The Crestport Renegades — A 5-Book Hockey Romance Series

THE CRESTPORT RENEGADES

A Five-Book Ice Hockey Romance Series

Contemporary Sports Romance · Ice Hockey

Five hockey players who guard everything except their hearts. Five women who never saw them coming. One championship season that claims them all — fast, filthy, and for good.

The Series

The Crestport Renegades have spent twenty years losing. Now a rebuilding franchise in a blue-collar Great Lakes hockey town is finally chasing its first title in a generation — and one reckless heart at a time, the men carrying the team get hit by the one thing they can’t out-skate. Each book is a standalone instalove with its own couple and its own guaranteed happily-ever-after, but a single season threads all five, building from “bad but getting better” to championship night.

Every book is dual-POV, first person, present tense — you live inside both heads as they fall. The heroes are possessive but devoted; the heroines are sharp, grown, and done being overlooked. The heat is explicit and the emotions hit harder. Bingeable in an afternoon each, the series builds to a banner-raising finale where all five couples stand on the ice at once.

Fall hard. Fall fast. Fall Renegade.

What’s Included in This Package

The Five Books

Book One — Iced In (Sage & Maddox)

“She’s never once been someone’s first choice. He decides she’s his inside an hour — and a blizzard gives him four days to prove it.”

Iced In · Sage & Maddox

Sage Whitlock photographs other people’s perfect lives for a living and has spent her own being the runner-up — overlooked, recently jilted, never anyone’s first pick. When her car dies on a mountain road in a freak preseason whiteout, the man who hauls her out of the snowbank is Maddox Kane: captain of the Crestport Renegades, built like a wall, and absolutely certain, almost immediately, that she’s the one thing he’s keeping.

The storm strands them at the team’s remote lake lodge — no signal, no road out, one warm room. Four days of forced proximity, banked heat, and one terrifyingly easy intimacy later, the thaw comes for the lake too — and a near-disaster on the ice forces both of them to decide whether this was a fluke of the weather or the realest thing either has ever had.

Instalove at its most snowbound and certain: a possessive, soft-for-her captain, a heroine who finally gets chosen first, and a one-bed blizzard that melts straight into forever. It opens the Renegades’ season — and ends with Maddox’s little sister arriving for the year, and a teammate who can’t look away.

Featured hooks · Snowed in / one bed · Instalove · Possessive protective hero · Overlooked heroine · Stranded-in-a-storm meet · Frozen-lake peril

Book Two — Off Limits (Ivy & Roman)

“She’s the one woman he isn’t allowed to want. He owes her brother everything — and he’s about to risk all of it anyway.”

Off Limits · Ivy & Roman

Ivy Kane is twenty-two, an art student running her own life, and exhausted by being handled — kept safe by an overprotective brother who’s made guarding her his whole personality. Roman Vasiliev is the Russian-born winger that brother vouched for, the one who arrived with no English, no friends, and a contract that could vanish if he put a skate wrong. The team is the first family Roman has ever had. Ivy is the one person on earth he’s forbidden to touch.

He notices her shivering and gives her his jacket before he’s decided to. She refuses to be anyone’s secret. Six weeks of stairwells and stolen drives later, a single photograph blows it open — and Maddox’s “hands off my sister” rule collides with the brotherhood that gave Roman a home.

Forbidden romance with a tender, dutiful hero and a heroine done being managed: a slow-burn-in-a-short-read ache of near-misses, a brother’s grudging blessing, and a man who’d rather lose everything he owns than keep loving her in the dark.

Featured hooks · Forbidden — the captain’s little sister · Brother’s best friend · Instalove · Immigrant-outsider hero · “I won’t be your secret” · Caught by a photo

Book Three — Faking the Save (Jules & Theo)

“She builds the fake relationship to save both their careers. He’s the only one who knows it stopped being fake on day one.”

Faking the Save · Jules & Theo

Jules Marsh has built her entire adult life around control — the message, the optics, the distance between herself and anyone who could become a headline. So when golden-boy winger Theo Brandt lands a sponsor-killing tabloid splash, the Renegades’ new PR manager proposes the cleanest terrible idea on the table: she’ll be his public girlfriend. She’s staff, bound by contract and an NDA, immune to him. In theory.

Theo, who everyone files under “the fun one,” falls for real somewhere around the first staged coffee date — and spends the campaign proving to a woman whose job depends on it that he’s the most observant, least shallow person in any room. When the arrangement cracks and Jules, terrified, kills the story by calling them fake on a live podium, Theo takes the hit and asks for nothing. Which leaves exactly one move: the fixer who’s never once gone off-script has to walk back to a microphone with no script at all.

Fake-dating at its most swoony and sharp: a charmer with hidden depth, a control-freak heroine who has to be brave with the cameras on, and a public confession that torches her own talking points to win him for real.

Featured hooks · Fake dating · Instalove · Grumpy/sunshine · Career-on-the-line stakes · Hidden-depths hero · Grand public gesture

Book Four — Cold Hands, Warm Heart (Wren & Beck)

“He froze his heart to survive single fatherhood. His daughter’s pre-K teacher is the one person who isn’t afraid to thaw it.”

Cold Hands, Warm Heart · Wren & Beck

Beck Frost became a father and a widower in the same hour, and he’s spent the four years since living behind a wall — forty words a day, a sealed-off private life, a goalie so frozen his own teammates think he just likes his privacy. Wren Davies has spent her whole life as everyone’s caretaker and no one’s first choice. When Beck’s four-year-old, Pickle, decides Miss Davies belongs in their lives and quietly engineers it, neither adult stands a chance.

A midnight fever, a phone call answered on the second ring, and a woman who kisses his grief like it’s part of him worth keeping — and the ice starts to give. Then a single careless word in a school hallway trips every protective instinct Beck owns, and he unchooses the best thing that’s happened to them on an emergency-room floor. To get her back he’ll have to learn that showing up isn’t the same as reaching — and do it loud enough for his daughter to see.

The heart of the series: a grumpy grieving goalie, a give-everything heroine who finally demands to be chosen first, and a tiny matchmaker whose family drawing is missing one stick figure. Tender, high-heat, and earned.

Featured hooks · Grumpy goalie × sunshine teacher · Single dad / widower · Instalove · Kid-as-matchmaker · Midnight-fever call · Jumbotron grand gesture

Book Five — Overtime (Lana & Dom) · Series Capstone

“He’s the muscle everyone uses and nobody keeps. One night with an ER nurse becomes a positive test — on championship eve.”

Overtime · Lana & Dom

Dominic “Dom” Hale is the Renegades’ enforcer — the quiet giant who stands in front of the danger so it never reaches the people who matter, a foster kid who learned early that being useful is the closest he’ll get to being kept. Lana Reyes is an ER nurse who has built her whole life around needing no one. One off-the-charts night together is supposed to be the end of it.

Then a positive test, a heartbeat on a screen, and a man who shows up with soup and a crib months early and asks for nothing change everything Lana thinks she can survive. Terrified of becoming her mother, she overhears half a phone call, fills in the worst version, and pushes Dom out the door the night before the biggest game of his life. What he actually meant was a house with a yard. To win her back, the guy who’s only ever been kept around will have to climb the boards in front of twenty thousand people and ask to be chosen out loud.

The finale the season deserves: an accidental pregnancy, a found-family healing, an enforcer with the biggest heart in the building, and a championship-night grand gesture that raises the banner on all five couples at once.

Featured hooks · Accidental pregnancy · One-night stand to forever · Instalove · Protector hero · Hyper-independent heroine · Climb-the-boards grand gesture

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What You Get

Five reads away from your next binge-launch series. ❤