After a blind date stands her up, Catrina Striker stops in O’Leary’s Pub for a sandwich, nothing else. Then Tony Bates, North Salem’s resident playboy, sits down next to her and destiny takes over. Cat knows all about Tony’s reputation, but that doesn’t stop her from doing something she’s never done before: invite him back to her apartment.
Tony Bates has always looked at Catrina as nothing but … nothing but his buddy’s little sister, until a chance encounter one summer night changes all that.
Since the sudden death of his college sweetheart, Tony has kept all his relationships casual and fun. Everyone knows that, which is why Cat and Tony agree to keep their involvement a secret rather than risk Tony’s friendship with her brother. However, what starts out as a secret fling soon becomes much more, and Tony must decide if he’s ready to risk his heart again or lose the woman who completes him.
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I love the best friends sibling stories, and these characters are really wonderful and the writing itself is brilliant.
3.75 Short review. The fling that wasn’t a fling. Cat and Tony were so devoted to each other that when one or both of them would call their relationship a fling or temporary I couldn’t help but shake my head and want to shake them both. I didn’t like Cat’s brother he was way to judgmental and a hypocrite and thought that how things were resolve between him and Tony could have done better. It took way too long for him to see what everyone else who saw them together or heard the way they talked about the other to see that they had very strong and deep feelings for each other. I also thought the reveal about Tony’s past relationship and his fear of letting himself love Cat came way to late into the book. Other than a few spelling errors I thought the book was really good, will read more from the author.