India, Dec. 30 -- The world, as we knew it, changed when Heated Rivalry, Crave's steamy queer hockey romance TV series, premiered on 28 November 2025. While many fans thanked their stars for getting to witness Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander's love story come alive on screen, the real MVP here is Rachel Reid, the author of Heated Rivalry (2019) and five other books in the Game Changers series.

Game Changers is a popular queer YA romance series containing six novels and two short stories. The hit TV show is adapted from book two of this series, which heavily features the enemies-to-lovers trope. So, if you're left with a hockey puck-sized hole in your heart after watching the finale of the six-episode series, you can dive right back into...