FORMULA FREEDOM by @sawyerbennett123 releasing August 26! This will be a simultaneous release in Audio with the amazing narrators Sean Masters and Katherine Littrell.
🔥Second Chance 🔥Friends to lovers 🔥Forbidden romance 🔥Formula racing 🔥Professional athlete
The Race Fever series from New York Times Bestselling Author Sawyer Bennett continues as one of the hottest drivers to hit the Formula International circuit makes waves across the racing world in Formula Freedom, a forbidden romance standalone.
Reid Hemsworth is still a relatively new face in the racing world but hasn’t wasted any time making a name for himself. No stranger to standing on the podium, Reid’s success isn’t all champagne showers and post-race parties. He may be considered a rising star in the sport, but to his brother, Lance, Reid stole his chance at racing glory and that can never be forgiven.
Lara Candlish grew up with the Hemsworth brothers, the three of them wasting away the hours of their youth riding waves together in the Australian surf. But as they got older and Reid’s career started to take off, their trio splintered under the weight of Lance’s jealousy. In the end, one brother had the career and one got the girl, but they both wanted what the other had.
When Lara finds herself trapped in an increasingly volatile relationship, she turns to the one man she knows she can trust above anyone else—Reid. Harboring deep feelings for much of his life, Reid doesn’t hesitate to bring Lara into his inner circle to provide her with the safety that she needs, no matter how much that might infuriate his brother. Their forced proximity quickly uncovers feelings he thought he’d left behind and Reid is prepared to act on them. But when his brother finds out that Reid now has the career and the girl, the situation goes from bad to worse.
As the relationship between Reid and Lara intensifies, so does the danger, and one truth becomes abundantly clear. Reid will stop at nothing to protect the one thing he now knows he can never live without—Lara.
He’s not supposed to touch me. I’m definitely not supposed to want him. But rules blur when a broody, inked inmate looks at you like you’re his salvation.
I’m the sunshine counselor that sees the good in him. He’s the tattooed ex-con with a shady past. We had one night the night before he walked free and I told myself it was over.
But he watches me when I leave work. He protects me from a distance. He tells me we’re wrong together…
But he keeps coming back.
And when I show up at his door, desperate for answers, he finally stops running. He puts his mark on me the only way he knows how. Ink on skin Heat in every stroke. A secret tattoo that says what neither of us can.
We don’t make sense. We don’t fit. But somehow… I already belong to him.
❤️Review Jack finds himself imprisoned after trying to do the right thing and while he is there he becomes captivated with Emily, the counselor, and is determined to protect her not only from the other inmates but himself as well. When he is released early his only concern is keeping her safe even if that means having him or one of his MC follow her.
Emily has feelings for Jack as well, but she isn’t about to leave her job despite the danger that goes along with it. She is a woman who know what she wants and not only isn’t deterred by his attempts to keep her safe but she also isn’t about to let him distance himself from her.
Jack is the perfect mix of possessive and protective while Emily is his perfect match with her strength and independence. The heat between them radiates off the pages and the romance between is heartfelt.
Lifting on her tiptoes, she gave him an impulsive kiss. She meant for it to be quick, but Preston wasn’t just fast on the ice. His grip on her tightened as he extended the kiss, drawing it out. His tongue swiped her lower lip, and she obliged by opening her mouth. Lifting her hands to his shoulders, she pressed her body firmly against his, recalling the way he’d caged her beneath him on the couch.
While Chelsea rarely drank enough alcohol to get drunk, the same couldn’t be said for Preston’s drugging kisses. When he wasn’t kissing her, her brain functioned just fine. But the second his lips landed on hers, she was wasted, all reasonable thoughts drowned in lust and desire.
Preston broke the kiss, his forehead pressed to hers. “I’m trying to play by your rules, Chelsea, but it’s not fucking easy.”
He had been…for the most part. While he hadn’t kissed her since that day on the couch, he’d still been seducing her with touches she couldn’t exactly chastise him for. Because friendly hugs, a gentle hand on the small of her back as they walked, and holding her hand could all fall into the platonic range. If they were done by anyone other than Preston.
“Maybe…” she started, as that impulsive side her mother kept bitching about emerged. “Maybe just for tonight, we could bend the rules. A little bit,” she stressed.
Preston’s smile was pure wickedness, and she was here for it.
“I’m very good at bending the rules,” he whispered in her ear.
I have everything I’ve ever wanted—except the thing that matters most. Her.
Rock and roll is my life. Playing bass for Crimson Edge is the best job in the world. Even when we’re on tour with our musical arch enemies. Until the woman I’ve secretly been in love with for years starts dating one of them. I can’t stand the way he treats her, and I don’t know why she stays. I can’t get involved—the band has too much to lose. But I’m going to anyway. One way or another, I’m going to make her mine.
Author’s note: There are some difficult themes in this story. For CW information, please check this book’s page on my website.
Best Friend’s Little Sister/Older Brother’s Best Friend
Lovers to Enemies to Lovers
Release Date: July 22, 2025
BLURB
Everything I’d ever done had been because of Scarlett Green.
I’d worked hard in school, played hard but trained harder all while waiting for her to get her degree. Her brother, my best friend, knew how I felt about her and the only promise I’d made to him was that I’d wait to make my move until after she’d graduated.
That day finally came, and I’d come home to celebrate with her and send her on her way to new job in a new city. The exact same city I was living in, New York. It was finally going to be our time. I planned to offer her a place to live. After all, I had just bought a large three-bedroom condo after signing a five-year contract with the New York Predators.
Only our time was short lived when my past came back to haunt me in the form of a child I knew nothing about. Overnight, my life was turned upside down. Like the good woman Scarlett is, she immediately put a stop to everything between us, demanding I concentrate on learning how to raise my baby boy while playing hockey.
Now, five years later, I’ve gotten control over our life when the news came that I was being traded to the Vancouver Dominators. Without debate I moved to Vancouver. Within six months of my return, I ran into Scarlett and her brother at one of our home games. She’s not only moving to Vancouver but she is here to do an article on the team for the new Canadian division of the Ice Insiders, a sports publication. After one disastrous run in with her I learn she’s living in my building and looking to find Mr. Right. I figured now might be the perfect time to pick up where we left off, after all I was certain she was meant to be mine.
USA Today Bestselling Author S.L. Sterling was born and raised in southern Ontario. She now lives in Northern Ontario Canada and is married to her best friend and soul mate and their two dogs.
An avid reader all her life, S.L. Sterling dreamt of becoming an author. She decided to give writing a try after one of her favorite authors launched a course on how to write your novel. This course gave her the push she needed to put pen to paper and her debut novel “It Was Always You” was born.
When S.L. Sterling isn’t writing or plotting her next novel she can be found curled up with a cup of coffee, blanket and the newest romance novel from one of her favorite authors.
In her spare time, she enjoys camping, hiking, sunny destinations, spending quality time with family and friends and of course reading.
When Marley spent an incredible night with Evan she knew that would be all they would have as not only didn’t they share personal information, but they didn’t share names. A few months later when she receives some unexpected news her attempts to track him down until he appears in her veterinary clinic and she panics.
After his military career ended Evan relocates to town to partner with a friend at the dog sanctuary. When his text messages with the vet don’t end well he decides to charm her in person however when he finds out she is the woman he hasn’t been able to forget he is determined to show her just how irresistible he is.
I really enjoyed romantic Evan was when it came to winning Marley’s heart and was determined to show her what he knew after their one night together and that what they shared wasn’t a fling but forever.
All I’ve ever dreamed of is revenge. It’s how I survived the darkest parts of my childhood. The parts I’ve confessed to only one man. Then, I find out he’s the one who slayed my real-life bogeyman. Now all I dream of is him.
My best friend’s father. Forbidden. Nefarious.
A fact that fails to stifle my desire for him. But, when I attempt to breach his impenetrable heart, he unknowingly pushes me into the clutches of an evil I was unprepared for.
She’s untouchable, even for me. The girl has dealt with enough in her life without me adding to it. Once her demon-slayer, she’s now demanding more from me. As much as I ache to give in to her delicious touch, I can’t. No matter how loud the inferno inside me roars for her.
My daughter’s best friend. Illicit. Taboo.
It’s not enough to keep my needy stare from her body when she’s near. Then, I make the mistake of shutting her out. Now, I must help her claw her way out of the hell I threw her into.
Luca Asher is my brother’s ex-best friend, the best contractor in our small town of Lovers, a walking dream when he doesn’t have a shirt on—heck, with it on, too, and he was the first boy I ever loved.
He just doesn’t know that last part.
On the rare occasions I converse with him, I get a comeback for everything.
Our banter is my favorite thing. He’s so clever and quick and, again, sexier than any man I’ve ever met.
But none of that changes the fact that he betrayed my brother. My family. Me.
And none of those facts would matter except for my one little problem.
I had this plan to save my family’s marina, which backfired. Now, my parents have given me a deadline to prove to them it’s still worth saving. If I don’t make it, they’ll sell everything, and I’ll lose my dream to keep the place.
They gave me one rule: do not hire that Asher boy.
At this point, I have only one option left to make this happen.
Hire Luca and beg him not to tell a single soul about it.
My heart forgave him years ago, but my head knows better than to trust the enemy.
And yet, in a matter of weeks, he starts to remind me of the old us, and I find myself falling for him all over again.
The idea of me and Luca is … tempting.
Tempting Me is a small-town, steamy, enemies to lovers romance with his ex-best friend’s sister, lots of banter, and a secret agreement.
Penn Navarro is the best player in the league—unstoppable on the ice, untouchable off it. But the moment the game ends, so do the celebrations. Because no amount of goals, no number of wins, can silence the demons that haunt him.
Hockey is my life. It’s what I was born to do. That’s not ego talking, just fact—I’ve spent years honing my skills, earning my place among the elite. But talent doesn’t erase my mistakes, and no amount of success will make me forget the damage I’ve done. It’s why I keep my distance from my teammates, because if you never let anyone in, you’ll never get hurt. Or those are the lies that I tell myself.
Mila Brennan represents the darkest parts of my history. She’s a ghost I’ve tried to bury, the reminder of everything I’ve lost. When she shows up in Pittsburgh looking for me, I know nothing good will come of it, because our sins don’t stay forgotten. They fester, waiting for the perfect moment to strike, and Mila’s arrival means my time is up.
The past isn’t just knocking at my door—it’s kicking it down, crumbling all the walls I’ve built around myself in the process. And when the danger comes for us both, I’m forced to do the one thing I swore I never would. Let her in.