Books Like The Pucking Wrong Number: 15 Possessive Hockey Romances to Read Next (2026)
Books like The Pucking Wrong Number are what you go looking for when a sweet hockey romance just isn’t enough anymore. Hockey romance has never been bigger: Heated Rivalry became a 2026 TV phenomenon and Netflix is filming Icebreaker this fall. But C.R. Jane’s 2023 opener to the Pucking Wrong series sits in a different lane, the darker one: a wrong-number text, a golden-boy star who becomes fixated and a hero the author herself calls a morally grey antihero. This list is built around that engine, from the rest of C.R. Jane’s series to the darkest possessive hockey heroes on the shelf, plus the mainstream hockey books with heroes who fall just as hard. Heat level on every pick, then the Inferno hockey romances from our own shelf.
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What Makes The Pucking Wrong Number Work
Monroe is alone in a big city when a text meant for someone else lands on her phone. She answers it, and keeps answering. She doesn’t know she’s talking to Lincoln Daniels, the golden boy of the Dallas Knights, and when she finds out, she isn’t impressed. Lincoln is used to getting what he wants on and off the ice, and he becomes fixated on winning her: “intense” doesn’t begin to cover the pursuit. The book works because it starts as a cute meet-cute and turns into an obsession romance, with a hero who is charming in public and relentless in private and a heroine who starts to want the attention she knows she shouldn’t. The best readalikes keep a star athlete who decides early, possessiveness that reads as devotion and a heroine who is more than a trophy.
The Pucking Wrong Series in Order
The series runs The Pucking Wrong Number (2023), The Pucking Wrong Guy (2024), the holiday novella A Pucking Wrong Christmas, The Pucking Wrong Date, The Pucking Wrong Man (2024) and The Pucking Wrong Rookie. Each book follows a new couple, so you can stop anywhere, but the cameos land best in order.
Books Like The Pucking Wrong Number: More C.R. Jane
The Pucking Wrong Guy by C.R. Jane
Book two. Blake moved to Los Angeles to start over and chase modeling, and she’s waiting tables to get by. Ari Lancaster is a tattooed professional hockey player and her first crush, the boy who helped her through the hardest stretch of her life. Now he’s back, and determined to be part of her life again. Childhood history in place of a wrong number, the same hero who has already decided.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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No Pucking Way by C.R. Jane and May Dawson
The why-choose turn. A woman woke up in a hospital three years ago with no memory of who she is, and took a concessions job at the local arena while she looks for clues. Three hockey players there claim not to know her but feel familiar, and a tattooed mafia man starts flirting with her. All of them, it turns out, once loved her, and they are at war with each other. Book one of Rich Demons of Hockey, darker and more glamorous than the Pucking Wrong books.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
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Darker Possessive Hockey Heroes
Content note: the books in this section are dark romance, with obsessive pursuit, bullying and revenge. Check each book’s warnings first.
Brutal Obsession by S. Massery
Greyson Devereux is the hockey star who injured her leg, and he won’t let go. He fixates on her fear and her attention, and she starts to feel a pull toward him she can’t explain. Lincoln’s fixation with the charm stripped away and the menace turned all the way up.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Wicked Dreams by S. Massery
Caleb Asher is the wealthy captain of the hockey team, and he once promised to marry her. Now he’s set on ruining her, and she isn’t going down quietly. A rich-boy captain whose obsession runs on the history between them.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Bad Intentions by Mila Kane
Cayden is the golden-boy star who doesn’t follow the rules. Lily is a sheltered, smart student who sees past his mask, and ends up trapped with him. A hockey bully romance with a possessive hero, for readers who liked Lincoln’s public charm hiding something sharper.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Until I Get You by Claire Contreras
Lyla vanished three years ago. The hockey player she left behind, once on his way to the NHL, finds her again, and he wants her to pay. Revenge-driven obsession, told from the man who never stopped looking.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Brutal Game by Jo Brenner
The darkest pick here. Jack Feldman is the campus hockey star who becomes her ruthless tormentor after she goes after his team for revenge, and then he claims her. Only for readers who want the obsession with no softening at all.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
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Heroes Who Fall First and Loudly
Consider Me by Becka Mack
Carter Beckett, a Vancouver star, decides very early and very loudly that Olivia is his person, and spends the book devoted to her before she has finished deciding anything. Lincoln’s single-minded pursuit as a golden retriever instead of an antihero. Our books like Consider Me list covers the rest of that shelf.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Mile High by Liz Tomforde
Stevie takes a job as a flight attendant on a Chicago hockey team’s private plane and decides Evan Zanders, the league’s most arrogant defenseman, is the worst person on it. He agrees, loudly, then spends the book proving otherwise. A public bad boy who turns out to be the softest man on the team, and a heroine who has sworn off athletes. Our Mile High spicy chapters guide has the details.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Behind the Net by Stephanie Archer
Jamie Streicher is the Vancouver Storm’s grumpy goalie who barely speaks. Pippa Hartley is the sunshine who moves into his life as his live-in assistant and slowly turns his monosyllables into sentences meant only for her. He falls first and silently, and his devotion is just as total as Lincoln’s, only quieter.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Open door
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Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
A rink mix-up at Maple Hills forces the hockey team and the figure skaters to share the ice, which is how Anastasia Allen, a skater with Olympic plans and no patience, ends up needing captain Nate Hawkins. A captain who wants her from the start, a heroine who doesn’t want to need him and a lot of heat. Netflix is filming it as a series this fall; our Icebreaker spicy chapters guide has more.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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Pucking Wild by Emily Rath
Tess Owens is a lawyer leaving a bad marriage after a public scandal, and Ryan Langley is the younger Jacksonville Rays forward recovering from an injury who ends up as her roommate. A reverse age gap and a hockey player who is kinder than anyone expects, from the author whose Rays series runs from why-choose to MM. See our Emily Rath books in order guide.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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The Classics, Including MM
The Deal by Elle Kennedy
Hannah Wells needs a fake boyfriend to make the guy she likes jealous; Garrett Graham, Briar University’s hockey captain, needs a tutor to keep his grade up and his spot on the ice. They make a deal, and it stops being a deal after one kiss. The book that defined college hockey romance, with a captain who goes all in once he decides. Our books like The Deal list goes deeper.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Open door
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Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov are rival captains who have been secretly hooking up for years while the league sells their feud. A decade of fixation compressed into hotel rooms, and the 2026 TV adaptation made it the most talked-about hockey romance of the year. The MM pick for readers who want obsession that runs both ways.
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit
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For more, see our books like Collide list and the hockey romance guide by trope.
Read Next: Hotter Picks From Fractal Enigma
Possessive men, locker-room secrets and a rink full of witnesses, at full Inferno heat. Two MF and two MM hockey romances, all standalones with a guaranteed happy ending.
Goalie Problems — Tessa Valehart
Alexei Volkov gets beaten by the same goal forty-two times, and she’s the only person in the building who thinks that’s good news. The Northbridge Wolves hire her for eight weeks to fix the league’s most expensive goaltender, and the job comes with a grumpy hero who doesn’t take instruction, a forbidden workplace line and a man who, once he decides, doesn’t let go.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Coach × Goalie, Forbidden Workplace Romance, Grumpy Hero, Competence Kink, He Falls First, Control and Surrender
Start reading Goalie Problems →
Return to Contact — Tessa Valehart
Cleared to play. Not cleared to touch her. Grant Ellison has twelve seasons, a captain’s C and eight millimeters of bone holding his shoulder together, and the surgeon who rebuilt it is the one person he can’t stop thinking about. A captain on a comeback, a doctor who wrote the rules and phone calls that cross the line before their hands do.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Doctor × Hockey Player, Forbidden Romance, Injured Athlete Comeback, Older Hero, He Falls First, Mutual Pining
Start reading Return to Contact →
Pucking Around in Sin City — Chase Power
He’s the NHL’s most dangerous enforcer. He’s the Bratva heir who owns the team. Wyatt “Wrecker” Callahan has been traded to the Las Vegas Vipers, his fourth team in six years and his last chance, and the man who signs his checks has decided Wyatt needs managing. Control, chaos and a possessive hero with an empire behind him. MM.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Mafia Romance, Brat/Tamer, Power Exchange, Secret Relationship, He Falls First
Start reading Pucking Around in Sin City →
Locker Room Confessional — Chase Power
Marcus Hale is the captain who keeps everything locked down, his game, his feelings and a desire he has hidden for eleven years. Evan Reyes is the rookie who can’t stop talking, and who records erotic audio in the locker room after hours. Instead of reporting him, Marcus offers to coach the content. A closeted captain, a possessive streak and the voice he can’t stop listening to. Free with Kindle Unlimited.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Teammates to Lovers, Possessive Hero, Secret Relationship, Closeted, Voice Kink, Praise Kink
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FAQ: Books Like The Pucking Wrong Number
Do you need to read the Pucking Wrong series in order?
No. Each book follows a new couple, so you can start anywhere, but reading in order (Number, Guy, the Christmas novella, Date, Man, Rookie) keeps the recurring characters straight.
What should I read after The Pucking Wrong Number?
The Pucking Wrong Guy to stay with C.R. Jane, Brutal Obsession if you want the hero darker, and Consider Me if you want the same all-in pursuit with a sweeter hero.
How spicy and how dark is The Pucking Wrong Number?
It’s marketed as a darker hockey romance with a morally grey antihero whose pursuit is intense; expect explicit, open-door scenes, around a four on our romance spice levels scale. It’s lighter than the S. Massery and Jo Brenner picks above.
Is The Pucking Wrong Number being adapted?
We haven’t found any announced screen adaptation as of October 2026. The hockey romances on screen this year are Heated Rivalry and Netflix’s Icebreaker series.
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