Pick your trope
Hockey romance tropes
Hockey romance tropes are the familiar plays the genre runs best: rivals forced to share the ice, a fake relationship for the cameras, a scowling captain undone by one person. Every one of our 4,092 books is tagged, so pick a trope and we’ll fill the roster.
Most popular: enemies to lovers hockey romance, fake dating hockey romance and grumpy sunshine hockey romance.
- 01→ Enemies to lovers Hates him on the ice. Hates him slightly less in the hotel bar. 870 books
- 02→ Fake dating It’s just for the cameras. It is never just for the cameras. 409 books
- 03→ Grumpy / sunshine Six-foot-four of scowl, undone by golden-retriever energy. 545 books
- 04→ Forced proximity One road trip. One hotel room. One bed. 1,202 books
- 05→ Second chance They had it once. Then the draft happened. 757 books
- 06→ Friends to lovers Best friends since juniors. Nothing weird about it. Sure. 772 books
- 07→ Brother's best friend Her brother’s linemate. Off-limits. Obviously. 416 books
- 08→ Forbidden Coach’s daughter, team PR, the GM’s niece. All terrible ideas. 1,238 books
- 09→ Secret relationship Nobody in the locker room can know. Everybody suspects. 747 books
- 10→ Single parent He can take a slapshot to the face. Bedtime stories are harder. 463 books
- 11→ Marriage of convenience A ring for the visa, the trust fund, the image. Feelings not included. 159 books
- 12→ Age gap He’s the veteran. She’s been warned. 320 books
- 13→ Opposites attract She reads in the stands. He’s never finished a book. Yet. 1,575 books
- 14→ Figure skater Same rink, very different ice time. 108 books
- 15→ Why choose Why settle for one when there’s a whole first line? 217 books
- 16→ Surprise pregnancy One night after the playoffs. Nine months of fallout. 177 books
- 17→ Small town One rink, one diner, and everybody knows his stats. 370 books
- 18→ Dark romance The enforcer, off the ice and off the leash. 153 books
- 19→ Found family A locker room of overgrown brothers who adopt her immediately. 630 books
- 20→ Holiday Mistletoe in the dressing room. Snowed in after the road trip. 275 books