Wendy Hawthorne
Romance Author
Coming Soon
Connection From Chicago is an MM hockey romance which follows two NHL goaltenders. This slow burn, epistolary romance shows love is worth fighting for in the face of adversity and distance.Releases June 9, 2026.
Books
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Available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Paperback.
About The Author
Wendy Hawthorne is a MM romance author who brings the spice and everything nice: star-crossed lovers, soulmates, and second chance romance. Whether you're looking for earned happy endings or swoon-worthy steam, Wendy's writing is sure to sweep you off your feet!Learn more >
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Books
Wendy Hawthorne writes heartfelt stories about love, self-discovery, friendship, and earned happy endings. Consider trying one of her book series or her stand alone novels!
Hearts In Play Series
Hearts in Play is an MM romance series featuring globe-trotting pairings navigating the challenges of life, love, and professional hockey. Each book in the series builds on the previous and highlights a particular location as the backdrop!
Snapshots in San Diego
Connection From Chicago
Coming 2027
Stand Alone
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The Rival
About The Author
Wendy Hawthorne is a California native who has spent her whole life writing. Wendy considers herself a fan of life's small pleasures, especially enjoying the view of sunsets from her writer's room window.She writes all manner of romance, but she prefers to write M/M relationships. She focuses on developing characters as much as the chemistry between them. Characters may go through the ringer over the course of a story, but Wendy specializes in earned happy endings. Readers will laugh from witty dialogue and then have their heartstrings pulled only a few pages later. Her stories often feature requited unrequited love, mutual pining, soul-crushing angst, humor, and emotional hurt/comfort. Wendy isn't afraid to experiment with her style and genres to subvert reader expectations.Wendy often battles with her torbie cat named Penny who enjoys sitting on keyboards and head-butting phones while her owner is trying to write.
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The Rival
Competition runs through my veins. I work hard, I play hard. Maybe I’m not headed for the NBA anytime soon, but I take my local basketball league seriously.So when the final game of the season is a rematch between my team and our cross-town rivals, I’m not going to let us experience another heartbreaking loss. Tonight’s game is about revenge.It doesn’t matter if Jason Alvarez, the other team’s captain, is sexy beyond belief and a little bit my type. He’s been my rival in every sense of the word since I started playing in this league.And it’s going to stay that way.The Rival is a MM rivals to lovers short story featuring a second chance romance.
Available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
Snapshots in San Diego
Hearts in Play Book One
OliverEver since his family moved in across the street from mine, Gareth Galloway has been my best friend. We used to believe we would play in the NHL together one day. He knows my secrets better than anyone else.Or, at least that’s how it was until an injury ripped me from his side on the ice in high school.We’ve managed to salvage our shared dream in what ways we could. He’s a professional hockey player for the San Diego Starbirds, and I’m a member of his team’s marketing department, selling his story to hungry and eager hockey fans online. Some would say we’ve made it, but for me, there’s still something missing before I can call this happily ever after.I want Gareth to be my forever, but the last thing I want is to risk rejection and ruin what remains of our friendship. Some days it already feels as if we’re drifting apart. I can’t lose him.GarethI’ve been in love with my best friend Oliver Owen for years, but I’m notoriously shy. I play one of the world’s roughest sports, but I can’t manage to put my feelings into cohesive words.One desperate read through a self-help book later, I’ve realized I can’t keep harboring this secret any longer. I need to find a way to tell Oliver how I feel or risk losing him forever to some other guy who’s capable of saying the words he’s longing to hear.I just hope I’m not too late.Snapshots in San Diego is a best friends to lovers MM romance featuring photography and a deep bond forged through hockey.
Available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Paperback.
Connection From Chicago
Hearts in Play Book Two
The NHL’s All-Star Weekend is my chance to play alongside the best of the best. For the first time in my goaltending career, I’ve not only been selected to participate, I’ve also been hand chosen to play on Eric Sinclair’s team.Larger than life, Eric is the kind of goalie I aspire to become: a stalwart defender of the crease and a legend in the league who’s beloved by his team and fans. He’s my idol, my hero, and I can’t believe he wants to get to know me.When Eric and I return to the regular season, we keep in touch, growing closer over texting. The man behind the helmet emerges. Even though I shouldn’t, I can’t help myself from falling in love with him, but I’m completely out of my depth. I’ve never even had a boyfriend before, and more than just physical distance separates us. Our two teams are on a collision course to meet in the playoffs. More than our postseason futures are on the line.Funny how one weekend can change everything.Connection From Chicago is an MM hockey romance which follows two NHL goaltenders. This slow burn, epistolary romance shows love is worth fighting for in the face of adversity and distance.
Coming soon to Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Paperback.