Offside Secrets: A forbidden relationship hockey rom com

by Anne Kemp

248 pages, Paperback

Published November 7, 2025

About the author

Anne Kemp is a bestselling author of romantic comedies. She loves reading (and she doesn’t it ridiculously fast, too!), gluten-free baking (because everyone needs a hobby that makes them crazy), and finding time to binge-watch her favorite shows. She grew up in Maryland but made Los Angeles her home until she encountered her own real-life meet-cute at a friend's wedding where she ended up married to one of the groomsmen. For real.

Anne now lives on the Kapiti Coast in New Zealand, and even though she was married at Mt. Doom, no…she doesn’t have a Hobbit. However, she and her husband do have a terrier named George Clooney and when she’s not writing, she’s usually with them taking a long walk on the river by their home.

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Reviews

[Jackie Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

Offside Secrets is female owner of the AHL River City Renegades and the team captain Campbell’s forbidden romance. It’s book three in the River City Renegades Series and it’s a well written, witty and entertaining read. It didn’t take me long to become invested in the characters and their story.
Sutton and Campbell skirt around their real feelings for each other because crossing the line puts so much at stake but a late night car rescue pulls them together and there’s no going back….
Will crossing the line make or break them?
This was a sweet, romcom that had me smiling, giggling and cheering this couple on. I fell hard and fast for Campbell and I want Sutton in my corner but what took this book to another level was the camaraderie the team share.

[Marybeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sutton and Campbell do not have the easiest road to their HEA but they eventually get there. The fact that Sutton is the team owner and Campbell is the captain is the biggest obstacle of all, or so they think. But there is an outside force trying to make Sutton’s life miserable and ruin her career.
Thankfully they support each other, and her friends also help, so they are able to navigate the waters, or the ice as it were.
I love their story from beginning to end and adored their sweet interactions both when they were trying to fight their attraction and after they get together.
Another winner in this series!

[TJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anne Kemp’s OFFSIDE SECRETS is a fun, sweet and swoony, hockey romantic comedy, where she’s the boss in a male-dominated arena, and he’s the team captain who’s always there for those he cares about.

The main characters have great chemistry and their mutual attraction is palpable. The added tension and intrigue have you rooting for them even more! And the side characters bring a lot of humor to this entertaining and enjoyable story.
I would definitely recommend!

Thank you for the ARC. The opinions are my own and voluntarily given.

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sutton and Campbell have such a great story. This one has so much in it: forbidden workplace, falling for the boss, hockey, older woman (only slightly), intrigue.... This definitely kept me turning the pages. These two strong personalities find such sweet love with one another. I loved it!