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Vivienne is one of “those” people, the kind that believes in love at all costs.

Broken hearts are a natural product of that, and Viv is used to dealing with it by simply ignoring the ache, and moving on to a new love.

But this time, she can’t seem to shake the pain — until Carter comes along, handing out easy smiles and the kind of attention that makes her not feel so fractured after all.

Everybody knows Carter as this cool, confident, charismatic guy.

He has a penchant for saying just the right things at just the right times, being just the kind of friend that’s needed in the midst of sorrow.

But, as he and Viv embark on what was only ever intended to be a friendship, the idea of Carter as the “perfect” guy is challenged, and the real person could very well just be the next guy to break Viv’s heart.

Old hurts are unraveled, familial bonds are tested, and hearts are put on the line in this story of two people who didn’t mean to fall in love.

(Please note that this book is a spin-off of A Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and does contain major spoilers for that title.)

Everybody knows you don’t marry the rebound guy.

And yet, that’s exactly what Charlie does.

But once the husband is out of picture — kinda — she’s ready to leap forward with her life.

She returns to the neighborhood she left, the business she missed, and into arm’s reach of Nixon — the reason she needed a rebound guy in the first place.

Other than rebuilding her life, Charlie has one main goal now that she’s back in the place she considers home: Stay as far away from Nixon as she can.

But their long history, his magnetic charm, and a certain sense of unfinished business makes that much, much harder than Charlie thought.

Nixon is willing to own up to his part in their break up, but for Charlie, finding a place of forgiveness is going to take much more than that.

She’s willing to take a chance on friendship — something they’ve had since they were kids — but falling in love again?

That’s a whole different story.