Friends-to-lovers and baby tropes are not my favorite, so it isn't too surprising to me that I enjoyed Sold Short the least out of the three Sidelined books.

Sarina and Dev have been best friends since college when the literally ran into one another. Now years later, with an extremely profitable business they run together with their friends Reid and Owen, Sarina is finally tired of waiting. Waiting for Dev to give her any indication he wants more than friendship. Tired of dating. Tired of worrying about being too old to have a baby.

So, Sarina hires an escort to put some sexy back into her life, and tells her friends she's ready to have a baby, on her own. Dev reacts terribly while Owen and Reid are 100% on board with this new project.

Dev, who's been having sex with his other friend since childhood, Shush, is angry and baffled that Sarina didn't tell him first, didn't ask him, isn't going to at least try to find someone to do this with. Plus, Dev's youngest sister is pregnant after a wild night of sex with three different men. He's also starting to think he should be the one to give Sarina a baby, and maybe more.

As these two dance around their feelings, their families, and their careers, it becomes more and more clear they should just boink and be together already.

There was a lot going on in this book, and while it was still sexy, I didn't like how wrapped up Dev was with Shush and how he was kind of leading her on, but she was also telling him one thing and telling her family another thing. He knew he didn't want to marry her, she was hoping to change his mind? I did like how Sarina never slut-shamed Shush. Sarina's relationship with the male escort was cute and sexy, and he deserves his own book TBH. There was just so much conflict based on misunderstanding it grew a bit tiring, and then there seemed to be a lot of miraculous baby-making magic that also just irritates me a little.

That said I've utterly enjoyed reading this series, it is making me stay up way too late reading!