A Mess of Reason

There are three sides to our story: mine, hers, and the truth.   This is happens every time I'm with him...eyes wandering,  mouths craving, fingers stealing touches. Heartbeats tripping.   I want one woman: my best friend, Tess Harlow, the stone cold fox that spins my universe. Instead I'm dating a pop rock icon that checks her reflection in the back of her spoon.   I want one man: my best friend, Scout Steele,  the number one country music crossover artist of our generation. He put the words hell-raiser-hot on the map. Instead I'm marrying his nemesis.   I crossed the line...she short-circuits my heart.   He crossed the line; I'm on the same page...sadly, in a different book.   Fifteen years is a long time to keep the secret she's held from me. The gloves are coming off now.   It's a dicey proposition he's offering, but I can't do it.  I'm living a double standard. I've got a roadblock.   I want her. I'm taking her! I'm calling it 'damage control'.   My compass points only to him. Too bad I'm travelling in the other direction.   I'm about to give her that knock-you-flat feeling.   Then he gives me that go-for-broke feeling.   Maybe she doesn't love me.  And maybe I don't believe her.... "Witty", "romantic", "sexy" and "soul-swelling". An addictive heartfelt novel with a bold voice that will have you laughing out loud one minute then grabbing for tissue the next. An unforgettable romance with twists so emotionally wrought and endearing that they'll make you weep. Get ready to carve out a chunk of your heart for Scout and Tess's genuinely moving best-friend-turned-lover romance. This is an "I love you" like you've never read before. It's not a story, it's a sexy romance novel game changer. "Scout Steele is the country music star People magazine just voted 'sexiest bachelor'. More than that, he's my best friend forever, my bff. OK, not quite my lingo - I'm almost thirty. We've shared everything, and then some. Even crossed the line a few times, but not too far. Well, mostly.... He'll go to the end of the world to make me happy; he knows me inside and out. Except, that is, my most intimate and darkest defect; this he must never know. It would ruin us, and 'us' is the only thing that matters. So I'm marrying someone who doesn't care about the truth or, frankly, even me."  "She's twisted and sexy as all get out. Brilliant and beautiful, Tess Harlow is my best friend and my forbidden fruit - the woman I've always known and loved the best but can never have. Between my tours (and sexy groupies) and her man-juggling, we've never found "our time". I love her to pieces but she's about to marry the bane of my existence, rocker Creed Luce. He's a walking cliché and he treats my Tess like hell - why she stays with him I still haven't figured out. I am always there for her...but not this time. Tess deserves better, way better, my better. The door is half-open and I have my ways. Her best friend is about to become her best lover."