how stay in control.
to responsibility’ ex-boyfriend left town
has kinda set the bar for whatever might come her way. Except
the day-to-day realities of single motherhood has her juggling in a
way that she couldn’t anticipate, which is why she’s one sleepless night away
from a padded cell.
Whitfield, unrepentant flirt and alleged manwhore. Michael isn’t
allergic to responsibility, but he does have a healthy aversion
to commitment, until his relationship with Brooke. Their friendship is
easy, until it’s not. They learn to walk a tight rope of restraint,
choosing not to act on their attraction out of respect for the friendship
they’ve built.
place, and Brooke finds herself facing the most uncontrollable situation of
all: risking her heart to a man who’s never had to take care of
one before.
Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
So that brings us to Michael. It’s set about a year after Cole and Julia’s story. Brooke is a single mom raising her almost-1-year-old twins alone, and Michael is still an undeniable flirt… whom everyone assumes is also an undeniable manwhore. But looks can be deceiving.
Having been raised by a single mom himself, Michael seems to have a soft spot for Brooke, and an unlikely friendship grows between them after he first helps her out of a babysitter jam, then begins construction on her in-home salon. So she can be closer to her kids, of course. Before either of them know it, their friendship has turned into stolen glances and heated thoughts of the other. But then one night, all bets are off — and so are their shirts, as Brooke and Michael overstep one of their friendship boundaries. And what happens when
The drama that happens between Michael and Brooke felt so genuine, so real. They are both such strong personalities, and together they are even stronger. They really bring out the best in one another, and Michael is so patient and understanding of her life as a single mom. And he adores her kids. That comes across so clearly on the pages. But they are both a little hard-headed, and neither one of them is willing to completely ‘fess up about what they are really feeling. Michael has never wanted to step up to the plate for a woman before he met Brooke, and the pain and agony he feels when Brooke doesn’t believe him is palpable.
Karla does a great job of really getting to the heart and soul of these characters. The evolution of their friends-to-lovers romance was organic, and I fell in love with Brooke and Michael as they were falling in love with one another. I can’t wait to see what Karla has in store for Michael’s brother, Tristan, next! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
are you doing here?”
twitchy. It was easier to ignore when I’d been a whale of a pregnant person and
he oh-so-kindly informed me that I held no appeal whatsoever to him because I
was on the verge of single motherhood. Okay, fine, that wasn’t exactly what he
said, but he’d been pretty clear that our relationship was platonic.
scruffy face, the white t-shirt he wore underneath a dark gray hoodie stretched
across his leanly muscular chest in a way that made me feel a little sweaty.
“I’m the cavalry.”
nope, all the no in all the world. “I was with Julia when she got your text and
they already had plans.”
tall, handsome man currently annoying his mommy. Well, he wasn’t annoying me,
exactly. But I was annoyed in general and now Michael got to be my scapegoat.
Yay for him. “Why didn’t she tell me that?”
Michael’s dark jeans. I was just about to apologize when he leaned over and
picked her up with the kind of ease that had me speechless.
Effing speechless.
Me.
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