Stick Work

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sharing a house-and a Jack-and-Jill bathroom-with my brother's best friend is a special kind of torture. Especially when that man is the one I've secretly wanted for years.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But pretending to be his girlfriend at a family gathering? That's a whole new level of agony. The stolen glances the whispered questions the charade-it's all to get his parents off his back.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's fun and games... until I have to share his bed. Close enough to feel his heat yet miles from what I truly want. It's an exquisite kind of punishment.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And then Vegas happens. A wedding a reckless moment and a single choice that sets off a chain reaction capable of destroying everything: my brother's trust his family's belief in me and most painfully my own fragile heart.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Just when I think things couldn't get worse... they do.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And the only way out might save everyone else-but it'll shatter me.</span></p>