Gabriella Gamez

Two broken hearts decide that the best way to get over their first loves is with a no-strings-attached relationship in this spicy and charming debut romance.

Librarian Marcela Ortiz has been secretly in love with her best friend for years—and when he gets engaged, she knows it’s long past time to move on. But before she gets the chance, she has a bigger problem to contend with in the form of Theo Young, ex-NFL player and older brother of the man she’s in love with. When she discovers Theo's plans to confess his feelings for his brother’s fiancée at their engagement party, Marcela is quick to stop him—despite how tempting it is to let him run away with the bride-to-be. She manages to convince Theo to sleep off his drunken almost-mistake at her place and when they arrive at a family brunch the next day together, everyone wrongly assumes they hooked up.

Since Theo needs a cover for his feelings for the bride and Marcela needs a distraction from her unrequited feelings for the groom, they decide to roll with the lie. Until one late night at a bar, they take it a step further and discover a layer of attraction neither realized existed. Soon, they find themselves exploring the simmering chemistry between them, whether in library aisles or Marcela's bed. There are no boundaries for the rebound relationship they form—just a host of complicated feelings, messy familial dynamics, and uncovered secrets that threaten to tear them apart before they can even admit to themselves that their rebound is working. Maybe a little too well.

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Holly 

Hiding your true feelings is easy when the person you're hiding from has never really seen you to begin with. 

As it is, my body confidence is in constant fluctuation depending on the day and dating only adds more pressure to that. Sure, when I'm feeling particularly confident, I can appreciate the hourglass figure my soft curves form-a large bust that dips into a slightly tapered waist before widening into rounded hips and thick thighs.

But there's something about a shiny, new book I don't have to spend money on that I just can't resist. Hence, the overflowing bag of books. 

"Just a friendly warning to guard my heart around you?” I say with a faux-dramatic flair. "Did you know your reputaration precedes you? I should start calling you Taylor Swift!”

…the musky scent of him is intoxicating. One whiff of him, and I'm starting to think I understand how addicts feel. His eyes are so blue, deep indigo pools I could drown in.

I didn't expect this. He wasn't supposed to feel this good.

The kiss was supposed to satisfy my curiosity— one-time kiss to inspire me to move on to other one-time activities.

Preferably, with men whose surnames aren't Young. But now that I know what it's like to kiss him, it's all I want to keep doing. It should scare me, but I just want more of him.

"For someone so small, you can be so violent."

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