SWEET RIDE (SOUTH FLORIDA RIDERS #6)

When the beloved superstar quarterback of the South Florida Riders is benched with an injury, back-up quarterback Matt McKenzie's life changes in every imaginable way. Not only is the team's first real chance at the Super Bowl now riding on his arm, a celebratory hook-up with the new team owner's daughter ends up rocking his world completely...with the news that she's expecting his baby. So much for that playboy lifestyle Matt had been trying to embrace. Being a father means everything...and it feels so much better than the hook-up life. Plus, it doesn't hurt that the woman who's having his baby is as irresistible and elusive as that Super Bowl ring.

Ellie Vice can happily pack all her earthly belongings in two suitcases and spends about 350 days of the year visiting her billionaire family's hotel properties to manage PR campaigns and explore every corner of the world. When she reveals the news that she's pregnant, her powerful family "grounds" her in Miami, and gives her a new PR assignment for their NFL team: making South Florida fall in love with the Riders' second-string quarterback. But when they learn he's her baby's father, they will do everything to make sure she doesn't fall in love with him, too. But nothing and no one can stop the passion that's building with Matt, and this sweet and sexy quarterback is quickly becoming her next big adventure.

As the South Florida Riders series comes to a dramatic close, readers meet the new billionaire team owners, the Miami Vices. This colorful South Florida family has secrets, makes mistakes, gives into temptations, and takes risks...all in the name of love.

Release Date: August 28, 2020

Palm Island Publishing

South Florida Riders #6

Contemporary Sports Romance

Review copy provided by publisher

Liza's Review:

I've loved each of the books in the South Florida Riders series and with each new story, I think there is no way this book with top the last. I'm happy to say I was wrong once again. Sweet Ride is absolutely the very best book in the series! I love the surprise/secret baby trope, and Breezie Bennett did an amazing job with Ellie's and Matt's story. I've wanted Matt's story from the moment we first met him, and Sweet Ride was so worth the wait!

Ellie Vice is the daughter of the new owners of the South Florida Riders. She is a very successful single businesswoman who travels the world for her family's company, and has no plans to change anything about her life. Everything changes once she finds herself pregnant following a one-night hook up with Riders' back-up quarterback Matt McKenzie. Her parents reassign her to Florida for the duration of her pregnancy and put her in charge of PR for the team, and especially getting the fans being the new starting quarterback Matt McKenzie...not knowing Ellie and Matt already know one another.

I loved Matt and Ellie together from the very beginning. Partly because while they were raised completely differently and in totally different worlds, they both really seemed to be sweet and positive individuals. They also had smoking hot chemistry, yet there was also a sweetness to them as well. They seemed to care and respect one another from the start, and while they both seemed to be thrown for a loop about their impending parenthood, they also seemed to be on the same page about working together. It cracked me up they both were like we can wait until after the Super Bowl to share with family and really start to figure things out. 

I loved how Matt seemed to be low-key courting Ellie to spend more time together. I really loved that while Matt really wanted to be seen as a player much like other professional football players, his true self shined through and Ellie saw him for who he really was and was able to show it as one of his strengths for their PR push. Sweet Ride gave me all the happy feels and I seriously wanted to re-read it as soon as I finished reading it the first time.

I'm always a little sad when a favorite series comes to an end, and that is definitely the case with the South Florida Riders series. Breezie Bennett is an amazingly talented author, who writes stories filled with so much laughter and love, I can't wait to read each new story. I'm so very excited to see Ms. Bennett will be writing books about the Vice family in the future. While I didn't love Ellie's dad originally, he did end up being a much better person than he appeared at first. I adored her mom, and absolutely loved her brothers. I can't wait for this series to start!

Rating: 5 Stars (A+)

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