Riverton Raptors Books in Order

Riverton Raptors is Sophie Love's original hockey-romance setup, built around a northern town where the local team is more than entertainment. In Riverton, hockey is identity. The Raptors are the hometown obsession, the pride of the place, and the thread connecting everyone from front-office staff to players to the women whose lives get pulled into the orbit of the team.

That gives the series a very different feel from her seaside romances and cozies.

Instead of inherited houses and small inns, these books work with locker-room energy, team travel, scouting, media work, and the social life that grows up around a beloved club. The romance comes from women who are already part of that world in some way, not starstruck outsiders dropping in for a visit. They know the culture, they know the stakes, and they know that mixing work with attraction is a bad idea right up until it stops feeling avoidable.

The first book, Love Check, centers on Mackenzie Avery, a talent scout who is good at spotting potential in players but much less prepared for two of her own prospects to start pursuing her. That sets the tone for the series as a whole: quick, emotional sports romances where the heroine is pulled between two very different men. One usually represents steadiness and respect. The other tends to bring more edge, risk, or intensity.

There is a small-town element here too, even with the sports framing. Riverton is not a giant anonymous city with a pro team dropped into it. It is a place where hockey shapes daily life, reputations travel fast, and romance feels public whether anyone wants it to or not. That makes the books lighter and more community-driven than a lot of sports romance.

This original Riverton Raptors line also matters because it became the foundation for the later Riverton Romance books, which revise and expand the same hockey-centered world. So if you are curious about where that setting started, this is the earliest version of it.

Readers who come here should expect triangle-style tension, hockey-town atmosphere, and short, fast contemporary romances where emotion and chemistry stay front and center. It is Sophie Love working in sports mode, but still with the same interest in fresh starts, strong settings, and heroines figuring out what kind of love actually fits their lives.