"A runaway bride fake dates her best friend's older brother in this spicy-but-sweet small town romance from the beloved author of How to Break My Heart.
Maddy Beaumont has been dubbed the runaway bride of Cinnamon Springs after leaving her ex, Myles, at the altar and escaping to Manhattan. But she can't escape the town's judgment for long - months later, she's forced to return home for her brother's wedding, and Maddy is surprised by feelings of jealousy when she learns Myles has a new fiancée.
Did she make a mistake by calling off the wedding? There's only one way to find out. In an effort to test the waters with Myles, Maddy strikes a deal with pastry chef Elliot, her best friend's charming older stepbrother. In return for her help with his new café, he'll be her fake boyfriend so she doesn't have to face Myles alone.
But the more time Maddy spends with Elliot, the more she realises what they share might not be so fake after all . . .
Readers LOVE the Cinnamon Spring series!
'Kat T. Masen does it again! Everything she writes is so good!'
'I'm a sucker for a good enemies-to-lovers, and this one absolutely delivered'
'Their dynamic? Absolutely electric. The jealousy?? Off the charts. The mutual pining? UNHINGED'
'OMG FIVE STARS! AMAZING! FANTASTIC! SUCH A FUN TIME I WAS UNABLE TO PUT THIS BOOK DOWN!'
'I finished this book at 3am last night. Kat Masen once again you have me & my heart in a vice grip. This book was beautiful!'
Tropes you'll find in When Forever Falls Apart . . .
* Best Friend's Older Brother
* Runaway Bride
* Fake Dating
* Small Town
* Billionaires"
"I never should have fooled around with my brother's best friend . . .
Emerson
Everyone thinks they know who I am. I'm the TV star who fell in love with her costar, Wesley Rich. But it wasn't real. It was a life designed to entertain millions of watchers each Monday night. A life I had no control over. Until my past came to visit . . .
All it took was one night. One night to relive my past. One night to forget my future. With someone who'd been there all along . . .
Logan
Soccer is my life—it's in my blood. I train hard, I play hard, and I win. Nothing breaks my focus. Except Emerson. Every Monday night. She's an obsession I can't seem to shake. I don't know what was harder: hiding how I feel about his sister from my best friend, or watching the woman I want live a life with someone else.
Contains mature themes."
"Small-town charm and steamy billionaires: Welcome to Cinnamon Springs . . .
How to Break My Heart is a cosy and steamy enemies-to-lovers romance following a small-town cafe owner and her best friend's billionaire brother as they're forced to work together to plan a wedding. Perfect for fans of Lauren Asher and Anna Huang.
Eva Woods is perfectly content with her quiet life in the picturesque town of Cinnamon Springs, where she owns a cafe famous for its mouthwatering donuts. But when her best friend, Maddy, asks Eva to join forces with her brother for the sake of her upcoming wedding, Eva's quaint life is upended. Cold and rigid, Aston is the man who broke Eva's heart back in high school. He's also one of the country's hottest billionaires.
With both Aston and Eva trying to outdo each other and stake their claims as Maddy's right-hand man, the competition heats up. But as their annoyance grows, so does their attraction, and when they share a steamy kiss, everything changes. Suddenly, Eva isn't so sure about where she stands with Aston. And with Maddy's wedding fast approaching, their time together is dwindling until Aston returns to his life in New York.
Will Eva survive this wedding with her heart intact? Or is she setting herself up for heartbreak . . . again?
Readers LOVE How To Break My Heart!
'Kat T. Masen does it again! Everything she writes is so good!'
'I'm a sucker for a good enemies-to-lovers, and this one absolutely delivered'
'Their dynamic? Absolutely electric. The jealousy?? Off the charts. The mutual pining? UNHINGED'
'OMG FIVE STARS! AMAZING! FANTASTIC! SUCH A FUN TIME I WAS UNABLE TO PUT THIS BOOK DOWN!'
'I finished this book at 3am last night. Kat Masen once again you have me & my heart in a vice grip. This book was beautiful!'
Tropes you'll find in How to Break My Heart . . .
* Best Friend's Older Brother
* Enemies to Lovers
* Billionaire Hero
* Forced Proximity
* Jealousy (so much jealousy . . .)
* Emotional Grand Gestures"
"All they have to do is pretend to be a couple for one night. Easy. Right?
Zoey: Turning thirty is overrated. Who said you had to be married with a fabulous career and three kids? I had a great life. Single, freedom to do whatever I please, and best of all, stay home on a Friday night in my sweats, eating pizza while listening to the best of the '80s. I'm fine.
Drew: When a woman says she's fine, she's not fine. Zoey had it all. Stunning looks, ambition, the whole package. Then he screwed her up. He broke her. And now I'm left picking up the pieces . . . again.
Zoey Richards, strong-willed and driven, settles on a geeky med student to share her apartment in an effort to protect her heart. But when her ex comes back into the picture, she enlists her roommate's help in a plot for revenge.
All Zoey and Drew need to do is pretend to be a couple for one night. But one night can change everything. Don't break the 'roomie code.'
In an effort to deny their feelings for each other, a war erupts between Zoey and Drew. Hating someone has never been so satisfying.
Contains mature themes."
"Triangular relationship
• consist of two friends, one of which has introduced a romantic partner into their life, causing a feeling of alienation for the “abandoned” friend.
I screwed up my perfect bachelor life in one single night.
After that, I end up crashing at my cousin Charlie’s house with her family, which means kids.
It gets worse…
Charlie doesn’t care for my single life.
She has it in her head I am a heartless playboy—Noah Mason will never commit to a woman.
My only saving grace is Kate, Charlie’s best friend.
Kate is everything I need in my life right now—she’s sexy, intelligent, and willing to have unadulterated fun.
And we’re having the time of our lives.
That is until Kate dares me to commit to only one woman.
My so-called victim—a Hollywood movie star.
But I have to get past a roadblock first—her personal assistant.
Commitment is one thing, falling in love is another.
And I refuse to lose the bet.
There’s only one small problem….
Am I chasing the wrong woman? "
"My life is my work.
There's nothing wrong with being a strong, career-driven woman.
And especially nothing wrong with keeping a lover on the side.
Dominic has his life in the States, and I have mine here in Paris.
It was all working just fine.
Until my former best friend suddenly shows up.
Noah Mason.
We mutually parted ways three years ago.
Noah fell in love, got married, and I didn't want front row seats filled with heartbreak.
But now he's back and throwing around the dreaded 'D' word.
Divorce.
Things begin to shift.
Lines start to blur.
Our friendship is taking a different turn, and jealousy is an ugly curse.
Throw in a possessive lover, and you have yourself a complicated love triangle.
The odds are somebody's bound to get hurt.
They say you should never fall in love with your best friend.
Because when heartbreak strikes and you're falling, you risk not having a net to catch you.
But what if your best friend is the right man all along?"
"Our vows were exchanged.
We had our whole lives planned out.
And even brought our son into this world.
Until hours later… when everything stopped, and you were suddenly gone.
Life was perfect, until the day the only man she had ever been with, the man who had stolen her heart at the tender age of seventeen, was taken away before his time.
Desperate, angry, and unable to heal, Adriana hits rock bottom and is forced to seek help for the sake of her son. What she doesn’t expect is a friendship from an unlikely source—Julian Baker, her best friend’s ex-fiancé.
Julian is every bit the man she isn’t expecting to walk into her life. Intelligent, witty, and extremely handsome. Their unique friendship soon turns into a forbidden relationship. As lovers, they form a bond that must remain hidden from their family and friends, but secrets can only be kept for so long.
Adriana’s brother, Lex, loathes Julian and will stop at nothing to break them apart.
Will Lex’s controlling nature and overprotective stance on his wife drive Adriana to end another great love in her life? Or will she finally heal with a man who never intended to steal her heart? "
"I hear his words echo in my head.
The voice telling me to leave her alone.
The threat to end my life should I dare go near her.
Julian Baker had it all. Stunning good looks, wealth, intelligence, and the girl. To everyone around him, he was Mr. Perfect.
Fate was never on his side, and much like a domino effect, his life starts to spiral out of control. Behind the mask lies a broken man, haunted by his tragic past. In a bid to forget, he finds himself desperately trying to hold on to someone who is equally unattainable, Charlotte Edwards.
In a last ditch effort to save himself, Julian reaches out for help, but the universe has other plans when someone completely unexpected walks into his life, and an unlikely friendship is formed.
His enemy’s sister—Adriana Evans. "
"There are two types of secrets in life: the ones we choose to hide from others and those we choose to hide from ourselves.
Secrets reveal themselves eventually. Hearts heal, but sometimes, they're forced to break... again.
Beau
I was sick and tired of the pressure my family put on me. It's what happens when your older brother is a self-made billionaire.
And the whole falling in love thing… screw it. Been there, done that. So, I took a trip to figure out my life.
Until she walked into the bar, and I spent the whole weekend forgetting my life back home before she existed…
April
My life is a mess. Correction: my mother and her whole fake marriage was a mess. I was desperate to leave it all behind. So, I left the country and pretended I was someone else.
Like the night I entered the bar and called myself Olivia—at least, to the hot guy at the bar. Then we had that weekend, the best weekend of my life.
When Monday came, I fled. Months later, he's standing inside the kitchen of my stepfather's home.
It turns out we shared the same best friend. The same girl both of us had been running from…"
"I am nothing like my sisters.
The Edwards daughters have a reputation for falling in love under forbidden circumstances. Not me, though. I'm the calm, collected one and Daddy's new favorite since I cause the least trouble.
This is all thanks to my long-time best friend, Cruz Cooper. He's every bit the crazy person I'm not and keeps me grounded in college despite his wild ways.
We have all these plans to live off-campus and then start our careers without wasting our best years caught up in toxic relationships.
Until the night we had dinner with his parents. And his older brother walked in…. Masen Cooper.
He looked nothing like I remembered. Tall, muscular—sexy in ways I prefer not to think about. Yet five minutes spent with him, and he is clearly still the arrogant jerk who would taunt me as a kid.
Now, he has his eyes on me once again. But this time, he wants to play a different type of game. One which will force me to choose between two brothers…"
"Beau Romano was always the annoying boy who teased me when we were kids... But we're not kids anymore.
Things have changed between us ever since I started college. He's kind of become my guy bestie. With him, things are just easy. And everything with my father is finally going great for once.
That's until Hunter Cash walks back into my life…"
"It was supposed to be a holiday, a trip of a lifetime to discover myself.
The truth is I was running from life back home and away from my best friend. Andrew 'Andy' Baker is also family. At least—that's how we were raised.
Then, I fell in love with life in London. And I met Prince Charming. It all just fell into place until it didn't.
But I took a vow. And vows are not made to be broken, no matter how much it hurts to let go of a man you're in love with. A man other than your husband…"
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