BY JOHN DUBROCK
Hockey Romance About First Love, Friendship, and Finding Your Way Through Life.
What If Your First Love
Was Always Your Greatest Love?
Some people enter our lives for a season.
Others become part of who we are.
Love Walks In follows a friendship that begins between children and grows through hockey seasons, changing dreams, unforgettable music, first love, heartbreak, loss, and the complicated journey into adulthood.
At its heart, this is more than a hockey love story.
It’s about childhood sweethearts who grow together, grow apart, and discover that time and distance don’t always erase the connections that matter most.
If You Love Stories About…
Childhood Sweethearts
Hockey & Growing Up
A First Love
Second Chances
Friendship & Family
Love, Loss & Hope
Before Text Messages,
There Were Mixtapes.
Before playlists lived in our pockets, songs carried memories.
Before every moment was photographed, some of the best ones existed only in the stories we told afterward.
Love Walks In takes readers into the music, hockey, friendships, neighborhoods, and unmistakable nostalgia of growing up in the 1980s.
It’s a romance set in the ’80s for readers who lived it and chance to go back for those who missed out.
What Early Readers Are Saying
“There were parts I was laughing out loud and parts where I had to stop from crying.”
“I like how John’s references to real places and events brought me into the story.”
“It’s a book with an actual soundtrack.”
Looking for Your Next Nostalgic Coming-of-Age Story?
If you love stories where childhood friendships, first love, unforgettable music, and growing up matter just as much as the destination, Love Walks In may belong on your reading list.
Not at all. Love Walks In explores love in many forms: the love between a boy and his family, the bond between childhood friends, the excitement of first love, and the passion a young boy develops for the game of hockey. At its heart, it’s a story about growing up, discovering love in different ways, and how those relationships shape who we become.
Readers who enjoy nostalgic coming-of-age stories, childhood sweethearts, friends-to-lovers relationships, hockey romance, emotional second chances, ’80s nostalgia, and stories about friendship, love, loss, and hope.
Yes. The central relationship begins young, allowing readers to experience friendship, coming of age, first love, separation, and the lasting impact two people can have on one another.
Second chances are an important part of the story. Love Walks In explores what happens when first love, time, change, and the possibility of finding your way back collide.
Yes. Hockey is woven into the characters’ lives and the world of the story, while the emotional heart centers on friendship, first love, growing up, and second chances.
Some Loves Never Really Leave Us.
Step into 1980s Chicago and discover a hockey romance about childhood sweethearts, first love, friendship, loss, and the second chances we never see coming.
LOVE WALKS IN
A Novel by John DuBrock