Grab your foam fingers and pom poms and get ready to cheer on these couples from sports romances you’re sure to enjoy! Whether you’re looking for romances set on baseball fields, novels featuring hockey players, or books with more eclectic sports like skiing or rock climbing, we’ve got six sports romances that’ll earn a spot in your trophy case.
Gracie and Noah
First Love, Second Draft by Becca Kinzer
With spring comes the start of baseball season and baseball fans will enjoy this sporty and bookish romance. Gracie is a rom-com writer burned out on love with a looming deadline and an injury that some say—but not Gracie—means she needs constant attention. In walks Noah, a famous baseball player and Gracie’s ex-husband, ready to lend a hand not only with her injury but also with a solution to her writers block. As Gracie and Noah reluctantly work together, old wounds come to the surface and threaten to destroy the tentative peace they’ve created. Witty banter, a second chance at love, and quirky townspeople all come together to make this rom-com a home run.
Eden and Jace
It Had to Be You by Susan May Warren
Eden and Jace start off as enemies in this hockey romance: Eden is her hockey-player brother’s biggest fan and she thinks he’s getting all of his off-the-ice bad habits from the bad boy of hockey, Jace. Meanwhile, Jace is trying to change his image as he heads into the twilight of his career, and having his teammate’s distracting sister on his case isn’t making it any easier. The real icebreaker comes when Eden and Jace visit her family in small town Minnesota and they both get to see a different side of each other from close proximity.
If you’re looking for more hockey romances, other books in the Christiansen Family series will hit the spot: in When I Fall in Love, Jace’s teammate Max meets his match at a cooking retreat, and in You’re the One That I Want, Eden’s little brother, Owen, gets his own chance at love.
All of the Christiansen series is currently available in Kindle Unlimited or wherever you get your books.
Quinn and Grady
Just Let Go by Courtney Walsh
With the Winter Olympics right around the corner, jump into an Olympic romance featuring a bad boy skier and a small-town florist. When hot-headed Olympic skier Grady gets in trouble in a middle-of-nowhere town, he thinks he can buy his way out and be on his way. His plans get derailed when he’s sentenced to community service in the form of helping put together the floral display for the town’s winter festival. But Quinn, the town florist, needs the design to be perfect and doesn’t want the help of the new-in-town ne’er-do-well. As they spend more time together, Grady begins to realize that his life has more to it than skiing and Quinn begins to let go of the past.
Ana and Bryan
The Solid Grounds Coffee Company by Carla Laureano
Ana and Bryan are opposites who attract after becoming reluctant business partners. After Bryan loses his rock climbing sponsorships following a terrible accident, he buys a coffee farm in Colombia, a country that means so much to him. Back in the States, Bryan realizes he has no idea how to start a coffee company and, through mutual friends, enlists a powerhouse publicist, Ana, to help him with his idea. From the very start, their opposite personalities rub each other the wrong way: Bryan is laid back while Ana is a type A go-getter. Throughout their partnership, they challenge each other and push the business forward. But when Bryan’s bad boy rock climbing days catch up with him, it could threaten all that he and Ana have built.
If you like the writerly aspect of First Love, Second Draft, you’ll also enjoy The Saturday Night Supper Club, the first book in this series, where blogger Alex writes an editorial that inadvertently leads to the downfall of chef Rachel’s career, and he works to make it up to her by forming a supper club.
Emily and Hollis
If for Any Reason by Courtney Walsh
This Nantucket-set romance is a great beach read for the summer! Childhood friends Emily and Hollis find themselves neighbors for a summer after tragedy befalls them both. Emily returns to the island to get her family’s cottage ready to sell and to look for the truth behind the secrets that surround memories of her mother. But Emily finds a distraction in Hollis, a baseball star single father in town for the summer to recover after a career-ending injury. Emily must choose between allowing the voices from her past to guide her future or forging her own path forward.
Issy and Caleb
My Foolish Heart by Susan May Warren
Issy and Caleb are next-door neighbors who drive each other crazy while falling in love anonymously on the radio in this football coach romance. Caleb, an injured veteran, moves to a small town in Minnesota in the hopes of landing his dream job as the local high school football coach. Unbeknownst to Caleb, his new next-door neighbor is not only the beloved former coach’s daughter, but she’s also the host of Miss Foolish Heart, a dating advice radio show. As Caleb starts to call into the show for advice on how to talk to his beautiful neighbor, his dreams of coaching football might be in jeopardy.
