Ryker
Cold Fury Hockey # 4
Cold Fury Hockey # 4
By: Sawyer Bennett
Releasing September 8, 2015
Loveswept
The rugged
men of the Carolina Cold Fury hockey team are winning hearts once again in
another scorching novel from New York Times bestselling author
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 is on Gray to step up and save a tender new love before
it’s too late.
So Sawyer
Bennett is back with another Carolina Cold Fury story and this one is bigger
than ever!
So if you
read Zack story, then you would be well aware of Ryker and his two children Violet
and Ruby; this dad is still struggling (thankfully still with the help of Kate)
with being suddenly thrust into single fatherhood, after his soon to be ex-wife
ran off with his ex-team-mate. Thankfully he was saved from his old team by Grey
Brannon, the Fury’s scout and GM’s Daughter, who thought he would be the
perfect starting Goalie and he sure has tried to live up to that, now if only
he could make it through the day with his daughters.
Grey is
about to flip the world of hockey on its head by becoming the first GM of a
major league hockey team! Never mind that she has a genius IQ of 142, a gold
and silver Olympic hockey medal and a PhD and an MBA! She also has found and
signed most of the talent, including the amazing Ryker Evans; the team goalie
and the one player she can’t seem to get out of her head.
As Ryker’s
and Grey’s friendship develops into more, people from the past and present
threatens their future, not to mention the biggest conflict, which is Grey
being Ryker’s boss. When all these conflicts come to a head, what will happen
to Ryker and Greys love?
Wow! Sawyer
Bennett’s Cold Fury series never fails to sparks some form of emotion with me,
but Ryker far surpasses every book she has written so far! You honestly can’t
help but fall in love with the characters…well except for Claude and Henley.
Even the one character that you thought would be a jerk all the way through the
book (Bill) doesn’t turn in to such a jerk in the end. I find the writing, plot
and the characters magical! The writing is so gripping and detailed, that the
characters come to life before your eyes.
I give Ryker
an extremely well deserved 10 out of 10!
“I don’t
even have to ask if you’re ready to do this,” my dad says to me as we take the
elevator down to the basement level of the arena.
Leaning
casually back against the wall, I eye myself critically in the reflection of
the bronzed doors and feel confident in my wardrobe choice. Long black skirt
with a lace overlay in the same color that comes about three inches past my
knees. While it hugs my figure all the way down, it has a flared bottom and a
small slit up the back. I paired it with black fishnet stockings and trendy
heels with a pointed toe. The ruffles of a cream-color blouse peek out neck to
chest from the black, buttoned cardigan, purposely form fitting so there is no
mistaking the curve of my breasts.
No
mistaking I am a woman walking into a lion’s den.
My makeup
is applied flawlessly to enhance my pale skin and fire-red, shoulder-length
hair. Said hair is styled just the way I like it—big barrel-type waves that are
set to perfection when I put my fingers into my hair and give a good jazz-hands
shake while bent over. After flipping back up, the wild waves and curls make me
look like a windblown but stylish mess.
My look
today is calculated. It screams feminine—with a slight Victorian flair thanks
to my late mother’s brooch pinned at the base of my throat. It also screams
sexy—courtesy of fishnet stockings, a snug fit, and four-inch-high heels.
Finally, it screams of individuality, because I shunned a properly conservative
suit and went with an eclectic mix so there is no mistaking the fact that I
think outside the box.
It’s why I
am now the general manager of the Carolina Cold Fury.
With my
hands tucked into the pockets of my skirt, I grin at my dad. “You don’t have to
ask. I’m ready.”
“That’s my
girl,” Brian Brannon says with heartfelt affection and pride in his Irish green
eyes—second generation, of course.
His words
are short and tidy. Just three of them, but it’s his tone of voice and the
emotion in his eyes that tell me all I need to know about a father’s love for
his daughter.
“Want some
advice?” he asks casually as the elevator rolls to a stop and the doors slide
open.
“Sure,” I
say as I pull my hands free and follow him out, the sound of my heels clicking
in unison on the industrial tile floor with my father’s Ferragamo loafers.
“Be
yourself,” he says simply as we walk side by side to the team meeting room.
It’s a stadium-style room that the team meets in, usually to watch game film,
but sometimes for relaying of information as a group.
“Be
myself?” I ask skeptically. “That’s all the great Brian Brannon has to say to
me?”
“Yes . . .
be yourself. Don’t go in that room and for one minute try to mold yourself to
their expectations. I didn’t offer you this position to do the same exact job I
did. I gave it to you because I want you to be better at it than I was, and
you’re going to be because of who you are, not who they want you to be.”
I tuck an
arm through my father’s, feeling the strength he exudes at the ripe age of
fifty-eight. I can’t help the smile on my face as I lean toward him and give a
squeeze. “It’s amazing I didn’t become a narcissistic, self-centered asshole
with as much pumping up of my esteem that you do on a daily basis.”
Dad
snickers. “As if you could ever be anything that was less than perfect.”
We turn
right at the end of the hall and the door to the meeting room comes into focus.
But for the slight flutter in my belly, there’s nothing internal to indicate
how momentous this occasion is.
To me.
To the
league.
To this
team.
At just
thirty-one years old, I’m getting ready to be named as one of the youngest
general managers in the league. As a woman, someone like me among these ranks
is unheard of, and I’m not going to be given a free pass just because I’m Brian
Brannon’s daughter. While I think my father is about the closest thing to God
as you can get, there are many out there who will think he’s gone off his
rocker by stepping down and appointing me as GM.
Many will
think he’s showing favoritism to a family member.
Some will
think he just doesn’t care about this team anymore.
Perhaps a
few will even think he’s just lazy and doesn’t want the headaches that come
with being a president and CEO of a professional sports team, as well as the
general manager.
They’d all
be wrong, though, and I sincerely hope they believe him today. If not, fuck it.
I have a job to do and skeptics, chauvinists, purists, and otherwise
backward-thinking assholes aren’t going to stop me from achieving my goals.
To turn
this team into champions.
USA Today and New York Times 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. Her husband works for a Fortune 100 company which lets him fly all over the world while she stays at home with their daughter and three 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.
Sawyer is the author of several contemporary romances including the popular Off Series, the Legal Affairs Series and the Last Call Series. She will be releasing her third book in the Cold Fury Hockey Series with Random House Loveswept, June 2015.
Sawyer is the author of several contemporary romances including the popular Off Series, the Legal Affairs Series and the Last Call Series. She will be releasing her third book in the Cold Fury Hockey Series with Random House Loveswept, June 2015.
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