Love and Hockey · Book 7
The Rival Upgrade
- Published
- 13 February 2026
- Pages
- 49
- Type
- novella
About this book
The Rival Upgrade (13 February 2026) is a free bonus novella listed as Love and Hockey #6.5 on Goodreads, not a numbered mainline entry: a rival-to-lovers revenge-fling premise involving British hockey player Shaw. Its existence, with no series-completion statement found anywhere, is why this file records the series as ongoing rather than concluded at book six.
Its place in Love and Hockey
The Rival Upgrade is book 7 in the Love and Hockey series. It follows The Flirting Game. See the full Love and Hockey reading order.
Love and Hockey is Lauren Blakely's contemporary MF sports rom-com series, publisher-tagged "An All New MF Hockey Rom Com Series with Heat, Heart, and Humor!" Each entry pairs a new couple -- mostly players on, or people connected to, the same pro hockey team -- inside tropes like friends-to-lovers, forbidden workplace romance, marriage of convenience, age-gap romance, single-dad-and-nanny, and neighbors-to-lovers fake dating. The series opened with The Boyfriend Goal in August 2024 and ran through six novels by…