Enemies on Fire: Books Like Heated Rivalry

By Angelique Colon | January 20 2026 | AdultsAllBlogGeneralPop Cultureromance

Frenemies to lovers in a sports rivalry: what more can you ask for? You can ask for more! If you’ve been obsessed with the TV adaptation of Heated Rivalry, we have more hockey romances and sporty LGBTQ+ romances that can tide you over until season 2 comes out.

Fans who’ve fallen in love with the show will find plenty more spicy, icy action on our Heated Rivalry-inspired title lists!

Hockey Romance Books
LGBTQ+ Sports Romance Books

Play You For It
Play You For It
A Novel
Samantha Saldivar
9798217092598
In this sizzling sapphic romance, sparks fly between a sports journalist and her latest source—the first woman to be named head coach of a Division I men's basketball team—but are they willing to risk their careers for a shot at love?
$18.00 US
Oct 21, 2025
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
352 Pages
Dell
Hot Girls with Balls
Hot Girls with Balls
A Novel
Benedict Nguyen
9781646222476
In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in their off-court romance ahead of their rival teams’ first rematch in a year
$28.00 US
Jul 01, 2025
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Hardcover
288 Pages
Catapult
The Passing Playbook
The Passing Playbook
Isaac Fitzsimons
9781984815422
Love, Simon meets Bend It Like Beckham in this feel-good contemporary romance about a trans athlete who must decide between fighting for his right to play and staying stealth.
$11.99 US
May 31, 2022
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
304 Pages
Dial Books
Age 12 and up
The Prospects
The Prospects
A Novel
KT Hoffman
9780593596869
The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, and triumphant rivals to lovers debut romance.“Tenacious, sexy, effervescent, doggedly hopeful, and endlessly charming, with characters to root hard for and an irresistible voice—I completely adored it.” —Casey McQuiston, author of Red, White & Royal Blue
$18.00 US
Apr 09, 2024
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
384 Pages
Dial Press Trade Paperback
Pucking Around
Pucking Around
A Why Choose Hockey Romance
Emily Rath
9781496752406
FEATURING NEW EXCLUSIVE BONUS CONTENT!Discover the internationally bestselling, off-the-charts sexy, inclusive, poly, kink-friendly, "why choose" hockey romance that made the Jacksonville Rays a Tiktok sensation - now with exclusive, never-before seen material!When an ambitious sports medicine practitioner scores her dream job working for Jacksonville’s hottest NHL team, she knows the last thing she should do is get tangled up with a player. After all, how could she choose just one?
$19.95 US
Jan 23, 2024
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
592 Pages
Kensington
The Final Score
The Final Score
Lana Ferguson
9780593953716
A hockey player and a grad student are on thin ice until they meet their match in this sexy romance by USA Today bestselling author Lana Ferguson.
$19.00 US
Jul 07, 2026
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
384 Pages
Berkley
Spiral
Spiral
Bal Khabra
9780593818282
He’s on edge while she’s en pointe in this fake-dating sports romance from the author of TikTok smash hit Collide.
$19.00 US
Jan 28, 2025
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
368 Pages
Berkley
Puck You
Puck You
Flynn Novak
9781998341344
For fans of spicy hockey romances like Icebreaker and The Au Pair Affair comes the story of a heated rivalry between two hockey players that develops into a romance hot enough to melt the ice from debut novelist Flynn Novak.
$18.99 US
Nov 18, 2025
5-1/4 x 8-1/4
Paperback
352 Pages
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