The King boys have been the center of my life for as long as I remember. Theo has been my best friend since I was four, and our families are as close as can be.
Except Matthias. The oldest King son never failed to look miserable whenever I was around, and every word out of his mouth to me was cruel.
Until a snowstorm trapped us in his house, and we shared two perfect days together.
That was five years ago. Now his father’s dying, and he’s back at the estate and more vicious than ever, as if our time together meant nothing to him.
I should hate him. I should be able to forget him now that I have a chance to be happy with someone else.
There’s just one problem. I can’t stop thinking about the man who stole my heart one snowy night all those years ago.
She thinks I don’t remember our time together. She’s wrong. I’ve never forgotten.
Not when I moved to a different continent. Not when I didn’t hear from her for five years. Not even though I’ve tried my damnedest to forget her.
I want to hate her. I should. But I can’t. All I can do is look on with jealousy as Ava finds happiness with another man.
What do you do when the one person standing in the way of your happiness is your own brother?
It was only supposed to be a well-deserved, three-day break from life back in the city. Three days in the islands without interruptions from work or anything else.
Then I met her. She was beautiful and sexy, and she insisted we didn’t share names. I would have been crazy not to agree to a long weekend of anonymous sex.
I don’t know when it happened, but it turned into more. I started thinking about forever with my mystery woman.
That doesn’t sound like something a bad boy ever considers, but there it is. I’d found the woman for me.
And just when I had it all, I blew it.
He crashed into my life like a hurricane. He was sexy and charming, but he was a bad boy through and through, untamed and wild.
I should have run away the moment he walked up to my table. Instead, I let myself be seduced by his soulful dark brown eyes and a body made for pleasure.
I thought I could be safe if I kept our time together anonymous. How wrong I was.
Fate has a way of giving people what they deserve, and it seems to think I should have a chance to make him suffer.
Now this good girl has to decide if she still cares for that bad boy she met in the islands or wants to exact her revenge.
I had it all once. The beautiful girlfriend who loved me. A talent that was going to take me as far as I wanted to go.
I was living the dream.
But I lost her because I made a terrible mistake, and then one horrible night, I lost any chance to play ball again. Everything I thought I had going for me disappeared, leaving me with nothing to live for.
Now I’m left to pick up the pieces. I’d give anything for another chance with Kate, but can I truly expect anyone to love me now that I’m not who I used to be?
He was the boy I fell in love with in high school, my first boyfriend. My first everything. I planned to spend the rest of my life being madly in love with him.
Until it all fell apart.
I never gave up hoping we might end up together, even though I moved on with my life. I heard he got drafted to a minor league baseball team, and even though we weren’t together, I was proud of him for finally living his dream.
Now the boy I loved is a man in pain, and there’s nothing I can do. I want to believe there’s a second chance for us, but is it too late?
I love my life. I do as I want, when I want, and with whomever I want. It’s a good life.
I’m the King brother who’s always single, but I’ll let you in on a secret. I’ve been with the same incredible woman for two years. She makes me happier than I ever thought possible. I’m crazy in love with her, like the kind of love I never thought actually existed in real life.
So why doesn’t anyone know this? I like to keep things to myself. Anyway, my brothers would have a million questions they’d expect me to answer if they found out, so why would I tell them?
It’s not certain how long I can keep things on the down low. The woman I love wants to tell the world, and I have a hard time denying her anything. Except this. So for now, she and I will be happy, and no one will know.
That is, until our secret comes out.
Like the nickname he gave me? I didn’t for a long time, but it’s grown on me. Plus, he’s so cute when he calls me it.
I’m the woman Marius King loves. Except nobody but he and I know that.
I guess to some people that would be strange. I’m not sure we aren’t strange. How we got together wasn’t exactly a meet cute, but then again, neither of us is the meet cute kind. How we’ve been since that first day would likely be considered strange by some too.
That’s okay. We don’t care. I love him and he loves me, so we’re good.
That is, until everyone finds out our secret.
You’re cordially invited to the wedding of the year. More correctly, weddings of the year. You know how each couple started out and how they found love. Now it’s time to make it official for the King Brothers.
It’s a story of happily ever afters, so get ready to find out how Matthias and Ava, Kellen and Salem, Ronan and Kate, and Marius and Duck make their way to their big days and beyond.