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 hasn’t subsided when he’s drafted by the Kansas City Chaos expansion team halfway across the country. The good news, however, is this is all excellent news. Austin takes to his new dad life like he was created for it. And Kansas City is not only home to Austin’s sister and niece, but also his three lifelong 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? Hockey is a chaotic sport, and hockey is Austin’s life. For many years, Amber’s undiagnosed and untreated Sensory Processing Disorder meant her nervous system couldn’t handle attending a hockey game, much less dealing with the rest of a hockey player’s nomadic and unpredictable lifestyle. Over the years, she’s built a comfortable life surrounded by close family and friends in Kansas City. She enjoys her job, and she’s now in occupational 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 career, his new role as a parent, and Amber’s SPD prevent them from becoming a family? Find out in this sweet hockey romance!

Blocking the Chaos is a fade-to-black sports romance with the following tropes: childhood friends, friends to lovers, last to know, secret baby, single dad, neurodivergent FMC, best friend’s sister, brother’s best friend, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

Trigger warnings: This book contains references to child abandonment, foster care, death of a young child’s parent, and a destructive storm.

The KC Crew Sports Romance series features the children of the characters in author Dana Wilkerson’s Throwback RomComs series.

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