Blurb
The Carolina Cold Fury hockey team proves that love is a power play. As Sawyer Bennett’s New York Times bestselling series continues, the league’s most notorious party animal gets blindsided by the one that got away.
Off the ice, elite defenseman Hawke Therrien enjoys his fair share of booze and good times. And why shouldn’t he? He’s worked his way up from the minor leagues and made himself a star. The only thing Hawke misses from that life is the pierced, tattooed free spirit who broke his heart without so much as an explanation. She’s almost unrecognizable when she walks back into his life seven years later—except for the look in her eyes that feels like a punch to the gut.
Vale Campbell isn’t the same girl she was at twenty. As crazy as she was about Hawke, her reckless behavior and out-of-control drinking were starting to scare her. She had to clean up her act, and that would never happen with Hawke around. Cutting him loose was the hardest thing Vale ever had to do—until now. Because she’s still crazy about Hawke. And if he could ever learn to forgive her, they just might have a future together.
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Review
I absolutely adore Sawyer Bennett’s Cold Fury Hockey series! This time around, readers get a new player’s story – one who we don’t know much about because he just joined the Fury, but Hawke is a good fit for the team and he’s definitely like all of Bennett’s other hockey alphas in the fact that his past has affected his view on relationships and his focus has been solely hockey for many years.
But Hawke is also a bit different than the previous heroes because the heroine is from his past, so they have a lot of baggage that exists between them and both of them have overwhelming emotions due to how their relationship ended – feelings that become a jumbled mess when they become part of each other’s lives after 7 years of separation and the state of their connection becomes even more tenuous due to the hurt and betrayal that festers in their hearts.
Vale and Hawke’s younger selves were free spirits; they wanted to experience everything in life and they wanted to do it together, but somewhere in the course of their wild and uninhibited adventures, things got too far out of control and decisions were made that ultimately ended everything good that Vale and Hawke had, resulting in them taking much different paths and never resolving the conflict between them.
Now there’s a wall built up between Vale and Hawke that Hawke refuses to fully tear down because he’s too stubborn to see their situation for what it was and how it is now, which only further fuels the passion and the hate between Vale and Hawke, and what happens due to that roaring flame can either heal or further destroy both of their lives.
Can a couple move forward from a past that still remains completely unresolved or are they destined to keep making the same mistakes because they can’t let go of the hurt and see the truth? Those are the questions that Sawyer Bennett looks to answer in her latest release and its message is what I love most about Hawke, besides the alpha goodness on display and catching up with past couples because the text deals with the idea of holding grudges or giving forgiveness and the implications and effects of both of those actions on the lives of all of those involved.
A complimentary copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
4.5 Poison Apples
About the Author
USA Today Best-Selling author, Sawyer Bennett, is a snarky southern woman and reformed trial lawyer who decided to finally start putting on paper all of the stories that were floating in her head. She is married to a mobster (well, a market researcher) and they have two big, furry dogs who hog the bed. Sawyer would like to report she doesn’t have many weaknesses but can be bribed with a nominal amount of milk chocolate.
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