Trope · 370 books
Small town hockey romance
Small town hockey romance trades arena lights for a local rink, one diner and a whole town that knows everyone's business. Retired pros come home, minor league players get adopted by the locals and nobody keeps a secret for long.
Top small town hockey romance books
370 ranked · showing 48 
The Pucking Proposal
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Brother's best friend · Secret relationship · Small town · Forbidden A Dose of Pretty Poison
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Brother's best friend · Secret relationship · Small town · Friends to lovers Surprise for the Sniper
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Second chance · Surprise pregnancy · Single parent · Small town 
The Girl's Guide to (Man) Hunting
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Second chance · Small town · Enemies to lovers · Forced proximity 
One Steamy Pucking Meet Cute
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Surprise pregnancy · Brother's best friend · Marriage of convenience · Small town 
It's Mother-Pucking Christmas!
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Enemies to lovers · Holiday · Grumpy / sunshine · Small town 
Why small town works on the ice
Hockey is a small-town sport in a lot of places, built on community rinks, junior teams and parents freezing in the stands at 6 a.m. These books lean into that.
They run cozier and less spicy than most, with plenty of second chance stories and a lot of holiday books set around winter festivals.
If you like your romance with quirky side characters and a town that roots for the couple, this is the place to start.
Readers who love these books often reach for opposites attract hockey romance, second chance hockey romance and forced proximity hockey romance next. You can also browse every hockey romance trope or go back to the full hockey romance directory.
New to the genre? Wikipedia covers the history of the romance novel and how a game of ice hockey works.
Best M/M small town hockey romance books
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Slow burn small town hockey romance: lower-heat picks
Questions about small town hockey romance
What is the best small town hockey romance book?
Readers' favorite is The Shots You Take by Rachel Reid, followed by The Trouble With Valentine's Day by Rachel Gibson and Beast Behaving Badly by Shelly Laurenston. Our ranking blends how many Goodreads readers rated each book with how often it appears on readers' own hockey romance lists.
Are there M/M small town hockey romance books?
Yes. 86 of the 370 books here are M/M, led by The Shots You Take by Rachel Reid and Charming Puckboy by Eden Finley.
How spicy are small town hockey romance books?
36% are rated spicy or scorching on our five-point heat scale. 238 are slow burn or sweeter, such as The Trouble With Valentine's Day by Rachel Gibson.
Are small town hockey romance books set in college or the pros?
216 are set in pro hockey and 19 on college teams; the rest follow minor league, junior or retired players.