Riley Locke collection
Sports Romance: The Starting Lineup
No fandom required: sports romance runs on discipline, proximity, and bodies that already know how to want something badly. The desk fields a starting lineup rather than a ranking, hockey-heavy because the genre is, with the campus quartet that built the modern shelf and the slow-burn specialists who proved patience is an…
Editorial purpose
Why this collection exists
No fandom required: sports romance runs on discipline, proximity, and bodies that already know how to want something badly. The desk fields a starting lineup rather than a ranking, hockey-heavy because the genre is, with the campus quartet that built the modern shelf and the slow-burn specialists who proved patience is an athletic discipline too. Pick your position.
Ordered guide
Books in this collection
The number shows editorial sequence only. It does not claim that one book is objectively better than another.
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01
The Deal
The Deal
Why it belongsOpen the book guide →The campus classic that rebuilt the category: tutoring-for-fake-dates, a hockey captain with hidden weight, and banter that set the standard.
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02
The Mistake
The Mistake
Why it belongsOpen the book guide →The quieter brother of The Deal, with the series' best home-life ballast. Logan's chapters carry real cargo under the college comedy.
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03
The Score
The Score
Why it belongsOpen the book guide →The funny one: the series clowning hardest right up until it stops clowning. Dean earns his redemption the hard way.
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04
The Goal
The Goal
Why it belongsOpen the book guide →The bravest of the four: a pregnancy plot handled with more honesty than the premise usually gets, and a heroine who holds the book upright.
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05
Icebreaker
Icebreaker
Why it belongsOpen the book guide →Figure skater meets hockey captain in a shared rink: the collision that launched the current hockey boom. Sunshine-forward and clear about its assignment.
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06
Behind the Net
Behind the Net
Why it belongsOpen the book guide →Goalie and live-in assistant, the shelf's gentlest entry: a slow thaw built on safety first. The romance is the vehicle; feeling safe is the destination.
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07
Kulti
Kulti
Why it belongsOpen the book guide →Retired football legend coaches the woman whose walls he built. Zapata pace, meaning geological, and worth every one of its pages on heroes and their machinery.
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08
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Why it belongsOpen the book guide →Assistant and NFL defenceman, the slow burn by which this desk measures all others. The proposal arrives early; the feeling takes four hundred pages, correctly.
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09
From Lukov with Love
From Lukov with Love
Why it belongsOpen the book guide →Figure-skating partners who cannot stand each other, at full Zapata power: practices, bruises, and a thaw measured in seasons.
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The Cheat Sheet
The Cheat Sheet
Why it belongsOpen the book guide →Best friends, one NFL quarterback, and a decade of unspoken symmetry the reader spots instantly. The kindest machinery on the lineup.