Hockey romance with all the tension and none of the explicit content.
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Glad you found me. I write hockey romance where the tension does all the work and the bedroom door stays shut — the kind of book you can hand to your mum, your book club, or the woman sitting next to you on a flight who asked what you're reading.
Two series, two different flavours. Clean Ice is full-length and glacially slow — the first kiss in The Girl in the Green Sweater doesn't land until you're ninety percent through the book, and I stand by that completely. Living With Red Flags is shorter, louder, and set on a campus where a girl with a midnight radio show has extremely strong opinions about athletes.
I write early, before the world starts making noise, and I will defend the slow burn against anyone who says nothing happens for two hundred pages. Something is happening. It's just happening quietly.
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Mia Bennett goes to her ex-fiancé's engagement party in a safe navy dress, because a year ago she'd have worn a red jumpsuit and she isn't that person anymore.
Noah Mercer is one of the most feared players in professional hockey, and he is not listening to the eighteen thousand people screaming his name. He's looking for a girl in a green sweater.
Slow burn · Grumpy & sunshine · He falls first · Found family
♡ Kisses only — no bedroom scenes. First kiss at 90%.
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Three short campus romances. Maya Singh hosts a midnight radio show about why nobody should date an athlete. Then she gets assigned a room across the hall from one.
Book One
Two thousand listeners agree with her every week. Then housing puts her in Bedroom B — across the hall from the exact thing she rants about.
Forced proximity · Roommates · Enemies to lovers
♡ Kisses only
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Book Two
Seventy-four notifications before her alarm goes off. Whatever happened last night, the whole campus already knows — and the girl who tells the stories is suddenly the story.
Secret relationship · Public scandal · Hurt/comfort
♡♡ Closed door — one fade-to-black scene
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Book Three
"After" sounds clean. Real life after is more like glitter — six months on, she still finds him in her playlists. Then the internship comes with two bedroom doors, three steps apart.
Second chance · Exes · Forced proximity
♡ Kisses only
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What to Expect
If that ever changes, I'll say so in advance.
About
I write hockey romance for readers who want the longing without the heat — small towns with cold rinks and warm kitchens, players who are stubborn, women who are smarter than them, and everybody minding everybody else's business.
Two series so far, and more coming. The door stays shut in all of them.
I read every email. noah@noahsterlingauthor.com