Bøker av Piper James

I messed up, and now it's time to face the music...literally. I thought I was helping. That I knew best. Even though he was saying he didn't want it, I knew he would be loved by millions if he'd just let the world hear his talent. So, I did it, anyway. I uploaded a video of my not-so-secret crush, Bram Baker, singing and playing his guitar to my popular and heavily followed BingBang account, and guess what!? I was right. The video reached millions of people, and a star was born. But now, Bram hates me. I disregarded his wishes, and his life changed without his permission. He never had any desire for the adoration of strangers, and my actions screwed up his perfectly average and peaceful existence. Just in time for my big move to Evening Shade, where he lives and tends bar at the small town's only tavern. To make matters worse, the apartment I was supposed to live in has gone up in flames, my second option--staying with my newly engaged best friend--has been taken away, and I'm running out of alternatives...until the man I'd been falling for before I betrayed him steps up and shocks us all, offering me his spare bedroom. This can work, right?Of course, it can. It has to.

A secret romance with an up-and-coming Hollywood star? Check. Getting my heart broken for the first and only time by said star? Double check.And I refuse to let history repeat itself. Gavin Reese rose to stardom and became a teenage heartthrob ten years ago, but before that, he was just Gavin, an eighteen-year-old boy who caught my eye and stole my heart while filming the movies that would eventually make him a household name. We were friends first. I was only fifteen and too young for anything romantic, but over the next year, our friendship grew into something more. Something special. At least, it was special to me. Apparently, what he had with his gorgeous co-star wasn't all smoke and mirrors and lines on a page. Ten years later, he came back to Evening Shade for a convention celebrating the anniversary of the first film's release. I managed to avoid him the whole weekend, but now that he's decided to stay for a while, I don't know what I'm going to do. But I know what I'm not going to do. I'm not going to fall for that sweet, good guy act. Not again. I may have fangirled over the boy who'd eventually become a star, but I refuse to fall for the playboy who's never had a serious relationship...including the one he had with me. Ouch. Why does that still sting?

Have you ever had a truth bomb dropped on you-one so big, it blew up your life...in the best possible way? Yeah. Me, too. Everything in my life has gone exactly as I'd planned it. I graduated college, moved back to my hometown, and opened my own business. The Sly Fox is a thriving hotspot in the small town of Rebel, Idaho. I'm close to my family, my best friend just moved back to town, and I've never been happier. I am literally living the dream. It can't possibly get any better than this. At least, that's what I thought until a certain midnight-haired beauty walked into my bar and asked for a job. Mila Cabrera is even more gorgeous now than she was in high school, where I'd spent all four years secretly crushing on her. Now, she's back in my life, and I'm having a hard time keeping things strictly professional. I want her, but she gets strangely nervous around me. Quiet. Guarded. And the more I break through her tough outer shell to get to know her, the more I want to know. I like her. A lot. But turns out, she has a secret. And when the truth is revealed, nothing will ever be the same. Dear readers, while this book is, in essence, a romantic comedy, there is a darker aspect regarding the past in the form of flashbacks. Unbeknownst to two characters who end up spending a night together, one of them was slipped a mood-altering substance by a third party and was unaware of their actions that night. I understand this may act as a trigger to some readers, and I hope you'll take this into consideration before reading. xoxo, Piper

What's the worst that can happen when you get tipsy and decide to sleep with your best friend's brother? Well, I'm about to find out. Zeke Beckett has always been an enigma. Hot as sin and just as reserved, I've made it my mission to break him out of his shell. Or, at least, loosen his back door's grip on the giant stick he's got shoved up there. My attempts have always failed...until they didn't. When a night of drinking ends in Zeke finding my hidden, secret tattoo, I realize there's much more to him than meets the eye. But he wants to pretend it never happened, and makes me promise not to tell his twin sister, who happens to be my best friend. One of the two people on this planet to whom I can never lie. I manage to pull it off for a while, but then the unthinkable happens... Two little pink lines change everything, and I have no freaking clue what I'm going to do now.

Riggs Malone. Star quarterback and captain of the football team. The boy all the girls wanted and all the boys wanted to be. My first love.And the only person who ever broke me. I have a great life. I've fulfilled my dream of running my own coffee shop-slash-library in my hometown, I own my own home, and I have the best group of friends a girl could ask for. Everything is perfect. Or it was. When a neighboring town starts its very own professional football franchise, he gets himself traded to be the starting quarterback of the Branston Bandits. And before I know it, he's purchased the house next door, moving in with a neighborly smile like he didn't destroy me all those years ago... ...when he made a disgusting bet with his teammates to take my V-card, which I was eagerly and naively willing to give him before I found out the truth. Well, if Riggs Malone thinks it's all water under the bridge, he has another thing coming. I don't forgive easily, and I never forget. I'm about to make his life a living hell. Let the prank war begin. The Turnover is a steamy, enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy with lots of laughs, plenty of heat, and more than a few cookies that are...ahem...anatomically correct. And if you're worried about Riggs' ability to be redeemed, don't worry. While he did, in fact, make the bet, all wasn't as it seemed...

Clean cut, all-American, hot as sin, and sweet enough to lick all over. That's how my friend Skye describes Miles Blake. It's how I'd describe him, too, if I didn't just find out the one-night stand that rocked my world is my best friend's fiancé's best friend...God, what a mouthful. Now, the cat's out of the bag, and despite the lingering attraction between us, I've locked him firmly in the friend zone. What else am I supposed to do? If I allow myself to enjoy Miles the way I want to, what will happen when things inevitably go bad? We'd be putting our prospective best friends in the middle, that's what. And I refuse to be the cause of tension between my bestie and the love of her life. No way. No how. But it doesn't take long for the desire simmering inside me to come to a head. Miles is charming, funny, gorgeous, and kind...everything I could want in a man wrapped in a sexy package that makes my body revolt against my mind and its ridiculous decision to keep things friendly. So we make a deal--we'll remain friends, but with...ahem...benefits. Nothing changes outside of the bedroom, and when we end the physical stuff, we'll remain friends. No harm. No foul. It's the perfect plan, right?

When I let my most embarrassing secret slip to the person I wanted it kept from most of all...Damn you, tequila. I'm a grown woman. I turned thirty this year, and I've been running my own business for the last decade, a dream I made a reality all on my own. I have an amazing group of friends. Life is good. I'm happy. Well, except for one little problem... I'm still a virgin. How did this happen? How did I manage to live this long without ever making it past second base? I don't know. Maybe it just never felt right. Maybe I was waiting for something. Or someone. When local football star Foster McKenna moves into my bed & breakfast for a long stay while his own house is being built, I know it's him. He's the one I've been waiting for. I'm finally ready to get rid of this V-card, once and for all, and Foster is just the man to divest me of it. I've been crushing on him for months, and now that we're here, all alone in this big house... But when a little liquid courage turns into a full-on bender, I accidentally let my secret slip. And all the things I liked about Foster--his honesty, his integrity, his kindness and strength of will--turn out to be the bane of my existence. Despite being obviously attracted to me, he won't give me what I want. He's trying to protect me. From him. From myself. Well, screw that. If he won't rid me of this godforsaken virginity, I'll find someone who will. Then maybe he'll see me as a woman, and not some fragile flower he needs to protect. Oh, but he doesn't like that idea. Not one little bit.

What do you do when one of your best friends is unlucky in love? You become his wing-woman, obviously... Sam Simmons has quickly become one of my best friends. We were thrown together when our B.F.F.'s fell in love, and the connection was instant. He's the yin to my yang. The peanut butter to my jelly. The chocolate to my bacon. Wait...what? Gross. Anyway, when Sam gets all misty-eyed over his sad, cobweb-filled dumpster fire of a love life, I devise a plan. We'll go through his little black book--who knew there was an app for that?--and set up second-chance dates with each woman with whom he's failed at finding love. I'll be the ultimate wing-woman, a creeper who observes from the sidelines so we can figure out what he's been doing wrong... But the plan backfires in a big way, and I'm falling for him. I want him, but if things go sideways, I could lose him, completely. What am I going to do now?