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** spoiler alert ** Allie makes a sex video, unbeknownst to Roan, of them going at it hot and heavy in some cockamamie plan of hers to get revenge on her ex-boyfriend who cheated on her with her ex-stepsister/ex-best friend.

Two years later, H and h’s paths cross again and they fall in love. But gasp! The sex video (which she never deleted bec it was a deeply profound moment of her with the hero *rolls eyes*) is leaked to the public (on a porn site!!) by evil ex-stepsister/ex-best friend. Drama, angst, mortification, blame, and regret ensue. But somehow, even amidst Allie’s stupid decisions and actions, they patch things up and get their HEA.

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I don’t understand how this book got/gets as many high ratings as it did/does. Maybe it’s me because I didn’t like Allie. At all.

Who does stuff like this woman??? And my real life boyfriend (back when I was the heroine’s age) cheated on me too. Not with a stepsister (don’t have one) or my best friend. But still, he cheated on me for a good while. When I found out, I was deeply hurt by the whole experience. It was painful and awful; but I never thought, ooh let’s make a striptease-turned-full-on-sex video with a hot, hot guy so that “people�� will know that I’m not broken and pathetic. WTH?!

I couldn’t understand her thought processes or why she made the decisions she did. I couldn’t connect to her at all. Moreover, I didn’t respect her.

Frankly, I think Roan deserved better.

The only saving grace of this book for me was getting to see the rest of the Harris’s. They’ve got a lot of scenes! 85% of this book occurs 2 years later and everyone has grown.... So if you’re a fan of Vi, Gareth, Tanner, Camden, and/or Booker, this book is like one long extended epilogue.