He's a bad boy who lives hard and plays hard...but somehow, I can't resist him... I know I'm not a failure, even after dropping out of college, but the challenge is proving it to everyone else. That's why when my brother and I are given the deed to our grandparent's property in our small hometown, I know I'm going to make it into something meaningful. I didn't expect Leo Delaney. He's the town troublemaker, a ripped alpha male who is nothing I need but everything my curves crave. I know my brother wouldn't approve of me getting involved with his best friend, but how can I resist when Leo's body is a bitingly hot as his tongue? And that's why when things heat up between us, we decide to keep it a secret, no matter what. ...So what will I do now that I'm pregnant with his baby? - Knocked Up By Brother's Best Friend is a 70,000 word bad-boy romance where one curvy woman's new fling just so happens to be her brother's best friend-and almost too much man to handle, especially when she gets knocked up.
He’s not the kind of man I should want But he’s everything I need Our attraction is instant Our problems are immediate If I lose him, I fear I’ll lose myself. Quinn He’s a bad boy who lives hard and plays harder…but somehow, I can’t resist him… I know I’m not a failure, even after dropping out of college, but the challenge is proving it to everyone else. And when an opportunity knocks, I know I’m going to grab it and convert it into something meaningful. I didn’t expect Leo Delaney. He’s the town troublemaker, a ripped alpha male who is nothing I need, but everything my curves crave. I know my brother wouldn’t approve of me getting involved with his best friend, but how can I resist when Leo’s body is as bitingly hot as his tongue? And that’s why when things heat up between us, we decide to keep it a secret, no matter what. …So what will I do now that I’m pregnant with his baby? Leo She’s broken all my rules, but I might end up breaking her heart. That is, if she doesn’t break mine first. I lived my life by two simple rules: Never stay in one place too long, and never stay with the same woman for more than three nights. I ran through women like wine and savored every single sip. I knew what I wanted and I let nothing stand in my way. Then Quinn Moore crashed into my life and shattered all of my rules. Every time I lock eyes with her, all sense and ‘shoulds’ go out of the window The only problem? Her brother is my best friend and I know if he ever finds out about us, I’m a dead man. Even knowing the score, I can’t keep my hands off her. She’s smart, irresistible, and oh man…that hourglass figure…it should be illegal. She’s dangerous in the best way and despite the sneaking around, secrets and siblings, I can’t resist her. This is messed up, way too messed up!
One-night stands and booty calls are as far as I commit. I'm not the guy you bring home to Mom. I'm the one you look for when you want naughty kisses and whispered sweet-nothings, and hell, baby, I deliver. Each and every time. Or at least I used to. Before my brother talked me into hiring a new waitress whose whiskey eyes have been driving me as crazy as the sight of her in those jeans. She's everything I didn't think I would want. There's no warming up to love. It's a freefall, and I'm taking her with me. I've always been a man who knows what he wants. And I want Leni Holden.
My brother's best friend is the whole package--sweet, smart, funny, and smoking hot. There's just one problem...according to him, I'm totally off-limits.LolaI'd had a crush on Dane Webster since I was old enough to know what one was. But he only ever saw me as his best friend's kid sister.Now that I was all grown up and working side-by-side with both of them, the close proximity was making me feel things I shouldn't have been feeling--especially since Dane locked me down firmly in the friend zone.His offer of friendship came complete with the suggestion that he should be my wingman. After the horror wore off, I considered the possibilities...would helping me meet other men make him finally see me?It was worth a shot...DaneNate Walton was my brother from another mother, which made Lola like a sister to me. Sure, I flirted with her outrageously, but that was just to mess with Nate...and he fell for it every time.But I couldn't deny she was attractive, with her glossy black hair, dark eyes, and secret smiles. My constant friendly teasing quickly turned into real lust, and I fought it...until I couldn't. One confession from her set my resolve--and my body--on fire.Now, I was obsessed with two things--pleasuring Lola Walton and making sure her brother never found out about it.Wanting My Brother's Best Friend is book #4 in the Milestone Mischief Series. It is a sweet & steamy standalone with no cliffhanger.
Let’s say you’re an independent, self-sufficient woman who runs the family company and you find yourself falling for your little brother’s best friend. Now, more than ever, you need to count all the reasons why you need to abandon falling. Abandon Falling #1 – He’s a womanizer. Hasn’t had a serious relationship a day in his life and changes women more often than he changes his sheets. Abandon Falling #2 – He’s never serious. He cracks one-liners, mostly at your expense. Abandon Falling #3 – When things go wrong, he seems unfazed and always remains in control. It’s so annoying. Abandon Falling #4 – He has tattoos. Lots of them. Everywhere. Not to mention, he owns a tattoo parlor. (Damn it! Why doesn’t that sound like a bad thing anymore?) Abandon Falling #5 – There’s a growing list of how different you two are. You can’t get along for fifteen minutes—a lifetime together would land one of you in prison. Keep repeating those reasons and drown yourself in work. Pretend you don’t notice his good qualities or how enticing he looks without a shirt, and do not, I repeat, do not agree to live with the man while your place is being repaired from flood damage. Trust me, even the strongest of us can only forego temptation for so long.
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
My best friend's brother took my V card four years ago and left a bun in the oven. One night of passion was all it took to change my life forever. He doesn’t remember, but I can’t forget it. When I’m given the job opportunity of a lifetime I can’t turn it down. Even if it means coming face-to-face with him. All I have to do is not fall for him…again. And keep the biggest secret of my life under wraps. When I see Jackson again, I am melted in his sea-green eyes. It takes everything in me to not pull him in for a kiss…or more. Watching him play with my son sparks emotions I thought I dealt with long ago. They are like two peas in a pod, my son even has his green eyes. I’m so close to having everything I ever wanted, but at what cost? One night of passion, four years of lies, I have one chance to fix this. Or I lose my Rockstar forever…
Fifty years after Where the Wild Things Are was published comes the last book Maurice Sendak completed before his death in May 2012, My Brother's Book. With influences from Shakespeare and William Blake, Sendak pays homage to his late brother, Jack, whom he credited for his passion for writing and drawing. Pairing Sendak's poignant poetry with his exquisite and dramatic artwork, this book redefines what mature readers expect from Maurice Sendak while continuing the lasting legacy he created over his long, illustrious career. Sendak's tribute to his brother is an expression of both grief and love and will resonate with his lifelong fans who may have read his children's books and will be ecstatic to discover something for them now. Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic and Shakespearean scholar Stephen Greenblatt contributes a moving introduction.
I fell in love with Holden York when I was six years old. Most of my youth came with spiral notebooks filled with doodles, wedding plans, and "Janelle York" looped in bubbly handwriting. However, one night in Vegas changed everything. I woke up to more than just a fantasy of my brother's best friend. Five years later, I'm standing on his doorstep confronting him about the secret he kept from me. If you think this is the story of how we rode off into the sunset together... You're so wrong. But if you think this is the story of how Holden blackmailed me into living with him... You couldn't be more right.
Six overprotective older brothers. One hopelessly single younger sister. She loved her brothers, but, hell, they were ANNOYING. And good at scaring off every single man she’d ever dated. Cora just wanted the happy ending, the man would love her and her flaws. The one who wouldn’t be scared off by her six scary brothers. But that man didn’t appear to exist. Until one day there was a knock at the door. And Rafe showed up, moved in, and— Proved that her brothers’ best friend was the only man on the planet who wasn’t scared.
