Reason to Believe Published by Everafter Romance by Rebecca Yarros
Series: Legacy #1
Genres: Contemporary, Firefighters, Romance
Pages: 350
Source: Publisher
Format: ARC, eBook
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Also by this author: Fourth Wing , Iron Flame
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ISBN: 1635765056
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From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros comes a brand-new small town, older-brother’s best friend standalone romance.
“I’ll take them!”
That’s what I tell the social worker when my pre-k student and his baby brother need an emergency foster placement. I’ll do anything to keep the brothers from being split up. But my apartment’s flooded and there’s only one house I can take them to on such short notice…his.
Knox Daniels, my older brother’s best friend, offers his new place without hesitation. He’s not moving back to our tiny town until next month—that’s when all our hotshot firefighters are returning for their one and only chance to rebuild our fathers’ fallen, iconic crew.
It doesn’t matter that I’ve been silently in love with Knox since we were kids.It can’t matter that we pretend that reckless prom night kiss never happened.It won’t matter that my feelings for him could destroy his lifelong friendship with my brother and threaten the certification of their hotshot crew.Because I’ll be out of his house long before he gets back.
Except Knox just walked in…a month early.And the icing on this awkward cake?He’s gorgeous as always and I’m covered in baby puke.He takes one look at the boys and tells me we can make this work—We can temporarily fake a relationship to keep them from being separated by the system.
Suddenly, everything matters.
Knox and Harper have a past. Knox is Harper’s brother’s best friend–which means she’s off limits to Knox… Even though they were both in love with each other from the time they were kids.
Fast-forward a few years and Harper, a pre-school owner/teacher, finds herself with the care of two, very young, orphan boys. And she has nowhere to take them–until Knox offers up his home.
So, you have some forced proximity with some serious yearning between these two. And while the physical chemistry is off the charts between these two, there is no doubt that the feelings are much deeper than that–especially when Knox bends over backwards to help Harper keep the boys. I mean the lengths that he goes to–it’s so glaringly obvious that he loves her.
This story was sweet and full of an intense undercurrent of yearning and heartbreak as Harper and Knox fight their feelings for each other while being forced to live together.
The whole cast of characters is incredibly intriguing as the feeling of cohesiveness and family are one of the factors that just makes this book so great.
I’m really eager to read more from this author–and definitely more in this series!
About Rebecca Yarros
Rebecca Yarros is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of over fifteen novels, including Great and Precious Things and The Last Letter. “A gifted storyteller” (Kirkus), she is also the recipient of the Colorado Romance Writer’s Award of Excellence for Eyes Turned Skyward from her Flight and Glory series.
Rebecca loves military heroes and has been blissfully married to hers for almost twenty years. She’s the mother of six children, ranging from kindergarten to law school, and is currently surviving the teenage years with three of her four hockey-playing sons. When she’s not writing, you can find her at the hockey rink or sneaking in some guitar time while guzzling coffee. She and her family live in Colorado with their stubborn English bulldogs, two feisty chinchillas, and a Maine Coon kitten named Artemis, who rules them all.
Having fostered then adopted their youngest daughter who is nonverbal and on the autism spectrum, Rebecca is passionate about helping children in the foster system through her nonprofit, One October, which she co-founded with her husband in 2019. To learn more about their mission to better the lives of kids in foster care, visit www.oneoctober.org.
To catch up on Rebecca’s latest releases and upcoming novels, including The Things We Leave Unfinished, which just received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, visit www.RebeccaYarros.com.
