Canadian
Bal Khabra is a Canadian romance author known for contemporary sports romance. She is a USA Today bestselling author. Her debut, Collide, began the Off the Ice series about hockey players and the people who fall for them, and it found a large readership on BookTok and Goodreads. The series continued with further books, including Revolve, which follows an Olympic figure skater with panic attacks and a hockey player. Khabra writes in a plain, conversational style built on banter, chemistry and recurring characters from earlier books. Her work belongs to the wave of hockey romance that grew in popularity in the early 2020s. She has built her following through social media and series readers rather than through literary prizes or critical circles.