A best friend’s brother stand-alone from small-town romance author Brooke Montgomery about a girl who falls pregnant by the wrong man and the cowboy who takes her in…

I've crushed on my best friend's brother for years.

He's a six-foot-three, dark-haired cowboy who works on his family's ranch and sends butterflies to my stomach anytime he looks at me. But he's never made a move, so I need to get over it.

Except, when he reads a text message about me liking a mysterious guy, he snaps and demands answers. Little does he know, it's my code name for him.

When he finally confesses he likes me too, I find out I'm pregnant. With my ex-boyfriend's baby.

After spending three weeks together in secret, my world turns upside down when that little white stick reveals a positive sign from the one-night stand I had before him.

Now everything's a mess and my life's spiraling out of control.

I can't expect him to date me anymore, so I insist we return to being friends. The last thing he needs is a girl who's carrying another man's baby and about to be a first-time mom.

But when my apartment gets broken into, and there's a suspected criminal on the loose, he insists I move in with him to keep me safe.

Staying platonic proves to be harder with each passing day as he goes with me to my appointments, takes me baby shopping, and stocks the kitchen with all my weird cravings. He's so involved that everyone assumes he's the father. And I don’t correct them.

But the truth always comes out in a Southern small town.

Review:

Whew, I wasn't sure about this one when the book started. Brooke Montgomery's Stay with Me is a romantic suspense about Magnolia and Tripp, the mess they make of their life, and how it comes back together to give them their HEA. If you've read the first book in this series, then you know when this book starts that the book involves an accidental pregnancy, you even have a small inkling about how it happens. This book is about that accidental pregnancy and how it pans out. Since pregnancy tropes are my least favorite tropes, I wasn't sure how this book was going to play for me. Turns out, thanks to Tripp, it played pretty nicely. 

The characters, Tripp and Magnolia are in love and have been for a long time. Neither of them knows that, however, so it takes them a hell of a long time to get together but the book picks up shortly before they finally figure it out. I have to say, Tripp completely makes this book. Yes, Magnolia is the object of his affection, but the way he treats her is everything and I absolutely mean everything. EVERYTHING. Trip is 100% the cowboy every girl wants. The way he handles his girlfriend's accidental pregnancy with another man is completely swoon-worthy. I absolutely fell in love with him from the start. 

The book has a suspense element with Magnolia's ex-boyfriend, but I won't give that away. Let's just say it doesn't end well for Travis (Magnolia's ex). Otherwise, the whole plot revolves around the pregnancy and how Tripp and Magnolia handle it. Something about this book I particularly liked was the well-handled anxiety rep. As a person with severe anxiety, I completely feel for Tripp. Also, this book's plot is perfectly paced. 

Overall, I would recommend this book for anyone who enjoys western romances and anyone who enjoys a particularly strong MMC. Have I mentioned that Tripp is absolutely everything?

Rating: 

❤❤❤❤ - Delightful... because of Tripp!

LOVE IS UNIVERSAL

Henrietta ‘Henri’ Laselle lives a quiet life in Kansas City, Missouri—or so it seems. While Henri looks like the average girl next door with an animal hoarding problem. In reality, Henri is half-witch, half-alien who runs the only animal rescue in the galaxy. With a pygmy kraken in her fish tank, a talking bear who hogs the tv, and a quantum portal in her basement, life for Henri is never boring.

Until the day someone steals her pets. Someone not from this Earth. Left with no other choice, Henri leaves Earth and ventures deep into cosmos, searching for answers. A chance encounter leads her to a possible solution. Orion Worldkiller; criminal, murderer, prisoner, out-of-this-world attractive, and a giant Dragon.

Orion Worldkiller offering to help Henri find her pets is the last thing she expected, but she has no other choice. Stuck in a spaceship at the far reaches of the galaxy, Henri fights both her growing worry and her newfound feelings. The closer they get to saving her pets, the harder she falls for Orion.

When their mission goes haywire, Henri and Orion are taken prisoner and forced to compete in a deadly tournament against vicious monsters. Even worse, they’re cut off from their magic. Henri’s only hope to save her pets is to win the tournament--even if it means risking an intergalactic war.

The fight for survival—and for Henri’s heart—is on, and Dragons do not fight fair.

• THE EBOOK: Available for pre-order on Amazon
• THE PHYSICAL COPIES (paperback + special edition hardback): Will be available exclusively on Kickstarter

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Return to the cozy fantasy world of the #1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with a new adventure featuring fan-favorite, foul-mouthed bookseller, Fern.

Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller’s life for decades, but now, in the face of crippling ennui, transplants herself to the city of Thune to hang out her shingle beside a long-absent friend’s coffee shop. What could be a better pairing? Surely a charming renovation montage will cure what ails her!

If only things were so simple…

It turns out that fixing your life isn’t a one-time prospect, nor as easy as a change of scenery and a lick of paint.

A drunken and desperate night sees the rattkin waking far from home in the company of a legendary warrior surviving on inertia, an imprisoned chaos-goblin with a fondness for silverware, and an absolutely thumping hangover.

As together they fend off a rogue’s gallery of ne’er-do-wells trying to claim the bounty the goblin represents, Fern may finally reconnect with the person she actually is when there isn’t a job to get in the way.

Have you read anything by Travis Baldree? I looooooovvveeeedddd Legends and Lattes! I imagine this one will be just as good. If you're interested in cozy fantasy novels check out my review for the first book:

☕ Legends and Lattes

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