"Being reunited with your childhood best friend after eight years apart? Sounds like a heart-warming story. Finding out that said best friend is now a complete jerk who's determined to make your life hell? Not so much." Georgie and Connor were once inseparable. Best friends from birth, they did everything together - well, that was until Connor's dad got a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity and the family was forced to relocate to New York. At age sixteen, Georgie's life is totally different - her main goal being to keep her head down and escape the brutalities of high school with as little emotional scarring as possible. Balancing school, work and her dwindling social life is enough of a challenge, but it's about to get a bit more complicated when her conceited ex-best friend gets thrown into the mix. Maybe friendship should come with an instruction booklet.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of her own business and independence, must be in want of a man who wants more than a damn one-night-stand. Right?! Annie La Fontaine is fed up with modern dating. Too many non-committal guys, too many disappointments, and definitely not enough romantic yearning. So when she decides to create a monthly Regency-style ball in her small Australian town, she is unprepared for both its success AND for one very specific suitor who arrives unannounced (how rude!): Blake Byrne, her first love and the man who broke her heart years ago. Blake knows better than to try again with Annie - romancing his sister's best friend all those years before had been a mistake, and he is still putting the broken pieces of his life back together after a terrible accident. But in love, the heart wants what it wants, and as Annie and Blake find themselves unable to stop the gravitational pull back towards each other, will they be able to put their pasts behind them and their hearts back on the line? Or will the rules of a Regency romance be too challenging to overcome?

"𝐉𝐞 𝐭'𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞. 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬." ˚ ༘ ೀ⋆｡˚ "Mistletoe." He smirked, glancing upwards. "Sorry?" She asked. And before she could realise, their lips met, crashed, touched... With that softness and tenderness along with the mix of a passion. ˚ ༘ ೀ⋆｡˚ "...𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘐 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸, 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘬 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘯." ☞ Abbreviations: POV: Point of View Y/n: Your name Y/n/n: Your nickname Y/l/n: Your last name H/c: Hair colour E/c: Eye colour ✧ I will clear out more abb. if necessary. Check out the "Introduction" before delving into the story. ☞ Disclaimer: I don't own any characters except Y/n. All characters are owned by the original author of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling.