Dax

Arizona Vengeance, Book 4

By: Sawyer Bennett

Narrated by: Aiden Snow, Virginia Rose

The Arizona Vengeance is killing it on the ice. But one player can’t seem to keep his eye on the puck - all thanks to the woman he just married to save her life.

“Find your next hockey hero in Sawyer Bennett’s Arizona Vengeance series.” (New York Times best-selling author Jill Shalvis)

My name is Dax Monahan, and hockey is my passion. And if you want to succeed in this sport you have to bust your ass 24/7. I’ve never had a hard time focusing on my career, but when my past comes knocking, no amount of training can prepare me for what lies on the other side of the door.

Regan Miles was always like a sister to me. When a shared tragedy brings us face to face after several years, I’m shocked to see just how much she’s changed. Gone is the shy, awkward little girl that always used to chase me and her brother around. Instead, I’m faced with a gorgeous woman who makes it damn hard to concentrate on anything but her.

Turns out, she’s in trouble, and the only way out is to get married.

I surprise myself when I tell her to marry me. Order her, actually. And, most shocking of all, she doesn’t even hesitate before saying yes.

So it’s settled. We’re getting hitched, and she’s moving to Arizona with me. All platonic, of course.

The catch?

I never knew I’d fall so hard for my best friend’s little sister.

The Arizona Vengeance series from New York Times best-selling author Sawyer Bennett can be listened to together or separately:

1. Bishop
2. Erik
3. Legend
4. Dax

©2019 Sawyer Bennett (P)2019 Sawyer Bennett

Great addition to the series!

Dax is a wonderful combination of two of my favorite themes- sports romance and the marriage of convenience. Dax marries the sister of his late best friend because she needs to have medical insurance to pay for treatment of her rare disease. Regan is opposed to the idea at first but eventually agrees and moves to Phoenix to live with Dax. Both of them are denying the significant spark of attraction between them and telling their friends that it's just pretend.
We all know how this is going to turn out, it's just how the author takes us on the trip that makes the book enjoyable. The interactions between Dax and his teammates about love and marriage are perfect. Regan's dilemma in dealing with the problems of having a so-called "orphan disease" is true to life. The hint of something between Dax's sister Willow and team owner Dominik is intriguing. Finally, the chemistry between Dax and Regan is HOT!
I read the book and then listened to the audio version which was very well done. Aiden Snow and Virginia Rose do an amazing job narrating. Both add a lot of inflection to their reading and by changing tones make it very clear who the different characters are. I enjoyed reading the book and the audio version just enhanced that enjoyment.

A must listen in this fantastic series!

I really enjoyed this friends to lovers/best friend’s brother storyline. The beginning of Dax and Reagan’s relationship might not be conventional, yet sparks fly from the get go. While navigating through their situation they learn what started innocently turns into something amazing. Aiden Snow and Virginia Rose’s performance in this audiobook elevated this story to another level, bringing life to the characters. I absolutely love this Arizona Vengeance Series and can’t wait for Tacker’s book. I highly recommend this audiobook.

Awesome

Dax and Reagan went into a marriage of convenience to help Reagan. They've always know each other as friends but that all changes when he begans to see her differently. Regardless of what brought them together that quickly changed in to something much more. I love hockey stories.

One of my favorite series!

This is one of the best series I’ve listened too!
Love all the books and has the best narrators! I can’t wait for more!!!

A Great Marriage of Convenience Read

This is the fourth in the Arizona Vengeance series but can be read as a stand alone because I have not read the others and was not lost at all. Dax is a professional hockey player and his best friend just died and his sister Regan needs insurance for her medicine to save her life so Dax proposes getting married until she can get insurance what happens in the meantime is a hot and sweet love story. The narration was spot on This is the first book I have read by Sawyer Bennett but will definitely not be my last. I highly recommend this.


I received a copy of this from the author for a honest review

Another Great Vengeance Story!

Readers familiar with Sawyer Bennett’s Arizona Vengeance, who have been with the the players and the author since Bishop was released know quite a bit about Bennett’s newest leading man, Dax Monahan. In fact, because Dax and Regan’s story occurs pretty much concurrently with Legend and Pepper’s book, some of the groundwork has already been laid when it comes to how Dax finds himself a married man and what his future could potentially look like if he has anything to say about it.

Despite Dax’s player status, once he committed himself to helping Regan and then started to understand that she was no longer a little girl or Vance’s younger sister, but a beautiful woman who has had more heartache than a woman her age should have to deal with, so if he can make things easier on her, support her in the ways that she needs, he can honor Regan’s brother while perhaps realizing he is, in fact, husband material.

Regan’s a fighter; she’s had to be since her teens when she lost both of her parents, but now she’s truly fighting for her life, and while she’s used to doing things on her own and feeling the loneliness that comes along with not being surrounded by family who love her, but that’s no longer the case, and while Dax may be a bit too alpha and domineering at times, it’s clear that she’ll never have to worry with him by her side.

The progression of Dax and Regan’s relationship - from family friends to husband and wife to lovers to something both exhilarating and confusing - at times, seems seamless, even though the marriage is supposed to be fake because it’s clear that deep feelings exist between these two; they just need the courage to see where their new feelings will take them.

Dax and Regan’s book not only focuses on witnessing these two acclimate to their new normal, to their new feelings for each other, to their way of coping with the changes as Dax works to understand what he wants and needs as a man and as a husband, but readers also gain a deeper understanding of just how much Tacker continues to struggle with grief and guilt and what hitting rock bottom means for the captain of the Vengeance.

I appreciate the fact that Sawyer Bennett didn’t add anymore unnecessary drama to what is already an overwhelming situation for both Regan and Dax as well as the Arizona Vengeance, and while I was frustrated and disheartened at times, I knew that even though everything didn’t follow a linear path and there were far reaching obstacles, Dax and Regan knew that the struggle was worth it if it meant that they could be the couple they were meant to be.

Aiden Snow and Virginia Rose were fantastic narrators; they voiced Dax and Regan’s perspectives with passion, conveying the emotions of the hero and heroine and providing a voice to everything the characters were thinking throughout the course of the story.

4 Poison Apples