Off the Ice Books in Order

Off the Ice is one of Kendall Ryan's newest hockey-romance series, focused on players, team staff, and the relationships that create trouble away from the rink. The first book, The Hockey Problem, pairs a guarded NHL single dad with Tori Wells, the physical therapist who knows she should not cross professional boundaries with a patient.

That workplace line gives the series a different kind of pressure than a fan-player romance. The attraction has consequences because the characters share a professional environment, and the hero's life includes fatherhood as well as hockey. The result is a slow-burn setup with forced proximity, restraint, and a lot of tension around what should stay unsaid.

Ice Cold Chemistry continues the Off the Ice world with another hockey romance, this time leaning into fake dating and a bright, distracting heroine opposite a broody player. Knights Like These expands the team setting further, keeping the series anchored in rink life while giving each couple its own route to trouble.

The ice matters, but the off-ice choices matter more.

Readers who enjoyed Ryan's Hot Jocks and Must Love Hockey books will find familiar pleasures here, but with a slightly more current sports-romance feel. Expect professional boundaries, single-dad vulnerability, team pressure, fake relationships, and heroes who have to figure out who they are when the game is not the only thing on the line.