{"id":308524,"date":"2026-02-24T23:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/308524\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:35:08","slug":"heated-rivalry-book-seven-delayed-rachel-reid-cites-parkinsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/308524\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Heated Rivalry’ Book Seven Delayed; Rachel Reid Cites Parkinson’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tShane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov\u2019s Heated Rivalry<\/a>-turned-love story will have to simmer a little bit longer in book form.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing an initial Sept. 29 publication date<\/a> set for Unrivaled, the seventh book in the Game Changers series and the third chapter in Shane and Ilya\u2019s arc, author Rachel Reid<\/a> revealed that the upcoming new novel has been pushed to release June 1, 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tHeated Rivalry has been adapted into a television show via Crave and HBO Max, with the first season breaking several records in addition to piercing the zeitgeist. A second season of the hockey-set romance<\/a> between Hudson Williams\u2019 star Canadian player Hollander and Connor Storrie\u2019s Russian force Rozanov is in the works.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter a \u201cbusy\u201d and \u201coverwhelming\u201d few months, for which Reid expressed immense gratitude, the author cited difficulty getting quality time to write. She also shared that her Parkinson\u2019s symptoms have worsened, making it more difficult for her to physically write.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen good things happen, sometimes the universe hands you some worse stuff to balance it out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe shared the news on Instagram, teasing that the blow will likely be softened with some upcoming announcements later this week.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s nothing more important to me than Unrivaled being the best book it can possibly be,\u201d \u201cThe writing is going well. I just wanna make a good book, and I need a little bit more time to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOther characters core to the television show are Kip Grady (Robbie Graham-Kuntz) and Scott Hunter (Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud), who are central to the first book \u2014 Game Changer \u2014 in the series and have a few episodes that focus on them in Season 1.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeries creator Jacob Tierney has also teased new characters from the books come Season 2.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou can\u2019t tell the story without Scott Hunter, you can\u2019t really tell the story without Troy Barrett,\u201d he told The Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tBarrett\u2019s romance with Harris Drover is prominent in the fifth book of Reid\u2019s series Role Model. Barrett first appears in Tough Guy, the third book, and Common Goal, the fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov\u2019s Heated Rivalry-turned-love story will have to simmer a little bit longer in book…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,92651,85,46,154898],"class_list":["post-308524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-heated-rivalry","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-rachel-reid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}