Minor league player Stone Dumelin lost his younger brother when the Titans’ team plane went down. He never expected the phone call that followed.

After a shoulder injury put my NHL career on ice, I resigned myself to the fact I’d never see my way out of the minor league again. As my career faded, my estranged brother’s star shot into orbit as the first line left winger for the Pittsburgh Titans. But when the team’s plane crashed returning home one night, his light was snuffed out, and I was given the opportunity of a lifetime.

Now I’m in Pittsburgh, playing for the Titans, and face-to-face with my dead brother’s ghost at every turn. His locker, his legacy, his persistent and annoyingly gorgeous attorney who won’t stop contacting me about his estate, even though I’ve demanded she leave me alone.

Harlow Alston would be extremely appealing if she wasn’t so aggravating. Only…that’s a complete lie. She pushes all the right buttons for me, and as much as I want her to quit pestering me about Brooks’s estate, I find myself intrigued by the fiery redhead who can’t take no for an answer. And the more I learn about Harlow, the more I find she might be the key to understanding who Brooks really was, and who I want to be.

I’ve got a second shot at a career I thought I’d lost and the opportunity to build something real with Harlow, but can I find strength to move forward or will my past dictate my future?

If you think by reading the blurb of Stone by Sawyer Bennett you know the story… let me just say you are wrong… the author does not use the death of Stone’s brother as a crutch and just tell a story about a man dealing with the grief of losing his younger brother.

Bennett layers and weaves a masterfully beautiful story about finding yourself, exercising the demons of the past, and learning how to find your center.

This 5-star read transcends the friendship and love Stone Dumelin and Harlow Alston build, pulling the reader in while proving Sawyer Bennett is an amazing talent!

There is no formula in this story… no simple… no love fixes everything.. in this book laced with emotions this book will steal your heart and have you excited for more from the series as each player on the Pittsburgh Titans works to find their place on this team devastated by tragedy.

I am so excited for Gage, Coen, and Drake as two books in it is clear the series is going to be filled with unique, powerful, and memorable love stories that as so much more than boy meets girl and they have happily ever after!

If like me you like a book where the author tells you a story, where the author takes you on an unexpected journey to happiness then this series is for you!

Yes, I adored book 1 Baden too….