Icebreaker
**A TikTok sensation! Sparks fly when a competitive figure skater and hockey team captain are forced to share a rink.** Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team. Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins. Nate is focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means they are forced to share a rink with the figure skating team including Anastasia, who clearly can't stand him. But when Anastasia's skating partner faces an uncertain future, she may have to look to Nate to take her shot. Sparks fly, but Anastasia isn't worried because she could never like a hockey player, right?
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A perfectionist college figure skater preparing for nationals has her ice time cut in half when the men's hockey captain shows up needing the rink. The two of them strike a very reluctant deal.
Yes. Icebreaker contains multiple explicit sex scenes between figure skater Anastasia and hockey captain Nate. Most readers rate it 3 to 4 out of 5 on the spice scale, comparable to other contemporary new adult sports romance.
Yes. Icebreaker contains multiple explicit sex scenes between figure skater Anastasia and hockey captain Nate. Most readers rate it 3 to 4 out of 5 on the spice scale, comparable to other contemporary new adult sports romance.
Yes. Icebreaker is the first book in the Maple Hills series by Hannah Grace. It is followed by Wildfire and Daydream, which feature different couples in the same college setting.
Icebreaker is new adult, set during college and aimed at readers 18 and up. The explicit sexual content and college setting place it outside the YA category, though many older teen readers enjoy the genre.
Icebreaker became a BookTok phenomenon in 2022 and 2023, leading to a major publisher rerelease. Its grumpy-sunshine dynamic, hockey romance setting, and accessible writing style made it a gateway book for many new readers of the sports romance subgenre.
Icebreaker was written by Hannah Grace, published in 2020 by Atria Books.
Icebreaker is 448 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Icebreaker takes most readers 7 to 10 hours to finish.
Icebreaker is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
