Brenda Rothert Books in Order (Updated 2026-02-15)

Brenda Rothert’s catalog is easiest to handle as a set of playlists: hockey romance series (best read in sequence) and contemporary romance series (some sequential, some flexible). This page gives you the author-listed reading order by series, with a fresh one-line note for every book.

Series Index

Hockey Romance: Fire on Ice • On the Line • Chicago Blaze • Sin City Saints • Colorado Coyotes • Minnesota Mammoths • Love on the Line • St. Louis Mavericks (with Kat Mizera)
Contemporary Romance: Sven’s Beard • Now • Lockhart Brothers • Filthy Politics (with Chelle Bliss) • Contemporary standalones

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Hockey Romance

Fire on Ice (read in order)

1. Bound: A high-heat hockey romance where commitment shows up before either character is ready for it.
2. Captive: A tension-forward pairing that leans into control, vulnerability, and hard-earned trust.
3. Edge: A sharp, competitive romance built around the moment keeping distance stops working.
4. Drive: Ambition and attraction collide when goals get complicated by real feelings.
5. Release: A payoff-style romance where letting go of the past is the only way forward.

On the Line (read in order)

1. Killian: A hockey romance that centers on intensity, chemistry, and a hero who doesn’t do halfway.
2. Bennett: A follow-up love story that hits harder once you know the world and the team dynamics.

Hockey standalone

• Hooked: A single-sitting hockey romance with a fast pull and a no-nonsense emotional arc.

Chicago Blaze (read in order)

1. Anton: A team-centered romance that opens the Blaze world with strong locker-room energy and real stakes.
2. Luca: A close-to-the-team love story where loyalty and desire compete for first place.
3. Victor: A romance that leans into reputation vs. reality, with the hero forced to show who he is.
4. Knox: A heat-forward pairing where stubborn pride meets someone even more stubborn.
5. Alexei: A fish-out-of-water vibe romance where connection cuts through every barrier.
6. Easy: A lighter-toned entry that still keeps the series’ emotional continuity intact.
7. Jonah: A romance shaped by patience, slow shifts, then a decisive leap.
8. Kit: A relationship that starts with friction and turns into a steady, grounded bond.
9. Olivier: A later-series romance that lands best after you’ve watched the Blaze circle become a community.

Sin City Saints (read in order)

1. Maverick: A bold, high-energy hockey romance that kicks off the Saints with swagger and heart.
2. Pike: A protective-hero romance where attraction becomes impossible to ignore.
3. Pax: A payoff entry that hits best once you’ve lived in the Saints world for a while.

Colorado Coyotes (read in order)

0.5. The Donor: A setup story where a practical decision starts turning emotional.

1. The Opponent: A rivals vibe romance where competition turns personal.
2. The Proposal: A relationship built around a big gesture that creates bigger consequences.
3. The Imposter: A mistaken-identity style setup where honesty becomes the real turning point.
4. The Face-Off: A head-to-head romance that uses conflict as the spark, not the obstacle.
5. The Fall: A more vulnerable entry where defenses drop and feelings stick the landing.
6. Coyotes Ever After: A series coda that revisits the world and delivers closure-forward moments.

Minnesota Mammoths (read in order)

1. Lost in You: A connection that starts off-balance and slowly becomes the safest place to land.
2. Drawn to You: Attraction turns into something deeper when both characters stop pretending they’re fine.
3. Changed by You: A growth-heavy romance where love isn’t the fix, it’s the catalyst.

Love on the Line (read in order)

1. Falling for the Forward: A playful start to a hockey-romcom mini-run with strong first-book momentum.
2. Wanting the Winger: A follow-up romance where longing finally gets the room to become real.

St. Louis Mavericks (co-written with Kat Mizera; read in order)

1. Hard Fall: A hard-edged hockey romance where the fall is emotional before it’s romantic.
2. Hard Limit: A boundaries story where the “limit” is what they thought they could handle.
3. Hard Pass: A pairing that starts with refusal, and then keeps finding reasons not to walk away.
4. Hard Luck: A luck-turns setup where timing finally shifts in their favor.
5. Hard Hit: A big-finish romance that brings the series’ intensity to a clean payoff.

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Contemporary Romance

Sven’s Beard (read in order)

1. Mr. Right Now: A modern romcom setup where the “for now” part doesn’t survive real chemistry.
2. Mr. Ice Guy: A colder-on-the-surface hero melts under the one person who refuses to be intimidated.

Now (read in order)

1. Now and Then: A second-chance flavored romance where history won’t stay in the past.
2. Now and Again: A return-to-each-other story that treats trust like something you rebuild, not assume.
3. Now and Forever: A commitment-forward finale where the future finally stops being theoretical.

Lockhart Brothers (read in order)

1. Deep Down: A romance that starts beneath the surface, feelings first, explanations later.
2. In Deep: A deeper plunge where vulnerability becomes the real risk.
3. Drawn Deeper: Attraction intensifies when both characters stop keeping score.
4. Hidden Depth: A reveal-driven romance where what’s hidden matters as much as what’s said.

Filthy Politics (with Chelle Bliss; read in order)

1. Dirty Work: A politics-and-pressure romance where ambition complicates everything personal.
2. Dirty Secret: A relationship tested by what can’t be public, and what can’t be denied.
3. Dirty Defiance: A defiant, high-stakes finale where love refuses to follow anyone else’s rules.

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Standalones (read anytime)

• Exiled: A fresh-start romance where isolation turns into unexpected connection.
• Unspoken: A quiet, emotion-heavy story where what isn’t said carries the most weight.
• Barely Breathing: A survival-and-recovery flavored romance built on small steps and steady care.
• Come Closer: A proximity-driven love story where closeness becomes the point, not the problem.
• Buried: A past-heavy romance where moving on requires digging up what was avoided.
• Pompous Player: A romcom-leaning pairing where confidence meets the person least impressed by it.
• Sweet Sixteen: A coming-of-age adjacent romance that focuses on turning points and tough choices.
• Alpha Mail: A playful, modern setup where messages turn into feelings faster than expected.
• Healing Touch: A comfort-forward romance where care becomes intimacy.
• Blown Away: A life-disruption romance where chaos clears space for something real.
• His: A possessive-title romance that centers on choosing each other with zero ambiguity.

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If you want one simple, no-mess plan

Read one series at a time, in the order shown above. If you just want to sample her style, pick any standalone (or Hooked if you want hockey).