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Jacob Tierney teases 'Heated Rivalry' Season 2 with this Rachel Reid romance

At BookCon "Heated Rivalry" author Rachel Reid and show creator Jacob Tierney teased basis for Season 2 and shared how the series changed their lives.

‘Heated Rivalry’ Creator Jacob Tierney Teases Season 2, Talks Adding Elements of ‘Role Model’ | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Jacob Tierney is dishing on the upcoming second season of Heated Rivalry! The creator, writer, director and producer of the hit Crave series, based on the Rachel Reid “Game Changers” book series, appeared at BookCon with the author and teased what’s to come in the highly-anticipated new season. Keep reading to find out more… “It’s different. It really is different,” Jacob shared on stage, via Variety. “And the challenge of it is, from an adaptat…

'Heated Rivalry' Season 2 Has More "Danger," Jacob Tierney Teases

As Shane and Ilya return for Season 2 of Heated Rivalry, the stakes will be higher for the happy couple. Series creator Jacob Tierney recently teased that the source material, Rachel Reid’s The Long Game, is “an emotionally sophisticated book that takes this couple seriously,” set 10 years after the events of the Heated Rivalry book. “It really is different, and the challenge, from an adaptation standpoint, is you’re in much more serious ter…

‘Heated Rivalry’ Showrunner Teases ‘Much More Serious’ Season 2 Plot, Including ‘Role Model’ Book Storyline: ‘This Hotel-Room-Adolescent-Sex Stuff Is Largely Gone’

"Heated Rivalry" showrunner Jacob Tierney is in the midst of writing Season 2 of the hockey romance series

'Heated Rivalry' showrunner calls season 2 'much more serious territory,' teases Troy's arrival

'Heated Rivalry' season 2 will get into 'much more serious territory,' showrunner Jacob Tierney teased during a BookCon 2026 panel this weekend. He also confirmed that new character Troy Barrett will be 'quite damaged': 'We're digging into that even harder.'

BookCon 2026: 'Heated Rivalry' author Rachel Reid and show creator Jacob Tierney are in conversation for the first time

The first panel at BookCon drew lines of fans an hour before its start. Fans have shown up in style. I spotted dozens of iterations of t-shirts with the faces of actors Hudson Williams and Connor Storie plastered on them. Boston Raiders, Montreal Metros, and New York Admirals jerseys are in abundance, too. 3,000 fans are here, waiting to see Rachel Reid and Jacob Tierney in conversation for the first time.But while this may be the first public c…