Blocking the Chaos

He's a professional hockey player.
She experiences sensory overload at sporting events.
They've each been secretly in love with the other for years.
Can these two go from friends to lovers in this new fade-to-black sports romance?

Austin Jacobs is in the twilight of his professional hockey career when his life gets flipped upside down twice in two months. His shock at discovering he's the father to a precocious two-year-old girl hasn't subsided when he's drafted by the Kansas City Chaos expansion hockey team halfway across the country. The good news is Kansas City is not only home to Austin's sister and niece, but also his three lifelong best friends, one of whom he's been secretly in love with for half his life.

Amber Hamilton has loved Austin Jacobs for more than a decade. The problem? For most of her life, her undiagnosed Sensory Processing Disorder meant her nervous system couldn't handle the chaos of a hockey game or a nomadic hockey lifestyle. Over the years, she's built a comfortable life surrounded by close family and friends in Kansas City. She enjoys her job, she's writing a novel, and she's in therapy following her diagnosis. But something is missing. Austin is missing.

Can these lifelong friends take their relationship to the next level, or will the combination of Austin's hockey career, his new role as parent to a toddler, and Amber's SPD prevent them from becoming a family? Find out in this new hockey romance!

Blocking the Chaos is a fade-to-black sports romance with the following tropes: childhood friends, friends to lovers, last to know, secret child, single dad, neurodivergent heroine, best friend's sister, brother's best friend, blended family, and a guaranteed happily ever after. This low-heat, closed-door romance book does NOT include explicit scenes.

Trigger warnings: This book contains references to child abandonment, foster care, death of a young child's parent, and a destructive storm.

The KC Crew Sports Romance series features the children of the characters in author Dana Wilkerson's Throwback RomComs series. Amber is the daughter of Ash and Leslie Hamilton from More Than Pen Pals, and Austin is the son of Bobby and Melissa Jacobs from Truth or More Truth.