Best Friend Temptation
Series: Montgomery Ink Legacy #4
Author: Carrie Ann Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 30, 2023
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The Montgomery Ink Legacy series continues with a forbidden romance between two best friends and the woman they both crave. Ford, Noah, and Greer aren't ready for what happens next.
I fell for my best friend long before I knew what that meant. Only I know he'll never love me back.
He's stuck in his head and his past demons and can't see what is right in front of him.
But when Greer loses her home and needs a place to stay, both Noah and I know the only place she belongs is with us—in every way possible.
Now I'm falling for both of my roommates and trying to keep the people I protect safe.
Only someone is coming for them, and I can't stop the inevitable fall.
I just have to hope that we made the right choices and that one day soon Noah and Greer will finally see who we can be.
Before we lose it all…or I finally walk away for good.
Ford and Noah have been best friends and roommates for years. Being business partners as well, it was doubly important that they keep their relationship professional and without complication, despite the pull of attraction that has tempted them from time to time.
Greer found herself needing a place to stay after her rental became unlivable. It only made sense that she move into the spare room at Ford and Noah’s, except that she had been harboring a crush on both men as long as she’d known them and worked next door to their business.
As the proximity closes in, the three of them have to face the chemistry sparking from all sides, as well as the potential for more. I loved the way this storyline focused so much on the communication and bonds between the trio as much as the physical chemistry. They each had things they were struggling with, and watching as they grappled with how to let the others see their secrets gave an additional dimension to their relationship.
There were also some things going on in the background, from the cause of Greer’s house fire to the lingering guilt Ford and Noah felt over not seeing the danger that faced the Montgomery family from the last book. These additional threads gave some good outside conflict to the story and added to the angles I continued to sort through as I read the main romantic storyline.
Part of me wished that Noah wasn’t so quick to sacrifice his own happiness and question his place in the house. Even as he repeated his belief that Ford and Greer would eventually be a couple and leave him behind, I kept wondering when he would realize they wouldn’t be a couple without him in the relationship as well. This was a trio in every sense of the word - there was the relationship that included all three of them, but there were individual relationships between each side of the trio that were equally important to the story.
I loved the way the three families came together during the course of this book. The Montgomerys and Cages have known each other for years, as Noah and Ford were friends as children. But add in the Cassidys to the mix, and there were protective families at every turn. I can’t wait for more from this series (Montgomery Ink Legacy), as always, but also the possibility of the Cages or the Cassidys getting spinoffs has me giddy with the potential!
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Carrie Ann Ryan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary, paranormal, and young adult romance. Her works include the Montgomery Ink, Talon Pack, Promise Me, and Elements of Five series, which have sold millions of books worldwide. She’s the winner of a RT Book of the Year and a Prism Award in her genres. She started writing while in graduate school for her advanced degree in chemistry and hasn’t stopped since. Carrie Ann has written over one hundred novels and novellas with more in the works. When she’s not losing herself in her emotional and action-packed worlds, she’s reading as much as she can while wrangling her clowder of cats who have more followers than she does.
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