From USA Today Bestselling Author Devney Perry comes a small town, friends-to-lovers romance.Katherine Gates has been in love with Cash Greer since the moment he saved her life from a runaway goat. According to Cash, she’s the little sister he never had, the greatest roommate in the world and his favorite coworker. They’re friends—best friends.In the dark days of her youth, it was her friendships … her youth, it was her friendships that kept her alive and made life in a junkyard worth living. So she’s learned to shove her feelings for Cash down deep, even if that means ignoring eyes that shine brighter than the Montana summer sun and the smile that illuminates the snowiest winter day.
Except with every passing year, the denial takes its toll on her wounded heart until one day Katherine decides to take an impulsive road trip to the Oregon coast. Alone. That is, until Cash cons his way into the passenger seat.
The farther they travel, the harder it is to pretend. And when she confesses her feelings, she learns that Cash has some secrets of his own. Secrets that will either bond them together.
Or rip them apart.
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4 happy ever after stars!
What and emotional, deep, lovely and at times frustrating ride!
Cash and Katherine will make you laugh, cry and full in love in the third book of the runaway series. This two were always meant to be, it took them a while but they get there and the ride is so worth it. With each book the background stories get more emotional and we discover more and more of the 6 runaway kids and their harsh reality. I can’t wait for Aria’s story!
5 ‘Just because’ Stars!
ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
I literally devoured Quarter Miles in just one sitting and just a few hours. The hype for this novel specifically was huge for me and I got engaged to these characters ever since we got to know Katherine and Cash in the last book of the series. I love a good friends-to-lovers / “I’ve loved you forever” kind of romance and Devney did a brilliant job with this one. It was a great addition to the series and definitely my favorite to date!
So, Quarter Miles is the third installment in Devney’s Runaway series and if you don’t know by now, it’s focused on a group of friends that literally run away from home at a younger age and became friends while sharing a home in a junkyard. It was now time for Katherine Gates to get her turn with the red Cadillac but what she wasn’t expecting was to have company. Cash Greer is her best friend and the man she has loved in silence for many, many years. She needs this escape, she needs distance from him and from Montana but she is not getting it. Instead, Cash starts seeing his Kat with new eyes and the road trip turns into an emotional love story.
This trip. This fucking trip.
It was going to ruin us.
Gah! I just freaking knew it. I had the craziest of expectations for this book and I got exactly what I wanted. Who was just as impatient for Katherine and Cash’s story? ‘Cause I was sure ecstatic when Devney said she was moving the release date lol I fell in love with these two in Wild Highway because I am a sucker for storylines like this one especially if it’s about a friend loving another one for years and one of them being oblivious to those feelings. I knew Quarter Miles would be all about the emotional roller coaster of finally Cash noticing what was right in front of him.
“No matter what you say, no matter where you came from, you’ll always be my Kat.”
I just loved these two together. I loved Katherine from the start, she is a kickass businesswoman, a woman with a past that’s still hurting her but she is strong thanks to everything she has achieved and the support she has had from her family: the Greers. Even if it takes a while for her to realize it, she clearly belongs with them and with Cash. Cash was just as wonderful. I loved seeing his layers peeling off, seeing him realizing Kat’s love for him and his love for her. They were great together, their moments full of tension and all the feels. The chemistry was just beautiful!
“I just… I can’t run from this.” From my home. From my family. From him.
Therefore, I am rating Quarter Miles with 5 STARS, because, as I said, this book totally reached the crazy expectations I had for it. I loved how Devney developed this long friendship to a stunning love story. I loved Katherine and Cash and their connection. I loved the Greer family. I loved Aria, getting to know her and I am now surely excited to read her story next. I am just loving this Runaway series and I hope people will continue loving it too!
“I’d been so focused on the tiny sphere of my world that I’d forgotten there was more beyond. And what a beautiful world.”
This friends to lovers romance absolutely swept me away and had me falling for this road trip love story! What could go wrong on a road trip with your best friend, who happens to be a sexy cowboy that you’ve been in love with forever? For Katherine Gates, everything. With a quarter to flip for directions and the open road, Katherine and Cash’s road trip is a journey to love that neither dreamed would come true, with a few speed bumps along the way. There was the perfect amount of heat, angst and sweet moments to keep me flipping pages, hoping for their happily ever after.
“Any hot-blooded woman would fall for a sexy cowboy with a strong, stubbled jaw and a sleepy, devilish smile.”
I had real heartache and tears over the worry and pain both felt over the fear of losing each other as best friends if a relationship between them failed. Cash and Katherine were truly oblivious to the fact they could have it all, best friends, lovers, careers and a big family to love them forever. Being best friends for 12 years, you’d think they know everything about each other, but some secrets were still between them. For Kat, she needed to truly open her heart completely and let Cash see all the ugly from her childhood, let him be the man to hold her up and support her always. Throughout the road trip, their friendship boundaries are pushed, kisses are stolen and hard truths are revealed, all leading to an epic friends to lovers romance that I absolutely loved.
Katherine and Cash’s book is here! After meeting and getting to know them in the previous book I was so excited to find out their story.
I have loved every one of Devney’s books I’ve read, but she has outdone herself with this series. Friends to more is my favorite trope, and it is well done here. However, the real emotional stand out of the story is Katherine coming to terms with her past and making plans for her future.
Just like with Londyn and Gemma my heart broke for what we learned of Katherine’s childhood. I thought that the story walked the fine line of letting the reader know how extremely bad it was without it being exploited for shock value.
From the beginning I only put this book down when I absolutely had to. The storytelling and writing are superb, and the characters realistic. Cash and Katherine were not perfect and each made mistakes and stumbled, but that was what made them so relatable.
I cannot wait for book four in this series!
Thank you to the author for providing an ARC for an honest review.
Beautiful friends to lovers story! This is not my favorite trope but in the hands of Devney Perry it becomes a delight! One of the junkyard kids, this time Katherine, takes her turn with the red Caddy in the trip to another junkyard kid, this time Aria. And while traveling, letting the flip of a quarter choose where the road will take her, she found love with her traveling companion.
Katherine, like her junkyard friends, grew up dirt poor and escaped a bad childhood, thanks to Karson and their hideaway in Lou’s junkyard. Eventually, all the kids moved out to different parts of the country, and lost contact along the way. But none of them ever forgot those years when they were each other’s support.
Londyn, who moved to Boston, started this sweet tradition. She bought the 1969 Cadillac that was her home while living in the junkyard. She brought it to Boston, had it completely restored, and started the trip to deliver the car to Karson, the only one who stayed in California. On the way, she had a flat tire in West Virginia and found her love. Gemma, who had stayed behind in Boston, suddenly got an itch, sold her life away, and re-took the journey with the Caddy, this time driving to Montana, so see Katherine. Apart from finding her love, she finds Katherine, who is doing a brilliant job managing the Greer resort. Kat is happy, secure and found a family in the Greer family, but her love for Cash, the younger Greer brother, is unrequited. Although they live together, as best friends and roommates, things get to a head when he appears at a family dinner with a girlfriend and proceeds to flirt and cuddle.
With a broken heart, Katherine decides to take the Caddy on the next leg of the journey, to Aria who lives in Oregon. But Cash won’t let his best friend drive alone all that distance and invites himself along. And then poor Katherine lives the journey by quarter miles, letting the lucky quarter Cash’s grandmother gave her, decide her route, and suffers having her beloved near but knowing he’s watching out for a best friend, not a lover.
This journey was riddled with miscommunications, wrong assumptions, hidden secrets, stubbornness and lots and lots of frustration. I loved Cash’s transition to love, and hurt for Katherine’s doubts and lack of self-assurance. In her job, she reigns supreme, but as a woman in love, she’s insecure and feels unlovable. She sees herself as the runt, the little one among tall people, and feels about as unimportant.
I loved meeting Aria and loved the ambiance the writer gives us about Oregon. First she made me want to visit Montana, and now I’m dying to visit Oregon. I loved reading their reminiscences about their younger days together and the affection they all feel for each other. I love that this series is about the reunion of old friends who went through important years together and they are now remaking those bonds they had forged years ago. This whole series has been delightful and this friends to lovers story was charming and sweet.
This is without a doubt one of my top reads of 2020! Friends to lovers isn’t usually my jam but this one was everything! The chemistry between Kat and Cash is off the charts, the angst and push and pull was so intense! I couldn’t put it down! Cash is my favourite of the Runaways series by far. This one is going to be hard to top!
This book. Omg this book. I loved it, it was such sexy fun. The sexual tension on this crazy road trip had ME sweating. Katherine is fun and strong but so guarded. Cash is strong and protective and everything I love about a man.
I loved his quirky crankiness and I loved her indecisive and insecurities and I really loved their journey. The way they discover their feelings is angsty and swoony and just amazing.
I spent the entire book going “AND KISS!” And mentally mushing them together in my mind.
I loved everything about this book and I love everything about this series. This is a new Devney favorite but… I say that every time.
PS. That little gift in the last chapter, I caught it.
Quarter Miles is Katherine and Cashs book. These two were destined to be together from the beginning and I loved watching their friendship grow into love.
Katherine takes over her portion of the road trip. She expects to have some time to herself to get away from a broken heart and figure out what she wants to do next with her life. However, the cause of her broken heart jumps in the car for the ride. Cash wants to protect her and make sure she stays safe but what Cash doesn’t know is that he is about to have a head on collision with the love bug and its going to make a splatter on his heart!
I am really enjoying this series. Each book can be read as a stand alone but I highly recommened reading them all.
I am buckled up and so ready for the Forsaken Trail!!
Cash and his love for Kat from day one. He takes care of and protects her. Their chemistry was off the charts but the heartache they had to go through to be together tugs at your heart. The author was great at giving us all the feels for these two. 5 stars isn’t nearly enough!
What starts out as a simple road trip, turns into something much more significant in this latest in the Runaway series. I love the premise — childhood runaways turn their lives around and reconnect as adults through the delivery of a restored classic Cadillac that used to be their home.
Quarter Miles is Katherine’s story. She’s been living a good life in Montana working at a family-run resort. The Greer family took Kat in like one of their own and that’s complicating things — she’s in love with Cash Greer, and he doesn’t know it. He just thinks they are best friends, until he jumps into the car and joins Kat on her road trip.
I read a lot of romance and this is a familiar story, but Devney Perry really changes things up and puts quite a bit of tension between Kat and Cash. He is clueless about his own feelings toward Kat, and is clueless that she’s in love with him, so it takes some time for Cash to catch up to what is going on. I just love how this all transpires — especially after they’ve crossed the line into the bedroom that they hadn’t crossed in all the years they’ve lived together.
There’s so much emotion as Kat reveals her story to Cash. Cash has a secret of his own that he’s been keeping and just when things seem to be getting cleared up, it’s that secret that blows everything up. And it’s a doozy.
Cash and Kat are great together. I just loved them. They aren’t perfect. They are flawed, make mistakes, and have to work together to bring their relationship to what it could be.
I loved the introduction of the next runaway from the group, Aria, and I can’t wait to hear what will happen to her as she takes the classic car on it’s next leg of the trip. The Gallaway was another great addition to this story and I was intrigued by the owner and Aria’s boss and loved the scenes between him and Cash.
Overall, I’ve been really loving this series. It changes up the “road-trip” story quite well, and anticipation is building for the last few stories from the runaways. Cash and Katherine’s story is a perfect addition to an already awesome series.
Road Trip To Love One Flip At A Time
I am ready for a road trip!!! The author inspires wanderlust and the desire to see everyone in the junkyard family get their own HEA.
We met Kat in Wild Highway and I couldn’t wait for her story. She’s the manager at the lodge and honorary family member of the Greer family. She arrived at eighteen and has been in Montana ever since. Now she’s ready for a road trip. She needs time away from her best friend, Cash. They are roommates and colleagues, but he’s also the man she has pined for for years. It’s finally time for her to let go and move on. No better way than to hit the road.
Gemma, Kat’s friend from the junkyard, was supposed to deliver the Cadillac Londyn had restored to California. However, Londyon ended up staying in West Virginia when she met the love of her life. Gemma took over and she made it as far as Montana, but she got sidetracked when she fell in love with Easton. Now it’s up to Kat to take it west. She’s in search of Aria who lives out in Oregon. She wants to catch up with her old friend she hasn’t seen in twelve years, when she left for Montana. The timing is perfect since she needs to escape her life.
Kat’s plan of a solo journey is quickly derailed when Cash decides to come along. Getting over him just became that much harder. Kat’s struggling to let him go. Cash is determined to hold on. He thought Kat has always been his best friend, but the open road has opened his eyes.
This friend to lovers romance brings the angst and inner turmoil both characters wrestle with as they come to terms with their feelings. A friendship so cherished that neither wants to risk it. However, living without the other just isn’t an option. Mutual respect and love were the perfect foundation. Their relationship built over time. The love was there, they just hadn’t embraced it. These two were perfect together and their love was sweet. Cash cowboyed up when he needed to and got the girl…SWOON ALERT!!! And any guy that does sweet things “just because” is a keeper.
This series is a journey of self discovery, healing and love. I have enjoyed every story and am eager for more. A MUST READ series that I highly recommend.
Quarter Miles the third book in Devney Perry’s Runaway Series is I think her best one yet. Even though this is the third book in this series it can very well be read as a standalone but why would you want to do that? Ms. Perry writes a wonderful story which draws you right in, and does not let you go until the last page is turned. This was a very well written story with characters that were well defined. Just when I think her books can’t get any better they do I don’t know how she does it. I sat and read this book in one sitting it was that good. I had to keep turning the pages so I could find out what was going to happen. The story of Kat and Cash will keep you engaged and turning the pages. This was a wonderful read, I highly recommend you pick up this book and if you have not read the first two in this series I highly recommend that you grab them too.
Quarter Miles was an amazing friends to lovers story! From the second I picked it up I was hooked! It flowed so well and I was instantly caught up in the emotion and history of Katherine and Cash’s lives. This was an excellent addition to the Runaway series!
Another fantastic read from Devney Perry, this time a sweet, fun, sexy and emotional friends-to-lovers romance that had me completely hooked and that I read in one sitting. So many beautiful feels, I loved this one!
This is the third book in the Runaway series, about a group of six runaway teens who lived together in a Californian junkyard before all going off in separation directions. One by one, they are roadtripping to each other, reconnecting and, quite unexpectedly, falling in love along the way.
Katherine Gates doesn’t need to fall in love with anybody, she’s already madly in love with Cash Greer. Introduced in the last book of the series, Katherine manages the Greer Resort and Ranch, owned by Cash’s family, and he works there managing the horses. Colleagues, roommates and best friends, Katherine has been in love with Cash for years, but she’s hidden it from him, terrified of ruining the most important relationship she has in her life. All of that hiding has taken its toll, and Katherine is sad and tired. It’s time for her to try and move on.
“Why was letting him go so hard?
Why couldn’t he love me back?”
When Katherine gets the opportunity to pick up the roadtrip began by her friends from the junkyard (Gemma got sidetracked in the last book when she fell for Cash’s older brother, Easton), she grabs at it, planning to get away from it all and maybe even find a fresh start. But her plans take a twist when Cash invites himself along and Katherine finds herself stuck 24/7 with the very man she’s trying to move on from.
“This trip. This fucking trip.
It was going to ruin us.”
Cash is a bit clueless when it comes to his best friend. He loves her dearly, but not in the way she wants, and she’s never hinted at more so he has no idea that she has feelings for him. But their trip becomes the tipping point, and as Katherine opens up to Cash in a way she never has before, everything begins to change.
“I’d forced myself to close her hotel room door, her on the inside, me on the outside, and suck in some damn air as I’d tried to get my hard-on under control.
I’d gotten hard for Kat. My Kat. Katherine Gates, my incredibly sexy, incredibly off-limits best friend.”
I love Cash! He’s funny and sweet, and he cares so much about Katherine. His realisation that he has feelings for her is freaking hilarious, and I loved watching him come to terms with that.
“Last night, she’d confided in me. She’d trusted me. And how was I repaying her? By sporting a goddamn chubby all day and gawking at her body.
I was such a fucking asshole.”
Their journey from friends to ‘more’ is different from what I was expecting, a rollercoaster of emotion that is full of passion and intensity, and I was right there with them as it all played out. But it’s a frustrating ride! I would have loved some more communication between these two. I get that they’re afraid of ruining what they have, but there are misunderstandings and misinterpretations which make things more dramatic than they need to be. Though, again, it builds the tension and creates a fantastic setup for the big moment when feelings are finally revealed.
“Stay with me. Lean on me. I swear, I won’t let you fall.”
It’s a hard journey, but it’s worth it, and it left me grinning madly and full of fluffy feels when Kat and Cash finally get their HEA.
As with previous books, the set-up is there for the next leg of the journey, and I’m so excited to continue on!
Oh man this was a good one. I was frustrated the whole time I read this book. Cash and Kat I wanted to grab and shake and just say talk to each other.
Kat didn’t have a good childhood and she worked herself up from being a housekeeper to being the General Manager of the Greer Rach and Mountain Resort. I was really impressed with her and from where she came from to where she is now she deserved to have all the happiness. She has also been in love with Cash for a long time, but she didn’t think he felt anything for her besides being like a little sister.
Cash was happy, he had his horses, his best friend and life was good. So when his best friend, Kat, decided to take a trip of course he was going to go with her. But what he didn’t expect was how this trip would change both of them. Kat has never spoken much about her childhood with him, but now she was opening up to him little by little. And he finally sees that the feeling he has had for his best friend is so much more than a little sister. But before he can express his feelings to her he needs to tell her the secret he has been hiding for 5years.
I loved this one. It was heartbreaking and filled with so much angst. I really had a knot in my stomach the whole time I read this book. Kat wanted Cash to see her as more than a little sister, but when he did eventually it was like she pushed him away. And when they had their fight I felt like she forgave just like that. He apologized and he was like okay I forgive you, lol… After that whole scene she made. But I can tell you that you wont be sorry reading this story, it will definitely have you staying up to finish this one. And making you look forward to reading Aria’s story
Once again Devney Perry has blown me away with this series! Oh, who am I kidding? Devney Perry consistently blows me away with every release. But The Runaway Series is particular really hits me in my heart. The magic of the Cadillac strikes again, this time with Katherine and Cash. I’ve been on pins and needles waiting for their story since I read the previous book and I was ready to immediately dive in as soon as this hit my kindle! And dive in I did.
I was glued to every page of this book from the second I opened it. Friends to lovers is done to perfection with these two. The perfect balance of emotion, steam and romance all swirling together into the magic that is Cash and Katherine. From sexual tension so thick you can feel it coming off the pages to the inevitable explosive heat that these two put out and everything in between this book is absolutely phenomenal!
Reviewed for A Wanton Book Lover Blog
Quarter Miles is the third book in the Runaway series. Katherine and Cash Greer have been dancing the friends dance for years; they are each others best friend and the best roommate either of them could ever wish for. Katherine thinks she has been hiding from everyone, including Cash but the whole Greer family knows that Katherine is in love with Cash except Cash. To try and clear her mind and decide if she needs to move on with her life and move away from Cash. Taking her turn to drive the Cadillac, Katherine is getting ready to leave the Greer Resort on her adventure when an unexpected guest crashes her vacation: Cash.
Quarter Miles is Katherine’s and Cash’s journey to find love. They experience many uncomfortable and bumbling moments but also moments of clarity and love. The journey is bumpy and emotional but very worth the ride. So far, this is my favorite book of this series. I think the ending is just perfect. Devney Perry
I’m loving the Runaway series, and Quarter Miles, the third installment was my favorite of this series so far.
Katherine and Cash’s story is a sweet, heartwarming and emotional friends to lovers romance with quite a few twists and turns.
Katherine is driven and determined to get over her feelings for her roommate and best friend Cash. When offered the opportunity to escape their close confines with a road trip she jumps at the chance.
You wouldn’t know if from her personality that Kat had a tragic childhood. She’s self-reliant, stubborn, resilient, strong and feisty and despite her upbringing she has thrived and achieved so much working for the Greer’s.
Cash is a kind, caring and protective hero. Despite the fact that he’s more that a little short sighted when it comes to what’s right in front of him, he has a heart of gold.
I loved watching their friendship evolve over the course of this title, and cannot wait for the next installment of the Runaway series.
I started reading it on a slow night at work and finished before the night ended. It’s an AWSOME 5 star must read.
Katherine has been in love with Cash for years. They are best friends that are also roommates that work together. They are in each other’s lives day in and day out. Cash just hasn’t caught on yet on his feelings for her. They embark on a road trip.
This was an highly addicting story that consumed me from the very first page read to the last one. Beautifully written with a storyline that flowed well. I loved these amazing characters that were perfectly created. A solid page turner. Bottomline, this is a must read.
This is the third book in the Runaway Series but all can be read as standalones, but for better enjoyment, read them all in order. Told in a dual POV with an HEA. I strongly recommend this story.
I truly cannot get enough of this series!!! Devney has hit a goldmine with this one!! Each book can be easily read as a standalone without any problems. However, I think most readers will find that reading them in order is even more enjoyable.
This series is about a group of runaways that became friends when they found a home living together in a junk yard. They are all grown and moved on with their own lives. However, it’s a car that slowly bringing them all back together one road trip at a time.
Quarter Miles is Katherine’s journey as she tries to find herself and what she truly wants in life. She has never felt the need to look anywhere since she arrived at the Greer’s lodge so many years ago. She has found a home there and truly never thought she’d leave. But knowing her best friend will never see her as more, she jumps at the chance to escape and take the Cadillac to its next destination. Except her best friend has other ideas – he’s coming along.
This title if more fitting than you know. Quarter Miles is one hell of an emotional story and I loved every bit of it. I enjoyed watching both Cash and Katherine become aware of so much about each other and themselves. Devney gives her characters depth and that just makes the reader even more vested in these characters and their story.
I enjoyed every singled thing about this book and I wont give away anything else about it. This book will have you glued to the pages from start to finish. You will love these characters and the wonderful places they visit. Not going to lie – if these places exist in RL, I would love to visit them. Devney makes them that real – hell, they could be or based on real life places.
Quarter Miles is another hit in the Runaway series and I cannot wait to read the next one! I am already ready to dive into that story.