Short, sweet, romantic, steamy, friends-to-lovers…what else could you ask for when on a quick road trip and you’re not the one driving?

Carly and Noah have been friends their whole lives. Like, seriously, they cannot remember not knowing one another. Although they both seem to believe there has never been a true attraction between them, I beg to differ. As the reader gets to know these two, they realize they’ve never really liked each other’s boyfriends/girlfriends through all these years. Hmmmm…I wonder why that could be? So far, being best friends has worked for them. They see each other often, do most activities together, and even just have peaceful nights in watching television or movies with one another. All that’s missing to make them a true couple is sex.

Again, although they both deny it, the sexual tension is high before there is even a whiff of these two getting together in that way. As soon as they know they are going to be on a romantic getaway with each other (fake couple or not), and sharing a room, their true chemistry cannot be denied. Oh, they try to act like nothing has changed for at least a few hours. But it’s too much and they can’t even last through one night. Yet there’s nothing forced or unnatural about the moments they share. The author does a great job with the transitions these characters have to take throughout their “romantic” weekend.

As wonderfully as Ms. Stacey writes heat, she writes the awkwardness just as well. My gut hurt for these two as they tried to figure out what the weekend meant for their relationship. Can they act like nothing happened? Should they even try? Such turmoil and angst. I loved it all!

It seems like this series will be comprised of shorter novella type stories, at least from what I can tell so far. There’s another story coming out in November that will be another of my favorite sub-genres, Christmas!!! I can’t wait!

**I received an ARC of this book courtesy of Net Galley and the publisher. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and given freely**

This review can also be found at All In Good Time.

Merged review:

Short, sweet, romantic, steamy, friends-to-lovers…what else could you ask for when on a quick road trip and you’re not the one driving?

Carly and Noah have been friends their whole lives. Like, seriously, they cannot remember not knowing one another. Although they both seem to believe there has never been a true attraction between them, I beg to differ. As the reader gets to know these two, they realize they’ve never really liked each other’s boyfriends/girlfriends through all these years. Hmmmm…I wonder why that could be? So far, being best friends has worked for them. They see each other often, do most activities together, and even just have peaceful nights in watching television or movies with one another. All that’s missing to make them a true couple is sex.

Again, although they both deny it, the sexual tension is high before there is even a whiff of these two getting together in that way. As soon as they know they are going to be on a romantic getaway with each other (fake couple or not), and sharing a room, their true chemistry cannot be denied. Oh, they try to act like nothing has changed for at least a few hours. But it’s too much and they can’t even last through one night. Yet there’s nothing forced or unnatural about the moments they share. The author does a great job with the transitions these characters have to take throughout their “romantic” weekend.

As wonderfully as Ms. Stacey writes heat, she writes the awkwardness just as well. My gut hurt for these two as they tried to figure out what the weekend meant for their relationship. Can they act like nothing happened? Should they even try? Such turmoil and angst. I loved it all!

It seems like this series will be comprised of shorter novella type stories, at least from what I can tell so far. There’s another story coming out in November that will be another of my favorite sub-genres, Christmas!!! I can’t wait!

**I received an ARC of this book courtesy of Net Galley and the publisher. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and given freely**

This review can also be found at All In Good Time.

It was... fine. It took me forever to finish because I had a lot going on. I didn’t love it but I didn’t hate it either. I wanted to like it more than I did. Maybe it’s because this is a novella but everything felt kind of rushed in the end. I also couldn't really connect with any of the main characters. Bless this author for including an epilogue, though. I really needed that.