With: Jill Shalvis
ALMOST JUST FRIENDS
(A standalone Wildstone novel)
Piper Manning’s about as tough as they come, she’s had to be. She raised her siblings and they’ve thankfully flown the coop. All she has to do is finish fixing up the lake house her grandparents left her, sell it, and then she’s free.
When a massive storm hits, she runs into a tall, dark and brooding stranger, Camden Reid. There’s a spark there, one that shocks her. Surprising her further, her sister and brother return, each of them holding their own secrets. The smart move would be for Piper to ignore them all but Cam unleashes emotions deep inside of her that she can’t deny, making her yearn for something she doesn’t understand. And her siblings…well, they need each other.
Only when the secrets come out, it changes everything Piper thinks she knows about her family, herself…and Cam. Can she find a way to outrun the demons? The answer is closer than she thinks—just as the new life she craves may have already begun.
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Excerpt:
The last
time a woman had ordered Cam to strip had been a very different scene
altogether, and it’d been a while. Generally speaking, he liked to be behind
the wheel in most situations, but he’d never had any complaints about a woman
driving in his bed. “Interesting bedside manner.”
“Okay,” she said. “How about strip, please.”
He laughed, and he realized that
until tonight, it’d been a damn long time for that too. “Well, since you asked
so nicely . . .” But still he hesitated.
“Trust me, I’ve seen it all before.”
He pulled off his shirt, wincing
when the cotton stuck to the deepest slice across his chest.
Piper blinked, and for the first
time all night, appeared short of words.
It was pretty damn cute, especially
with the mud on her nose. “Thought you’ve seen it all before.” She bit her
lower lip, eyes suddenly hooded, and he couldn’t resist teasing her. “So, how
do I stack up?”
That got her, and she rolled her
eyes. “Like you don’t know. Sit.”
The couch seemed too . . . personal,
so he sat on her coffee table. She dropped to her knees at his side and
doctored up first the cut on his left palm from where he’d nicked himself in
his dad’s kitchen, and then the two slices on his left biceps, and then the
biggest one across his chest, during which time he did his best to ignore the
feel of her soft breath on his skin and failed.
“Seriously,” he said. “Doesn’t even
have to be dinner. An appetizer would work.”
“If you’re real good, I’ll give you
a sticker.”
“How about letting me look at your
secret secret bucket list instead?”
Her eyes narrowed. “How about we
stop talking now?”
“Wait.” He cocked his head. “Does
this mean you also have a secret bucket list? And possibly a not-so- secret
bucket list?”
She had hands on hips; a fresh,
clean gauze in one hand, antibiotic ointment in the other, her expression
dialed to Not Feeling Playful.
With a rough laugh, he stood and
took the gauze and ointment from her. “I got this one, Doc.” And then he
gestured for her to turn around.
She did with a smirk, and then spoke
over her shoulder. “Didn’t peg you for the shy type.”
“Oh, I’m not shy.” He shoved his
icy, muddy, wet cargoes to his thighs, and yeah, the cat had come within two
inches of de-manning him. “Just didn’t want to have to fight you off.”
“Don’t worry,” she said. “I always
get verbal consent first. And I bet you didn’t want me to see your
tighty-whities.”
He gritted his teeth as he cleaned
out the cut. Son of a bitch, that cat had gone deep. “They’re not tight and
they’re not white.”
“Batman undies?”
“Commando,” he said, and that shut
her up. When he’d finished and pulled his pants back up, he lifted his head and
found her facing him. His brows went up. “See anything you like?”
Instead of answering, she blushed.
And he grinned because, yeah. She’d definitely seen something she liked.
From
Almost Just Friends by Jill Shalvis, published by William Morrow. Copyright ©
2020 by Jill Shalvis. Reprinted courtesy of HarperCollinsPublishers https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062897800/almost-just-friends/
ABOUT JILL SHALVIS
New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill’s bestselling, award-winning books wherever romances are sold and visit her website, www.jillshalvis.com, for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-
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