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Blocking the Chaos: A Single Dad Hockey Romance
He’s a professional hockey player.
She experiences sensory overload at sporting events.
They’ve both been secretly in love with each other for years.
Can these two go from friends to lovers in this new fade-to-black sports romance?
Austin Jacobs is in the twilight of his professional hockey career when his life gets flipped upside down twice in two months. His shock at discovering he’s the father to a precocious two-year-old girl hasn’t subsided when he’s drafted by the Kansas City Chaos expansion hockey team halfway across the country. The good news is Kansas City is not only home to Austin’s sister and niece, but also his three childhood best friends, one of whom he’s been secretly in love with for half his life.
Amber Hamilton has loved Austin Jacobs for more than a decade. The problem? For most of her life, her undiagnosed Sensory Processing Disorder meant her nervous system couldn’t handle the chaos of a hockey game or a nomadic hockey lifestyle. Over the years, she’s built a comfortable life surrounded by close family and friends in Kansas City. She enjoys her job, she’s writing a novel, and she’s in therapy following her diagnosis. But something is missing. Austin is missing.
Can these lifelong friends take their relationship to the next level, or will the combination of Austin’s hockey career, his new role as parent to a toddler, and Amber’s SPD prevent them from becoming a family? Find out in this new neurodivergent hockey romance!
Blocking the Chaos is a fade-to-black sports romance with the following childhood friends, friends to lovers, last to know, secret child, single dad, neurodivergent heroine, best friend’s sister, brother’s best friend, blended family, and a guaranteed happily ever after. This romance book does NOT include explicit scenes.
The KC Crew Sports Romance series features the children of the characters in author Dana Wilkerson’s Throwback RomComs series. Amber is the daughter of Ash and Leslie Hamilton from More Than Pen Pals, and Austin is the son of Bobby and Melissa Jacobs from Truth or More Truth.
She experiences sensory overload at sporting events.
They’ve both been secretly in love with each other for years.
Can these two go from friends to lovers in this new fade-to-black sports romance?
Austin Jacobs is in the twilight of his professional hockey career when his life gets flipped upside down twice in two months. His shock at discovering he’s the father to a precocious two-year-old girl hasn’t subsided when he’s drafted by the Kansas City Chaos expansion hockey team halfway across the country. The good news is Kansas City is not only home to Austin’s sister and niece, but also his three childhood best friends, one of whom he’s been secretly in love with for half his life.
Amber Hamilton has loved Austin Jacobs for more than a decade. The problem? For most of her life, her undiagnosed Sensory Processing Disorder meant her nervous system couldn’t handle the chaos of a hockey game or a nomadic hockey lifestyle. Over the years, she’s built a comfortable life surrounded by close family and friends in Kansas City. She enjoys her job, she’s writing a novel, and she’s in therapy following her diagnosis. But something is missing. Austin is missing.
Can these lifelong friends take their relationship to the next level, or will the combination of Austin’s hockey career, his new role as parent to a toddler, and Amber’s SPD prevent them from becoming a family? Find out in this new neurodivergent hockey romance!
Blocking the Chaos is a fade-to-black sports romance with the following childhood friends, friends to lovers, last to know, secret child, single dad, neurodivergent heroine, best friend’s sister, brother’s best friend, blended family, and a guaranteed happily ever after. This romance book does NOT include explicit scenes.
The KC Crew Sports Romance series features the children of the characters in author Dana Wilkerson’s Throwback RomComs series. Amber is the daughter of Ash and Leslie Hamilton from More Than Pen Pals, and Austin is the son of Bobby and Melissa Jacobs from Truth or More Truth.
- GenresSports
330 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 28, 2025
About the author
Dana Wilkerson
14 books22 followersDana Wilkerson is the author of the Throwback RomComs series. She has been a professional writer and editor for almost two decades and was the collaborative writer of two non-fiction New York Times best sellers: The Vow: The True Events That Inspired the Movie (Kim and Krickitt Carpenter) and Balancing It All (Candace Cameron Bure).
Dana lives in Oklahoma and enjoys traveling, reading, being an aunt, binge-watching crime shows, and attending Oklahoma City Thunder basketball games.
If you're looking for this author's cozy mystery novels, she publishes those books as D.A. Wilkerson.
Dana lives in Oklahoma and enjoys traveling, reading, being an aunt, binge-watching crime shows, and attending Oklahoma City Thunder basketball games.
If you're looking for this author's cozy mystery novels, she publishes those books as D.A. Wilkerson.
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October 28, 2025
I was really looking forward to this book after reading the author's other series, since this new sports series is about the kids of the characters in the 80s series! Read it immediately and it did not disappoint. I loved so many things about this book--the relationship, the little girl, and the sensory processing stuff that I can relate to. So good! Highly recommend!
September 1, 2026
| 🏒 | 13+ | 1🌶️ | 5000000⭐️ | 🧸 |
•(5000000/5⭐️)-This is going in my favourite book part of my brain. The literal cutest book ever and do not get me started on evieeee she was sooo cute!!
•Spice: 1/5 🌶️ (Only kissing, some language) *Fade to Black*
•(My) Age rating: 13+ (Teen/YA)
Bai ✌🏻tysm for reading! (Sorry for the short review Im lazy)
•—+ 🧸🚗🏒 +—•
October 28, 2025
This new hockey romance was so good! I loved the characters and how their relationship grew from friends to lovers. The little girl was cute, and the neurospicy rep was great to see. Ready for the next book in the series!
October 28, 2025
Dana Wilkerson does it again! I've read all her 80s series and enjoyed this story about the grown children of the couples in the 80s books. Dana created relatable characters whom you'd want as friends and want them to be happy. The relationships in the book develop in such a sweet way, especially between the two main characters and the little girl. I loved the neurodivergent main female character, which was very refreshing. Reading her perspective helped me understand her sensory issues and sparked discussion with others about neurodivergent book characters. This is my favorite Dana Wilkerson book... so far!
October 28, 2025
This book left me wanting more! It was such an enjoyable read with a happy ending. I can’t wait for the next book in this series.
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