SLOW BURN
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  • Time 8h 58m
Complete, First published Mar 02, 2019
Mature
"I don't know why but every time I'm around you, all I want to do is grab you and kiss you."

When Josh Andrews finds himself falling for his brother's girlfriend he puts time and distance in between to shut off whatever the hell he is feeling for her. There's nothing time can't make people forget and nothing distance can't disappear. Eight years later, he sees her again and it's as if he's back to square one. It's as if time and distance are laughing at him. He loves her skin, her smile, her hair, and most of all, her lips. They say the best things are forbidden and there's nothing more that Josh wants than to have a taste of that forbidden fruit...

Natalie Garcia has been with Brad Andrews since Junior year in high school. Eight years later, she finds herself single for the first time since then. It's not easy to just forget about everything she went through with Brad...just like it hasn't been easy to forget about the time Josh kissed her the last time she saw him. Imagine thinking about a single kiss for eight years and then seeing the person that kissed you again. Natalie doesn't understand what it is about Josh that makes her skin burn with desire. Her body yearns for his touch whenever he's near. She knows it's wrong. Hooking up with your ex-boyfriend's brother has to be breaking some kind of rule but it's beginning to get harder and harder for her to fight against the fire...

Josh and Natalie find themselves in a SLOW BURN romance that is wrong but feels so right at the same time...
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