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- Content warnings: Homophobia, Blackmail, Sexism
The Kennedy Rule
by K.C. Carmichael
Book 1 in On Thin Ice
If Heated Rivalry lives rent-free in your head, this is your next hockey hyperfixation - two NHL rivals stuck sharing an Olympic hotel room, all that locker-room tension finally boiling over. Steamy, high-stakes, and built for fans of Rachel Reid.
goodreads 3.73/5 6,959 ratings
storykind_community 2/5 1 rating
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Length266 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice3/5 · Tension / anticipation
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Rivals to lovers
- M/M
- Slow burn
- Medium
- Tension / anticipation
- The swoon
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- Athlete
- Love/hate tension
- Possessive/protective
- Tension finally satisfied
- Rival / competitor
- Mutual pining
- Emotional / loving
- Book boyfriend/girlfriend acquired
- Secretly soft
- Forbidden love
- Dirty talk heavy
- Addictive read
- Grumpy protector
- First time / discovery
- Tension
- Longing glances
- Touch starvation
- First time/virgin romance
- Size difference
- Dominance
- Praise kink
- Possessive
Fantasy promise
- Sports romance
- Rivals competing
- Sports world / training facility
- Contemporary
- Forced proximity
- Enemies to lovers
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- Athlete romance
- Only one bed
Reading experience
- First person
- Romantic
- Emotional
- Moderate
- Gay
- Tense
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- Banter-heavy
- Queer
- Yearning
- Engaging
- Swoony
- Warm
- Steamy
- Intense
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Book details
- Length
- 266 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
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