Illicit Desire - Violet James

Nick Jeffries has always been my ultimate crush.\n And I’m certainly not the only woman in town pining after the sexy, motorcycle-riding, bad boy of Solitude, North Carolina. The difference between those women and me? Nick happens to be my brother’s best friend. Which means I’ve had an entire lifetime to fall head-over-heels for the tattooed, bearded, sexy-as-sin former Marine. It also means that Nick is completely off-limits.\n Not that he would ever think of me like that anyhow. Nick is every bit as protective of me as the other men in my family. I’m sure he still sees me as the sweet, innocent little Julianna Barlowe he’s known since we were kids. And he isn’t entirely wrong. I’m still innocent in one very important way…and my dream of letting Nick be the one to corrupt me seems desti