Janey McCarthy and her long time fiancée have been in a long distance relationship, while he’s in school to become a doctor. Janey decides to surprise him on their thirteenth anniversary when she shows up to find him in bed with another woman. On her way back home her car breaks down in the middle of the highway so she calls her brothers best friend Joe Cantrell to come and help her.

Joe has been in love with Janey for as long as he can remember but not ever acting on his feeling since she has always been in a relationship. So when he picks up the phone to a sobbing Janey needing help he goes and picks her up, bringing her back to his place he tells Janey she can stay there to think things over before returning home on the island to deal with all the questioning on why she came back too soon.
Janey feeling depressed that all her dreams of being a wife and mother have gone up in smoke. She quickly turns to Joe in the moment of need. Joe not wanting to take advantage of Janey tells her he can’t, but eventually gives in and just can’t tell her no.

The two decide to keep their affair a secret until after Mac’s wedding, but of course the secret gets out soon. Janey gets accepted into veterinarian school miles away, she can’t deal with another long distance relationship, and thinking it wouldn’t be fair to ask Joe to move away from his successful business and life he’s worked hard at achieving she ends up breaking things off with Joe.

While this isn’t my favorite from Marie Force I liked it a whole lot better than the first book in this series Maid for Love. The characters were likable and the writing is easy to read.

3½ stars