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Netflix is lacing up its skates for a new hockey-themed romance. 

On Monday, the streamer announced an adaptation of Hannah Grace’s best-selling BookTok sensation Icebreaker. The series focuses on Anastasia Allen, a competitive figure skater with big Olympic dreams who is forced to share the rink with Nate Hawkins, a hockey player who’s determined to go pro.

Icebreaker is the first title in Grace’s Maple Hills college romance series. The other books include Wildfire and Daydream. Icebreaker spent 70 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

“It’s been such a joy to play in Hannah Grace’s world of Icebreaker, a story filled with ambitious, talented, and undeniably sexy characters. But the real special sauce is that, above all, they are good, deeply compassionate people … and we cannot get enough of them,” co-writer Jade Bartlett told Tudum. “Hannah has created the kind of world you want to live in, and Amanda and I are having an absolute romp with our incredible teams at Unwell and Netflix, bringing this cherished story to the screen.” 

“We’re greenlit, baby,” Grace wrote on Instagram. “I’m so unbelievably happy to finally be allowed to tell you that ICEBREAKER is being adapted into a tv show … I have been keeping this secret for THE LONGEST TIME!! It’s such a privilege to have the opportunity to work with such incredible teams and I’m truly the luckiest girl in the world.”

Grace added that there is “zero casting news” as of now.

Netflix’s Icebreaker adaptation follows on the heels of HBO Max/Crave’s viral 2025 hit Heated Rivalry, which focuses on a romance between two pro hockey players, and Prime Video’s Off Campus, a love story between a music major and a college hockey star. Both are based on popular romance novels. Earlier this year, Netflix also released Finding Her Edge, a romance based on Jennifer Iacopelli’s YA novel of the same name as set in the world of competitive ice dance. 

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