Ryker: A Cold Fury Hockey Novel

Sawyer Bennett

Sep 2015 · Carolina Cold Fury Hockey Book 4 · Sold by Loveswept

About this ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The rugged men of the Carolina Cold Fury hockey team are winning hearts once again in another scorching novel from Sawyer Bennett.

The stakes have never been higher for Carolina Cold Fury goalie Ryker Evans. With his contract running out, he’s got a year left to prove he’s still at the top of his game. And since his wife left him, Ryker has been balancing life as a pro-hockey star and a single parent to two daughters. Management is waiting for him to screw up. The fans are ready to pounce. Everybody’s taking dirty shots—except for the fiery redhead whose faith in Ryker gives him a fresh start.

As the league’s only female general manager, Gray Brannon has learned not to mix business with pleasure. And yet even this tough, talented career woman can’t help breaking her own rules as she gives Ryker everything she’s got. She hopes their hot streak will last forever, but with Ryker’s conniving ex plotting to reclaim her man, the pressure’s on Gray to step up and save a tender new love before it’s too late.

The Carolina Cold Fury series from New York Times bestselling author Sawyer Bennett can be read together or separately:
ALEX
GARRETT
ZACK
RYKER
HAWKE
MAX
ROMAN
LUCAS
VAN
REED
MAREK

And don’t miss her Arizona Vengeance series:
BISHOP
ERIK
LEGEND

The Love Hurts series features sexy standalone novels:
SEX IN THE STICKS
JILTED

And the Sugar Bowl series is one treat you’ll want to read in order:
SUGAR DADDY
SUGAR RUSH
SUGAR FREE
 
“One of the best voices in contemporary romance.”—New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne

Praise for Ryker

“A hot hockey player with a heart of gold . . . a smart, ballsy heroine . . . and enough heat between them to melt any hockey rink. Sawyer Bennett scores another solid hit with Ryker!”—Katie Rose, award-winning author of The Heat of the Moment

“Ryker is some of Ms. Bennett’s best work yet.”—Shh Moms Reading

Praise for Sawyer Bennett and the Carolina Cold Fury series

“Sawyer Bennett never fails to deliver heroes I fall hard for and heroines I adore.”—New York Times bestselling author Violet Duke

“Wow. Just wow. Sawyer Bennett is my new favorite author.”—Jami Davenport, USA Today bestselling author of Skating on Thin Ice

“Garrett is a sizzling and emotional read with laughter and secrets thrown in for good measure. Sawyer Bennett had me at hello.”—New York Times bestselling author Lexi Ryan

Includes a special message from the editor, as well as an excerpt from another Loveswept title.

Ratings and reviews

Oh my! Ryker is all kinds of goodness and hotness rolled into this single father goalie who is playing at this all-time best. Add into that and he is carrying on a secret affair with the newest GM of the team, the first female GM in the NHL. Gray Brannon has been working towards this all her life and now she could lose everything if they are found out. This one was so good! You could read this one as a standalone but I do not know why you would want to...

Five stars simply are not enough to express how much I loved this book!! If I were to come up with my dream man, Ryker would fit the description! Tough as nails and dominating on the ice, gentle giant at home is the best way to describe him. His ex wife obviously lost her mind!! The chemistry between Gray and Ryker is sizzling and keeping it contained just isn't going to happen. What will it cost them in the end?? Trust me, you want to read this one and find out! I highly recommend it!

So, would stating that Ryker had me doing the big happy sigh thing and practically hugging my ereader as I finished it be enough of a review to convince you if you are a true fan of romance that you MUST read this book? Possibly, but I’m sure you’d appreciate more a little more than that, so here it goes. Simply put Sawyer Bennett has another winner with Ryker! This book is everything I’ve come to love and enjoy from a Sawyer Bennett novel. It’s sweet, sexy, fun romantic read with just the right amount of drama with main characters that I adored from the first moment I met them and continued,without issue, throughout the entire book. I liked Ryker from the moment he and Zack had their first beer in the bar in Zack’s book and had a niggling feeling that I’d end up loving him before everything was said and done and I’ll admit that fell, hard, from the first scene in the book with him. And as we got to know him better as a father, hockey player and a man I was simply a gonner. I am now 100 percent on Team Ryker (sorry Alex). I could say it’s because he’s a great father or that he’s the epitome of a team player because he’s been around the block a few times and is over the primadonna bs and it’s all true. But what it boils down to is that he’s just that good guy that you’d want in your corner because you know he’d have your back and even if he didn’t agree with you, he’d let you know but still have your back. Gray was a true delight, which I’ll admit was a surprise. Why you ask? Well, when you have a woman who is not only the first woman to attain the position of GM of a major league sports team and be a certified genius, one tends to think that she has an overblown ego or that she’ll be difficult to relate to, but that isn’t the case with Grey. She’s shown to be a hard worker who, while being very goal oriented, is also quite personable. She’s got a great wit and a compassionate nature. Separately Ryker and Gray are wonderful, but together they are better. The mutual attraction, admiration and respect that they start out with in the beginning never fades but grows as they get to know each other.Those moments were sweet and oh so sexy! (Did I already mention how much I love Ryker?) There isn’t any excessive angsty drama between the two of them. Yes, there are hurdles they need to deal with, Gray’s position as GM, Ryker’s ex and a couple of other things, but they handle them as adults and just prove each time how perfect they are for each other. The Bottom Line: I simply adored this book and can’t wait for the next one! ~ARC received from Random House Publishing Group - Loveswept via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review ~

About the author

Since the release of her debut contemporary romance novel, Off Sides, in January 2013, Sawyer Bennett has released multiple books, many of which have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.
 
A reformed trial lawyer from North Carolina, Sawyer uses real-life experience to create relatable, sexy stories that appeal to a wide array of readers. From new adult to contemporary romance, she writes something for just about everyone.
 
Sawyer likes her Bloody Marys strong, her martinis dirty, and her heroes a combination of the two. When not bringing fictional romance to life, Sawyer is a chauffeur, stylist, chef, maid, and personal assistant to a very active daughter, as well as a full-time servant to her adorably naughty dogs. She believes in the good of others and that a bad day can be cured with a great workout, cake, or even better, both.
 
Sawyer also writes general and women’s fiction under the pen name S. Bennett and sweet romance under the name Juliette Poe.