Imagine a world where the two best players in the National Hockey League weren’t just rivals, they were also truly, madly, deeply in love with each other.
If this seems like an impossible scenario to conjure while thinking about a league that has not had a single openly gay player take the ice in its nearly 108 years in operation, fear not: Halifax author Rachel Reid has done the work of bringing it to life for you.
In her novel Heated Rivalry, soon to be a television series on Crave, a Canadian NHL star begins a star-crossed romance with a Russian rival that threatens to change both their lives — a nd the game — f orever.
The novel, and Reid’s seven other books, are situated firmly in the genre of hockey romance, which has exploded in popularity in recent years.
WATCH | Halifax author imagines a world where gay NHL players thrive in the league: This Halifax author's popular hockey romance book is being made into a TV series | Duration 2:49 Rachel Reid is making a splash with her bestselling series of hockey romance novels.
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