💙KACE (Pittsburgh Titans 20) by Sawyer Bennett-review tour💙
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date April 7, 2026
Kace Elliott is the hockey player with a genius IQ and a secret side hustle in applied physics. He’s falling for his research partner, but she doesn’t know who he is outside of the lab. Now, the closer they get, the harder it becomes for him to keep his two worlds from colliding.
On the ice, I’m Kace Elliott—starting goalie for the Pittsburgh Titans, fighting to prove myself in the playoffs. Off it, I’m William—a scientific researcher, quietly holding on to the academic world I’ll return to when hockey is over. Both versions are real, they just aren’t meant to overlap.
Until Dr. Laurel Kent.
Laurel is brilliant, principled, and deeply rooted in a world where transparency matters. She knows me online as William, her intellectual equal, the man who shares her passion for data, late-night collaboration, and easy, unexpected chemistry. William is very much her type whereas athletes are not.
I need her to like the bigger part of me—the hockey player. When she meets me in person, as Kace, I make the choice to let her see the type of man she’s sworn off from ever dating. She gets the Titans goalie and all the craziness that comes with the playoffs. But here’s where it gets complicated: I make the dangerous decision not to tell her Kace and William are the same person.
By some stroke of luck, Laurel agrees to give Kace a shot, and our time together is more than I ever hoped for. The closer together we grow, the less she talks about William, and I convince myself I’ll tell her the truth when the timing is better, once I’m able to prove I’m more than the label she’s written off. But timing has a way of unraveling even the best intentions.
As the pressure of the playoffs intensifies, the boundary I’ve relied on becomes impossible to maintain. When Laurel discovers how closely intertwined my worlds really are, I’m faced with the cost of asking someone to love only part of me.
And winning on the ice means nothing if I lose the woman who made me want to stop dividing my life in two.
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REVIEW: KACE is the twentieth and (final? ) instalment in Sawyer Bennett’s contemporary, adult PITTSBURGH TITANS hockey romance series. This is Titan’s goalie and scientist William ‘Kace’ Elliott, and research scientist Dr. Laurel Kent’s story line. KACE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. There is a slight cross over with the author’s Arizona Vengeance.
SOME BACKGROUND: Approximately two years earlier, a devastating plane crashed claimed all but three members of the Pittsburgh Titans hockey team including owners, coaches and staff. Rebuilding the team, owner Brienne Norcross, offered positions to one-time professional and semi-pro players. These are their stories.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Kace and Laurel) KACE follows the building romance and relationship between Kace and Laurel. Laurel Kent is a research scientist who has never met her online assistant William. A night out on a speed dating invitation introduces Laurel to NHL goalie Kace Elliott, the man with whom Laurel will fall in love but from the outset, Laurel tells Kace she had issues with professional athletes, and Kace is keeping a secret that could push Laurel out of his life.
The world building focuses on the run up to the Stanley Cup finals at the Pittsburgh Titans but once Kace’s secret is revealed, the fall-out may affect the goalie going forward.
The relationship between Kace and Laurel is one of immediate attraction but Laurel’s struggles with professional athletes is heightened when she discovers that Kace is keeping a secret that could affect their relationship going forward. Laurel never expected to fall in love but Kace’s secret is a threat to her ability to trust. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
The secondary and supporting characters are familiar, energetic and charismatic including Kace’s teammates, and their significant others. We are introduced to Laurel and Kace’s parent. Team enforcer Van Turner will be returning as a coach in the spin off series, the Portland Wildfire.
KACE is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and heart break, friendships and relationships, forgiveness and love. The character driven premise is captivating, and edgy; the romance is seductive; the characters are determined and charismatic.
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Reviewed by Sandy
Since the release of her debut contemporary romance novel, Off Sides, in January 2013, Sawyer Bennett has released more than 30 books and has been featured on both the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists on multiple occasions.
A reformed trial lawyer from North Carolina, Sawyer uses real life experience to create relatable, sexy stories that appeal to a wide array of readers. From new adult to erotic contemporary romance, Sawyer writes something for just about everyone.
Sawyer likes her Bloody Marys strong, her martinis dirty, and her heroes a combination of the two. When not bringing fictional romance to life, Sawyer is a chauffeur, stylist, chef, maid, and personal assistant to a very active toddler, as well as full-time servant to two adorably naughty dogs. She believes in the good of others, and that a bad day can be cured with a great work-out, cake, or a combination of the two.
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