"two of the biggest stars in major league hockey, bound by ambition, rivalry and a magnetic pull neither of them fully understands, per the show description. Over the next eight years, the pair chase glory on the ice while struggling to navigate their feelings off it. Torn between the sport they live for and the love they can't ignore, Shane and Ilya must decide if there is room in their fiercely competitive world for something as fragile and as powerful as real love."
"Hockey romance is a powerful subgenre in the greater romance ecosystem. It exists comfortably alongside romantasy, historical romance, and thinly veiled fic about Kylo Ren. According to Reid, Heated Rivalry is lightly based on the rivalry between Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin. But I was also inspired by other sports rivalries, by other fictional stories, and by my love of the enemies-to-lovers and forbidden romance tropes, she wrote in her website's F.A.Q."
Heated Rivalry adapts Rachel Reid's Game Changers novels into an eight-year enemy-to-lovers television drama created by Jacob Tierney. The story follows major league stars Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) as they chase on-ice glory while navigating growing romantic feelings. The series will stream on HBO Max in the U.S. and Australia and air on Crave in Canada, premiering November 28. The show draws light inspiration from the Sidney Crosby–Alex Ovechkin rivalry and broader sports rivalries, blending queer romance tropes with the hockey-romance subgenre popular on BookTok.
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