Athlete
Competitive, driven characters who live for the game — whether it's hockey, football, or any sport that demands peak physical condition and unwavering dedication.
Discover 79 romance books featuring athlete.
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The Right Move
Liz Tomforde
Chicago's grumpiest NBA captain fake-dates his sister's best friend — who just moved into his apartment.

Redeemed
Lauren Asher
A disgraced F1 driver convinces his accidental break-in stranger to fake date him — then actually falls.

Melt for You
J. T. Geissinger
A Scottish rugby playboy teaches his shy neighbour to seduce her boss — then falls for her himself.

Say You Swear
Meagan Brandy
She always imagined her future with him — until heartbreak shattered everything she thought she knew.

Unforgettable
Melanie Harlow
A disgraced MLB pitcher returns home for a wedding and rediscovers the girl he never forgot.

Broken Harbor
Catherine Cowles
A single mom finds safety — and something more — in the arms of a hockey player with secrets of his own.

Sweet Rome (Sweet Home, #1.5)
Tillie Cole
A shy Oxford student falls for Alabama's star quarterback — their own Romeo & Juliet story, but this time with a happy e

When Alec Met Evie (Appies, #6)
Jenny Proctor
A newly divorced mom crashes with her childhood hockey crush — her best friend's older brother — after her rental floods

Bright Lights & Summer Nights
Kat Singleton
A broke twenty-something crashes a Hamptons party and ends up fake-dating a billionaire quarterback for his sister's wed

Hat Trick
Eden Finley
A hockey player and a rockstar reunite on a Fiji island — but their history makes paradise feel like a trap.

Ever Mine
Laura Pavlov
Hockey's golden boy is back — and he's her new client, her first love, and the one she never got over.

Deke
Eden Finley
A closeted hockey player agrees to a fake boyfriend scheme — not realising his 'boyfriend' is a reporter covering his te

Right Man, Right Time
Meghan Quinn
A panicked kiss at a bar lands a college girl in a fake relationship with a pro hockey player a decade older.

Love, Utley
S.J. Tilly
Fifteen years later, she left him a letter — now he's her new boss and he's not letting her go again.

Cocky Mother Pucker: a fake dating college hockey romance
Sarah Smith
A cocky hockey captain fake-dates the genius who hates him — and tutors him — until feelings become very real.

Changing the Game (Play by Play, #2)
Jaci Burton
A football star and his head chef fight their sizzling attraction — but trust is the hardest play of all.

Dearest Clementine (Dearest, #1)
Lex Martin
Three best friends, three love stories: a campus RA, a footballer's brother, and an NFL star walk into your TBR.

Never Your Girl (Western Wildcats Hockey, #7)
Jennifer Sucevic
She's been dodging her ex on campus all semester — until a party blows her cover wide open.

Beauty and the Baller
Ilsa Madden-Mills
A grieving NFL star proposes fake dating to his small-town neighbor — not knowing she's the one-night stand he never for

The Trouble with Love (Sex, Love & Stiletto, #4)
Lauren Layne
He left her at the altar. Now he's her neighbour, her colleague, and her biggest problem.

Save Your Breath
Kandi Steiner
A fake engagement between hockey's bad boy and his pop star best friend blurs every line they swore not to cross.

Rules of Engagement
J. T. Geissinger
A sweet matchmaker is hired by an insufferable NFL bad boy to find him a wife — but he only wants her.

Tigers and Devils (Tigers and Devils #1)
Sean Kennedy
A football-obsessed film buff accidentally falls for a closeted AFL star — and nothing stays secret forever.

The Double Play (More Than a Game, #4)
Annah Conwell
She's his daughter's nanny, he's a gruff baseball star with a broken heart — and she's collecting the pieces.