#lgbtq-romance

#lgbtq-romance

Based on the beloved novels of the same name from author Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry charts the on-and-off court relationship between a pair of professional Major League Hockey players. On the ice, Montreal Meterors star Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storie) of the Boston Raiders are sworn enemies, but off of it, they're bashing their hockey sticks together in a different way (sorry).

"I really wanted it to be that first moment where they really connected. "There's a little scene right beforehand, which is literally a Grindr conversation, that many of us have all the time, in dialogue form. "So when they eventually got past that and they got deeper, I wanted it to be in this beautiful space, which is why I set it there."