Jett

JETT is the tenth instalment in Sawyer Bennett’s contemporary, adult ARIZONA VENGEANCE erotic, hockey romance series focusing on the members of the professional hockey team the Arizona Vengeance. This is twenty-six year old, right-winger Jett Olsson, and the Vengeance’s Vice President of Digital Marketing and Analytics / single mother Emory Holland’s story line. JETT can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Jett and Emory) JETT focuses on the building romance and relationship between twenty-six year old, hockey player Jett Olsson, and the Vengeance’s Vice President of Digital Marketing and Analytics / single mother Emory Holland. Emory Holland is new to the Arizona Vengeance, and the Phoenix area but a business meeting with Jett Olsson stirs something in our story line heroine but dating a player means crossing the line. Giving in to her emotions, Emory offers Jett a friends with benefits type of arrangement, an arrangement that is about to turn into something more. What ensues is the building relationship between Emory and Jett, and the potential fall-out as Emory’s past returns wanting a second chance.

Emory Holland is a divorcee; a single mother whose ex is no longer in the picture, and as such, Emory struggles with issues of trust, as it pertains to her hearts, and that of her seven year old daughter Felicity. Emory knows Jett’s reputation off the ice is a bit of a player but Emory’s heart wants more than she could have ever thought possible. Jett Olsson never expected to fall hard for a woman, having seen his fellow teammates fall hard and fast but something about Emory draws Jett like a ‘moth to a flame’, a moth that is about to get burned when Emory’s past threatens our heroine’s well ordered life.

The relationship between Jett and Emory begins as a business arrangement; co-workers of a sort who both work for the Arizona Vengeance. Emory is unsure as to the reactions of the franchise but Jett wants nothing more than to claim Emory as his own. The $ex scenes are intimate, passionate and seductive without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

We are introduced to Emory’s seven year old daughter Felicity, her sister Jenna, and he ex Shane Kelly, as well as team owner Dominik Carlson, injured player Baden Oulett, defenseman Riggs Nadeau, and several members of the Arizona Vengeance.

JETT is a story of family, relationships and love; of camaraderie and friendships; second chances and moving on. The premise is thought provoking, emotional and real; the romance is provocative yet tender; the characters are sassy, determined and spirited.

"Then let me be that layer of cardboard behind you."

Heading to Arizona to reconnect with the Vengeance is always a fun time.

Jett and Emory are both not looking for anything serious or complications. When Jett finally breaks Emory down and she invites him to have a no-strings, friends-with-benefits arrangement he agrees. Only things get complicated when Emory's ex-husband returns and she starts to pull away.

Jett and Emory had a nice build-up from co-workers to friends to lovers. The chemistry between them was hot and could not be denied. Jett stole my heart when he constantly seemed to step up for Emory's daughter Felicity. It was great to be able to catch up with the other Vengeance players and their partners. I was not a huge fan of the way that the book ended. I am looking forward to more Arizona Vengeance in the future.

4 Maple Leafs ... Jett (Arizona Vengeance, 10) is a friends-with-benefits, single mom, sports romance told from the first-person point of view and can be enjoyed as a standalone but I recommend enjoying the whole Arizona Vengeance series.

This series has kept me spellbound from the start. Jett while a great addition lacked the spicy, messy angst that the others had. It was not special. When there are so many in the series the page turning commitment has to shine through. It felt glossed over. But the story for Emory had some feeling to it, with her sister and her ex. Just could have been so much more! Rushing the story did not do it justice and Jett was a real sincere guy but with no real background to go on…he was not given the story he deserved. Just my opinion.