want to be filmed.
She needs him to cooperate.
And the behind-the-scenes project forcing them together makes keeping things professional increasingly difficult.
From there, the series moves through different couples and tropes while keeping the team at the center of the world. Expect workplace complications, second chances, complicated histories, friendships between teammates, and hockey players discovering that they're significantly less emotionally invincible than they thought.
There are five books to binge, making this a great pick if you want to settle into one hockey world for a while.
Read this series if: You like romance with a strong professional-hockey setting, recurring characters, emotional storylines, and a different couple to root for in every book.
[Start the Breakaway Love series on Amazon →]
2. Vancouver Storm by Stephanie Archer
Start with: Behind the Net
Perfect for readers who love: grumpy/sunshine, forced proximity, protective hockey players, slow burn, banter, and high spice
Stephanie Archer's Vancouver Storm series has become a go-to recommendation for readers who want professional hockey romance with plenty of heat.
The series begins with Behind the Net, featuring a grumpy NHL goalie and the woman who becomes his assistant—and moves into his house.
Which, naturally, is an entirely reasonable arrangement with absolutely no potential for complications.
Each book follows a different couple connected to the Vancouver Storm, so you get the satisfaction of a complete romance while continuing to see familiar characters as the series progresses.
The books lean heavily into beloved romance tropes, including fake dating, friends-to-lovers, marriage of convenience, and forced proximity, while the interconnected team setting makes it very easy to finish one book and immediately download the next.
Read this series if: You want a steamy, funny, trope-heavy hockey binge with heroes who tend to fall very, very hard.
[Start the Vancouver Storm series on Amazon →]
3. Playing for Keeps by Becka Mack
Start with: Consider Me
Perfect for readers who love: found family, professional hockey, interconnected couples, big personalities, emotional romance, and spice
If your favorite part of an interconnected romance series is slowly becoming attached to the entire friend group, Playing for Keeps might be your next obsession.
The series starts with Consider Me and professional hockey player Carter Beckett, a notorious flirt who is very accustomed to getting exactly what he wants.
Then he meets Olivia.
She's not interested.
Obviously, this becomes a problem for him.
What makes Playing for Keeps especially bingeable is the growing cast surrounding each romance. Teammates, partners, friends, and family continue appearing as different characters step forward for their own stories, creating the kind of fictional friend group you don't particularly want to leave.
The books also aren't afraid of big emotions. Beneath the banter, hockey, and spice are stories about commitment, friendship, family, insecurity, and figuring out how another person fits into the life you've already built.
Read this series if: You want to get emotionally attached to an entire hockey-team friend group instead of just one couple.
[Start the Playing for Keeps series on Amazon →]
4. Vancouver Agitators by Meghan Quinn
Start with: Kiss and Don't Tell
Perfect for readers who love: rom-coms, professional hockey, ridiculous situations, banter, found family, and spicy romance
If you want your hockey romance with a healthy dose of chaos, Meghan Quinn's Vancouver Agitators are waiting.
The series kicks off with Kiss and Don't Tell, when a stranded woman looking for somewhere to stay winds up at a house occupied by professional hockey players.
As one does.
From there, the series follows different members of the team through romances involving surprise pregnancies, age gaps, fake dating, forbidden attraction, friends-to-lovers tension, and plenty of bad decisions made by people who should probably know better.
The team dynamic is a huge part of the appeal. Characters don't simply vanish once their book ends, which means every new romance also gives you another chance to check in with couples you've already fallen for.
It's funny, steamy, and designed for exactly the kind of reading experience where you tell yourself you'll start the next book tomorrow and then download it immediately.
Read this series if: You want hockey romance that leans hard into comedy, spice, friendship, and lovable idiots falling in love.
[Start the Vancouver Agitators series on Amazon →]
5. Jacksonville Rays by Emily Rath
Start with: That One Night before Pucking Around
Perfect for readers who love: why-choose romance, extremely high spice, queer romance, hockey teams, and unconventional relationships
Let's establish something immediately:
The Jacksonville Rays series is not the subtle option on this list.
And that's precisely the point.
Emily Rath's hockey universe became a BookTok favorite largely thanks to Pucking Around, an extra-spicy why-choose romance centered on Rachel Price and multiple members of the Jacksonville Rays organization.
But if you're going in, start with the prequel novella That One Night before moving into Pucking Around.
The series expands beyond Rachel's story with other relationships and characters within the same hockey world, creating a much larger interconnected universe.
These books are long, explicit, and relationship-heavy, with plenty happening away from the rink. They're also more adventurous in their relationship structures than the traditional one-hero/one-heroine hockey romance.
Read this series if: You saw the phrase "extra-spicy why-choose hockey romance" and immediately stopped needing further explanation.
[Start the Jacksonville Rays series on Amazon →]
6. Love and Hockey by Lauren Blakely
Start with: The Boyfriend Goal
Perfect for readers who love: forbidden romance, teammates, fake relationships, single dads, interconnected standalones, and rom-com energy
Lauren Blakely's Love and Hockey series is basically a tour through some of romance readers' favorite tropes—with hockey players.
The Boyfriend Goal begins the series with a roommate situation complicated by one fairly important detail: she's his teammate's little sister.
From there, the series moves through different couples and setups, including player/publicist romance, marriage of convenience, coach's daughter, single dad romance, fake dating, and more.
The books are interconnected standalones, so each romance gets its own payoff while the larger hockey world continues around it.
That makes this a particularly easy series to binge. Finish one trope, move directly into another.
Read this series if: Your TBR is basically a list of romance tropes and you'd like someone to add hockey players to all of them.
[Start the Love and Hockey series on Amazon →]
7. The Appies by Emma St. Clair and Jenny Proctor
Start with: Just Don't Fall
Perfect for readers who love: closed-door romance, fake dating, brother's best friend, grumpy/sunshine, and hockey without explicit spice
Not every hockey-romance binge needs to be scorching hot.
If you prefer chemistry, banter, and romantic tension without explicit sex scenes, The Appies series is a great alternative.
Set around a minor-league hockey team, the series features interconnected romances from Emma St. Clair and Jenny Proctor and cycles through an impressive collection of favorite tropes.
You'll find fake dating, brother's-best-friend romance, neighbors-to-lovers, marriage of convenience, grumpy/sunshine, bad-boy hockey players, and more.
The lighter tone and closed-door approach also make these books particularly easy comfort reads.
And because the shared hockey world continues from book to book, you still get that addictive interconnected-series feeling without needing every story to have the same author.
Read this series if: You love hockey romance and romantic tension but prefer your bedroom door firmly closed.
[Start The Appies series on Amazon →]
8. Lakes Hockey by Sloane St. James
Start with: Before We Came
Perfect for readers who love: college hockey, darker emotional storylines, high spice, interconnected characters, and intense romance
If you're looking for something a little more intense, head to Lakes Hockey.
Sloane St. James's series takes hockey romance into darker, messier emotional territory than some of the rom-com-heavy series on this list.
Beginning with Before We Came, the series follows interconnected characters in a college hockey world, combining sports romance with heavier backstories, complicated relationships, and plenty of heat.
These aren't necessarily the books to pick when you want a fluffy hockey player and a cute fake-dating scheme.
They're better suited to readers who like their romance emotional, dramatic, spicy, and occasionally a little messy.
As always with darker romance, check individual content warnings before diving in if there are topics you prefer to avoid.
Read this series if: You want your hockey romance binge to come with higher emotional stakes and plenty of spice.
[Start the Lakes Hockey series on Amazon →]
Which Hockey Romance Series Should You Read First?
It depends entirely on what kind of hockey-romance mood you're in.
Want slow burn and swoony professional hockey? Try Vancouver Storm.
Want found family and an entire friend group to fall in love with? Go with Playing for Keeps.
Want funny, chaotic rom-com energy? Vancouver Agitators.
Want why choose and serious spice? Jacksonville Rays.
Prefer closed-door romance? The Appies.
Want something more emotional and intense? Lakes Hockey.
And if you want professional hockey, workplace tension, slow burns, and five interconnected romances to binge, start with Clear the Ice and the Breakaway Love series.
The only real problem with Kindle Unlimited hockey romance is that once you get attached to one fictional team, another one is waiting.
And another.
And another.
Good luck with your TBR.