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Pucking Cruel Captain : A Dark High School Hockey Bully Romance (Saints of Harwick Book 1)

Anna Mates

Book 1 in the Saints of Harwick series · Reading order →

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Why we recommend it

Locker-room arrogance meets ruthless obsession in this hockey-fueled bully romance. The captain is cruel, commanding, and dangerously fixated, while the heroine refuses to be just another conquest. The push-pull crackles with rivalry and reluctant want, set against the high-pressure world of elite athletics. Ideal for readers who love a possessive sports antihero, an enemies-to-lovers slow burn, and the thrill of hate sharpening into desire.

At a glance

Pucking Cruel Captain is book 1 in Anna Mates’s Saints of Harwick series. It rates 4/5 for spice and 4/5 for darkness, mid-range for bully romance: of the 419 bully romance books we rate, 9% score lower for darkness and 6% lower for spice. Tropes: touch her and you die, bully and enemies to lovers. Touch her and you die is one of the less common tropes in our catalogue. It is about as dark as Anna Mates’s other books on Readark (average darkness 4.0/5). 2 content warnings are listed below, hidden until you tap.

Book details

Published
June 2026

Pucking Cruel Captain spice level

Pucking Cruel Captain is rated 4/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: explicit and frequent, meaning multiple detailed scenes, with heat central to the story. Its darkness rating is 4/5: heavy, meaning sustained cruelty, trauma or non-consent central to the relationship. How we rate

Pucking Cruel Captain content warnings

We list 2 content warnings for this book. They stay hidden until you tap, so you can check without spoilers.

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  • Emotional Abuse / Gaslighting
  • Physical Abuse

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