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Bal Khabra is a Canadian contemporary romance author best known for ice-hockey college romance with a shared cast and an ongoing series storyline. Her main books live in one connected sequence, while her earlier debut stands on its own.
If you prefer clean introductions and zero accidental couple spoilers, stick to the numbered order of the series.
The simplest decision
- Want the main series from the true beginning? Start with Collide.
- Only trying one book first? Collide is still the best “sample,” because later books assume you already know the friend group.
- Collecting everything? Read the standalone debut first or lasteither way works.
Off the Ice series (read in order)
These books share a setting and a growing circle of recurring characters. Each novel follows a different central couple, but outcomes and friendships carry forward.
- Collide (2023): A focused student and a campus hockey star are forced into proximity, and the friction turns into something neither can manage quietly.
- Spiral (2025): A hockey player under a spotlight and a ballerina chasing her dream make a public arrangement that gets emotionally real fast.
- Revolve (2025): A new romance takes shape inside the same world, where reputation, pressure, and chemistry all refuse to stay separate.
- Embrace (2026): A hockey player and the coach’s daughter push against a line that exists for a reason, and crossing it changes the rules.
Why the order helps: later books naturally mention earlier couples and events as background, the way friends do.
Standalone novel (separate from Off the Ice)
This book does not connect to the hockey series and can be read anytime.
- A Code for Love (2022): A fresh start in New York turns complicated when career pressure, family expectations, and a too-close neighbor collide.
Recommended reading order
If you want the smoothest experience with no backtracking:
- Collide
- Spiral
- Revolve
- Embrace
- A Code for Love (anywhere as a standalone detour)
If you already read Spiral first, it’s still fine, just expect earlier-couple outcomes to be less “new” when you go back.
Latest status
- Most recent published titles: Collide and Spiral are out now.
- Next scheduled releases: Revolve (Oct 2025) and Embrace (Aug 2026), with release timing sometimes varying by edition and region.
FAQs
Do the Off the Ice books work as standalones?
Each book finishes its own romance, but the shared world means you’ll get more out of them in order.
Is A Code for Love required before Off the Ice?
No. It’s a separate story and doesn’t set up the series.
Are there novellas I need to track?
None are consistently listed as required parts of the main reading order.
Bottom line
For most readers: start with Collide and follow the Off the Ice sequence straight through. Add A Code for Love whenever you want a one-and-done romance outside the hockey world.
Frank is the editor of BookSeries.blog, focusing on publication order, chronological timelines, and spoiler-free reading guides for book series and fictional universes.