Two different books are fighting over this product page, and only one of them is Rachel Dylan's. The description pitches a hockey romance, book four of a series called Sin Bin Secrets, built around a Seattle playmaker and the defenseman who has spent four years covering for him. Every reader response posted underneath describes a completely different audiobook: Christian romantic suspense, international terrorism, national security agencies, and three women who have been close friends since well before this installment opens. Recorded Books produced the second one. The blurb belongs to the first.
Sorting out which book you are buying takes about thirty seconds once the responses are open. Patricia Hinojosa, posting four days after release, names it precisely, calling this the third entry in the Capital Intrigue series, a run built around three best friends called Bailey, Layla and Vivian, with this volume handing the lead to Vivian. That matches the series field on the listing exactly: Capital Intrigue, number three. Not one detail from the hockey description survives contact with a single posted response.
Dylan's actual novel and the blurb's hockey story share nothing but a title, and Power Play is common enough as a sports phrase that the collision was almost certainly automated rather than deliberate. It still costs somebody. A listener hunting a high-heat male-male sports romance will receive nine hours of intelligence work instead. A listener hunting inspirational suspense will read the description, conclude the listing is not meant for them, and move on. Both walk away unserved by copy that describes neither of them.
Kate Forbes carries the entire cast alone, which on this kind of book is the harder job rather than the easier one. Espionage plotting runs on names, agencies, and the question of who knew what and when, and a single reader has to keep all of that separable by voice while the listener is also changing lanes. Recorded Books has a long history with inspirational fiction, and casting one narrator for a heroine-centered suspense novel reads as a house decision rather than an accident.
Faith and Espionage Anchor a Standalone Book Three
Espionage machinery is what the release-day five-star response singles out, praising a plot rooted in international terrorism and unfolding on American soil, and crediting the book with teaching something concrete about how national agencies actually operate. That same response argues Power Play works as a standalone, carrying enough background that a newcomer will not feel stranded. For a title sitting third in a trilogy, that is the single most useful thing a buyer can know, and the description offers nothing remotely like it.
Faith and Espionage is the headline that response chose, and the pairing is the point. Spycraft here is not decoration arranged around a love story; it supplies the moral pressure the love story then has to survive. The same note calls the run the Capital Crimes series rather than Capital Intrigue, which is a small slip but a telling one. Readers remember the shape of a series more reliably than its name, and this one has been circulating under at least two.
Rated 4.6 across 261 votes, the aggregate is strong without being suspicious, and the arithmetic underneath it is more interesting than the number itself. To land on 4.6 with that many votes, the total has shed somewhere between 92 and 117 stars against a perfect score. The five visible responses account for exactly one of them. Whatever the other ninety or more deductions were objecting to, none of it has been written down anywhere a buyer can read it, which is a peculiar kind of silence for a book this widely rated.
Too Many Players for One Distracted Listener
Quiltspinner, four stars in December 2023, files the most useful complaint in the pool: the subterfuge got overwhelming at times, with too many players and too many side stories running at once. That is a genuine hazard in audio, where you cannot flip back three chapters to check which agency somebody belongs to. A dense conspiracy plot punishes a distracted listener considerably harder than it punishes a distracted reader, and this one is dense.
That same response pushes further, arguing the lawyer at the center makes decisions from emotion rather than reason in a way that felt wrong for the profession, and that Jacob behaves more sensibly than she does through most of the book. Whether you take that as characterization or as a flaw depends on your patience for a competent professional written into repeated bad judgment. Either way it is a fair warning, and it landed long after the release-week enthusiasm had cooled.
Gift buyers face the sharper version of the same problem. Anyone shopping this for a reader who sticks to inspirational fiction will meet a description full of locker rooms and open-door heat and will reasonably put it back down. Anyone shopping it for a hockey romance reader will hand over a counterterrorism plot instead. Until the copy is corrected, the responses underneath the buy button are the only honest guide to what this recording actually contains, and that is a lot to ask of strangers.
Forbes Anchors a Trilogy's Reassuring, Competent Ending
Listeners who already know Bailey and Layla from the first two books are the obvious audience, and the June 2021 response titled Fabulous Series End makes that case with real warmth, calling this conclusion every bit as enthralling as the two books before it. That response reads the trilogy as complete here, which matters if you dislike open endings. Coming in cold is workable, but you will lose the accumulated weight of three friendships built across earlier volumes.
Suspense listeners who need moral ambiguity should look somewhere else. This is a corner of the genre where the decent people are identifiable and the ending rewards them, and the pleasure comes from competence under danger rather than from doubt about who deserves what. Add the density problem, all those agencies and overlapping side plots, and you get a recording that demands real attention while offering a fundamentally reassuring shape. That combination fits some listeners exactly and exhausts others fast.
For everybody else, the recommendation depends entirely on the correction. Power Play is a competent, well-liked inspirational thriller with a solid aggregate behind it and a central couple readers were still arguing about more than two years after release. It is not, under any reading of any posted response, a hockey romance about teammates. Check what listeners wrote before you buy, because on this particular listing they are doing the work the description refuses to do.
Good to Know
Why does the audiobook description mention a hockey team?
Because the wrong copy is attached to the page. The description belongs to a male-male hockey romance also called Power Play, book four of a series named Sin Bin Secrets. Rachel Dylan's Power Play is inspirational romantic suspense, third in the Capital Intrigue series, and every posted response describes that book rather than the one the blurb pitches.
How explicit is the romance in this audiobook?
One five-star note from August 2022 thanks Dylan for wholesome, clean Christian books and calls them the best mysteries going, which is the clearest signal on heat level anyone has left. No response in the pool describes explicit content. Expect a chaste central romance carried by faith and danger rather than by bedroom scenes.
Does this audiobook include more than one Capital Intrigue novel?
No. This is a single title running nine hours and nine minutes from Recorded Books, not an omnibus or a boxed set. The series field lists it as number three, and the response pool treats it as the closing volume, so a complete run means buying the two earlier titles separately.
