What do you think?
Rate this book
Her Brother's Billionaire Best Friend
He’s perfect for her. She’ll perfectly destroy him.
Charlotte Holmes doesn’t fall in love; she falls into bed. And car. And cruise ship stateroom. Matthew Ashe falls in love way too easily; he’s a sucker for a pretty face. And falling too fast. And getting impulsively engaged. The only thing the two of them have in common is their mutual love of kinky, casual sex….and the fact that Charlotte’s brother is Matt’s best friend.
All Charlotte knows about Matt is that he’s the billionaire heir to a hospitality empire. All Matt knows about Charlotte is that she’s bound to break his heart. When a destination wedding fling turns into months of long-distance flirtation, Matt invites Charlotte to Ascend Red, his private resort where guests live out their wildest fantasies. Even limitless indulgence and abandoned inhibitions can’t satisfy his craving for something deeper with Charlotte. And Charlotte is beginning to think Matthew Ashe could be the one man she doesn’t want to walk away from…
Charlotte Holmes doesn’t fall in love; she falls into bed. And car. And cruise ship stateroom. Matthew Ashe falls in love way too easily; he’s a sucker for a pretty face. And falling too fast. And getting impulsively engaged. The only thing the two of them have in common is their mutual love of kinky, casual sex….and the fact that Charlotte’s brother is Matt’s best friend.
All Charlotte knows about Matt is that he’s the billionaire heir to a hospitality empire. All Matt knows about Charlotte is that she’s bound to break his heart. When a destination wedding fling turns into months of long-distance flirtation, Matt invites Charlotte to Ascend Red, his private resort where guests live out their wildest fantasies. Even limitless indulgence and abandoned inhibitions can’t satisfy his craving for something deeper with Charlotte. And Charlotte is beginning to think Matthew Ashe could be the one man she doesn’t want to walk away from…
325 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 4, 2025
11 people are currently reading
48 people want to read
About the author
Abigail Barnette
63 books1,277 followersAbigail Barnette is the pseudonym of Jenny Trout (alias Jennifer Armintrout, an author, blogger, and funny person. Jenny made the USA Today bestseller list with her debut novel, Blood Ties Book One: The Turning. Her American Vampire was named one of the top ten horror novels of 2011 by Booklist Magazine Online. As Abigail Barnette, Jenny writes award-winning erotic romance, including the internationally bestselling The Boss series.
As a blogger, Jenny’s work has appeared on The Huffington Post, and has been featured on television and radio, including HuffPost Live, Good Morning America, The Steve Harvey Show, and National Public Radio’s Here & Now. Her work has earned mentions in The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly.
She is a proud Michigander, mother of two, and wife to the only person alive capable of spending extended periods of time with her without wanting to kill her.
As a blogger, Jenny’s work has appeared on The Huffington Post, and has been featured on television and radio, including HuffPost Live, Good Morning America, The Steve Harvey Show, and National Public Radio’s Here & Now. Her work has earned mentions in The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly.
She is a proud Michigander, mother of two, and wife to the only person alive capable of spending extended periods of time with her without wanting to kill her.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
March 31, 2025
I actually finished reading this a few days after buying it but forgot to mark it here, ooops.
I can't tell you how excited I was to see a new novel by Abigail Barnette (aka Jenny Trout). I've been reading her books for years now and her blog rewieving/riffing on bad romance novels like 50 Shades for even longer. I hadn't checked out her blog in a while, so when I saw she was publishing various books this year, I was ecstatic.
Despite the slightly convoluted sounding title (at least for me), the story and characters are great. The plot is initiated by the wedding of Charlotte's brother. This destination wedding turns exiciting for her when she meets her brother's years-long friend Matt. Matt is apprehensive about hooking up with his best friend's (adult!) sister but ultimately Charlotte convinces him that they are free to do whatever they want as consenting adults. And they do.
The style is typical for Barnette: sexually curious, open and experimenting characters with mutual respect. There is no internalised misogyny or unnecessary, petty rivalry between women that permeates so many romance books. Women hating on women for existing, being different or just breathing is not part of Barnette's books, and I'm so glad.
Matt, a billionaire by family inheritance, owns various hotels and a sex club and an ever more exclusive and secretive sex club on an island. Matt is more than happy to explore Charlotte's hitherto unrealised sexual fantasies in a safe environment.
Of course, there is also some external and internal conflict and they're all realistic and understandable. They're not based on purposeful misscommunication, misunderstandings or plot contrievances, but rather internally driven problems and interpersonal fears/issues.
I also love how both MCs are bisexual, like me, and how they are completely fine with sharing pleasure with other partners, together or seperate. I was enjoying the book all the way through not just because the spice is spicy, but because the characters enjoy themselves, are respectul and sex positive, and can voice their opinions. No misogyny, no racism, no queerphobia, no ableism.
I can't wait to read the second novel!
I can't tell you how excited I was to see a new novel by Abigail Barnette (aka Jenny Trout). I've been reading her books for years now and her blog rewieving/riffing on bad romance novels like 50 Shades for even longer. I hadn't checked out her blog in a while, so when I saw she was publishing various books this year, I was ecstatic.
Despite the slightly convoluted sounding title (at least for me), the story and characters are great. The plot is initiated by the wedding of Charlotte's brother. This destination wedding turns exiciting for her when she meets her brother's years-long friend Matt. Matt is apprehensive about hooking up with his best friend's (adult!) sister but ultimately Charlotte convinces him that they are free to do whatever they want as consenting adults. And they do.
The style is typical for Barnette: sexually curious, open and experimenting characters with mutual respect. There is no internalised misogyny or unnecessary, petty rivalry between women that permeates so many romance books. Women hating on women for existing, being different or just breathing is not part of Barnette's books, and I'm so glad.
Matt, a billionaire by family inheritance, owns various hotels and a sex club and an ever more exclusive and secretive sex club on an island. Matt is more than happy to explore Charlotte's hitherto unrealised sexual fantasies in a safe environment.
Of course, there is also some external and internal conflict and they're all realistic and understandable. They're not based on purposeful misscommunication, misunderstandings or plot contrievances, but rather internally driven problems and interpersonal fears/issues.
I also love how both MCs are bisexual, like me, and how they are completely fine with sharing pleasure with other partners, together or seperate. I was enjoying the book all the way through not just because the spice is spicy, but because the characters enjoy themselves, are respectul and sex positive, and can voice their opinions. No misogyny, no racism, no queerphobia, no ableism.
I can't wait to read the second novel!
February 5, 2025
Abigail Barnette writes the only billionaire romances I'd ever want to read. She writes the best erotica I've ever read, too.
You want spice? Abigail Barnette says have a ghost pepper. [That's the most intense one I know of, but I know she wrote something even hotter than this recently, and I don't have a scale for that yet.]
The pacing on this is so smooth, I find myself turning pages no matter where I am in the book. It moves so fluidly [haha] from one scene to the next, and her cliffhanger chapter endings are too tantalizing to resist.
Abigail Barnette delivers on every front. This isn't just porn designed for anyone strolling along to become aroused by. She gives you actual, real-life problems these characters are facing, both personal and social, and addresses them throughout the story.
(I put fantasy as a category because THAT'S LITERALLY THE POINT OF THE LOCATION THEY'RE IN. Not classic fantasy whatsoever, but erotic fantasy.)
You want spice? Abigail Barnette says have a ghost pepper. [That's the most intense one I know of, but I know she wrote something even hotter than this recently, and I don't have a scale for that yet.]
The pacing on this is so smooth, I find myself turning pages no matter where I am in the book. It moves so fluidly [haha] from one scene to the next, and her cliffhanger chapter endings are too tantalizing to resist.
Abigail Barnette delivers on every front. This isn't just porn designed for anyone strolling along to become aroused by. She gives you actual, real-life problems these characters are facing, both personal and social, and addresses them throughout the story.
(I put fantasy as a category because THAT'S LITERALLY THE POINT OF THE LOCATION THEY'RE IN. Not classic fantasy whatsoever, but erotic fantasy.)
February 7, 2025
I loved the Sophie Scaif series and this book, about a new set of characters did not disappoint. Abigail writes the BEST damaged heroine books and this one is absolutely exceptional. Charlotte and Matthew are smoking hot and almost every possible form of debaucherie is explored.
February 17, 2025
This was oddly sweet and about two broken and hurt people finding each other 🥺
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews