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Love and Hockey #6
Goal Line Hearts
Grant and Heather's book. A single mom/goalie, grumpy/sunshine romance.
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509 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 30, 2026
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February 1, 2026
This might be my favorite book of the series!!!!! Goalies are just built different! I'm so sad this series is over. I absolutely loved every one! The nicknames were a little ridiculous but it didn't take away my love for the books! this series is so underrated I don't know why more people don't talk about it!!
February 7, 2026
finally gets a HEA!
Grant! Big ol broody goalie whose whole life was only the game. But when she walked into his life with a problem for herself and her daughter, he opened it right up for them. Oh I loved his story and seeing him find more than the game!
Grant! Big ol broody goalie whose whole life was only the game. But when she walked into his life with a problem for herself and her daughter, he opened it right up for them. Oh I loved his story and seeing him find more than the game!
February 2, 2026
✨Summary✨
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️.75
HEA: Yes, no 3rd act breakup
POV: dual
Tropes: Hockey Goalie, Single Mom, Forced Proximity, Grumpy/Sunshine, Accidental Pregnancy, Protective MMC, DV Survivor FMC
Heather Lucas is a single mom just trying to make a home in a new city near her sister Margot (from Offside Hearts). When her housing falls through, she’s left scrambling for a backup plan. Grant Parker, a grumpy, antisocial goalie, barely even thinks twice about offering Heather and her daughter, April, a place to stay. With Heather and April living with him, the strict routine Grant adheres to starts to crumble…and he’s not even mad about it. His walls come down as he slowly falls for both of them. But Heather has a lot of emotional baggage to work through before she can fully let herself trust and love again. Together, the icy goalie and the wary single mom build something beautiful, working through the bumps in the road as they go.
I knew that when Grant fell, he would fall hard. The man who pretty much only grunted in previous books was suddenly rearranging his entire life for Heather without hesitation. The way he treated Heather and April was incredibly sweet and patient. He consistently showed them that he truly saw them and cared in a thousand small ways. I absolutely melted when he learned how to sew just to mend April’s constant holes from being an energetic nine-year-old, simply to ease some of Heather’s burdens.
Heather is a survivor of an abusive relationship with April’s father. She escaped and worked hard to create a better life for herself and her daughter, and she’s done a good job at it. If abuse is a trigger for you, it’s important to note that this storyline is present, and the ex does reappear toward the end of the book.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book and struggled to find much wrong with it. The writing and characters were solid. I think this is the last book in the series and if this is the final book in the series, it was a satisfying ending!
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️.75
HEA: Yes, no 3rd act breakup
POV: dual
Tropes: Hockey Goalie, Single Mom, Forced Proximity, Grumpy/Sunshine, Accidental Pregnancy, Protective MMC, DV Survivor FMC
Heather Lucas is a single mom just trying to make a home in a new city near her sister Margot (from Offside Hearts). When her housing falls through, she’s left scrambling for a backup plan. Grant Parker, a grumpy, antisocial goalie, barely even thinks twice about offering Heather and her daughter, April, a place to stay. With Heather and April living with him, the strict routine Grant adheres to starts to crumble…and he’s not even mad about it. His walls come down as he slowly falls for both of them. But Heather has a lot of emotional baggage to work through before she can fully let herself trust and love again. Together, the icy goalie and the wary single mom build something beautiful, working through the bumps in the road as they go.
I knew that when Grant fell, he would fall hard. The man who pretty much only grunted in previous books was suddenly rearranging his entire life for Heather without hesitation. The way he treated Heather and April was incredibly sweet and patient. He consistently showed them that he truly saw them and cared in a thousand small ways. I absolutely melted when he learned how to sew just to mend April’s constant holes from being an energetic nine-year-old, simply to ease some of Heather’s burdens.
Heather is a survivor of an abusive relationship with April’s father. She escaped and worked hard to create a better life for herself and her daughter, and she’s done a good job at it. If abuse is a trigger for you, it’s important to note that this storyline is present, and the ex does reappear toward the end of the book.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book and struggled to find much wrong with it. The writing and characters were solid. I think this is the last book in the series and if this is the final book in the series, it was a satisfying ending!
February 1, 2026
We finally get to learn more about Grant!
I have really been looking forward to Grants story, he has always been a bit of an enigma in the other books of the series which has intrigued me to the sort of man he would be when he finally found his true love and he didn't disappoint.
Dedicated, passionate and adorable.
He had to wait for all his team mates to get their HEA before it was his turn but it was worth the wait.
I have really been looking forward to Grants story, he has always been a bit of an enigma in the other books of the series which has intrigued me to the sort of man he would be when he finally found his true love and he didn't disappoint.
Dedicated, passionate and adorable.
He had to wait for all his team mates to get their HEA before it was his turn but it was worth the wait.
Review of advance copy received from Author
This book was enjoyable. The characters were brilliantly written, and I loved how they were written and developed during the book. The plot was easy to read, and I was absolutely hooked from the first page. I loved the connection that Heather and Grant had how they interacted throughout the book.
Review of advance copy received from Author
my favorite hockey position!!! Grumpy Goalie with a heart of gold!!!
I love the writing style of this author. you can really feel the anxiety each of these characters feels. Just the right amount of spice and plot.
I definitely need to go back and reread the rest of this series. sooo good!
I love the writing style of this author. you can really feel the anxiety each of these characters feels. Just the right amount of spice and plot.
I definitely need to go back and reread the rest of this series. sooo good!
February 5, 2026
i have read a few other books by this author since this book is part of the love and hockey series and i have read all of the prior books. i enjoyed most of the stories about each couple, though some were definitely better than others. this is a sports hockey romance packed with a lot of spice once the couple gets together. there are grumpy/ sunshine and secret romance tropes.
when this one was announced i was excited because i was interested in learning more about Grant, the stoicly grumpy goalie and almost ocd with such structured routines and Heather, Margo's sister and single mom. we met them both in earlier books as minor role background characters. Heather decided to move to Denver to be closer to her sister Margo, who is now married to Noah and pregnant (this couple was introduced in the first book), with her young daughter April who esctatic since she is a huge hockey fan and will now get to watch her uncle and his team play more often. when the plans for the place she is expecting to move into fall through, Heather freaks out, and Grant offers to let them stay with him. this shocks his entire team since Grant rarely even socializes with them, so to move an almost stranger and her kid in with him was totally uncharacteristic of him and right away it was obvious that he cared about her, especially when he starts deviating from his structured lifestyle just to spend time with Heather.
they both are drawn to each other right away, despite his structured stoic grumpiness and her guarded i have been hurt in the past and also do what is best for my daughter behavior. so at first they awkwardly try to supress any thoughts or feelings for each other, but then they cross a major line and there is really no denying it after that. once they do, it is obvious that they are clearly both interested in more than just some fun with each other, but decide to keep things between the two of them rather than tell her daughter and his teammates. i get why they did not want to tell everyone right away, but honestly Heather did not have anything to worry about because Grant was so good with April and definitely proved how much he loved them and would do whatever it took to protect them from April's father when he conveniently resurfaced right after Grant and Heather went public with their relationship.
once again there is cheesiness with the nicknames, dirty talk, ahole obsessions, and exaggerations of size that is a little unbelievable. while i get that these guys are muscular athletes, i find it hard to believe that every single muscle on each guy on this team are the largest any of their girls have ever seen and that all of the couples have basically the same relationship in private like cut and paste. i guess if you like those moments in one book, you like them in all of them, and if you find them to be repetitive or cheesy, likewise.
while there is some drama towards the end of the book as there always seems to be in romance books that usually temporarily breaks up the happy couple to get in the way of their HEA until they realize they cannot live without each other, thankfully that did not happen in this book and instead of leaving, Heather allows Grant to help her deal with her problems with her ex. so at least they do not break up, the drama gets resolved fairly quickly, the HEA does come sooner than later, and they even get an unexpected surprise (a good one). i was glad the epilogue moved forward to give more of a look on that part so we got to see their future and watch things happily progress with their family. this was probably one of my favorite couples/ stories/ books out of the whole series. i have heard it is supposedly the last book of the series, so if it is, i can say i enjoyed it and overall it was pretty good.
when this one was announced i was excited because i was interested in learning more about Grant, the stoicly grumpy goalie and almost ocd with such structured routines and Heather, Margo's sister and single mom. we met them both in earlier books as minor role background characters. Heather decided to move to Denver to be closer to her sister Margo, who is now married to Noah and pregnant (this couple was introduced in the first book), with her young daughter April who esctatic since she is a huge hockey fan and will now get to watch her uncle and his team play more often. when the plans for the place she is expecting to move into fall through, Heather freaks out, and Grant offers to let them stay with him. this shocks his entire team since Grant rarely even socializes with them, so to move an almost stranger and her kid in with him was totally uncharacteristic of him and right away it was obvious that he cared about her, especially when he starts deviating from his structured lifestyle just to spend time with Heather.
they both are drawn to each other right away, despite his structured stoic grumpiness and her guarded i have been hurt in the past and also do what is best for my daughter behavior. so at first they awkwardly try to supress any thoughts or feelings for each other, but then they cross a major line and there is really no denying it after that. once they do, it is obvious that they are clearly both interested in more than just some fun with each other, but decide to keep things between the two of them rather than tell her daughter and his teammates. i get why they did not want to tell everyone right away, but honestly Heather did not have anything to worry about because Grant was so good with April and definitely proved how much he loved them and would do whatever it took to protect them from April's father when he conveniently resurfaced right after Grant and Heather went public with their relationship.
once again there is cheesiness with the nicknames, dirty talk, ahole obsessions, and exaggerations of size that is a little unbelievable. while i get that these guys are muscular athletes, i find it hard to believe that every single muscle on each guy on this team are the largest any of their girls have ever seen and that all of the couples have basically the same relationship in private like cut and paste. i guess if you like those moments in one book, you like them in all of them, and if you find them to be repetitive or cheesy, likewise.
while there is some drama towards the end of the book as there always seems to be in romance books that usually temporarily breaks up the happy couple to get in the way of their HEA until they realize they cannot live without each other, thankfully that did not happen in this book and instead of leaving, Heather allows Grant to help her deal with her problems with her ex. so at least they do not break up, the drama gets resolved fairly quickly, the HEA does come sooner than later, and they even get an unexpected surprise (a good one). i was glad the epilogue moved forward to give more of a look on that part so we got to see their future and watch things happily progress with their family. this was probably one of my favorite couples/ stories/ books out of the whole series. i have heard it is supposedly the last book of the series, so if it is, i can say i enjoyed it and overall it was pretty good.
February 5, 2026
I was looking forward to the quiet, stern goalie book and was so disappointed. Not in the storyline but more in the writing.
This was way too long with some parts overly drawn out in details. The beginning jumped in quick but had nice tension but then it became hard to keep interested. Like we get it - he only cares about hockey and she thinks she’s a chaotic, bad mom. It didn’t have to be repeated every chapter.
There were several small consistencies where one sentence had a character doing something and the next paragraph they were doing something else that would have been impossible or just didn’t make sense.
I also wanted to see Margo and Heather interact more and know more about Heather running with no help from her family.
This was way too long with some parts overly drawn out in details. The beginning jumped in quick but had nice tension but then it became hard to keep interested. Like we get it - he only cares about hockey and she thinks she’s a chaotic, bad mom. It didn’t have to be repeated every chapter.
There were several small consistencies where one sentence had a character doing something and the next paragraph they were doing something else that would have been impossible or just didn’t make sense.
I also wanted to see Margo and Heather interact more and know more about Heather running with no help from her family.
February 8, 2026
it wasn't my favorite of the series, but once it got going, I enjoyed it thoroughly. I'm a bit bummed because it took place prior to the events of the Christmas story with Asher Vaughn. But Nikki was telling us that these two were endgame starting in Offside Hearts, you just had to look to see it.
Grant Parker was very intense and when he sets his mind to something, he follows through. There wasn't a 3rd act break up, but there was a 3rd act panic where history caught up to them. I enjoyed this story and these two got their well-deserved happily ever after. Definitely give this one a read, it was a lot of fun.
rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️.5 (*cheers for the sauna*)
Grant Parker was very intense and when he sets his mind to something, he follows through. There wasn't a 3rd act break up, but there was a 3rd act panic where history caught up to them. I enjoyed this story and these two got their well-deserved happily ever after. Definitely give this one a read, it was a lot of fun.
rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️.5 (*cheers for the sauna*)
January 31, 2026
Best book of the series
Love the chemistry between Grant & Heather. And how they learn together how to let other people in their lives.
A happy feel good story with some minor but real life drama in it.
I've read the whole series, and often with series like these, it's more of the same but with different MC's. But Nikki managed to create different stories, that didn't feel like a repeat of the previous books.
Love the chemistry between Grant & Heather. And how they learn together how to let other people in their lives.
A happy feel good story with some minor but real life drama in it.
I've read the whole series, and often with series like these, it's more of the same but with different MC's. But Nikki managed to create different stories, that didn't feel like a repeat of the previous books.
February 1, 2026
so freaking good!
This is such an incredible story. I’ve been waiting for it to come out and it was worth the wait. The character background and chemistry was perfect and I absolutely loved every moment. I needed this to end the series but i don’t think this will ever be enough! I want so much more from this series. One of my favorite series to date. Read it, all of it.
This is such an incredible story. I’ve been waiting for it to come out and it was worth the wait. The character background and chemistry was perfect and I absolutely loved every moment. I needed this to end the series but i don’t think this will ever be enough! I want so much more from this series. One of my favorite series to date. Read it, all of it.
February 4, 2026
Everything i waited for
Like most fans of the series, I had already shipped grant and heather from the end of offsite hearts. Reading their story and watching how they develop their relationship was everything. Understanding why grant was always so grumpy and heather teaching him there's more to life than hockey made me smile. And I wish there was more to come with this series. Maybe a next gen with sawyer's son and april??
Like most fans of the series, I had already shipped grant and heather from the end of offsite hearts. Reading their story and watching how they develop their relationship was everything. Understanding why grant was always so grumpy and heather teaching him there's more to life than hockey made me smile. And I wish there was more to come with this series. Maybe a next gen with sawyer's son and april??
February 4, 2026
Grant and Heather's story is just adorable. Grumpy hockey goalie and single mom, both who we got to know through the other books first. I feel like it was such a different take on these tropes, and I love Nikki's writing style so much. Can't wait to see what she writes next!
And if you started with this book, be sure to go back and read the rest of the Love and Hockey series - they're such great reads!
And if you started with this book, be sure to go back and read the rest of the Love and Hockey series - they're such great reads!
February 7, 2026
4⭐️3 🌶️
Grumpy goalie
Single mom that ran from abusive relationship
She’s his captains SIL (Margo’s sister)
9 yo girl big hockey fan
She works at a women’s shelter
Her housing falls through and he volunteers to let them stay
He lives by his routine but they’re changing him
Nights in the sauna
Conversations over meals
He sewed the girls shirt
He sings karaoke for her
It starts just physical
Her ex threatens to take custody
Grumpy goalie
Single mom that ran from abusive relationship
She’s his captains SIL (Margo’s sister)
9 yo girl big hockey fan
She works at a women’s shelter
Her housing falls through and he volunteers to let them stay
He lives by his routine but they’re changing him
Nights in the sauna
Conversations over meals
He sewed the girls shirt
He sings karaoke for her
It starts just physical
Her ex threatens to take custody
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 4, 2026
Why is it the grumpy goalie who always wins my heart!
Goodness I think this was by far the best book in the whole series and I’m so sad that it’s over!
Grant was everything that Heather needed! The way that this slowly built over time made it so much better. And his relationship with April! My heart!!!
Goodness I think this was by far the best book in the whole series and I’m so sad that it’s over!
Grant was everything that Heather needed! The way that this slowly built over time made it so much better. And his relationship with April! My heart!!!
February 7, 2026
Heather & Grant
6’7 goalie and a single mom? Sold! But really this story was full of hard moments, but also the undying support from Grant. He never wavered in providing Heather and April what they needed and filling the home with love for them. They were a true partnership and it was a great read!
6’7 goalie and a single mom? Sold! But really this story was full of hard moments, but also the undying support from Grant. He never wavered in providing Heather and April what they needed and filling the home with love for them. They were a true partnership and it was a great read!
February 2, 2026
Love it
Series is all done now..
Loved how Grant finally got his book...
Loved this whole series..
Highly recommend..
Unsure if this is the last in series. But hopefully author writes more books, as I quite enjoy her writing..
Series is all done now..
Loved how Grant finally got his book...
Loved this whole series..
Highly recommend..
Unsure if this is the last in series. But hopefully author writes more books, as I quite enjoy her writing..
February 3, 2026
I’d say 3.5 stars but I rounded up. The base of the story was there and was good. I just felt like some things weren’t realistic or could have been fleshed out a bit better. But overall I did enjoy the story. Heather and Grant were sweet together.
February 4, 2026
This book. . . I needed tissue.
Grant is all things right in the goalie world. Eats, sleeps, breaths, and scheduled every minute around his hockey routine.
Until Heather and April rock his world.
P.S . . .I need a sauna to see what all the hype is about after what they did. Yes please!!!
Grant is all things right in the goalie world. Eats, sleeps, breaths, and scheduled every minute around his hockey routine.
Until Heather and April rock his world.
P.S . . .I need a sauna to see what all the hype is about after what they did. Yes please!!!
Review of advance copy received from Author
Beta reader. Sad the series is coming to an end. This is such a sweet story.
February 1, 2026
toch wel een toppertje uit de reeke
February 2, 2026
4.5
I LOVEEEED THIS, Grant is soo cute and deserves the whole world 🤍🤍 I loved them
I LOVEEEED THIS, Grant is soo cute and deserves the whole world 🤍🤍 I loved them
February 5, 2026
Overall I enjoy this series but this is not my favorite novel in it. Easy read, happily ever after and no third act break up! The character with emotional trauma was so well written and I hope that it helps people understand that leaving an abusive relationship is not simple and doesn’t mean that it’s done.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 4, 2026
Grant and Heather’s story was so sweet. I loved the development of both of them throughout the story.
February 4, 2026
Cute story
I wasn't expecting Grant to be a golden retriever! He was so sweet and just wanted to take care of her! Very cute story. I have loved this series!
I wasn't expecting Grant to be a golden retriever! He was so sweet and just wanted to take care of her! Very cute story. I have loved this series!
February 5, 2026
Nikki has done it again! I have been waiting to read this story and it definitely didn’t disappoint! Grant and Heather are amazing characters and I can’t get enough!
February 6, 2026
Ok, Grant Freaking Parker! I believe this one has been my fave of the series.
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