Blurb:

Falling in love with my straight best friend? Tragically inevitable.

Telling him? Completely out of the question.

Everyone in Winsome knows Robbie and I are a matched set. A package deal. Ames and Robbie, Robbie and Ames.

He’s the calm to my chaos. The sun shining through my rain cloud. The guy who convinced me to be a firefighter. The man who’s known every single thing about me since we were thirteen…

Except for the teeny, tiny, inconsequential fact that I’ve been in love with him for years.
I planned to take this secret to the grave. Robbie’s straight. He’s engaged. And I’m finally–finally–ready to move on.

But one uncontrollable blaze, one daring rescue, one inconvenient injury, and one heavily-medicated, wildly inappropriate love confession later, my plan’s up in flames.

Suddenly helpful, perfect, shirtless Robbie is bathing me, dressing me, and nursing me back to health. And if being around my gorgeous bestie 24/7 wasn’t torture enough, it seems I’m not the only one having un-platonic thoughts.

But there’s no way I’m letting myself fall into the fantasy again. Because if I let myself believe this is real and it isn’t, it won’t just break my heart… it’ll break us.

And I refuse to risk our friendship, no matter how tempting the man’s hot axe might be.

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Review:

My heart hurt for Ames being in love with his engaged best friend. And just as much when it seems like maybe Robbie isn’t straight after all. It has to be hard for Ames to take the chance on something more with him. If things go wrong he could lose everything and having something of Robbie is better than nothing, right? Although, really, we know that would eventually eat away at him. He was already struggling with the engagement.

But Robbie’s feelings are real and he goes all out to convince Ames that he’s totally in this. And I thought Robbie’s realization of his true feelings for Ames worked. He’s been in therapy and it has him evaluating his life. Throw in the possibility that he could lose Ames forever and he’s more than sure. He just has to be patient with Ames. Very patient.

This is the first of Archer’s books for me and I really enjoyed it. While I think I would have loved to see more of the Axford sibilings, and will be adding Kiss My Axe to my TBR, this one pretty well stands on its own.