If you’re tackling the Romanceopoly reading challenge and looking for a great pick for the 2024 Campus Corner prompt, we’ve got just the thing. These five new adult sports romances are steamy on and off the field.

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5 New Adult Sports Romances | Romanceopoly Book Recommendations

Stealing Home by Grace Reilly

Stealing Home is a reverse grumpy-sunshine, forced proximity college sports romance where the sunshine hero, a baseball player, offers his place to the grumpy heroine, an aspiring astrophysicist, after she needs a place to stay. Their secret hookup arrangement turns into something more as they navigate their contrasting futures and growing feelings.

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Night Shift by Annie Crown

Night Shift is a sweet and spicy college romance featuring a bookworm heroine who works the graveyard shift at the university library. When the captain of the basketball team shows up needing poetry recommendations, sparks fly. It’s single point of view, with an academic setting, opposites attract and lots of banter.

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Collide by Bal Khabra

Collide is an opposites-attract, academic setting hockey romance. The heroine is an honor student with a 25-year plan, while the hero is a laid-back hockey captain facing a reckless mistake. Their worlds collide when he’s punished by becoming her research project subject, leading to unexpected chemistry and self-discovery.

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The Friend Zone by Kristen Callihan

The Friend Zone is a friends-to-lovers college football romance where the heroine, the daughter of a sports agent, starts texting a guy who’s borrowing her car, with no idea he’s a star football player. Their connection grows through banter and shared interests, and it’s funny and sweet.

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Only When It’s Us by Chloe Liese

Only When It’s Us is an enemies-to-lovers college romance with a sports twist. The heroine, a soccer player, butts heads with her class neighbor, only to discover he’s deaf. This story is all about communication, trust, and the slow burn of two opposites who end up working together, and maybe falling in love along the way.

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What are your favorite new adult sports romances for Campus Corner for this years’ Romanceopoly challenge. Leave a comment and share with us!

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