Recs if you like Empty Net (Scoring Chances, #4)...

Romance books featuring queer characters living with physical disabilities, mental health struggles, chronic illness, and/or neurodevelopmental conditions.

Note: If a series features the same MCs, I've only put the first book. If a series features different MCs, I've only listed the relevant book(s) in the series.

Be aware: list spans YA to erotica.

🚫 No "magical cure" tropes or "better dead than disabled" tropes welcome. No inspo porn.

Please leave any recs or concerns in the comments. 📝

M/M hurt/comfort books - ones I’ve read plus ones recommended to me in the r/MM_RomanceBooks subreddit. Most of these have pretty intense hurt because that’s my jam

Queer romance set in, on, around, or a stone's-throw-away-from a hockey rink. Pro-level, Ivy league or Rec-level, we don't discriminate here.

Whether it's about the romance or the sport or both, these books at the very least contain characters who practice and/or care about sports, are part of the LGBTQIA+ community, and possibly do the kissy

most of these ive read a few i haven’t but they’re all gay ! most of it is hockey :)

I don't like you, even if you're sexy. Oh wait, actually I like you way too much 😈

MM 🏳️‍🌈 enemies or rivals or adversaries or nemesis or antagonists or competitors or people-who-don't think-especially-high-of-eachother to ❤️Lovers❤️. Usually at least one person falls incredibly hard for the other and goes from obsessive hate to realizing that they're just proper obsessed with their love interest and turns into an gooey marshmallow 😘.

Romance between men where one or both of the MMCs are athletes. If a couple has more than one books only the first book is going to be added on the list.

Demisexual and Demiromantic rep in romance stories. Lots of queer stories because, let's be real, the community does a better job of creating stories that represent different types of characters and giving them their HEA. Plus, I think demisexual is part of the asexual bucket and thus part of the LGBTQ+ conglomerate.

Long live the "I need to know you as a person before I can feel sexual attraction to you" without purity, religious ethics, or pearl clutching being the backbone of that situation.

If like most people, you’ve read Heated Rivalry and are craving more, here is a big list of mlm hockey romances!

Seeing any books or series you’d like added? Suggestions are more than welcome!

Please note i have not read most of these, so i cannot tell you the tropes or content warnings. I do believe nearly all of these have smut.

Literally just hockey romance! Enjoy!

Mental health rep in hockey romance. Usually mental health struggle/accommodation is a central plot point.