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64 past books matching Sports Romance
A good pick for readers who enjoy MM sports romance, bi-awakening, and friends-with-benefits relationships.
Perfect Storm
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Toronto Thunder quarterback Aidan Flynn is exploring his attraction to men when Levi, his best friend’s younger brother, shows up to honor a drunken hookup pact. Now teammates and housemates, their casual arrangement develops into something more, but Aidan’s unresolved feelings complicate their growing connection. A good pick for readers who enjoy MM sports romance, bi-awakening, and friends-with-benefits relationships.
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When the sexy little brother of Aidan’s best friend suggests a hookup pact, it's the perfect storm for a bi-awakening . . .
Toronto Thunder quarterback Aidan Flynn always believed he was straight, until his close friend and favorite wide receiver signs with a team across the country. Distance opens his eyes and unlocks a desire he can’t deny. Even if his feelings aren’t returned, Aidan still wants to learn more about this part of himself.
Frustrated and a little heartbroken, the last thing he expects is for his crappy mood to get called out by his best friend’s little brother. Or for Levi to offer, on one drunken night, a pact: if Aidan never gets together with his guy, Levi will show him everything he’s been missing—and wanting—in bed.
It’s a stupid promise, fueled by booze and heartbreak, and Aidan expects that Levi will never call him on it.
Except Levi does. He shows up at Aidan’s house in Toronto less than two months later, not only willing to fulfill his side of the pact, but now signed to the Thunder as Aidan’s new right tackle. Aidan assumes it’ll be easy to get rid of him, but Levi is charming and persistent, and he not only ends up living in Aidan’s house, but sleeping in Aidan’s bed.
It’s easy and fun and the best hookup Aidan’s ever had in his whole life. It’s so good, in fact, Aidan starts to experience feelings he believed were long gone, traded away with his friend. Maybe with Levi in his life, love isn’t such a lost cause, after all.
They’re great on the field and between the sheets. But when Aidan’s past returns, he must decide whether Levi also has a place in his heart.
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A good pick for fans of MM sports romance featuring forced proximity, workplace attraction, and opposites attract.
First to Finish
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Erotica · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Formula 1 driver Johannes Muller is struggling to maintain his championship momentum when race engineer Caleb Hughes steps in to help him regain his confidence. As their professional relationship develops into something more, both must navigate their growing attraction and the demands of their careers, with a 3.7-star average from more than 1,700 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for fans of MM sports romance featuring forced proximity, workplace attraction, and opposites attract.
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The stakes have never been higher in this spicy F1 forced proximity romcom!
Race car driver Johannes Muller is on a hot streak this season and seems destined to claim the championship win … until his performance unexpectedly falters. Gone is his cool confidence – on the track he can barely qualify, let alone take home the trophy.
The team’s race engineer, Caleb Hughes, is determined to get his star driver back in pole position, but soon the sparks flying over the radio are more chemistry than competition.
In a sport where everyone gives it their all at all times, it’s not long before Johannes and Caleb realise that their racing line is leading them towards a collision they won’t be able to walk away from unscathed…
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Scarlett Vandermeer is trying to keep her head down, recover from injury, and stay focused on med school.
Deep End
Sports Romance · Romance · College Romance · New Adult
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Scarlett Vandermeer is trying to keep her head down, recover from injury, and stay focused on med school. Lukas Blomqvist is the disciplined swim champion everyone expects to win. They should be too busy, too controlled, and too different to get tangled up, but one secret turns into a no-strings arrangement that gets harder to keep casual. Deep End is a steamy college sports romance with Olympic pressure, forbidden chemistry, and feelings that refuse to stay underwater.
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A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.
Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships—at least, that’s what she tells herself.
Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It’s how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes.
So they start an arrangement. And as the pressure leading to the Olympics heats up, so does their relationship. It was supposed to be just a temporary, mutually satisfying fling. But when staying away from Lukas becomes impossible, Scarlett realizes that her heart might be treading into dangerous water...
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Best for readers who like why choose omegaverse romance with hockey, chaos, high heat, and messy supernatural trouble.
One Winter Knight
Romance · Sports Romance
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One Winter Knight follows Carlos, a kappa hockey player who falls in love with a goddess and ends up tied to a chair in Boston after one chaotic winter night involving a rockstar, a chemistry student, two lady assassins, and a Christmas rave. Best for readers who like why choose omegaverse romance with hockey, chaos, high heat, and messy supernatural trouble.
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This was where it ended.
People warned me to make good choices. But I was a kappa, it was in my nature not to, no matter how hard I tried.
I didn’t regret what happened. I’d do it all again. Here lies Carlos, who fell in love with a goddess.
My phone rang in the distance. Probably someone wondering where the f*ck I was. Possibly a teammate, since I might have a game tonight?
I didn’t even know what day it was anymore. Or where the others were.
How did I even end up tied to a chair in Boston, at the mercy of an armed, angry alpha?
Well, it all started one winter night…
One Winter Knight is a chaos to lover why choose omegaverse hockey romance, and the next book in the HockeyVerse series. It's mmffm and answers the question of 'what happens when a hockey player, a rockstar, a chemistry student, and two lady assassins go to a rave at Christmas.'
While this book stands alone, you might want to read the Loving Ladybug duet, since this story answers the question of where Carlos went.
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Good for readers who want sweet closed-door romance with grumpy-sunshine banter, forced proximity, sailing mishaps, and he-falls-first tension.
If All Else Sails
Romance · Sports Romance
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A USA TODAY bestseller, If All Else Sails sends school nurse Josie to a run-down Virginia cottage with Wyatt, her brother’s best friend, injured hockey player, and sworn enemy, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 3,500 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want sweet closed-door romance with grumpy-sunshine banter, forced proximity, sailing mishaps, and he-falls-first tension.
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USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
In this grumpy-sunshine romance, school nurse Josie and her brother's best friend--hockey player Wyatt Jacobs--are tricked into spending a summer together that's anything but smooth sailing.
When Josie's brother sends her to a random address for their (sometimes) annual Super Summer Sibling Extravaganza, she finds neither siblings nor extravaganzas. Instead, ends up at a run-down cottage on the Northern Neck of Virginia occupied by a hockey player she knows and loathes.
A hockey player who isn't just one of her sports agent brother's clients. He's also his best friend. And Josie's sworn enemy.
Oh--and her brother wants Josie to help Wyatt recover from his injury.
Dragging grumpy hockey players to physical therapy is a far cry from bandaging skinned knees, but for the price her brother offers to pay, Josie is willing to try.
Even if it means sharing what she dubs the quaint little murder cottage with Wyatt.
Begrudgingly, Josie starts to see a little more of the man behind the grumpy exterior. And when she finds out he was supposed to sail the Intracoastal Waterway south to Savannah scattering his uncle's ashes, Josie surprises even herself by offering to be Wyatt's first mate.
Smooth sailing is nowhere to be found, and Josie begins to wonder if they'll be able to make it home without killing--or kissing?--each other.
And yet, the longer they share cramped quarters and canned food, the more of Wyatt's layers she peels back until Josie realizes she misunderstood him, their shared history, and perhaps herself as well.
If you're a fan of closed-door romance with sizzling chemistry, laugh-out-loud banter, and relatable characters, this romance with enemies-to-lovers vibes is your perfect escape. Dive into the irresistible story of Wyatt and Josie as they navigate the rocky waters of their past, uncover hidden depths, and discover that sometimes love is found in the most unexpected places. With the delightful grumpy-sunshine dynamic and the swoon-worthy he-falls-first trope, If All Else Sails by USA TODAY bestselling author Emma St. Clair will keep you turning the pages late into the night.
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Fake dating should make the lines clearer, but for one guarded hockey player and the sunshine determined to reach him, pretending only makes every feeling harder to ignore.
Romancing the Grump
Romance · RomCom · Sports Romance
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Fake dating should make the lines clearer, but for one guarded hockey player and the sunshine determined to reach him, pretending only makes every feeling harder to ignore. Romancing the Grump pairs Nathan’s icy resistance with Summer’s warmth in a closed-door sports romcom built on grumpy/sunshine tension, slow emotional thaw, and the risk of falling for something that was never supposed to be real.
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He’s a grump and happy to stay that way. But can her sunshine melt the ice around his heart?
Nathan Sanders didn't earn his reputation as the grouchiest player on the Appies hockey team by chance. So when Summer Callahan breezes into his life with her flirtatious smiles and endless charm, he responds like he always does: he completely ignores her.
But Summer is intrigued by the surly defenseman, so when a viral social media post requires her to step in and fake it as Nathan's girlfriend, she jumps at the chance. She's convinced the ones with the hardest shells are often the softest underneath, and she's determined to prove it.
But Nathan doesn't crack so easily. Despite their obvious chemistry, he makes his lack of interest in a relationship—any relationship—perfectly clear. But the longer they pretend, the less fake everything seems, and the more Summer starts to fall.
She can only hope her fake relationship doesn't lead to real heartbreak.
Romancing the Grump is a closed door, grumpy/sunshine, fake dating hockey romcom with heart and humor, sizzle but no spice. Perfect for fans of sports romance who want a little less heat.
Books in the Appies Hockey Romance series all stand alone and can be read in any order.
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Best for readers who like steamy MM hockey romance, grumpy/sunshine dynamics, forced proximity, and messy feelings under professional boundaries.
Top Shelf
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Top Shelf follows a newly signed NHL prospect whose injury recovery gets complicated when his physical therapist turns out to be Quinn Rhodes, the retired NHL veteran he thought would be a one-time hookup, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,000 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like steamy MM hockey romance, grumpy/sunshine dynamics, forced proximity, and messy feelings under professional boundaries.
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No one ever explained to me what to do when the man who took your virginity turns out to be the one in charge of your physical therapy.
NHL veteran Quinn Rhodes was supposed to be a one-time thing: just a hookup who kisses like a dream and screws like a god.
Then, three weeks later, a freak accident threatens to destroy my debut NHL career before it begins. And if almost losing my spot on my team wasn't bad enough, I walk into my PT’s office and find him assigned to my recovery.
I can handle this, damn it. I can keep it professional.
And for a short while, it seems like Quinn’s willing to do the same. But it doesn’t take long for the two of us to shut our mouths and let our bodies do the talking.
If this was just physical, two guys scratching an itch, I could handle it. But deep down, I know there's more to it.
These stolen moments between us mean something. After all, Quinn doesn’t smile for just anyone, and the way he holds me when our hookups are over tells me that this thing between us doesn't have to end the moment my knee is healed.
The only question is, will either one of us be brave enough to take a shot on that goal?
Top Shelf is a stand alone, MM high heat, grumpy/sunshine rom-com set in the Love The Game Universe. It contains a freshly signed NHL prospect with autism, a crochet habit, and no idea what direction he wants his future to go in, a retired NHL player who just wants a calm, quiet existence, several moments of being at the right place at the right time—even when it feels wrong—dates that they don’t know are dates, amigurumi as a love language, and a swoony, steamy happily ever after.
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Best for readers who like college hockey romance, roommates-to-friends tension, pining, and slow-burn emotional stakes.
Shots on Net
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · College Romance · Gay Romance · RomCom · Sports Romance
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Carter Morgan III lives for hockey, but his final stretch at South Carolina University gets complicated when Zeke Cassidy becomes his roommate, his friend, and the person Carter cannot stop wanting, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 5,500 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like college hockey romance, roommates-to-friends tension, pining, and slow-burn emotional stakes.
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"Shots on Net is a sweet, low-angst gay college romance with great chemistry, believable miscommunication, and a grumpy hockey player worth falling for." - Apropos Books
Carter Morgan III hates everything about South Carolina University except for one thing: hockey. As the starting netminder for the team, he lives for those moments when he can step onto the ice and between the pipes. Unfortunately, his time at school and on the team is slowly coming to an end; although he’d love nothing more than to pursue a career in the NHL, he knows better than to get his hopes up.
Zeke Cassidy needs a place to live. When he answers an advertisement for a roommate, he’s not sure what he is expecting except that it isn’t Carter Morgan III. Carter is unfriendly, aloof, and they have nothing in common; even so, the pair hit it off immediately and become friends.
Carter knows Zeke isn’t interested in being anything beyond friends and roommates. Unfortunately, knowing this doesn’t stop him from hoping for more, no matter how much he tries to convince himself it’s impossible.
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Best for readers who like MM hockey romance with second chances, forbidden attraction, teammates, and career complications.
The Call-Up
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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NHL rookie Bouchard finds himself playing alongside Ryan Christianson, his brother’s former teammate and the man he has loved since he was fourteen, forcing them to navigate old feelings alongside the pressures of professional hockey. Best for readers who like MM hockey romance with second chances, forbidden attraction, teammates, and career complications.
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I’ve been in love with Ryan Christianson since I was fourteen.
Eight years ago, he was my brother’s teammate, billeted in our home, and completely off-limits. Now, as I’m called up to the NHL for the first time, the moment I discover Ryan is my new linemate is also when I realize I’m still hopelessly gone for the man who calls me Baby Bouchard.
As rookies go, I’m doing well; hat-trick-in-my-third-game, heading-to-the-playoffs well. But I’ll always be just a kid to Ryan, who makes it clear there’s a line we’re not crossing. He says I’m too young, too new to the league, that getting involved would be a disaster. He’s probably right. But he’s also the one fixing my hair before media interviews, teaching me his signature backhand shot, and looking at me like he’s one second away from forgetting every reason we shouldn’t do this.
The smart thing? Finish the season, keep things professional, protect our careers.
But I didn’t make it to the NHL by playing it safe.
A sexy, forbidden love, MM hockey romance featuring rookie dreams, found family, and the courage to risk everything for love on and off the ice. Perfect for fans of Heated Rivalry, Tal Bauer, and Sarina Bowen.
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Good for readers who like college romance, racing drama, second chances, and complicated hearts.
Sharing Hearts
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Mackie has loved racing since childhood, but driving for his hero at Starfire Racing becomes complicated when he falls for Noah, the team owner who may realize his feelings too late. In Sharing Hearts, Conan’s chance encounter with the team brings his own grief and hope into the mix. Good for readers who like college romance, racing drama, second chances, and complicated hearts.
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Pine Valley is a school that’s rich in both history and legacy, and it’s once more opening its doors to another year of students.
Mackie Draper has wanted to be a race car driver since he first saw Noah Fletcher compete when he was a kid. He never expected to become a driver for Noah himself at the prestigious Starfire Racing, nor did he expect to fall in love with his boss, but here he is. Unfortunately, Noah doesn’t feel the same way, and Mackie’s broken heart might not be the only thing lost this season.
Noah Fletcher is a champion, with more wins under his belt than any other driver. Now, he’s the owner of Starfire Racing, and the only thing he wants is to lead his team to victory. He never expected the complication of a young driver, Mackie, nor how it would feel when he realizes Mackie might have given up on both him and Starfire.
Conan White is no stranger to tragedy. Having lost his partner when he was young, he promised he would never take life for granted again, but a chance encounter with an up-and-coming race team in Pine Valley reminds him of this vow. When his past and present collide, Conan does his best to fight for a heart he doesn’t own with one that remains broken.
What happens when love is realized too late?
With more than just winning on the line, it’s time to race toward their future.
Can Mackie, Noah, and Conan survive Pine Valley, or will sharing hearts be all that’s left?
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Good for readers who like Ruthless Titan’s dark college hockey setting, coerced marriage setup, power imbalance, and enemies-to-lovers tension.
Ruthless Titan
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Erotica · Gay Romance · New Adult · Sports Romance
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A hockey player must marry his team captain to keep his scholarship, leading to unexpected feelings in this mature adult MM romance, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 3,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like Ruthless Titan’s dark college hockey setting, coerced marriage setup, power imbalance, and enemies-to-lovers tension.
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I never imagined the ruthless Titan would choose me as his rebellion, or that I’d become his shield.
Hockey was supposed to be my ticket to stability, earning me a scholarship for an education I could never have afforded on my own.
Until Connor Walsh, the ruthless star of the Crestwood hockey team and my captain, corners me with an ultimatum that changes everything.
Marry him, or watch my scholarship—and my entire future—disappear.
It's blackmail, pure and simple. A calculated move in whatever twisted game he's playing with his equally ruthless father. And I'm just a pawn he's willing to sacrifice.
Now I'm trapped in their war, shielding the one person who should be my enemy and learning all over again that safety is just another thing people like me don’t get.
I keep telling myself to hold back, that getting close only leads to hurt. But every day I spend with Connor pulls me in a little more.
And falling for my husband is worse than anything the ruthless titan can threaten me with.
Because love—family—well, they never last.
This steamy MM hockey romance that is perfect for readers who wanted Heated Rivalry to go darker – with a ruthless captain, a coerced marriage, and a war that turns into all‑consuming love.
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Good for readers who like gay sports romance with enemies-to-lovers tension, grumpy/sunshine dynamics, Olympic pressure, and hurt/comfort.
Kiss and Cry
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Two rival figure skaters must train together for the Olympics, forcing them to confront their intense rivalry and growing feelings for each other. Kiss and Cry has a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,900 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like gay sports romance with enemies-to-lovers tension, grumpy/sunshine dynamics, Olympic pressure, and hurt/comfort.
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Will figure skating enemies become lovers?
Henry
Everything comes easily for Theo Sullivan, whether it’s jumps or figure skating world titles. Everyone loves him—judges, fans, coaches.
I hate him.
Now he’s invaded my training center, and I have to see him every day as we prepare for the Olympics. I’m going to win gold if it’s the last thing I do. I’m going to beat him.
But the strangest thing is happening. I’m peeking under his happy-go-lucky exterior and discovering there’s more to Theo than I imagined.
This is a mistake. I can’t trust him.
I can’t be falling in love.
Theo
My mom’s convinced training with Henry Sakaguchi will distract me heading into the Olympics. No way—Henry’s epically boring and cold. He might as well be carved from ice.
But when I need help, he’s there. He tries to keep me at arm’s length, but it’s no use. He’s too kind. Too generous. He’s caring and gorgeous and hot, and I’ve never wanted anyone like this.
I might want Henry more than a gold medal.
Am I falling in love?
Kiss and Cry by Keira Andrews is a steamy gay sports romance featuring grumpy/sunshine opposites attracting, secretly soft-hearted boys, hurt/comfort, and of course a happy ending.
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