The Offside Rule by R.C. Stephens
Dallas Blades Book 1
Sports Romance
July 29, 2026
🩷age gap
🏒NHL hockey
🩷coach’s daughter
🏒single dad
🩷found family
🏒close proximity
🩷spicy
🏒forbidden
A standalone age-gap, coach’s daughter hockey romance with forbidden tension, single dad heat, and one very inconvenient shower incident.
Working with the Dallas Blaze is supposed to prove I belong in sports medicine.
Not because I’m Coach Davis’s daughter. Because I earned it.
The problem is Hunter Russell. Single dad. Captain. Tattooed, broody, and my father’s close friend.
He’s nine years older, completely off-limits and way too good at pretending he doesn’t want me.
Too bad I’m done pretending I don’t want him.
Getting involved with Hunter could ruin my future with the team.
Sneaking around with him could ruin a whole lot more.
But the more he touches me behind closed doors, the less it feels like a mistake. And the more I want the one thing he’s too scared to give me.
All of him.
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The Offside Rule by R.C. Stephens
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Who doesn’t love a good forbidden romance? Hunter and Catherine have known each other for a long time. She had a crush on him since she was a teenager but him being a decade older, she never thought she’d had a chance with the man. But time has passed and Hunter is not a single dad, captain of her father hockey team and the attraction is still there. Keeping it under wraps will be a problem.
Hunter thinks he’s all wrong for her. She just starting her life and his 33 years and his past is not good enough for someone as good as her. But refusing to succumb to the attraction has become too much to handle and when they let go of the rains, all bets are off. But keeping their relationship a secret is becoming increasing hard and when they’re exposed, Hunter will have to decide if he’s the man for her.
This story was a nice read and despite a few eyebrows raised, over all i enjoyed it. Hunter was the right man for Catherine despite being hesitated to full letting her in.
***Review copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads Blog***
Meet R.C. Stephens:
R.C. Stephens writes the kind of stories that make you laugh, cry, and believe in love all over again.
A Top 100 Amazon bestselling author, she crafts emotional, heartfelt romances full of humor, heat, and happily ever afters.
When she’s not writing, she’s probably wrangling her three kids, sneaking in a coffee date with her husband, or walking her lovable goldendoodle, who’s always by her side during late-night writing sessions.
A proud Toronto native, she loves cozy winters—but it’s the colors of fall and the first bloom of spring that truly inspire her.
Connect with R.C. Stephens: https://www.instagram.com/rc_stephens_author/
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