The Blue Line Duet

About The Blue Line Duet

The Blue Line Duet is a two-book hockey romance split across companion volumes, The Upside of Falling and The Downside of Love, that together tell one continuous relationship rather than two separate standalone stories. The setup pairs a professional hockey player with a woman navigating her own upheaval, and Meghan Quinn uses the two-volume structure to slow down and fully develop a single couple's arc rather than moving between different pairings the way her multi-couple series do.

Both books released within weeks of each other in mid-2018, making the duet function in practice like one longer novel released in two parts. The hockey setting gives Quinn room for her usual locker-room banter and found-family teammate dynamics, but the emotional focus stays tightly on the central couple throughout both books rather than spreading across an ensemble cast.

Readers who enjoy Quinn's blend of humor, heat, and unexpectedly heavy emotional beats will find the format here rewarding: because the story isn't required to wrap up in one volume, The Upside of Falling can end on a cliffhanger that The Downside of Love resolves, giving the duet more room to build tension than her single-book romances typically allow.

How to read this series

Read in order: The Upside of Falling, then The Downside of Love. This is a single continuous story split into two volumes, not two standalone books about different couples, so plan to read both together rather than picking just one. The Upside of Falling does not fully resolve on its own — it's written as the first half of a whole story, and The Downside of Love picks up right where it leaves off to complete the arc. Both books released within weeks of each other in June 2018, so there's minimal wait between them if you're starting the duet after both are already out, and no prior Meghan Quinn reading is required to follow it.