Iced Out
C. E. Ricci's Iced Out is a dark contemporary romance set in the high pressure world of American collegiate hockey, where rink rivalries and locker room politics provide the backdrop for a possessive, all consuming love story. Ricci pairs a brooding, top tier hockey player with a heroine who initially wants nothing to do with him and gradually finds herself drawn into the secrets of his on ice life and the family obligations behind it. The novel leans into the iciest end of the dark romance subgenre, with morally gray choices, an obsessive hero whose love language often resembles control, and on the page heat that makes no apology for its intensity. Ricci paces the book around the rhythm of a hockey season, building tension through games, rivalries, and quiet moments at the boards, and threads in friendship dynamics with the hero's teammates that hint at later books in the wider Iced Out universe. Readers who enjoyed Sav R. Miller, H. D. Carlton, or Penelope Douglas will find familiar dark romance pleasures here.
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A young woman in over her head with very dangerous people crosses paths with a Boston hockey enforcer whose family is in deeper than he likes. He decides to keep her, in his way, whether she wants it or not.
Yes. Iced Out is an explicit dark hockey romance, around 4 to 5 out of 5 on the spice scale. It is part of C.E. Ricci's connected hockey romance world and includes stalker romance themes.
Yes. Iced Out is an explicit dark hockey romance, around 4 to 5 out of 5 on the spice scale. It is part of C.E. Ricci's connected hockey romance world and includes stalker romance themes.
Yes. Iced Out is part of C.E. Ricci's Wynton University series, a connected dark hockey romance series with overlapping characters across books.
Iced Out was written by C.E. Ricci.
Iced Out is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.