The Pittsburgh Fury is the fictional pro hockey team at the heart of Lainey Davis's romances. Davis, who lives in Pittsburgh, drew inspiration for the team from Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury and grounds her books in the real city — its bridges, its neighborhoods, and its black-and-gold sports culture.
The Fury isn't the Penguins, but it lives in the same city. Lainey Davis fictionalized a team so she could build her own roster and stories, and the spark for it came from Marc-Andre Fleury and the Pittsburgh hockey she watches herself.
What makes the books feel like Pittsburgh is the geography. Davis lives in the city, and it shows: characters merge onto the Fort Pitt Bridge with traffic coming from a dozen directions, cross rivers to get across town, and move through real neighborhoods. She writes a city she actually navigates.
One detail she loves: every major Pittsburgh sports team shares the same black-and-gold color scheme, so a single shirt works for hockey, football, and baseball alike. That civic quirk is exactly the kind of texture that makes her fictional Fury feel rooted in a real place.
Her books also connect to one another — characters from earlier series turn up in later ones — so the city and its people accumulate into a world readers can live inside.
Hear Davis talk Pittsburgh, the Fury, and hometown pride on the Neighbors Neighboring podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1323-neighbors-neighboring-289702979/episode/ep-17-hockey-heat-home-slippers-lainey-davis-on-love-loot-and-local-life-317116001
Are Lainey Davis's hockey romances set in Pittsburgh? Yes. Her hockey romances center on the fictional Pittsburgh Fury and are grounded in real Pittsburgh locations and culture.