Download or read book Belonging with Her Best Friend written by Kristin Canary and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I love three things in this world more than life itself:1. My family and housemates (both current and former)2. Musicals3. My best friend, Eric MoodyThe first two are no surprise to anyone who knows me.The third is a secret I'll carry to my grave.Because even though Eric fits in well with my crazy family and he's the outgoing complement to my quiet self, we want different things.I want him. He wants something I can never give. And I refuse to sacrifice his happiness for my own.Most of the time, I manage to keep my feelings for him under lock and key-but things change when Eric moves in with me temporarily.Now, he's here all the time. And it's harder and harder not to imagine what life together could be like ? if only.The final straw? When he starts helping me prepare for my (forced) lead role in a local musical.Because yeah. You try holding back the tidal wave of feelings you've been keeping at bay when your sexy best friend offers to "practice kiss" you.My fortitude is headed straight for the edge of a cliff-and the thrill of the impending fall has never felt so electrifying.Or so terrifying.

Download or read book Friend shipped written by Savannah Scott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you keep a secret? ... I'm in love with my best friend. There are three things you should know about me. I hate running. No, really. I only run when someone's chasing me, and thankfully that's never happened. My ideal Friday night includes pizza, The Princess Bride, and dancing with abandon. And, I'm madly in love with my best friend. That right there, that's my secret. Trevor, and I grew up next door to one another. Yes. He's the boy next door. Even now, we rent opposite sides of a duplex, and we work across the aisle from one another at the Corn Corners Tribune. Basically, there isn't a part of my life Trevor hasn't touched. I take that back. Me. He hasn't touched me. He's made it clear we're in the friend zone and whatever feelings he had for me were a passing thing for him, while mine keep growing like a Chia pet on a humid summer day in the midwest. Unruly, and apparently pointless. So, now I'm resigned to get Trevor out of my system once and for all. If only Trevor would see me as more than a friend ... But, unless he shows me otherwise, I'm going to have to do what it takes to move on. Friendshipped is a laugh-out-loud, small-town, slow-burn, friends-to-more romcom with a cinnamon roll book boyfriend and a found-family friend group. When these two finally kiss, you'll get all the sizzle you ever wanted in a closed-door romance with a happily ever after that will leave you smiling!

Download or read book Faking It With My Best Friend written by Kate O'Keeffe and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two of us have been best friends forever. But one of us is faking it. Ryn Gabe and I are the dynamic duo of Hunter's Creek, the small town in Washington where we live. As best friends, our bond is as tight as a bungee cord. But even though he's loyal, sweet, and totally hot in that flannel-wearing lumberjack way of his, he's always stayed securely in the "friend zone"-despite the fact I was head-over-heals in love with him in high school. Just as I'm complaining that nothing ever happens here, Hollywood comes to town bringing its over-the-top movie madness energy. Along for the ride is Hollywood hottie Joe Turner who turns my head in a big way. Gabe does not seem pleased. Gabe Do you know what really gets under my skin? No good, full-of-themselves Hollywood guys named Joe Turner who hit on my best friend. Doesn't Ryn know that she deserves so much better than that guy? He'll use her up and spit her out when he leaves town. Yet, no matter what I say, she goes for him anyway. And I'm not happy about it. Who am I kidding? I hate it. What's more, the Hunter's Creek Ladies Committee, aka a bunch of women with nothing better to do, have been trying to matchmake Ryn and me forever. They seem to think that the simple fact we're both single means we're perfect for each other. Listen up, ladies: it takes more to fall in love than to think your best friend is the most beautiful, clever, kind-hearted, and funny woman you've ever met. Wait. Could they be right? Faking It With My Best Friend is a best friends-to-lovers romance set in the small town of Hunter's Creek, Washington. It's the second book in the Second Chance Café series. Each book follows a different sister's love story and can be read as a standalone novel or as part of a series.

Download or read book Bed Head written by Jeni Leigh and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship is more important than s*x...right? Brody has been my best friend since grade school. We share everything. Well...almost everything. And we like it that way. That's our story and we're sticking to it. But when I lose my job and Brody offers to let me move in with him rent free, things get complicated. Being roommates (and the ensuing forced proximity) just serves to remind me that Brody is hotter than fresh-baked cinnamon rolls and every bit as tempting. One mind-blowing kiss later, we find ourselves tumbling into friends-with-benefits territory. And the benefits? Best I've ever had. It was just one night, though. It has to be. I can't afford to lose my best friend, no matter how many annoying feelings I've developed for him lately. Or maybe I've always had those feelings. Who even knows anymore? It's all so confusing and...awkward now. All I know for sure is that we have to fix this. Because I'm terrified that I've broken the most important rule of all: Never fall in love with your best friend.

Download or read book Falling for My Best Friend written by Melissa Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beautiful Forevers written by Jessie Gussman and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They both want to make things work, but will their children come between them? Gage has been happy in Blueberry Beach, living above the store on the Main Street, working from home and raising his two girls. Alone. The tightknit community supports each other and his daughters enjoy working in the ice cream shop and playing in the beach band. When Zariah and her teenage niece, Macie, move in across the street, opening a clothing boutique, Gage's attraction to her is immediate. Their relationship seems too good to be true. Or maybe it's Macie that's too good to be true. When Macie is caught in a crime spree that includes stealing cars, destroying property and dealing drugs, the small community is shocked and appalled. Will Gage and Zariah's relationship be able to weather this storm? Will Blueberry Beach ever feel safe again? Reviews for Beautiful Forevers: ★★★★★ "The book was just all consuming, heart wrenching, wonderful, everyone should read this one, it speaks to your heart like no other story I have ever read." - KRP ★★★★★ "God's grace is one of Gussman's favorite themes and she portrays it perfectly in Beautiful Forevers. Grace isn't a magic wand. It can't negate the harm done or whisk away the consequences, but it can show the way forward to healing and redemption. I have loved all of the Blueberry Beach novels, but Beautiful Forevers is my current favorite." - Charlene ★★★★★ "Wow - This is way different than the books I've been reading. It also deals with issues we parents pray we'll never have to deal with. But life happens. And grace is there. And life goes on." - Kindle Customer ★★★★★ "This is such an amazing story!!! I love how Ms. Gussman's romances intermingle the problems of real life with the love story. I suppose I feel that way because that's the way it truly happens. Her stories always read more like a glimpse into someone's life, than a fictional tale!" - Ballet in AK ★★★★★ "Wow. I am, as always, blown away by the emotion and real-ness of Jessie Gussman's works. This book is such a great example of how someone (a teen, especially) may deal with grief. I was floored." - Janet Books in the Blueberry Beach series: Yesterday's Treasures Tomorrow's Blessings Beautiful Forevers Precious Memories Misty Mornings Sweet Afternoons

Download or read book The Friendship Contract written by Mia Heintzelman and published by Levi Lynn Books. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FRIENDS TO LOVERS ROMANCE NOVEL

Download or read book Dare to Love the Guy Next Door written by Ellie Hall and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dating dare? It could turn out to be the perfect match or it could be worse than a slap on a sunburn. Me, little ol' Paisley Jones, envisioned glitz and glamour with my movie star fiancé until a humiliating, public scandal explodes in my life like damp confetti. I escape to the family cottage with an ocean view and am not looking for love until a dare and a crazy seagull send me next door. Griffin Sanders was a late-blooming goofball, but now, as a competitive surfer and business owner, not much stops him. However, when an injury keeps him out of the water, he's stuck on dry land. Turns out his teen crush is hiding out in the neighboring cottage. That would be yours truly, but I don't recognize him at first. Big waves. Big surprise. Quirky and independent, I never quite fit in the celebrity world. I'm not sure where I belong until I get on a surfboard. But it's hard to tell if the popular surfing instructor is just another guy seeking fame and fortune, the silly kid from my childhood summers, or someone I can ride the waves with. Will we take the plunge or will our affection for one another drop like the tide?

Download or read book Dare to Love My Fake Husband written by Ellie Hall and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Louboutins? Check Fashion design mogul? Check VIP wherever it matters most? Check An unsettled feeling about the future? Um, check Pressure to live a certain lifestyle turned my world toxic. Late nights bubble with drama, my relationship with my "not-boyfriend" fizzles, and failing to meet my parents' expectations means one thing. They arrange my marriage. Yes, for real. Dean Wolfson is not looking for love, nor does he want his family's business to go under. When he has the opportunity to bail them out, he says yes to marrying his best friend's sister-a hot mess. It's just temporary and then he can get on with his life. I resent that, thank you very much. We're sent to the countryside to "play house." What starts as a disaster with a leaky roof, sneaky possum, and an indoor mushroom farm turns into distraction. Dean with his charm-showing me what real fun is. And I guess he likes my smile or something. But when I learn about a secret from his past, do I dare love him?

Download or read book Dare to Love My Grumpy Boss written by Ellie Hall and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All's fair in love and dares unless your friends dare you to find your Marriage Match. I met the perfect guy aka Mr. Right. Too bad he worked for a rival company on the other side of the country. And saying we'd met is a bit of a stretch. More like we had a string of flirty email exchanges. However, I can't say no to a dare...or our digital chats. When our companies merge, thankfully, I don't lose my job. The remaining (un)lucky employees are sent on a corporate wilderness survival retreat. When the bus leaves me behind with Mr. Wrong, it's certain disaster until I discover his identity. No way. Shaw Dawson worked hard to get to the top. Wronged by business partners and in relationships, he's cautious about who enters his trust triangle. He's the kind of guy to play it safe even though he feels a connection to me that's stronger than Wi-Fi. Yes way. Flirting with a guy from another company seems innocent enough until I learn he's my new (and very grumpy boss), making dating off-limits. Despite our proximity, distance grows between us. Will he redeem himself and prove that he's Mr. Right after all?

Download or read book Capitalism and Desire written by Todd McGowan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at the same time are told more and better is yet to come. Capitalism traps us through an incomplete satisfaction that compels us after the new, the better, and the more. Capitalism's parasitic relationship to our desires gives it the illusion of corresponding to our natural impulses, which is how capitalism's defenders characterize it. By understanding this psychic strategy, McGowan hopes to divest us of our addiction to capitalist enrichment and help us rediscover enjoyment as we actually experienced it. By locating it in the present, McGowan frees us from our attachment to a better future and the belief that capitalism is an essential outgrowth of human nature. From this perspective, our economic, social, and political worlds open up to real political change. Eloquent and enlivened by examples from film, television, consumer culture, and everyday life, Capitalism and Desire brings a new, psychoanalytically grounded approach to political and social theory.

Download or read book Detransition Baby written by Torrey Peters and published by One World. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in “one of the most celebrated novels of the year” (Time) “Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand.”—Vulture One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Named one of the Best Books of the Year by more than twenty publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Time, Vogue, Esquire, Vulture, and Autostraddle PEN/Hemingway Award Winner • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Gotham Book Prize • Longlisted for The Women’s Prize • Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick • New York Times Editors’ Choice Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men. Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese—and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby—and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it—Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family—and raise the baby together? This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can't reach. Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel.

Download or read book Every Day in December written by Kitty Wilson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A fresh, fun, festive read that will stay with me for a long time. This is a definite Christmas must read!’ Jules Wake, author of the bestselling The Spark Two people. One month to fall in love.

Download or read book Dare to Love My Best Friend written by Ellie Hall and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth, dare, date. Easy, right? Not if I have to marry him...again. I have a secret I can't tell anyone. Not even my best friend. The one I've been attracted to since high school. The one I spent a wild summer with that resulted in a ring on my finger and that's not all. However, when tragedy struck, I retreated. He had enough to deal with. An accident ripped Quincy Carter's family apart. With his life on hold, all he could do was hope and pray that his memory would return. Then his sister reveals a secret that makes him question everything he thought he knew about his best friend. that would be yours truly. Now, he doesn't know what to believe. As for me? It's time to come clean. Christmas brings with it holly, jolly, merry, and messy drama. When we reunite, along with what seems like half our high school graduating class-including the girl who ruined everything-, questions are asked. Answers involve rocking around the Christmas tree, moldy mistletoe, and five golden rings. But can Quincy and get an "I do" redo and have the future we've always wanted?

Download or read book My Hate For You written by Loza Maybe and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloodline #2 His name is Earth. But I call him Nicholas after the great Knight of the kingdom. He makes me very happy. More than I have ever been my entire life. I love him with my all forgetting all the laws and rules that are against our love. I can do anything for him. Anything. *** Lovers forced into each other, thrust into each other's paths and made to know each other's pains may fall in love but can they be destined to be?

Download or read book Amazon com written by Robert Spector and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Amazon.com Jeff Bezos built something the world had never seen. He created the most recognized brand name on the Internet, became for a time one of the richest men in the world, and was crowned "the king of cyber-commerce." Yet for all the media exposure, the inside story of Amazon.com has never really been told. In this revealing, unauthorized account, Robert Spector, journalist and best-selling author, gives us this up-to-date, fast-paced, behind-the-scenes story of the company's creation and rise, its tumultuous present, and its uncertain future.

Download or read book Meanwhile Elsewhere written by Cat Fitzpatrick and published by Littlepuss Press. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. In 2017, Meanwhile, Elsewhere, a large, strange, and devastatingly touching anthology of science fiction and fantasy from transgender authors was released onto the world. The collection received rave acclaim and won the ALA Stonewall Book Award Barbara Gittings Literature Award. When its original publisher went out of business, the book fell out of print, and LittlePuss Press is now pleased to bring this title back to life for a new audience of readers. What is Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers? It is the #1 post-reality generation device approved for home use. It will prepare you to travel from multiverse to multiverse. No experience is required! Choose from twenty-five preset post-realities! Rejoice at obstacles unquestionably bested and conflicts efficiently resolved. Bring denouement to your drama with THE FOOLPROOF AUGMENTATION DEVICE FOR OUR CONTEMPORARY UTOPIA.