The Blade Kings

By Ruth Stilling
5 Books
The Blade Kings delivers gritty hockey romance where past mistakes and guarded hearts finally crack open. A rookie’s fake dating plan backfires into real feelings he can’t hide. The team captain who swore off love finds the one person who makes him want more. A bad-boy forward fights his reputation to prove he’s worth the risk to the woman he broke once. Redemption, second chances, and the kind of love that hits harder than a check. Emotional and addictive.

Books in This Series

Perfect Deke (The Blade Kings #1)

By Ruth Stilling
Sport
How to complicate your rookie season in the NHL: fake date your former college rival and now teammate’s ex-girlfriend.It’s a bad idea, and I know it, especially since Kendra Hart has had a hold over me since our freshman year of college. She has no idea how I feel, and I have zero control over my mouth when her life ...
Book 1 • 2025 8.0K
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Total Shutdown (The Blade Kings #2)

By Ruth Stilling
Sport
The plan was simple: just me, my boy and hockey.I’m the unapproachable NHL captain with a reputation for chewing up reporters in interviews, forwards on the ice and shutting down anyone who tries to get close to me. And that’s how I like it—no feelings, no complications, and zero chance of reliving the grief I exper...
Book 2 • 2025 5.0K
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Shots Fired (The Blade Kings #3)

By Ruth Stilling
Romance
Darcy, Darcy, Darcy.The name I should have wiped from my mind nearly two years ago.Her brother, and my assistant captain, has repeatedly warned she’s off-limits to a guy like me—a playboy bound to bed her one night and break her heart the next morning—an opinion shared by her stepdad, who also happens to be my coach...
Book 3 • 2025 1.0K
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Full Tilt (The Blade Kings #4)

By Ruth Stilling
Sport
Once bitten, twice shy … The mantra I live by so no one can hurt me in the same way my parents did.I’m Tommy Schneider, the most feared player in the NHL with a last name to match my bad boy reputation. Only, I’m the better, stronger, faster version of my estranged dad.Everything in my life I control with expert pre...
Book 4 • 2025 5.0K
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Within Range (The Blade Kings #5)

By Ruth Stilling
Romance
Fresh out of a failed marriage and with an old injury threatening to resurface, I only have one priority right now: rebuild my life both in and out of the rink.At thirty-five, I know it won’t be easy, but hockey is all I have, and cutting my pro career short is not an option that I’m willing to take.Feeling down on m...
Book 5 • 2026 1.0K
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