Been going through my old netgalley requests and seeing what I have forgotten to give a review to and what I still need to read. I don't recall requesting this book or why. I haven't read the first book in the series and reading the synopsis present me doesn't have the same interest in this title as past me did.

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This book happens along the same time frame as the book in where his sister Kaitlyn and Beckett get together and have their own problems. It is when he finally notices that his best friend Melanie is more than just a girl, she's a woman, a woman who he wants to protect.

Melanie has always had a crush on her best friend and after seduction at his sisters wedding does not go to plan, she decides that she needs to shake her life up if she is to finally get rid of her virginity. She puts on a skimpy dress and has a few drinks at a pub in order to pick up a man and get it over with. Until that is Luke walks in, see her and acts like a caveman.

Luke does not think well of himself and does not see that he needs to change the way he thinks or it will always be him against the world and having the feeling that he has to fix things for everyone else. Melanie finally cracks into his thick skull what he is doing and missing out on, which hurts both of them.

Another good story based in Marietta, Montana.