Guide to Love

GUIDE TO LOVE RULE #75: Get over your ex by getting under your brother's best friend.Horrible wedding dress - Check ✔️No flowers - Check ✔️A cheating groom pretending to be my Prince Charming - Check ✔️What should have been a highlight of my life turned into me becoming a runaway bride after seeing my fiancé doing something no bride should ever see.And instead of celebrating my marriage at my reception with my loved ones and adoring new husband, I'm getting drunk at a dive bar with a handsome stranger.A stranger who shows up at my brother's beach house, where I'm spending my honeymoon – alone.But it turns out that my handsome stranger isn't a real stranger at all. Emmett Collins is also my brother's best friend and business partner.I never pictured myself wanting a man like Emmett in his country boy jeans. But he turns out to be exactly who and what I need.Two weeks. That's what we've given ourselves. It's the perfect vacation fling. He doesn't do relationships and my life is…well…a mess is putting it lightly.There's just a few problems. Emmett makes me feel safe. His quiet smile lights me up inside. And that first time he kisses me? He brings out butterflies I never knew I could feel.I think I'm falling in love with a man who doesn't believe in forever.And there's no guide to love for that.

GUIDE TO LOVE RULE #6: Flings are temporary. Falling for the single dad could be forever.I believe the saying is "never say never." To that I say hold my beer.I never thought I'd quit my job as a middle school teacher because of a group of unpleasant parents, yet I did with my middle finger in the air and no regrets.Now I'm back in the small town in Tennessee where I grew up unsure of the future, facing temptation on a daily basis in the form of Porter McCoy. For years, we've had the perfect "situationship." I couldn't get enough of the flirty bar owner and neither of us wanted anything serious. So twice a year when I came to visit my family, we'd do our thing. It was deliciously sexy with no strings attached.Yet when an unexpected surprise lands on his doorstep in a pink dress and a baby carrier, everything changes-especially after he asks me to move in with him to help raise his niece.Somehow I agree, but under one condition-what we had is no more. Because sleeping together and living together is a little too much like a relationship. Something neither of us are looking for.Porter agrees, but soon I realize I underestimated my strength to resist the newly single dad.Because it should be illegal for him to cuddle her shirtless.Or walk around the house in just a towel.And when we share a look, I remember what it felt like when he kissed me.Which now brings me to my latest never: I never thought I'd fall in love with Porter McCoy.And there's no guide to love for that.