Loveless Brothers

I don't love him. I don't even like him.I just want him. Eli Loveless was my nemesis from the first day of kindergarten until we graduated high school. Everything I did, he had to do better - and vice versa. The day he left town was the best day of my life. Ten years later, the day he came back was the worst. Now he's my co-worker. Grown-up Eli Loveless is sexy as sin. He's hotter than asphalt in the summer. The irritating kid I once knew is gone, and he's been replaced by a man with green eyes, perfect abs, and a cocky smile. It's bad that I want him. It's worse that he wants me back. There are looks. There are smirks. There are smiles that make my panties burst into flame. And then there's a shared kiss that leads to the hottest night of my life. This is no office romance. This is a five-alarm fire. What's a girl to do when the man I can't stand is the one I can't stop lusting after? Enter into a friends-with-benefits agreement, of course. No dates. No relationship. Just blisteringly hot sex, because if there's one person I could never fall for, it's Eli. ...right?

I told a judge I was engaged to my best friend.Now we're faking it.How hard can it be?My life has room for exactly two women: my daughter Rusty and my best friend Charlotte - known to everyone as Charlie.One is a feisty, tomboyish firecracker. The other is my seven-year-old. I can't imagine life without either.So when my ex springs a custody hearing on me, I find myself telling the judge that I'm engaged to Charlie.The only problem? I'm not.Time to fake an engagement.Pretending we're a couple will be no big deal.We've been friends for years. We used to sneak cigarettes behind the bleachers. We turned cans of hairspray into flamethrowers. We got drunk on stolen malt liquor.She's beautiful, vivacious, spontaneous, and she loves my daughter to death. It's the perfect answer: we fake it for a few months, then go back to our lives.Until we touch, and sparks fly. Until I can't take my eyes off her. Until I can't stop thinking about what she's got on under her coveralls.It takes one kiss.One touch.One shared secret and suddenly, I'm not pretending anymore. I want her, I need her in ways I didn't know I could.But there's a lifetime of friendship between us, and falling in love with Charlie could mean risking everything.

She's my best friend's kid sister.Now she's not a kid any more.As a forest ranger, I believe in the simple life. I prefer cabins to apartments, trails over freeways, and trees to people. My life is orderly, predictable, and quiet.Until it's hit by a woman I never saw coming -- Hurricane June.She's fierce. She's feisty. She has a laugh like the first day of spring, and she's so pretty that I can't breathe when I look at her. June will only be in town for a few months-just while job-hunting. She won't last until winter, but how can I resist?Except I have to. She's my best, oldest, and most loyal friend's baby sister.Betraying him would be the worst thing I've ever done. Not betraying him might be the hardest.Especially once we start working together on a secret project. All this spending time together, sneaking around at night, and lying to her brother about what we're doing sure feels like more than friendship.June might break my heart.Her brother might break my nose.But I guess some things were made to be broken.

Teach me everything. My whole life, I've been a good girl. I follow rules like nobody's business. I obey guidelines like I was born to it. Show me a line, and I'll toe it. I'm even a twenty-two-year-old virgin. Good is my middle name. And then, I break one tiny little rule. Miniscule. Inconsequential. Next thing I know, I'm trapped with an incredibly handsome stranger. He's got eyes like cut emeralds, biceps that makes my head spin, and a smile that has me rethinking all my life choices. We escape a bar bathroom together. We go on an impromptu date. We share the hottest kiss I've ever had, one that leaves me panting for more. We promise to see each other again. Turns out, we see each other the next morning. In my calculus class. Which he's teaching. My handsome, sexy date is Professor Loveless, and we'll be seeing each other plenty. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday all semester. There's no choice but to call it off. We both have too much at stake: I could lose my scholarship, and he could lose his entire career. But I can't call off the way I feel. I can't call off the way he looks when he rolls up his sleeves and explains imaginary numbers. I can't call off the heated glances, or the way our hands touch when I hand in my homework, or the memory of his body pressing against mine that night. I'm a virgin. He's my professor. And if we give in, it could cost us both everything. But I'm so tired of being a good girl. The Hookup Equation is a complete standalone romantic comedy with enough steam to fog your glasses.

Seth Loveless has been my weakness since I was sixteen years old.Two years ago, I moved back to my hometown. I started a business, bought a house, took up yoga, and went on hiatus from dating. Life is good.If I never had to see Seth, it would be perfect.After all, my history with my ex-boyfriend is anything but simple. It's taken us years, but we've finally learned to live in the same town without killing each other.Is there an elaborate set of rules governing our every casual interaction?Yes.Do I still think dirty, off-limits thoughts every single time I see him buying apples at the grocery store?Of course. I'm only human, and Seth and I are practically experts at the two F's: fighting, and…...sleeping together.Still, we're managing just fine.And then?He shows up at my sister's wedding. The man looks like pure sex in a suit, handsome as the devil himself and twice as charming.Worse, he claims he's my date.We flirt.We dance.We break every one of our carefully-crafted rules, and we… should stop.Too bad I'm having the time of my life.I know I should end it. After all the heartbreak, hurt, and anger we can't be more than enemies.But Seth asks me for one more night.Just one night.Then, we're back to being virtual strangers to each other.I know I should turn him down.I know this ends with my heart shattered into a million pieces.I know lunacy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.But I've always been bad at resisting a weakness.