Download or read book Making the Love List a Small Town Older Brother s Best Friend Romance Tall Dark and Driven Book 1 written by Barbara DeLeo and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling in love wasn't part of the plan... Successful restaurateur Lane Griffiths has been a friend of the Katsalos family for years, so between projects he's happy to help with the renovations of their wedding hall, The Aegean Palace. At least until he finds himself stuck working with his best friend's little sister, Yasmin. Yasmin has reinvented herself. After a brush with death in the wilds of Borneo, she's made a list of all the things she wouldn't have had the courage to do before. The new purple streak in her hair and the diamond stud in her nose is just the beginning. Next up: seduce a tall, dark, handsome man. Lane fits the bill oh so perfectly. Yasmin is so different from the girl Lane used to know. Her ideas may be impractical and a little bit crazy, but he's irresistibly drawn to her free-spirited nature, never dreaming he's just a number on her Love List.

Download or read book Making the Love List written by Barbara Deleo and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Big, Fat Greek Wedding meets Virgin River. She's found the perfect guy. He knows she's off-limits. When integrity clashes with a plan to throw out the rule book, it could tear both their worlds apart. Yasmin Katsalos is done with being a good little Greek girl. Having survived a near-death experience, she's made a list of all the things she wants to do and is determinedly checking them off. And it just so happens that her big brother's best friend is the perfect choice for "seducing a tall, dark, and handsome man out of my league." Lane Griffiths is made of loyalty. Believing he owes the Katsalos family for their generosity and family support when he's had none, he's glad to assist with renovations to the wedding hall. But he didn't count on his friend's flirty little sister interfering with his plan to do the right thing. As Yasmin turns up the heat in her attempts to win him, she can't understand the gorgeous man's reluctance to give in to their obvious attraction. And though Lane can't get the blossoming young woman out of his head, he knows that giving in to their desire could blow both their worlds apart. Making the Love List is Book 1 in Tall, Dark and Driven, the sweet, small-town contemporary romance series that readers can't get enough of. If you love smoldering chemistry, witty banter, and big ensemble casts, then you'll fall for Barbara DeLeo's irresistible stories.

Download or read book Making the Love List Large Print Edition written by Barbara Deleo and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Big, Fat Greek Wedding meets Virgin River. She's found the perfect guy. He knows she's off-limits. When integrity clashes with a plan to throw out the rule book, it could tear both their worlds apart. Yasmin Katsalos is done with being a good little Greek girl. Having survived a near-death experience, she's made a list of all the things she wants to do and is determinedly checking them off. And it just so happens that her big brother's best friend is the perfect choice for "seducing a tall, dark, and handsome man out of my league." Lane Griffiths is made of loyalty. Believing he owes the Katsalos family for their generosity and family support when he's had none, he's glad to assist with renovations to the wedding hall. But he didn't count on his friend's flirty little sister interfering with his plan to do the right thing. As Yasmin turns up the heat in her attempts to win him, she can't understand the gorgeous man's reluctance to give in to their obvious attraction. And though Lane can't get the blossoming young woman out of his head, he knows that giving in to their desire could blow both their worlds apart. Making the Love List is Book 1 in Tall, Dark and Driven, the sweet, small-town contemporary romance series that readers can't get enough of. If you love smoldering chemistry, witty banter, and big ensemble casts, then you'll fall for Barbara DeLeo's irresistible stories.

Download or read book The Sense of an Ending written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Download or read book I Love Jesus But I Want to Die written by Sarah J. Robinson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

Download or read book Break the Rules written by Roxie Noir and published by Roxie Noir Publishing. This book was released on with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s my best friend’s kid sister. Now she’s not a kid any more. As a forest ranger, I believe in the simple life. I prefer cabins to apartments, trails over freeways, and trees to people. My life is orderly, predictable, and quiet. Until it’s hit by a woman I never saw coming -- Hurricane June. She’s fierce. She’s feisty. She has a laugh like the first day of spring, and she’s so pretty that I can’t breathe when I look at her. June will only be in town for a few months—just while job-hunting. She won’t last until winter, but how can I resist? Except I have to. She’s my best, oldest, and most loyal friend’s baby sister. Betraying him would be the worst thing I’ve ever done. Not betraying him might be the hardest. Especially once we start working together on a secret project. All this spending time together, sneaking around at night, and lying to her brother about what we’re doing sure feels like more than friendship. June might break my heart. Her brother might break my nose. But I guess some things were made to be broken. Break the Rules is the third book in the Loveless Brothers series, and can be read as a total standalone. It's for fans of high-heat, low-angst romantic comedies and anyone who's ever had a crush on their brother's best friend. This one's got all the sibling banter you love, meddling brothers, a mountain man who's quiet in the streets and anything but in the sheets, tons of steam, and all the small town charm you can handle. Of course, it's also got an HEA. (And yes, it bangs.) This series is for fans of Elsie Silver, Claire Kingsley, Lucy Score, Kate Canterbary, and Pippa Grant.

Download or read book Forbidden Love written by Lea Coll and published by Lea Coll. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyler Fletcher was the star of every one of my teenage fantasies. And I was the forbidden fruit. The younger sister to four older brothers, I was off-limits to every guy in town—especially my brothers’ best friend. After finding ourselves alone in the same room when I was eighteen, Tyler and I had one brief, passionate encounter. But he disappeared without a word in the middle of the night. Desperate to get out of my brothers’ shadows, and away from Tyler, I fled to Paris. But after losing my job at a luxury hotel there, I found myself in the one place I swore I would never live—back home in Telluride. At a fundraising event at my family’s ski resort, Tyler approached me with an offer to partner together to raise money for charity. Desperate to find my footing and prove to my father that I deserved a position in his company, I agreed to Tyler’s proposition. Our task was simple: Construct dugouts for local softball teams. Instead, our shared moments were filled with stolen kisses in the outfield, surrendering to the undeniable spark between us. My recklessness won’t impress my father, and if he doesn’t give me the job, there will be nothing for me here. For Tyler, leaving his family and business isn’t an option. We’re treading a dangerous line, but what happens if it blows up in my face?

Download or read book Pick Me written by May Archer and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The job at Sunday Orchard was supposed to be temporary. A chance to gain some work experience. To have some fun. To get away from my overprotective brothers. To maybe, possibly encounter some lumberjacks in their natural habitat before moving on to the dream career that awaited me in the city. I had not expected to be welcomed into a family of gorgeous and weirdly efficient lumberjack-types myself. Or to find a purpose in the tiny Vermont town whose claim to fame seemed to be apple-based products and copious amounts of charm. And I most definitely hadn't expected to fall for Knox Sunday, my grumpy, burly, fifteen-years-older, reluctant roommate, with his infuriating lectures, his hot-as-fire body, his superior attitude, his snarky humor, and his stealth cuddles. Now I find myself making excuses to delay my big dreams... just for a little while. But Knox has unfulfilled dreams of his own. A career he walked away from. A big city life in Boston he left behind when he returned to his hometown to help his family. He claims he's not looking for anything permanent, and I've never been one to put down roots. My big life is waiting for me somewhere other than Little Pippin Hollow. So why does it feel like I've finally found the home of my heart? And how can I get Knox Sunday to... pick me?

Download or read book Say You Swear written by Meagan Brandy and published by Bloom Books. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her brother's best friend broke her heart, but what happens when his new teammate wants to put it back together? Arianna Johnson has been dreaming of what college life might bring, and it's finally coming over the horizon as she and her friends plan one last beachside summer together. So much has changed over the years, but there's always been one constant. The boy her heart returns to no matter where her imagination runs: her brother's best friend, Chase. This is the summer she'll finally tell him how she feels. That it's him. It's always been him. Until suddenly, it isn't. Ari's heart is in splinters when she meets star quarterback Noah Riley. His friendship is exactly what she needs after Chase's rejection, but from the start, Noah wants more. Even when their path is blurry, even when tragedy strikes, even when Ari doesn't know her own heart, Noah will fight for the feelings he knows they both have...no matter what it might cost them. They say first love lasts forever. Ari is about to find out if that's really true.

Download or read book The Songs of St Petersburg written by Amor Towles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility. 'A comic masterpiece.' The Times 'Winning . . . gorgeous . . . satisfying . . . Towles is a craftsman.' New York Times Book Review 'A work of great charm, intelligence and insight.' Sunday Times 'Everything a novel should be: charming, witty, poetic and generous. An absolute delight.' Mail on Sunday 'If we do a better book than this one on the book club this year we will be very very lucky.' Matt Williams, Radio 2 Book Club 'Abundant in humour, history and humanity' Sunday Telegraph 'Wistful, whimsical and wry.' Sunday Express On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. But instead of being taken to his usual suite, he is led to an attic room with a window the size of a chessboard. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. While Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval, the Count, stripped of the trappings that defined his life, is forced to question what makes us who we are. And with the assistance of a glamorous actress, a cantankerous chef and a very serious child, Rostov unexpectedly discovers a new understanding of both pleasure and purpose.

Download or read book My Brother s Forbidden Friend written by Piper Rayne and published by Piper Rayne, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’ve gone from crushing on my brother’s best friend to wanting to crush him. Cameron Baker and I have a few things in common. The first being that we were both born and raised in our small Alaskan town. Second, is that we hide our feelings and keep our hearts closed off from anyone who could break them. But hiding my feelings is harder to do with Cam than most. When I was five years old, grieving the loss of my mother, he showed me how big his heart is, and I’ve never forgotten. He comes from the richest family in town. Cam’s bad boy gorgeous, flirts like he has a Doctorate in charm, and he’s my brother’s best friend. That last part is where it gets tricky and the sole reason we’ve never crossed the line. Now, his parents have cut him off to force him to prove himself. I never thought he’d open a competing business to mine. So, I do what I do best, shove all my feelings aside and ready myself to crush him. Game on. TW: physical abuse on page.

Download or read book Here With Me written by Tia Louise and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sawyer LaGrange.He's my best friend's older brother.He's quiet, brooding, sinfully sexy...Dark hair, a scruffy square jaw, and deep lines of muscle I trace my fingers along slowly, followed by my lips...He always does what's right.Until me...They say you get in life what you have the courage to ask for.Well, I'm brave.And I want him.Secrets.Everybody has them.Big, small, innocent... forbidden.Mindy was a line I should never have crossed.But I did.She was beautiful... sassy and tempting, And rules were made to be broken.We broke them all.Now I'm home, released from service with hidden scars.Now my secrets are the demons that grow stronger every day.I try to send her away, but I can't let her go.She's my reason to fight, and I'll walk through hell to be the man she deserves.To give her a reason to stay here with me.(HERE WITH ME is a STAND-ALONE best friend's older brother, second-chance, military romance. No cheating. No cliffhangers.)

Download or read book Always and Forever written by Julia Jarrett and published by Library and Archives of Canada. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's my childhood best friend's older brother, a man I haven't seen in eighteen years. But while I was gone, Ethan Monroe went from the boy I knew to the seriously hot mayor of our small town. I'm talking plaid-wearing, scruff-bearing, panty-melting gorgeous. The thing is, I didn't come back to Dogwood Cove to date. I'm only here to deal with my estranged father's will and figure out what to do with the run-down beachfront resort he decided to leave me. The resort needs a lot of work, and Ethan offers to help. He makes a tool belt look good and watching him lift heavy loads is making me wish we were more than just friends. And if the looks he gives me are any indication, that attraction goes both ways. Except I've got trust issues that can't be repaired with a hammer and nails, and my wounded heart is only just beginning to heal. Coming back to Dogwood Cove is exactly what I didn't know I needed. Risking my new life for a man, for love, feels wrong. But what if Ethan is the reason moving back feels so right?

Download or read book Always and Forever written by Julia Jarrett and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I left Dogwood Cove as a child eighteen years ago when Ethan Monroe was nothing more than my best friend's older brother. Now I'm back and he's so much more.Gone is the boy I played hide and seek with, and in his place is the seriously hot, plaid-wearing, scruff-bearing, mayor of the small town we grew up in.I've got trust issues that can't be fixed easily and I didn't come back here looking for love, but Ethan is determined to prove that coming home could be the start of the life I've always dreamed of.Could he be the man to put my damaged heart back together for good? Always and Forever is perfect for fans of steamy small town romance, found family friend groups, cinnamon roll heroes, plenty of swoon, light hearted banter, quirky small town vibes, low angst and high heat love stories with a guaranteed HEA. It is a standalone, and the first full length novel in the Dogwood Cove series.

Download or read book Taylor s Unexpected Daddy written by Stella Moore and published by Stella Moore LLC. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She needs a Daddy. And she’s about to get one from the most unexpected place. Taylor Dawson is a hot mess. From her disaster of an apartment to her failing grades, nothing in her life seems to be going to plan. Until her best friend’s older brother steps in and makes her an offer she thought she’d only get in her wildest dreams. An offer that could change her life, and their small town, forever…

Download or read book Loving the Wrong Brother A Clean Mountain Romance Kings Grove written by D. L. Stewart and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was supposed to be her enemy. She didn't mean to fall for him.Miranda George feels stuck in the small mountain town of Kings Grove-a town that reminds her of embarrassing moment she's ever had-and there are a lot. Living with her parents and working at a diner wasn't exactly how she saw her life going. Despite her life's imperfections, the one thing she looks forward to is Chance Palmer. Tall, dark, and handsome, she's convinced he's the man for her-even if he seems to come in a package deal with Sam, his younger brother and the instigator of most of her embarrassing moments. Sam Palmer is ready to get out of his brother's shadow. He's ready to stop being known as simply "Chance Palmer's younger brother"-especially when it comes to Miranda George. Brokenhearted from senior year, Sam still can't seem to find the words to tell her the truth about the incident or his feelings, even five years later. And with her love for his older brother so plainly written across her face, he can't help but feel that the truth wouldn't matter anyway. When Chance hires Miranda to work for their construction company, Miranda and Sam both put up walls to protect their hearts, but they slowly learn that everything they thought they knew about each other is wrong. When a backcountry wildfire threatens everything and everyone they love, Miranda and Sam must decide if they can look beyond their complicated past and see a future together, or choose to protect their hearts, and possibly end up alone.More in the Kings Grove Series: Discovering Love at Christmas

Download or read book All I Want written by J. Daniels and published by Alabama Summer. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Abbi Glines will love this story about an independent woman who tries to get over the love of her life when he cannot commit to her.