num_pages: 296
description: Its pretty hard to stay away from her when she moves in right next doorIm the jokester of the group. I always have that one-liner that lightens the mood even in the darkest of moments. It's just who I am. It's who I had to be. I lost my wife eleven years ago when I was on my first deployment so now Im just trying to keep things light.And because of that I refuse to put my heart out there again while Im a Marine. Its not worth the risk. What if Im gone and she needs me? Nope. Screw that.So when a beautiful single mom and her daughter move in next door Im going to fight that attraction tooth and nail. Good thing Maggie doesnt want to be with me any more than I want to be with her. Her late husband was a Marine too. And theres no way shell let her daughter go through that again. Or herself.But we run in the same group of friends and now we share a wall. Its not going to be very easy to keep our distance.And we need to.It doesnt matter that sparks fly whenever were together. It doesnt matter that her daughter is just as much of a book-nerd as I am and we get along great. And it definitely doesnt matter that the three of us are somehow turning into a family without meaning to.Because we both know what its like to lose the one you love and that old saying about how it's better to have loved and lost than not loved at all? We disagree.
language: English
title: Romance on the Reef
publisher: None