My best friend’s sister is off-limits for more reasons than one. Chasing NHL hockey stardom, I left a lot of good things behind in my small town.

Jolie Hunter was one of them. As my best friend’s younger sister, she’s always been off-limits for me.

I made her a promise on prom night to be her friend, to protect her. I meant every word I said.

It was an easy promise to make then, but now, thirteen years later, it’s a hell of a lot harder. Stuck together at my parents’ ranch for two weeks, Jolie is everywhere and she isn’t the girl I remember.

She’s all woman, with mischievous eyes and a dirty laugh. .

. No matter how hard I try, being friends isn't how I feel.

Two weeks to keep my hands off the hottest, most forbidden woman in Starlight Canyon?It feels impossible. But we can never cross the line.

Because what Jolie doesn’t know is, I didn’t just make a promise to her all those years ago. I made another that same day.

And it’s one that could break us both. A small town, forced proximity romance about a protective hockey player and his best friend’s sister.

Bourbon Breakaway is an ‘us against the world’, spicy romance with mature themes. It’s in the Starlight Canyon series of interconnected standalones.

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