Her Coach / Her Player (Vegas Vipers 1 & 2) by Savannah Rylan-review
HER COACH
Vegas Vipers #1
by Savannah Rylan
Genre: adult, contemporary, hockey romance
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 9, 2026
He is SO off limits. He’s a silver fox, sly, sophisticated, and he knows exactly what I want from him.
Even though I definitely shouldn’t have it. As the owner’s daughter, I know better than to get involved with anyone tied to the Vegas Vipers.
Especially not Colton Mercer.
He’s the new head coach. A walking scandal A PR nightmare in an expensive suit.
He’s older, out of bounds, and one bad headline away from losing everything. My mother brought him in to rebuild the team. I should’ve kept my distance. Instead, I let him get too close.
Now the man hired to fix my family’s franchise is looking at me like I’m the one thing he wants, and every smart decision I’ve ever made is hanging by a thread.
Because Colton Mercer is a risk. To the team. To my family. To me.
And the worst part? I’m sleeping with him anyway.
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REVIEW:HER COACH is the first instalment in Savannah Rylan’s contemporary, adult VEGAS VIPERS erotic, hockey romance series. This is forty year old hockey coach Colton Mercer, and twenty-six year old, PR manager Brynn Caldwell’s story line.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Brynn and Colton) HER COACH follows in the wake of a scandal and a PR disaster. Agreeing to ‘leave’ his current team, Colton Mercer flounders for weeks until an offer and a new contract finds Colton Mercer the new head of the Vegas Vipers where he will meet his future in the guise of Brynn Caldwell, the owner’s daughter, a young woman who sees beyond the social media headlines. Brynn Caldwell thought about setting up her widowed mother with the team’s new head coach but Colton Mercer only had eyes for one woman, and our heroine was about to fall for a man with more experience than she could have ever imagined but Colton is about to repeat history, and in doing so, threaten his future with Brynn and the Vegas Vipers.
The world building focuses on remodeling and rebuilding the Vegas Vipers, a team that has been struggling for years. Colton knows that his past is no far behind but falling for Brynn Caldwell was never in the card. Brynn lives her life for someone else, and a future with Colton, may not be in the cards.
The relationship between Brynn and Colton is an age-gap romance in which history is about to be repeat itself. Colton was forced to move, leave his life behind, restarting a new direction with the Vegas Vipers but Colton never expected to fall for the owner’s daughter, a fall that may threaten his future in the league.The $ex scenes are intimate, provocative and intense without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
We are introduced to the team owner Victoria Caldwell, as well as several members of the Vegas Vipers: Captain Rhett ‘Stone’ Calloway, Jettson, Goalie Moose, Frank, Marcus, Hawk as well as Brynn’s best friend and editor Dani.
HER COACH is a story of family and relationships, loss and grief, second chances and new starts. The character driven premise is captivating and entertaining; the romance is seductive and startling; the characters are desperate, charismatic and charming.
I will add the cover, although sexy and appealing, the AI images are all the same. The men all have the same eyes, jawlines, tattoos, and muscular builds, looking like clones of one another-there needs to be some changes in the AI programs used by the authors, as many of the covers are starting to look alike.
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Reviewed by Sandy
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HER PLAYER
Vegas Vipers #2
by Savannah Rylan
Genre: adult, contemporary, hockey romance
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 26, 2026
I don’t date players. I own them.
Six-foot-seven. Jaw like a damn Greek statue. Hands that could palm a steering wheel and my entire waist at the same time. My star captain, and the one man on this roster I absolutely cannot touch.
So why is he in my office right now offering to rub my shoulders?
Rhett Calloway has been finding excuses to turn left toward my office instead of right toward his team for three years. He shows up at my house to change tires nobody asked him to change. He calls me Miss C in that voice and pretends he doesn’t know exactly what it does to me.
He knows.
I’m forty-three. I own the franchise, the foundation, and every decision that keeps this team running. I haven’t let a man get close in fourteen years, and I’m not about to start with one who’s sixteen years younger than me and plays on my ice.
Except he’s patient. Annoyingly, impossibly, infuriatingly patient. And when a media scandal puts everything I’ve built in the crosshairs, this man looks at every camera pointed at us and says let them talk.
He’s younger. He’s my employee. He’s the worst possible decision I could make.
And the worst part? I’m making it anyway. Repeatedly. With the door locked
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REVIEW:HER PLAYER is the second instalment in Savannah Rylan’s contemporary, adult VEGAS VIPERS erotic, hockey romance series. This is thirty-seven year old team captain Rhett Calloway, and forty-three year old, team owner Victoria Caldwell’s story line. HER PLAYER can be read as a stand alone but I recommend reading book one HER COACH for back story and cohesion as there is an ongoing premise throughout.
NOTE: If you have not read book one HER COACH, there may be spoilers in my review.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Rhett and Victoria) HER PLAYER follows the building but forbidden romance and relationship between our story line couple. As the fall-out continues from the privacy invasion of coach Colton Mercer, and Victoria’s daughter Brynn ,Victoria along with team captain and confident Rhett Calloway escape to the private cabin of our story line heroine wherein Rhett will continue his slow seduction of Victoria Caldwell. While the Vegas Vipers head toward the championship playoffs, the press, the paparazzi and the public are relentless discovering not only has the coach been placed in a possible compromising position but the team owner as well. Determined to protect one another, Rhett takes a chance with a potential investor, as Victoria must face down the people in charge.
The world building focuses on the battle for hockey’s biggest prize, and the uncertainty of the relationship between Rhett and Victoria. Victoria continues to struggle with the loss of her husband, fourteen years earlier, a loss that directs all of her actions involving the team and her life.
The relationship between Victoria and Rhett is a forbidden romance between player and owner. As one of the few female owners in the PHL, Victoria is under a microscope, and a rumored relationship with one of her players doesn’t bode well for our story line heroine. Already embattled with the coach’s relationship with her daughter Victoria battles between head and heart with her attraction to Rhett, the man with whom she will fall in love. Rhett is determined to prove Victoria is capable of moving on, moving beyond the past, and into a new future. The $ex scenes are emotional and provocative, without the use of over the top sexually graphic language and text.
Once again we are reintroduced to Coach Colton Mercer and Brynn Caldwell (Her Coach), as well as Jettson ‘Jet’, Goalie Moose, Frank and Marcus.
HER PLAYER is a story of grief and loss, second chances and acceptance, family and friendships, relationships and love. The character driven premise is emotional and real but as a diehard hockey fan and Canadian, some of the hockey terminology is wrong, and the actions on the ice involving the owner, coaches, players etc would never happen or be allowed.; the characters are determined and dynamic; the romance is seductive, energetic and spicy.
Again, the AI images on the covers, although eye catching, all look the same, similar to hundreds of covers using the AI format.
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Reviewed by Sandy
