Jeff Adams writes gay romance and LGBTQ+ young adult fiction, often combining hockey, performance, technology, or small-town settings with queer relationships. He has also co-written romance and nonfiction.
His catalog contains two very different kinds of series. Codename: Winger and the older Hat Trick books follow the same protagonists across multiple installments, so their order is essential. Hockey Hearts and On Stage use different couples, which gives readers considerably more flexibility.
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Some older Jeff Adams books are currently out of print. They still belong in a complete bibliography, but new readers should distinguish unavailable legacy titles from the author’s active catalog.
First Decide How Much Continuity You Want
- Readers looking for one continuing action story should begin with Tracker Hacker. All four Codename: Winger novels follow teenage secret agent Theo Reese during one year.
- Readers looking for a continuing hockey relationship can choose the legacy Hat Trick series. Simon and Alex remain the central couple from high school into adulthood, although the books are currently out of print.
- Readers who prefer a new couple in every book should enter the Hockey Hearts universe. Its ten romances share a professional hockey world but provide separate romantic conclusions.
- Readers interested in dancers, television, and theater should begin On Stage with Dancing for Him.
- Readers who want no series commitment can choose Their Four Date Experiment, Somewhere on Mackinac, or another standalone.
Hockey Hearts Universe in Story Order
Hockey Hearts contains three related groups: the five principal Hockey Hearts romances, three shorter Quick Hits, and two Home for the Holidays novellas.
Every book follows a different couple and provides its own ending. The author nevertheless supplies a ten-book story order, which is the most useful route for readers who want all recurring names and hockey connections in sequence.
1. The Hockey Player’s Heart
The Hockey Player’s Heart (2018): Injured hockey star Caleb Carter returns to his hometown and reconnects with schoolteacher Aaron Price, the man he once wanted but never had the courage to pursue.
Caleb sees their reunion as another chance, while Aaron doubts that an ordinary teacher can build a lasting relationship with a famous athlete.
The novel was co-written with Will Knauss and serves as the foundation of the current Hockey Hearts universe.
2. The Hockey Player’s Snow Day
The Hockey Player’s Snow Day (2021): A snowstorm strands hockey player Nick at the secluded cabin of romance novelist Shawn, turning an unexpected interruption into a fast, intimate forced-proximity connection.
Shawn values the solitude he needs to write, but his famous visitor resembles the sort of hero he normally creates on the page.
This Quick Hits story is available as a newsletter-exclusive romance.
3. Rivals
Rivals (2014): Former high-school hockey rivals Mitchell and Alex reunite after years apart, allowing a secret crush buried beneath their old competition to surface during the holidays.
Their rivalry was always more complicated for Mitchell, who struggled to separate attraction from the intensity of facing Alex on the ice.
This novella now belongs to Hockey Hearts: Home for the Holidays.
4. Head in the Game
Head in the Game (2019): A professional hockey player becomes involved with a graduate student in a romance complicated by an age difference and their connection through work.
The shorter story focuses on the point where professional boundaries stop being enough to contain their attraction.
It is part of Hockey Hearts: Quick Hits.
5. Keeping Kyle
Keeping Kyle (2020): NHL player Kyle Pressgrove agrees to appear in a charity bachelor auction, where technology executive Austin makes the winning bid and refuses to waste the opportunity.
Their immediate connection is threatened by Kyle’s uncertain career and the possibility that he could be traded across the country.
The novel belongs to both Hockey Hearts and the multi-author Hockey Allies Bachelor Bid project.
6. Taking a Shot at Love
Taking a Shot at Love (2024): Two hockey players on rival teams must decide whether a friendship that has always mattered can survive becoming a romantic relationship.
Competition, travel, and conflicting team loyalties make acting on their feelings more complicated than simply acknowledging them.
This is the second Home for the Holidays romance.
7. Checked by His Teammate
Checked by His Teammate (2025): Two teammates are pushed into close quarters with only one bed, forcing a long-hidden attraction into the open.
Their relationship carries professional risk because any failure could disrupt both their friendship and the trust required between teammates.
This is the third Hockey Hearts: Quick Hits story.
8. Skating Back to You
Skating Back to You (2025): A professional hockey player and a ballet dancer reconsider the friendship and attraction they have struggled to maintain across distance and demanding careers.
Their worlds require different forms of physical discipline, while travel and performance schedules make building an ordinary relationship difficult.
The story first appeared under the title The Hockey Player’s Pas de Deux in the Love Is All: Volume 4 anthology. The current expanded or independently published edition is titled Skating Back to You.
It also functions as a crossover with On Stage.
9. Pride by the Book
Pride by the Book (2025): A hockey player and a librarian meet in Maplewood during the town’s Pride festival, where their contrasting personalities create an opposites-attract romance.
The small-town celebration places their developing relationship under the friendly observation of a community invested in belonging and happy endings.
The novel also belongs to the multi-author Love in Maplewood series, but it can be read without the other authors’ books.
10. A Very Merry Movie in Pine Ridge
A Very Merry Movie in Pine Ridge (2025): Hockey star August Reeve clashes with director Landon Winslow when a Christmas movie begins filming in August’s hometown during the summer.
Landon sees Pine Ridge as a production location, while August views it as his family’s legacy and a community threatened by outside development.
Their work together on the film’s hockey scenes turns professional conflict into romance as both men face the approaching end of production.
This story takes place shortly after Pride by the Book, making it the final current stop in the Hockey Hearts timeline.
Hockey Hearts by Subseries
Readers who prefer to keep the three named groups separate can use the following arrangement.
Hockey Hearts: The Original Five
- The Hockey Player’s Heart (2018): An injured star receives another chance with his hometown schoolteacher crush.
- Keeping Kyle (2020): A hockey bachelor auction brings an NHL player together with an ambitious technology executive.
- Skating Back to You (2025): A hockey player and ballet dancer attempt to make friendship and long-distance attraction work.
- Pride by the Book (2025): A professional player falls for a small-town librarian during a Pride festival.
- A Very Merry Movie in Pine Ridge (2025): A player and movie director clash while filming a holiday romance in a threatened hometown.
Hockey Hearts: Quick Hits
- The Hockey Player’s Snow Day (2021): A snowstorm traps a player with a romance novelist in a secluded cabin.
- Head in the Game (2019): A hockey player and graduate student cross workplace boundaries in an age-gap romance.
- Checked by His Teammate (2025): Teammates sharing one bed finally confront their hidden attraction.
Hockey Hearts: Home for the Holidays
- Rivals (2014): Former school rivals reunite with old competition and secret feelings still unresolved.
- Taking a Shot at Love (2024): Friends playing for rival teams consider risking their bond for a holiday romance.
The story-order route is better for complete-universe readers. Subseries order is suitable when a reader wants only full-length romances, short stories, or holiday books.
Do the Hockey Hearts Books Need to Be Read in Order?
No. Each book follows a different couple and explains the immediate relationship clearly.
Story order adds recognition and protects the natural progression of recurring hockey connections. It is most helpful near the end, since A Very Merry Movie in Pine Ridge follows events mentioned in Pride by the Book.
The safest first book is The Hockey Player’s Heart. Readers who prefer a newer small-town story may begin with Pride by the Book.
On Stage Books in Order
On Stage is a loosely connected romance series involving dancers, performers, television production, and theater.
The couples change, and the author states that the books can be read independently. The listed order remains the optimal route because characters and performance-world connections gradually expand.
1. Dancing for Him
Dancing for Him (2016): Television electrician Todd Stewart begins working on his favorite dance competition and forms a connection with contestant Nathaniel Mayer.
Their workplace attraction develops inside a reality television production, where schedules, cameras, and competition leave little room for privacy.
This is the formal beginning of On Stage.
2. Love’s Opening Night
Love’s Opening Night (2016): A Broadway dancer becomes involved with a Hollywood star as their professional worlds meet backstage.
Celebrity attention and the pressure surrounding a major production complicate a romance that must survive beyond its opening-night excitement.
Read it after Dancing for Him for the intended development of the performance community.
3. Skating Back to You
Skating Back to You (2025): A ballet dancer and professional hockey player attempt to turn a long-distance friendship into a lasting relationship.
The novel connects the On Stage performance world to Hockey Hearts and therefore occupies a place in both continuities.
Readers following On Stage should place it after Love’s Opening Night. Readers following Hockey Hearts should use its position in the ten-book story timeline.
Codename: Winger Books in Order
Codename: Winger is a young adult cyber-thriller series following Theo Reese, a teenage computer genius, hockey player, and secret agent.
Unlike the loosely connected romances, these four novels tell one developing story. They take place over approximately one year and must be read in order.
1. Tracker Hacker
Tracker Hacker (2017): High-school hockey player Theo Reese begins his first field mission when his father is placed in danger and Theo’s computer abilities become essential to stopping the threat.
The novel introduces Theo’s family, agency work, hockey life, and the difficulty of keeping a secret identity from the people closest to him.
This is the only safe starting point for the series.
A Very Winger Christmas
A Very Winger Christmas: Theo faces a holiday assignment between the first and second full-length novels, adding a shorter mission to his developing secret-agent career.
The story is supplementary rather than required.
Placement: Read after Tracker Hacker and before Schooled when available.
2. Schooled
Schooled (2018): Theo attends a computer-science competition where an apparent academic event turns dangerous and people connected to his hockey life need his protection.
The mission places his technical skills and personal loyalties under pressure while continuing the agency conflicts introduced in Tracker Hacker.
Reading the first novel is required.
3. Audio Assault
Audio Assault (2018): Hacked music files become part of a wider threat, forcing Theo to investigate while his relationship with his boyfriend competes with the demands of his secret work.
The case expands the technological dangers surrounding Theo and makes keeping his two lives separate increasingly difficult.
It continues directly from the first half of the series.
4. Netminder
Netminder (2019): Theo faces a global threat to the internet while being cut off from the support and resources he normally relies upon.
The final mission tests his skills, relationships, and ability to operate when the people who usually protect him cannot reach him.
This is the conclusion of Codename: Winger and should not be read as a standalone.
Codename: Winger Reading Rule
Read:
- Tracker Hacker
- A Very Winger Christmas, optional
- Schooled
- Audio Assault
- Netminder
Publication order and chronological order are effectively the same.
Hat Trick Books in Order
Hat Trick is Jeff Adams’s earlier young adult hockey-romance series. It follows Simon Roberts and Alex Miller from high school into college and adulthood.
These books are currently out of print. They remain important to a complete Jeff Adams bibliography, but availability may be limited to existing used copies or library holdings.
The same couple continues across the main novels and Overtime stories. Strict order is required.
1. Hat Trick
Hat Trick (2013): High-school senior Simon Roberts wants to win a state hockey championship and earn a scholarship, but his growing relationship with teammate Alex Miller threatens to expose them both.
Being outed creates conflict within the team and Simon’s troubled family while placing his athletic future at risk.
The novel begins Simon and Alex’s continuing relationship.
1.5. Hat Trick Overtime: A Classic Winter’s Night
Hat Trick Overtime: A Classic Winter’s Night (2014): Simon and Alex have begun college and play hockey for the University of Michigan when an outdoor winter game gives them another milestone together.
The story shows how their relationship has developed after high school.
Read it after Hat Trick.
Hat Trick Overtime: Summer Camp
Hat Trick Overtime: Summer Camp (2014): Simon and Alex spend part of their college period at hockey camp, where training and new responsibilities test the stability they have built.
This shorter continuation belongs before the second full-length novel.
Some catalogs have assigned inconsistent fractional numbering to the early Overtime stories. Their practical placement between Hat Trick and Playing the Rebound is more useful than the exact decimal.
2. Hat Trick 2: Playing the Rebound
Playing the Rebound (2014): Simon and Alex continue their college hockey careers while changes around the team and their relationship force them to adjust to life beyond their original high-school romance.
The second novel expands the cast but retains Simon and Alex as the emotional center.
It requires the original Hat Trick.
Make the Right Choice
Make the Right Choice (2016): This connected Hat Trick story follows a character within Simon and Alex’s wider hockey circle who must decide whether fear, loyalty, or honesty will determine his future.
It is supplemental rather than one of the three principal novels.
Read it after Playing the Rebound for adequate series context.
3. Hat Trick 3: Penalty Shot
Penalty Shot (2015): Simon and Alex enter their final year at the University of Michigan as their relationship approaches another major transition.
College hockey, future plans, and the pressure of maintaining a long-term partnership force them to consider what happens when the structure that brought them together ends.
This is the final full-length novel.
Hat Trick Overtime: Reunion
Hat Trick Overtime: Reunion (2015): Simon and Alex return twenty years after becoming boyfriends to honor a retiring coach, remember a lost friend, and revisit the place where their relationship began.
The story gives readers a later view of the couple and their life together.
Read it last, regardless of how an edition numbers the Overtime installments.
Complete Hat Trick Order
- Hat Trick
- Hat Trick Overtime: A Classic Winter’s Night
- Hat Trick Overtime: Summer Camp
- Hat Trick 2: Playing the Rebound
- Make the Right Choice, optional connected story
- Hat Trick 3: Penalty Shot
- Hat Trick Overtime: Reunion
The Hat Trick Complete Collection packages the three principal novels. Readers should check whether a specific edition also includes the Overtime stories before searching for them separately.
Standalone Romance Books
These romances do not require one another. They may be read in any order.
Bicycle Built for Two
Bicycle Built for Two (2011): An experienced cyclist meets a newcomer during a charity ride, allowing an acquaintance to develop into friendship and then romance over the miles they travel together.
The shared physical challenge gives the men time to learn whether their connection can last after the event ends.
This is the earliest currently listed Jeff Adams romance.
Somewhere on Mackinac
Somewhere on Mackinac (2017): A business consultant visiting Mackinac Island becomes involved with a local stable owner in a vacation romance shaped by the island’s slower pace.
Their relationship raises the familiar question of whether a connection created away from ordinary life can survive the return home.
The book originally appeared in the multi-author States of Love project but is fully self-contained.
Summer Heat
Summer Heat (2015): Two graduate students meet during an oppressive heat wave and form an immediate relationship while the unusually intense weather pushes them into close contact.
The story was previously associated with the title Heat Wave: Tuscaloosa.
Current editions use Summer Heat, so readers should avoid counting both titles as separate romances.
Room Service
Room Service (2019): A hotel technology-support worker and front-desk clerk become romantically involved during the holiday season.
Their quick connection develops inside a workplace where both must decide whether an apparently seasonal encounter deserves a future.
This is a short standalone holiday romance.
Their Four Date Experiment
Their Four Date Experiment (2025): A journalist and technology chief executive who approach each other as professional rivals agree to test their compatibility through four public dates.
Their contrasting personalities and career interests make the experiment feel competitive until genuine attraction changes what each man expects to prove.
The novel was co-written with William Gayheart and stands outside Hockey Hearts.
Flipping for Him
Flipping for Him (2015): High-school junior Kevin McCollum meets a potential boyfriend through parkour, but family disapproval makes maintaining the relationship more difficult than beginning it.
The young adult novella combines first love, physical skill, and the pressure created when adults refuse to accept the relationship.
It is not connected to Codename: Winger or Hat Trick.
Other Legacy and Out-of-Print Works
Jeff Adams’s official catalog identifies several earlier works as currently out of print.
A Sound Beginning
A Sound Beginning: Music, attraction, and the beginnings of a relationship come together in an early Jeff Adams romance.
The title is not part of the current On Stage sequence despite its performance-related theme.
Status: Out of print.
Adventures of Jake 1
Adventures of Jake 1 (2012): Jake begins an episodic adult adventure in an early work that stands apart from Jeff Adams’s later hockey, theater, and young adult fiction.
No complete current series sequence is available through the active catalog.
Status: Out of print.
Holiday Hotel Hookup
Holiday Hotel Hookup (2015): San Francisco technology consultant Martin is sent to Dallas shortly before Christmas and meets a man at the hotel where he expects to spend the holiday working.
A business trip becomes an unexpected seasonal connection.
This story is an earlier version or closely related predecessor of the current Room Service catalog entry. Readers should check edition descriptions before purchasing both.
Sweet and Sexy
Sweet and Sexy (2016): This collection brings together shorter romances focused on first meetings, attraction, and relationships that develop from initially intimate connections.
The individual material may overlap with stories sold separately in other editions.
Status: Legacy collection.
Anthologies and Shared-World Contributions
Anthologies should not be counted as new novels when they contain stories later released independently.
Heart2Heart, Volume 4 (2020): A multi-author collection containing a Jeff Adams romance produced for the Heart2Heart project.
Love Is All: Volume 4 (2021): A charity anthology that originally contained The Hockey Player’s Pas de Deux, later published as Skating Back to You.
2014 Top Ten Gay Romance (2015): A collection that includes an earlier Jeff Adams story alongside work by other authors.
2015 Top Ten Gay Romance (2016): A later anthology featuring another selection of notable short romance fiction.
These collections are optional formats. Readers primarily following Jeff Adams’s current bibliography should use the independent editions when available.
Content for Everyone
Content for Everyone (2023): Jeff Adams and Michele Lucchini explain practical ways that authors, podcasters, and other creative entrepreneurs can make websites, email, and social-media content more accessible.
The book covers digital accessibility rather than fiction.
It should be listed separately from Jeff Adams’s romance and young adult titles.
Chronological Order
One universal chronological order does not apply to Jeff Adams’s catalog.
Codename: Winger, Hat Trick, Hockey Hearts, and On Stage occupy different story groups. Similar hockey settings do not make Hat Trick a prequel to Hockey Hearts.
Within Codename: Winger, use strict numbered order.
Within Hat Trick, alternate the main novels with the Overtime stories according to their placement.
Within Hockey Hearts, use the author’s ten-book story order when reading the complete universe.
On Stage is best read as Dancing for Him, Love’s Opening Night, then Skating Back to You.
Complete Current Fiction Reading Order
Readers who want the active, available catalog without the out-of-print Hat Trick material can use this grouped route.
Hockey Hearts
- The Hockey Player’s Heart
- The Hockey Player’s Snow Day
- Rivals
- Head in the Game
- Keeping Kyle
- Taking a Shot at Love
- Checked by His Teammate
- Skating Back to You
- Pride by the Book
- A Very Merry Movie in Pine Ridge
On Stage
- Dancing for Him
- Love’s Opening Night
- Skating Back to You
Codename: Winger
- Tracker Hacker
- A Very Winger Christmas, optional
- Schooled
- Audio Assault
- Netminder
Independent Fiction
- Bicycle Built for Two
- Flipping for Him
- Summer Heat
- Somewhere on Mackinac
- Room Service
- Their Four Date Experiment
The standalone list is arranged broadly by original publication rather than continuity.
Complete Publication Order
Original publication years are used where later reissues have changed the date shown by current retailers.
- Bicycle Built for Two (2011): A charity bicycle ride brings an experienced cyclist and newcomer from acquaintance to romance.
- Adventures of Jake 1 (2012): An early episodic adult story follows Jake outside the author’s later named series.
- Hat Trick (2013): High-school hockey teammates Simon and Alex fall in love and face being outed.
- Hat Trick Overtime: A Classic Winter’s Night (2014): Simon and Alex share a college winter milestone after an outdoor game.
- Hat Trick Overtime: Summer Camp (2014): Hockey camp adds another chapter to the couple’s college years.
- Hat Trick 2: Playing the Rebound (2014): Simon and Alex adjust to new college and relationship pressures.
- Rivals (2014): Former high-school opponents reunite with secret attraction still unresolved.
- Flipping for Him (2015): A high-school parkour athlete confronts family opposition to his new relationship.
- Summer Heat (2015): Two graduate students meet during a heat wave and form an immediate connection.
- Hat Trick 3: Penalty Shot (2015): Simon and Alex approach graduation and another transition.
- Hat Trick Overtime: Reunion (2015): The couple returns to its beginnings twenty years later.
- Holiday Hotel Hookup (2015): A consultant’s Christmas business trip leads to a hotel romance.
- Make the Right Choice (2016): A connected Hat Trick character faces a decision involving identity and honesty.
- Dancing for Him (2016): A television electrician falls for a reality dance contestant.
- Love’s Opening Night (2016): A Broadway dancer and Hollywood star begin a backstage romance.
- Somewhere on Mackinac (2017): A consultant falls for a stable owner during an island visit.
- Tracker Hacker (2017): Teen secret agent Theo Reese begins his first field mission.
- The Hockey Player’s Heart (2018): An injured star reconnects with his hometown teacher crush.
- Schooled (2018): A computer-science competition becomes another dangerous mission for Theo.
- Audio Assault (2018): Hacked music files place Theo’s work and relationship under pressure.
- Netminder (2019): Theo faces a global internet threat in the final Codename: Winger novel.
- Head in the Game (2019): A hockey player and graduate student cross workplace boundaries.
- Room Service (2019): Two hotel employees form a quick holiday connection.
- Keeping Kyle (2020): A bachelor auction pairs a hockey player with a technology executive.
- The Hockey Player’s Snow Day (2021): A snowstorm traps a player with a romance novelist.
- Taking a Shot at Love (2024): Friends on rival hockey teams reconsider their relationship.
- Checked by His Teammate (2025): Teammates sharing one bed reveal a hidden attraction.
- Skating Back to You (2025): A hockey player and ballet dancer try to overcome distance.
- Pride by the Book (2025): A player and librarian meet during a small-town Pride festival.
- Their Four Date Experiment (2025): A journalist and technology executive test their attraction through four dates.
- A Very Merry Movie in Pine Ridge (2025): A hockey star clashes with the director filming a Christmas movie in his hometown.
Some older short stories and anthology appearances overlap with later independent editions. A publication list should not count the same story twice merely because it received a new title or format.
Latest Jeff Adams Book
As of August 4, 2026, Jeff Adams’s latest confirmed release is A Very Merry Movie in Pine Ridge.
A Very Merry Movie in Pine Ridge (2025): Hockey player August Reeve and film director Landon Winslow fall for each other while working on a summer production designed to look like a winter holiday movie.
The book was published in December 2025 and follows shortly after Pride by the Book in the Hockey Hearts timeline.
No later Jeff Adams title has a stable official release date as of this update.
Frequently Asked Questions
What was Jeff Adams’s first book?
Bicycle Built for Two (2011): A charity cycling event gives two men enough time together to move from acquaintances to friends and then lovers.
It is the earliest book in his currently listed romance catalog.
What is the best Jeff Adams book to start with?
The Hockey Player’s Heart is the best starting point for the complete Hockey Hearts universe.
Tracker Hacker is the correct starting point for young adult thriller readers. Their Four Date Experiment is the easiest independent contemporary romance.
Do the Hockey Hearts books need to be read in order?
No. Every book has a different couple and its own romantic ending.
The author’s story order remains preferable for recurring hockey connections and the transition from Pride by the Book into A Very Merry Movie in Pine Ridge.
What is the correct Hockey Hearts order?
Read The Hockey Player’s Heart, The Hockey Player’s Snow Day, Rivals, Head in the Game, Keeping Kyle, Taking a Shot at Love, Checked by His Teammate, Skating Back to You, Pride by the Book, and A Very Merry Movie in Pine Ridge.
This combines three subseries into one story timeline.
Is Skating Back to You part of two series?
Yes.
It is one of the five principal Hockey Hearts books and the third story in the optimal On Stage sequence.
Is The Hockey Player’s Pas de Deux a separate book?
No. It is the earlier anthology title of the story now published as Skating Back to You.
Readers should not count both as separate romances.
Is Summer Heat the same as Heat Wave: Tuscaloosa?
They represent the same central story under different publication titles or editions.
The current official catalog uses Summer Heat.
Is Room Service the same as Holiday Hotel Hookup?
The titles are closely related in premise and edition history. Readers should compare the edition descriptions before purchasing both.
The current official bibliography lists Room Service as the active standalone holiday romance.
Do the Codename: Winger books need to be read in order?
Yes.
All four novels follow Theo Reese through one developing series of missions, relationships, and agency conflicts.
Where does A Very Winger Christmas fit?
Read it after Tracker Hacker and before Schooled.
It is optional bonus material rather than one of the four numbered novels.
Is Codename: Winger a romance series?
It includes Theo’s queer identity and relationship, but its primary structure is a young adult cyber thriller.
Missions, hacking, espionage, family danger, and hockey all form important parts of the story.
Do the Hat Trick books follow the same couple?
Yes.
Simon and Alex remain central from their high-school romance through college and the later reunion story.
Are the Hat Trick books still available?
The author currently lists the Hat Trick series as out of print.
Libraries and used-book sellers may still have copies, but new digital and print editions are not part of the active catalog.
Can the On Stage books be read separately?
Yes. Each book has a different couple.
The optimal order is Dancing for Him, Love’s Opening Night, and Skating Back to You.
Is Keeping Kyle part of another series?
Yes.
It belongs to Hockey Hearts and was originally published as part of the multi-author Hockey Allies Bachelor Bid project.
No other Hockey Allies book is required to understand Kyle and Austin’s romance.
Is Pride by the Book part of Love in Maplewood?
Yes.
It is Jeff Adams’s contribution to the multi-author Love in Maplewood series. Each author’s book follows a separate couple during a different town festival.
Does A Very Merry Movie in Pine Ridge follow Pride by the Book?
Yes. It takes place only weeks later and builds on the announcement of a movie project made in the earlier book.
Reading Pride by the Book first provides the clearest Pine Ridge setup.
Does Jeff Adams write nonfiction?
Yes.
Content for Everyone, co-written with Michele Lucchini, is a practical guide to digital accessibility for creative entrepreneurs.
What is Jeff Adams’s latest book?
The latest confirmed release is A Very Merry Movie in Pine Ridge, published in December 2025.
No newer book had an officially confirmed publication date as of August 4, 2026.
Conclusion
Jeff Adams’s catalog offers three different levels of reading commitment.
For a flexible hockey universe with a different couple in every book, begin with The Hockey Player’s Heart. For a continuous young adult thriller, begin with Tracker Hacker and read all four Codename: Winger novels in order. For the legacy story of one hockey couple, begin Hat Trick with Simon and Alex’s first novel, although the series is currently out of print.
The clearest current route is the ten-book Hockey Hearts timeline. It preserves recurring connections, places the shorter stories correctly, and ends with Pride by the Book followed by A Very Merry Movie in Pine Ridge.
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