If you just heard the name, the Icebreaker book is Hannah Grace's 2022 campus romance - a figure skater and a hockey captain forced to share one rink - and it's about to be a Netflix series, which is why your feed is full of it again. It's also the front door to a three-book world: the Maple Hills series, one friend group, three couples, three very different flavors of falling. Here's the order, what each book actually is, and what the show changes.
The quick list: Maple Hills books in order
Hannah Grace's Maple Hills series, in publication order:
- Icebreaker (2022) - Anastasia and Nate, the rink share
- Wildfire (2023) - Russ and Aurora, one summer camp
- Daydream (2024) - Henry and Halle, the quiet ones
All three run on the same rule: new couple, complete story, happy ending. The friend group carries over, so reading in order just means the cameos and running jokes land the way they were written.
What is Icebreaker actually about?
A competitive figure skater loses her rink time to the hockey team - and gains a captain who will not leave her alone. Anastasia Allen has Olympic plans and zero interest in Nathan Hawkins, who turns out to be less of an obstacle and more of a golden retriever boyfriend with a C on his jersey. One shared arena and one housing disaster later, it's the purest forced proximity setup on BookTok - which is exactly how it spent over a year on the bestseller lists and became the on-ramp of the whole hockey romance shelf.
Do you need to read Maple Hills in order?
No - each book stands alone. Wildfire leaves the rink entirely (Russ and Aurora meet as summer-camp counselors, away from campus), and Daydream hands the mic to the group's bookish pair. If you're here from the show news, start with Icebreaker itself; if you already know you prefer softer, slower stories, Daydream reads beautifully on its own. The Goodreads series page tracks editions and the box set if you want all three at once.
Is the Icebreaker Netflix show happening?
Yes - greenlit, no date yet. Netflix announced the series adaptation in June 2026, with Alex Cooper and Matt Kaplan's Unwell Productions producing, Amanda Lasher as showrunner, and Jade Bartlett writing (Deadline has the details). Filming is reported to kick off in October 2026, though no casting or premiere date has been announced - which means right now is the window where the books are still ahead of everyone who'll arrive with the trailer. We'll update this guide as dates land - the same wave that's currently carrying Heated Rivalry shows exactly how big a hockey adaptation can hit.
What to read after Maple Hills
If it's the ice you'll miss, the best hockey romance books list has nine more - and the wider sports romance shelf covers every other jersey. If it's the campus warmth, The Deal (also newly adapted) lives on the same shelf - the Off Campus reading order maps that whole universe. And if you want the saga version of this feeling, the reading-order rabbit holes are mapped: Heated Rivalry for rivals, Boys of Tommen for the Irish rugby version headed to Prime Video, Ali Hazelwood's backlist for STEM banter.
And if the specific craving is Maple Hills-shaped - the loud, warm man who decides you're his favorite person and never wavers - that gap is the whole reason Swoony exists: romance and nothing else, closed-door and unhurried, a relationship that grows across five stages and is never paywalled - no subscription, no per-message tolls. Start with the grumpy hockey captain, useless the second you smile, or the roommate you swore you'd hate, for the housing-disaster meet cute.
Three couples, one friend group, zero sad endings. Lace up.
