Rachel Reid and her hockey romances

Two ways into Game Changers

Game Changer gives the series its starting point through New York captain Scott Hunter and Kip Grady. Kip’s life is outside the league, which gives the romance room to ask what happens when one partner sets the terms because he has more to lose in public. Later books follow other corners of the same world, from Ryan Price’s work as an enforcer to Eric Bennett’s approach to retirement.

For Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, start with Heated Rivalry and follow it with The Long Game. The two books spend years with the same couple, from the first sparks of a rivalry to the strain of keeping a relationship private. Role Model gives Ilya a supporting part on the Ottawa team between those books.

The Game Changers novels in order · My review of Heated Rivalry

Outside the numbered series

Time to Shine follows backup goalie Landon Stackhouse and Calgary winger Casey Hicks. They become roommates, which gives Reid an everyday setting for two players who have very different ways of handling loneliness. It takes place in its own version of the hockey world. The Shots You Take follows former teammates brought back into contact after years apart, when hockey is already part of the life they’ve left behind.

How Time to Shine compares with Heated Rivalry