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Where There's Smoke
by
M.J. Fredrick (Goodreads Author)
Is there such a thing as being too close, knowing each other too well? Lauren Stokes put a lid on her attraction toward her best friend Seth Escamilla years ago. She'd never be his type of woman, so why torture herself? When sexual awareness strikes during a friendly football game, she's stunned. He's guilty for injuring her and looks after her, but Lauren resorts to wisec...more
Paperback, 200 pages
Published
March 14th 2008
by Wild Rose Press
(first published 2008)
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Fans of friends to lovers, fans of MJ Fredrick
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Where There’s Smoke is MJ Fredrick’s first published title and is of the friends-to-lovers trope that I adore. Combining together the complications that arise when two people who have always been friends find themselves in unchartered territory together with the added complications of two families who have been friends and much more through the years finds betrayal of the worst kind lurking right amongst them, Where There’s Smoke is a contemporary romance that delivers a lot of emotional angst w...more
A very good shorter story that I finished in one sitting. A best friends to lover theme, but also the families were best friends too. The hero is mainly a man whore who feels he could never be faithful because infidelity runs in his family. He starts to notice his best friend Lauren on a different level, starts a relationship with her and then breaks his heart because of his insecurities. I really felt bad for her when he continued his dating life and she waited for him to see her as his "...more
Does our fear of becoming our parents hinder us from making good decisions? That's the question I felt this book was asking. As with most of the romance novels I read, there was a 90% certainty the main couple was going to end up together so I looked in detail at the other parts of the plot. The answer is that no, we shouldn't let our parents' lives effect ours. If we do, we stand to lose out big time.
This book is a pretty easy read. I had it finished in a couple of hours. If there's...more
This book is a pretty easy read. I had it finished in a couple of hours. If there's...more
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