Friends Don't Kiss

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Friends don't kiss.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Especially not your best friend.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Especially not when your ex walks in with your sister your family's watching and you're holding the cake you spent hours perfecting-your sugar-laced reminder that you're a pastry chef now even if no one seems to notice.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But when Colton Harper-my best friend and the most dependable man I know-swoops in and pretends to be my boyfriend I let him. He says he's just helping me save face. That it's no big deal.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Except now he's calling me </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>sweetness</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> touching me like I'm more than a friend and kissing me like he means it.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>And the worst part?</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>I kiss him back</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>. And it's messing with my head.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Because Colt isn't just my friend. He's the man who helped me build a life in Emerald Creek when I had nothing. He's my anchor. My home. If we cross this line and it falls apart I don't just lose him-I lose everything.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Letting him in means risking the one thing I've always feared: that I'm either too much or not enough for someone to truly stay.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>FRIENDS DON'T KISS</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a steamy small-town romance featuring fake dating friends to lovers found family a cinnamon roll mechanic and one grumpy pastry chef who might just learn that love is the sweetest risk of all.</span></p>