My Brother's Best Friend

A Forbidden Small Town Romance About Second Chances and Off-Limits Love, HEA, Happily Ever After

By: Scarlett Cross, Helena von Heilig

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Avery Bennett moved away to outrun a life that felt too small. At twenty-five, she's back in her childhood bedroom with a faded motivational poster and a graphic design portfolio that needs rebuilding—and her brother's best friend is working a job forty feet from her back door.

Noah Carter has been Jake's best friend for almost a decade. He's been in love with Avery for most of it. He's also been very careful, because Jake is the kind of friend who doesn't deserve a betrayal, and Avery is exactly the kind of person worth not ruining things for.

Except she's home now. And the careful thing stops working.

The summer builds slowly—long evenings on the dock, old lake roads, a private cove that belongs to just the two of them. And underneath all of it, the question that's been waiting since she was seventeen: is what they could have together worth what it might cost?

Can be read as a standalone. Part of the Forbidden Series — Free in Kindle Unlimited.

Trope keywords: brother's best friend, forbidden slow burn, return home, second chance elements, found family stakes, HEA, Happily ever After