BLURB
Fact or fiction: becoming a lumberjack and marrying your best friend so she can inherit her family business is a great idea.
When Addison “Roe” Monroe tells me she’s going on a husband hunt at the local lumberjack competition so she can inherit her father’s lumberyard, I think she has finally lost her mind.
But my stubborn friend, who would rather drive a forklift than get her nails done, refused my first marriage offer. And since I can’t stomach watching Roe hitch her wagon to some hulking ax wielder who might be a serial killer, I decide that desperate times require desperate measures.
Call me Lumberjack Luke.
I’ll do whatever it takes to get her to accept my proposal because she’s more than just a friend. And the way she looks back at me? I think she knows it.
On the surface, I’m offering a marriage of convenience to protect her. But the truth is…I’m hopelessly in love with my best friend.
Marrying her and moving her up to Fletcher Mountain might mean I’ve lost my mind too, but so be it.
Because the only thing I would regret more, is never trying.
And that’s a fact
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Excerpt:
“And let’s not forget the real reason you’re doing all of this,” Wyatt says as he passes out the beers Judy just delivered. “All of this for a girl.”
Wyatt holds his beer up to me and the small smirk on his face looks so much like our father it hurts to look at him. I clink his glass and then Calder’s before taking a fortifying sip. It’s been quite the month.
Calder wipes beer foam off his mustache before asking, “Be honest, you’ve had it bad for Addison since the day you met her.”
I tilt my head, considering that for a moment. “I don’t know if that’s true. I mean I was obviously attracted to her, but in case you f*ckers forgot, we had a pact to never fall in love again after Robyn.”
Both my brothers bristle at the mention of her name. She is not someone any of us like to talk about. In fact, it’s our most humiliating memory to date. I’ve worked really hard to make sure Addison has never heard about that story, because I’m certain she’d look at me different. How I slept with the same woman my brothers slept with at the same time is beyond me. I was in some sort of f*cking trance. I swear Robyn Whitaker is a witch.
“Wyatt fell for someone first,” Calder says, pointing at him like a child.
Wyatt shrugs. “Falling for the mother of my child was the best thing that ever happened to me.” His eyes soften as he blinks down into his beer.
“Dakota forced me to fall in love with her, so you can yell at her, not me,” Calder mutters and I cut him an accusing look. “She did! I’m no match for a woman who hates me. It’s like catnip. I go crazy trying to win them over. We’d been doing foreplay for seven long years. You and Addison have to be approaching that amount of time, too. But it still seems crazy to jump right into marriage. Are you sure you’re ready for that?”
They both stare at me expectantly as I wince and quickly bring my beer to my lips. “Isn’t it kind of the dream to marry your best friend?”
“I suppose so,” Wyatt answers honestly. “But if she doesn’t feel the same way, it’s also a real quick way to getting hurt.”
I nod slowly, absorbing his words. “I resisted her for a long time…mostly because of our pact. Told myself I liked our solo mountain life and I knew sleeping with her once would never be enough. Then I told myself I wasn’t good enough for her and she deserved better.”
“And now?” Wyatt asks, watching me thoughtfully.
“Now it feels like if I don’t give it everything I’ve got, I could lose her to someone else and will spend the rest of my life regretting it.”
I swallow the knot in my throat and look up at the grave, knowing looks they both share with me. They’re taking me seriously for once, which I appreciate. As the youngest of four boys, it’s real hard for my brothers to ever look at me like a man and not the annoying little brothers who’s always messing everything up. But I’ve seen them in their darkest hours with Dakota and Trista and I know damn well they’d go to any length to win them back if there was a chance of losing them.
Honeymoon phase is quite the complicated best friends story!
Addison needs to marry to inherit the family business, but what she doesn’t count on is her best friend Luke vying for her affections! The lengths he goes to is beyond entertaining!
Needless to say their journey is not without hiccups and emotional moments!
I enjoyed their complicated relationship with a side of witty conversations especially with Lukes family!
I shed tears more than a few times and was happy with how their story actually ends! A rather complex, heartbreaking but also an enjoyable read!
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Number 1 Amazon and USA Today bestselling author Amy Daws writes spicy love stories that take place in America, as well as across the pond. She's been known to pen her steamy novels in a tire shop waiting room and that experience inspired her rom-com Wait With Me that was turned into a feature film on Passionflix. When Amy is not writing, she’s likely making charcuterie boards from her home in South Dakota where she lives with her daughter and husband.
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