Hannah Grace
Hannah Grace is a contemporary romance novelist best known for the Maple Hills series, including Icebreaker and Wildfire. Writing college-set sports romances and emotionally driven love stories, she rose to prominence through BookTok and became a New York Times bestselling author with a large international readership.
Biography & Author's Journey
Hannah Grace is an English romance novelist who writes under a pen name and has kept most identifying details of her life deliberately private. Because of that choice, public information about her early years and formal education is limited, but she has described herself as a child who spent a great deal of time in libraries and as someone who long loved reading before she ever imagined writing professionally. The decisive turn came during the pandemic, when a writer friend encouraged her to try fiction for herself. What began as a hobby became a serious creative outlet; Grace has said that writing helped her manage anxiety by letting her step, for a time, into someone else’s life. That private beginning shaped the tone of her later work: intimate, emotionally direct, and designed to feel welcoming rather than forbidding. ((https://thenewsette.com/2024/09/05/hannah-grace/))
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"Hannah Grace creates a swoon-worthy—and sexy—story of frenemies turned lovers"
— Apple Books
"Hannah Grace returns with my newest obsession: Russ Callaghan, summer camp and more of her trademark delicious and sizzling chemistry"
— Elena Armas
"Hannah Grace writes a college romance like no other"
— Audible
"The summer heat index hits a record high in Hannah Grace’s red-hot romance"
— Apple Books
"Hannah Grace's sophomore novel is honest, vulnerable, and deliciously sexy"
— B.K. Borison
"Hannah Grace took forced proximity into the rink in Icebreaker, amped up the heat in Wildfire and turned friends into lovers in Daydream"
— B&N Reads
"In Hannah Grace’s earnestly winsome novel, the meek are set to inherit true love"
— Apple Books
"Hannah Grace originally self-published her novel Icebreaker, proving that independent publishing is absolutely a solid option for many authors"
— Kirkus Reviews
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"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
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"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
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"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
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