Wrong
Brother, Right Match
Anyone But You #3
By: Jennifer Shirk
Releasing
December 5, 2016
Entangled Bliss
Matchmaking guru Kennedy Pepperdine’s life is perfect. Perfect job. Perfect friends. Perfect boyfriend. Except...when she gets trapped in an elevator with a handsome stranger, she accidentally confesses a secret: maybe her perfect boyfriend, Justin, isn’t so perfect for her after all. But a matchmaker should be able to successfully match herself, right? Thankfully, she’ll never see the handsome stranger again. Until she heads home with Justin for the holidays and learns that the sexy stranger is none other than Justin’s older brother, Matt.
Matt Ellis is trying to be on his best behavior for his mother—it is Christmas, after all. But when he recognizes the beautiful woman from the elevator—the one he hasn’t been able to stop thinking about for months—his best behavior is being held by a thread. Matt’s always sacrificed for his family, and nothing is more important than their happiness, but the more time he spends around Kennedy, the more he wonders if her supposed "right match" might just be the wrong brother.
Love, love, love, love! Here I give you my biggest dreamy, happy sigh. <SIGH> If you are looking for the perfect holiday romance to snuggle in with this month (Or today. It really should be today because honestly? Why wait?!) then look no further because this is your book. I inhaled this book. It was so fun to read. I kind of want to go back and read it again. If I had time, I totally would.
Kennedy has a growing business and the perfect boyfriend. After all, he was her perfect match and Kennedy is in the business of knowing such things. Then Kennedy finds herself stuck in an elevator with a handsome stranger and what happens? A kiss of course. A zingy, heart stopping kiss that neither participant can forget.
Matt is so swoon worthy. Even when he is being ornery to Kennedy upon first seeing her at his family's house for Christmas, he is swoony. I just LOVED Matt. He is so good to his family and he is so good to Kennedy. Well, after said ornery business is over. Matt was so easy to like and so easy to root for.
Jennifer Shirk is one of my favorite authors in the clean romance world. Her characters have great personality and I'm always drawn to them. I follow Jennifer Shirk and I'm always watching for new books by her. I think this one is my new favorite!
Content: mild swearing, kissing, casual drinking
- I received a copy of this book for free. A positive review was not required and all opinions expressed are my own.
Enjoy the following excerpt!
Matt looked
at his sister. “What do you think?”
“We can let
her in on the secret,” Caitlyn said with a huge grin. “She’s definitely one of
us.”
Matt
hesitated. “Okay. The truth is…we all hate the fruitcake.”
“I knew
it!” she exclaimed then frowned. “But I don’t understand. Why pretend to like
it, then?”
“Honestly?
Because none of us has the heart to tell her the truth. It makes her so happy.
She’s one of the two percent who actually enjoys it.”
“And your
dad,” she added. “He liked it, too. Your mom said so.”
Matt shook his head gravely. “No, he hated it
the most.”
Kennedy blinked then looked to Caitlyn. “He
did?”
“Yup.”
Caitlyn shrugged. “Like Matt said, we didn’t have the heart to make her feel
bad on Christmas. At least this time she didn’t put any figs or dried pineapple
in it. That was a particularly bad year. Although Justin tolerated it the best
out of all of us.”
Kennedy
cracked a smile. “So your mom goes through all this trouble of making a
fruitcake every Christmas and she’s the only one who eats it?”
“Oh, no,”
Matt assured her. “We’ll all choke down a slice. You, too, since you’ll soon be
part of the family. And we’ll all tell her how great it is. It’s tradition.”
“Tradition,”
Caitlyn echoed firmly.
Kennedy
laughed. Oh my, if she didn’t already love this family, this aspect of it only
endeared them to her more. “Well, your secret is safe with me. I love
traditions myself.”
“That’s
good,” Caitlyn said, cracking herself up, “because you and Matt are standing
under the mistletoe.”
What?!
Kennedy
cautiously looked up as if to find the Sword of Damocles dangling over her, but
instead found a small green ball of mistletoe tied up with ribbon. Crap! Her
gaze dropped to Matt, who held a gleam of interest in his eyes, and her cheeks
caught fire.
“Oh, well,
that’s a silly tradition,” she said hurriedly, “I mean, we don’t have to do
that.” Do we?
Barbara
walked back into the room. “What don’t you have to do?”
Caitlyn
pointed to the ball. “Matt and Kennedy are under the mistletoe.”
“Oh, how
nice,” Barbara said, clasping her hands. “Kiss her, Matt. It’s Christmas after
all.”
Matt
glanced at Kennedy and stiffened, but without further argument leaned in to
her. Her heart fluttered like a hummingbird in anticipation. She caught the
pleasant scent of pine and soap on his skin as he brushed his lips against her
cheek, hovering for just a few brief seconds before he was once again at a safe
distance from her. Such a simple kiss, yet her emotions whirled and skidded.
“I’d better
get going,” Matt murmured, backing into the door.
His mom
frowned. “Are you okay, dear? Maybe you should sit down a bit first.”
“No, I need
to get kissing—er, going. I need to go.” His gaze reluctantly returned to hers,
and his voice dipped. “I’ll see you tomorrow night?”
She nodded,
not trusting her voice. Then he was out the door as if suddenly spooked.
Unfortunately,
she knew exactly how he felt.
Jennifer
Shirk has a bachelor degree in pharmacy-which has in NO
WAY at all helped her with her writing career. But she likes to point it out,
since it shows romantic-at-hearts come in all shapes, sizes, and mind-numbing
educations.
She writes sweet (and sometimes even funny) romances for Samhain Publishing,
Avalon Books/Montlake Romance and now Entangled Publishing. She won third place
in the RWA 2006 NYC's Kathryn Hayes Love and Laughter Contest with her first
book, THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME. Recently, her novel SUNNY DAYS FOR SAM won the
2013 Golden Quill Published Authors Contest for Best Traditional Romance.
Lately she's been on a serious exercise kick. But don't hold that against her.
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