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Sophia Henry Books in Order

Explore all Sophia Henry books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and simple suggestions for where to start across her hockey romances and suspense.

Last updated: July 8, 2026

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14 books

Interference

by Sophia Henry

2016

Single mom Linden Meadows is used to fighting for her son and little brother, so she clashes hard with coach and cop Jason Taylor. Attraction sneaks in anyway, but old wounds and the return of her son's father threaten their shot at a real family.

Power Play

by Sophia Henry

2016

Gabriella Bertucci has learned not to trust charming athletes, even when Detroit hockey star Landon Taylor keeps showing up when she needs him most. Their chemistry is easy. Believing it is harder, especially with his career ready to take off.

Breakaway

by Sophia Henry

2017

Brianna Collins takes a nursing job in Charlotte to escape family pressure and her brother's derailed hockey dreams. Former NHL forward Luke Daniels is grieving his own lost career when their one-night stand turns into something deeper at the children's hospital where he volunteers.

Live to Tell

by Sophia Henry

2018

When landscaper Erik faces deportation, a fake relationship with department-store heiress Maddie Commons seems like a practical solution. It gets complicated fast because Maddie is fleeing an abusive ex, Erik has wanted her for years, and pretending starts to feel far too real.

Open Your Heart

by Sophia Henry

2018

After a car accident ends her path to becoming a surgeon, Liz Commons has no idea who she is supposed to be next. Then Austin, a tattooed musician from a very different world, offers real connection and a love her powerful family would rather shut down.

Crazy for You

by Sophia Henry

2019

Stuck chaperoning a much younger tattoo artist on a cross-country shop tour, a guarded businessman expects four miserable weeks. Instead, Em Vicious gets under his skin, and their banter, attraction, and shared pain turn a forced road trip into something riskier.

Saints

by Sophia Henry

2019

In 1989 Moscow, Stasya becomes a target after her twin brother defects to play hockey in America. Kirill, a rival mob leader and the man she once loved, offers protection at a brutal price, pulling her into a dangerous world where survival and desire are tangled together.

Sinners

by Sophia Henry

2019

Years after reaching America, Stasya has built a business and started reaching for a normal life again. Then a murder in the New York mafia world drags Kirill back into her orbit, forcing her to choose between safety, love, and the woman she has become.

Devil In Disguise

by Sophia Henry

2020

Four years after stealing from the Russian thug who once saved her life, a woman thinks that chapter is buried for good. When he returns demanding what she took, her settled life and current relationship start cracking under secrets, guilt, and unfinished desire.

Blue Lines

by Sophia Henry

2021

A hard-working bartender finally gives in to the rich Russian hockey player who has been shamelessly pursuing her, only to wind up pregnant after their fling. Viktor says he wants the baby and her, but family pressure and cultural expectations make everything messier.

Delayed Penalty

by Sophia Henry

2021

After losing her soccer scholarship, Auden Berezin takes a translating job for a hotheaded Russian hockey player and discovers he is the guy she already brushed off at a bar. Working with Aleksandr Varenkov means facing grief, pride, and a chemistry neither of them expected.

Unsportsmanlike Conduct

by Sophia Henry

2021

Kristen Katsaros boards a Caribbean singles cruise planning to enjoy every moment, not find forever. Then a fake boyfriend arrangement with fun-loving Pasha starts to feel real, and both of them have to decide whether vacation chemistry can survive real life.

Shorthanded

by Sophia Henry

2022

This Aviators Hockey installment returns to Detroit for another emotionally charged romance, where life around the rink collides with complicated feelings and hard choices about the future. It carries the series' mix of chemistry, team pressure, and off-ice baggage.

Love Me

by Sophia Henry

2025

A career-ending injury leaves Luke Daniels trying to figure out who he is without hockey. Volunteering at a children's hospital brings him face to face with Bree Collins, the nurse from his unforgettable one-night stand, and gives both of them another chance at something real.

Where should I start?

If you want Detroit hockey romance first: Delayed PenaltyPower PlayUnsportsmanlike ConductBlue Lines
If you want the earlier Pilots-era books: Power PlayInterferenceBreakaway
If you want contemporary family drama: Open Your HeartLive to TellCrazy for You
If you want darker romantic suspense: SaintsSinnersDevil In Disguise
If you want the newest series: Love Me

Author bio

Sophia Henry grew up in Detroit, and a lot of what she writes still feels rooted there. Before she was even a teenager, she had already fallen for three things that would shape her career: books, writing, and hockey. That combination still explains her work pretty well. Her stories usually have strong emotional pull, a clear sense of place, and characters who have to fight through real life before they get anywhere near a happy ending.

The warmer winters in North Carolina were, clearly, an easy sell.

After earning a Creative Writing degree from Central Michigan University, Henry moved south and built a writing life there. She has said she still spends plenty of time watching hockey, especially the Detroit Red Wings, and that lifelong fandom shows up all over her fiction. Even when a book moves away from the rink, it tends to keep the same mix of competitiveness, loyalty, bruised pride, and hope.

Her early romance novels made sports a natural home. In books like Delayed Penalty, Power Play, and Interference, hockey is not just background decoration. It shapes the rhythm of the story, the pressure on the characters, and the way love has to fit around ambition, injury, money problems, family history, and the constant fear of losing what matters most. Readers who like athletes with messy hearts usually find a lot to enjoy here.

She also knows that a good sports romance needs more than a handsome guy in skates. Her heroines are translators, students, bartenders, nurses, businesswomen, and women trying to rebuild after life swerves off course. Breakaway and Love Me both lean into that idea, asking what happens when a hockey career changes or ends, and whether love can survive the identity crisis that follows.

Henry does not stay in one lane for long, though.

With the Material Girls books, including Open Your Heart, Live to Tell, and Crazy for You, she widens her focus to family pressure, class differences, fake relationships, music, tattoos, and the strange work of becoming an adult on your own terms. Then Saints and Sinners take a sharper turn into romantic suspense, moving into a Russian mafia story without losing the same interest in damaged people, second chances, and the cost of trusting somebody again.

Across all of these books, a few themes keep returning. Henry likes people who look tough from the outside but are not nearly as settled as they seem. She writes a lot about grief, recovery, reinvention, and the moment when a person has to decide whether love is worth the risk. Even Devil In Disguise, which crosses between worlds, keeps that focus on unfinished pasts and the trouble they cause in the present.

Off the page, Henry's life sounds busy and pleasantly chaotic. She writes, raises her two sons, and shares home life with a Plott Hound and two cats. She has also talked about loving concerts, trivia nights, board games, and pool time, which fits her voice on the page: warm, direct, and down to earth. Another telling detail is that she has tied book releases to charitable giving connected to causes that matter to her. It makes sense. Kindness is part of the brand, but it also seems to be part of the person.

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