Icebreaker

Sierra is working back toward figure skating after an accident; Dylan has been removed from his hockey team. When she needs a pairs partner, the player has to learn a different way to use the ice. Revolve is the closest premise match for someone who wants a skater and a hockey player in the same story, but the partnership is on the rink rather than merely caused by teams sharing it. Recovery and trust shape their work together more directly than Anastasia and Nate's facilities problem.

Summer's graduate research puts her in the orbit of Aiden, captain of Dalton University's hockey team. Their clashing approaches to a project bring the campus athlete and ambitious student together repeatedly. Collide shares Icebreaker's college schedule, captain, and bickering, while giving its heroine a goal outside the romance. Summer's work is sports psychology, though, not a figure-skating campaign; the rink matters through Aiden's team rather than through both leads' practices. Start here if the campus hockey atmosphere matters more than competitive skating.

Hannah agrees to tutor hockey captain Garrett in exchange for a pretend date that might attract her crush. Their bargain gives The Deal the college team, forced time together, and lively verbal sparring that Icebreaker readers may want again. Hannah is not an athlete and the fake-date arrangement, not a shared rink, is the plot engine. It is also the start of Elle Kennedy's Off-Campus series rather than a Maple Hills installment. Pick it when the campus hockey romance is the draw and skating is optional.

Gigi Graham wants a place on the women's national hockey team; Luke Ryder must hold together a newly merged men's roster. Their agreement to help one another keeps both leads' athletic goals in view, making this a stronger on-ice comparison than many hockey romances. The Graham Effect has no figure skating, and its team politics differ from Anastasia and Nate's crowded-rink problem. It opens a Campus Diaries spinoff connected to Kennedy's Off-Campus books, not a continuation of Hannah and Garrett's relationship in The Deal.

Jasmine Santos and Ivan Lukov have years of friction behind them when a skating partnership offers her another chance at a career. This is the route for readers who were most invested in Anastasia's training rather than in the hockey roster. Zapata spends much more time on the slow change from distrust to reliance, and Ivan is another figure skater, not a hockey captain. From Lukov with Love keeps the physical labor of learning to work together on the ice while leaving Maple Hills and its team dynamic behind.