Scroll Down for Purchase Links! A new standalone, second-chance story of forbidden love\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s natural to want the one you can\u2019t have. And for as long as I could remember, I\u2019d secretly wanted my brother\u2019s best friend, Jace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was six years older and always treated me like the sister he never had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fast forward a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We were all in our twenties now. Jace had moved in with my brother, Nathan, and me to help us make ends meet after our parents died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was just the three of us\u2014an odd family dynamic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Living under our roof, Jace was as bossy and protective as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But he certainly didn\u2019t look at me like a sister anymore. That was what made things so complicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was pretty much hot and bothered twenty-four-seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And he was torn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The signs were subtle, at first. Like on movie night, I\u2019d casually rest my leg against his, and he wouldn\u2019t exactly shift away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Still, I assumed he would never\u2026go there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nathan would kill us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The knowledge of that wasn\u2019t enough to stop the inevitable, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eventually our slow burn exploded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But more than the physical attraction, we\u2019d developed a strong connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We just couldn\u2019t get caught, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That sounded simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a story of forbidden love, broken trust, and an unexpected second chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":821,"template":"","format":[21,19,20],"meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"series":[26],"trope":[63],"writtenby":[16],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"series":[{"value":26,"label":"Standalones"}],"trope":[{"value":63,"label":"Forbidden"}],"format":[{"value":21,"label":"Ebook"},{"value":19,"label":"Audiobook"},{"value":20,"label":"Paperback"}],"writtenby":[{"value":16,"label":"Penelope Ward"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PWTheCrushBookCover5x8_MEDIUM-638x1024.jpg",638,1024,true],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"trope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trope?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"writtenby","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writtenby?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}