Sweet Surrender

De: Bella Matthews

Narrado por: Jason Clarke, Samantha Brentmoor

From #1 Amazon and USA Today Bestselling Author Bella Matthews comes an enemies to lovers, surprise pregnancy, sports romance.

Hating Jameson Murphy is easy.

Wanting him is where everything gets complicated.

He’s my best friend’s older brother.

My father’s star player.

A charmingly infuriating football god I’ve spent a lifetime avoiding and failing to ignore.

He should be the last man tempting me into bad decisions. But when a snowstorm grounds our flight, and champagne blurs our judgment, one reckless night shatters every rule I’ve put in place . . . leaving me with two little pink lines and one very big problem.

Now, thanks to an unreliable mother, a surprise baby sister, and a new living arrangement I never saw coming, my carefully crafted life is unraveling faster than the worn satin ribbon on my favorite old pointe shoes.

And Jameson?

He’s everywhere.

In my space.

In my secrets.

Looking at me like he already knows how this ends and how it doesn’t.

Forcing me to face a truth I’m not ready to accept . . .

What if surrender doesn’t mean losing yourself?

What if it’s about trusting someone else?

And maybe . . . just maybe, what if it means finally finding home?

* This is narrated in DUET narration *

©2026 Bella Matthews (P)2026 Bella Matthews

absolutely loved them!

Once again Bella gives us a story that feels like coming home! I read this in one sitting and could not get enough of Jamie & Ashton! Ashton’s world is literally turned upside down after a call to come home and let’s just say nothing about her trip getting there was as planned. After that steamy night with Jamie, stuck in a hotel after a cancelled flight, Ashton just wants to forget it happened. But their attraction (and a little hate) has been simmering for years. Jamie is so patient, caring, and willing to do anything to show her how much he cares and wants her in his life.

I knew I loved this book when I read it, but listening to Samantha Brentmoor & Jason Clarke perform this in duet was everything I needed. They were phenomenal as Ashton & Jamie and I couldn’t stop listening!

What to expect:
🏈 sports romance
🎀 single guardian
🏈 best friend’s brother
🎀 frenemies to lovers
🏈 accidental pregnancy
🎀 it’s always been you
🏈 snowed in w/ one bed
🎀 one night stand

Ace and Charmer’s Story Was Impossible to Put Down

"Everything worth anything has the potential to break your heart. If you only protect yourself from pain, you’re protecting yourself from love too."

Duet Narration by Samantha Brentmoor and Jason Clarke

Tropes:
Sports romance
Enemies to lovers
Surprise pregnancy
Best friend's brother
Forced proximity

What begins as a simple return to Kroydon Hills quickly becomes an emotional journey for Ashton Carmichael. After learning about a baby sister she never knew existed, Ashton is determined to build a better life despite her painful past. Complicating everything is Jameson (Jamie) Murphy—her childhood friend turned rival—who was her best friend’s older brother (and has always been a constant presence in her life).

What starts as unresolved tension rooted in their shared past evolves into something far deeper as buried feelings, sharp banter, and undeniable chemistry resurface. Their journey is filled with emotional growth, hard truths, and the realization that family isn’t always defined by blood—but by those who stand by you no matter what.

Samantha Brentmoor and Jason Clarke deliver standout performances, perfectly capturing Ace’s strength and vulnerability alongside Charmer’s warmth and quiet intensity. Their chemistry and emotional delivery made me feel as if I was eavesdropping on them.

This was an emotional, binge-worthy romance that kept me invested from beginning to end.

Total Bliss

I have to say this may be my favorite book out of this series to take the number one spot and be my top sports romance of the year! This story had everything I love and crave when it comes to brother’s best friend, en*mies to lovers, and second chances. In addition, the author did a beautiful job with blending the right amount of tension and high emotions! Then add in the sizzling sp*ce and holy toledo it’s become a game winning touch down! I loved getting to see all of Jamie’s different sides that make him THE number ONE book boyfriend of the century. Then there’s Ashton, miss br*tty attitude and total f*recracker. She is certainly a force of nature to take on. Her strength and vulnerability in this book was something to behold! This story was everything and more especially with the addicting banter!!!!!! Narrators Samantha Brentmoor and Jason Clarke gave a performance that was nothing short of extraordinary! These two are a dynamic duo you don’t want to miss out on! I was left in total bliss and awe after this performance! Highly recommend!

Jamie & Ashton

To start off - Jason & Samantha are absolute perfection and there is nothing they can do wrong in any audiobook! If they perform it, I'm going to listen!!! This story has so much chemistry and banter, and I don't think that any other narrators could have done these characters justice.

This story took turns I wasn't expecting concerning family secrets surrounding her family. If you feel like you dislike her mother at the beginning...just wait until the end. That woman is not worthy of the title of mother!

If you thought the aftermath of Rome & Dillan's ONS was complicated...you've seen nothing yet!

Jamie & Ashton were childhood friends torn apart by tragedy. While they've long wanted each other, their separation over the years was largely self enforced for posterity sake in their minds. He always knew she was end game, but needed to wait for the right time. This time came after an unexpected one night stand when their flight from Chicago was cancelled due to a snowstorm.

An Emotional Romance Enemies/ONS/SC/Preg.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: 🌶🌶🌶
Narrating: 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧

Jamie Murphy and Ashton Carmichael's book.

I can not express how much I loved this book! Bella has a way of getting you to fall in love with this universe of hers. She gets you to love the characters and having you so wrapped up in the drama going on in-between the pages that you can't put the book down until it's finished and then wanting to go back and re-read it again. I'm obsessed with her writing, all her books and every character that gets a story. I've never read a bad book by her and will sing her praises and suggest all her books to anyone that loves romance and HEA!

Tropes:
🏈 Sports Romance (Football)
🩰 Surprise/Accidental Pregnancy
🏈 Little Brother's Best Friend
🩰 Single Guardian
🏈 Enemies to Lovers
🩰 Roommates
🏈 Traumatic Past & Healing
🩰 Found Family
🏈 Coach's Daughter
🩰Book Club Banter Text

Narrators Jason Clarke and Samantha Brentmoor did a fantastic job in this duet style audiobook. Jason is always fantastic at anything he narrates and I've listened to plenty of books he's read. He has such a deal and gravely voice. He jumps into the rolls he's narrating and it feels like a real life performance. He can go from pissed off and yelling to soft and caring like it's nothing. He can always dirty talk so nicely! He is one of my favorites too listen to while reading.

Samantha Brentmoor is by far one of my favorite female narrators. She had such a nice voice to listen to, and hope she can change her accents the way she does is amazing. It's not in this book, but her English accent is phenomenal! She does such an outstanding job in any book she narrates and this book was no different.

I knew I was going to love Jamie's book from the type of personality he had in past books. He's the "glass half full" kind of guy. Always happy, always having a good time, always being the funny guy much like his father, Aiden.

I knew there had to be more to this man, and boy was I correct. He always shows up and is always making others feel better. Everyone always calls him a manwh**e, and never took him seriously. How come Dillan is the only person that can see the truth about others in these books? She knew Jamie wasn't a player.

Ashton grew up with Jamie and his brother, Finn. She was always Finn's best friend and Jamie was her older brother, Evan's best friend. They were neighbors as well growing up. Jamie is 2 years older than Ashton, but he had a crush on her in high school. Ashton had a crush on Jamie during that time too. But conversations and tragedy caused them to pull apart and eventually become enemies.

Ashton and Finn became closer after this tragedy and everyone thought they would be the couple getting together. But behind it all, Ashton never had feelings for Finn like that. It was only ever his brother.

Ashton is summoned home from Chicago where she lives as a professional ballerina. Her mother has gotten into some trouble driving (dui) again and Ashton is trying to bail get out. She is in for a surprise though!

While waiting for her flight in Chicago, she runs into Jamie who is there visiting Hendrix (his story is going to be great, I'm positive of it). They both have to share a hotel room after their flight is canceled bc of snow. These enemies drink to much and they have a ONS that is closed door. Which I was surprised that spicy part wasn't written, bc they only have 2 spicy scene in this whole book.

Once they both get back to Kroydon Hills and successfully back to ignoring each other, Ashton's life changes in a big way. To where she has to stay in state and provide for a baby sister she had no clue she had (3 months old).

Finn, who is a doctor at the hospital helps Ashton or by offering up his place for her to stay with Kyrie (the baby). Only his place is his brother's house. So they move in with Jamie, Finn & Ryker. These men love Kyrie, and that little girl live them right back.

While stuck living with Jamie, she has to face the facts about some things. Especially when Jamie decides he is done being her enemy, and wants to just be hers and vise versa. All the while Ashton is pregnant from their 1 night in Chicago and has no clue about it until closer to halfway through it.

This is an emotional book and has some chapters that talk about a tragedy that happened to them. The one that tore them apart. There is guilt and self blame for a lot of things. This book was a more in depth about feelings and healing than it was a spicy romance. It was very enjoyable. Ooh and there is a kidnapping that happens in this book as well. Plus, we get a new character welcomed into their world, in not such a great way.