Pining for You

Blueball Band of Brothers, Book 5

By: Marika Ray

Narrated by: TJ Clark, Marie Hawkins

I've been in love with my best friend since the day I met her freshman year of high school. She was a halo of sunshine on a rainy day, pulling me out of the shadows and making me feel like life was one big roller-coaster ride of excitement. Until the day we graduated and she left on the back of a Harley with some guy who didn't deserve her, middle fingers in the air.

Twelve years later, she's back in Blueball, as if she hadn't broken my heart and never looked back. This time, she's headed straight for the courthouse to marry some guy who looks like he's afraid of the world just so she can inherit some money. He's clearly all wrong for her too.

I decide fate has given me a second chance to tell her how much she hurt me. I bribe the guy to leave and stand in as her groom at the altar.

If I thought a marriage of convenience would be the way to pin down Rainey Shaw and teach her a lesson, I'm as dumb as the teenager who let her stomp all over his heart.

Because Rainey is back, and I'm half in love with her already.

Contains mature themes.

©2024 Marika Ray (P)2025 Tantor Media

… or they could’ve just talked to each other

After they reconnect, marry, and get busy, all they needed to do is talk to each other. Three-quarters of this book was him assuming she’d leave town at the first opportunity and her keeping quiet and letting him push her away. Prolonging the other’s misery for days or weeks in order to plan a grand gesture was juvenile. The only things I liked about this story were the seniors and interactions with the prior couples.