I Wish You Were Mine
By: Lauren Layne
Releasing February 2, 2016
Oxford #2
Loveswept
Blurb
Perfect for fans of Alice Clayton and Emma Chase, Lauren Layne’s Oxford series heats up in this story of forbidden desire as a brooding jock hoping for a
comeback falls for a woman who’s strictly off-limits. A year ago, Jackson Burke was married to the love of his life and playing quarterback for the Texas Redhawks. Now he’s retired, courtesy of the car accident that ruined his career—and single, after a nasty scandal torpedoed his marriage. Just as he’s starting to get used to his new life as a health and fitness columnist for Oxford magazine, his unpredictable ex shows up on his doorstep in Manhattan. Jackson should be thrilled.
But he can’t stop thinking about the one person who’s always been there for him, the one girl he could never have: her younger sister. Mollie Carrington can’t say no to Madison. After all, her older sister practically raised her. So when Madison begs for help in winning her ex-husband back, Mollie’s just glad she got over her own crush on Jackson ages ago—or so she thought. Because as Mollie reconnects with Jackson, she quickly forgets all her reasons to stay loyal to her
sister. Tempted by Jackson’s mellow drawl and cowboy good looks, Mollie is sick and tired of coming in second place. But she can’t win if she doesn’t play the game.
Review:
Layne has delivered once again!
What a scrumptious read! He may no longer be a quarterback, but he’s still gathering the crowds. Everyone wants a piece of Jackson, however, no one wants him more than Mollie. What fun it was reading about these two. Layne did an outstanding job for a subject that could be considered sensitive – a man falling for his ex’s sister, and a sister falling for her sister’s ex. Of course it’s not unheard of for a younger sister to crush on her older sister’s love, but Mollie feelings ran a lot deeper. The story unfolded nice and as respectfully as it could, and I was oh so into it.
It was purely delectable, as always, to be a part of the group of friends. I want to go to lunch with them. Maybe watch a ballgame, have a margarita. Just be a part of the team. I felt like I was there. Each character is so unique, the dialogue so witty. I hated for the story to end, but that’s always the case with the Oxfords and Stilettos.
I wanted Mollie to see through Madison sooner than she did, but I totally got her behavior, and I felt for her. I did want to box Madison on her behalf tho. Hey, she’s not my sister. I’ve never had my career taken away from me, so I sympathized with Jackson. And what terrible lies he had to endure, but thankfully he held his own, and came out with some really great friends.
Kudos! Kudos! Kudos!
Rating system: Cups of coffee – the less the better
0: You won’t need any coffee to stay up for this one. It’s intriguing enough all on its own.
1: You’ll stay up late, but not all night. Brew one cup.
2: You’ll read as long as you’re not tired. If you are, two cups should do the trick.
3: I hope you got plenty of rest; you’ll need it, or at least 3 cups.
4: If the cable goes out, read the book. It’s better than nothing, I guess. Oh, don’t forget your brew!
5: Find anything else to do- it doesn’t matter what it is. Don’t waste your coffee. Too much caffeine is bad for you.
My rating: 0 cups of coffee
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Author Info
Lauren Layne is the USA Today Bestselling author of more than a dozen contemporary romance novels.
Prior to becoming an author, Lauren worked in e-commerce and web-marketing. A year after moving from Seattle to NYC to pursue a writing career, she had a fabulous agent and multiple New York publishing deals.
Lauren currently lives in Manhattan with her husband and plus-sized Pomeranian. When not writing, you’ll likely find her running (rarely), reading (sometimes), or at happy hour (often).
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Excerpt
Jackson took a sip. Perfection. Although what did it mean that Jackson’s life had turned into
one where the highlight of his day was a well-made cocktail?
It wasn’t that Jackson needed the booze. He enjoyed it, certainly. Had relied on it more than
he probably should have in those first few days when he’d gotten out of the hospital and come
home to a whole lot of nothingness.
But these days he could take it or leave it.
Tonight, however, he was taking it. Sobriety had no place when you had to sit across from
the most off-limits woman on the planet.
Knowing that didn’t stop the anticipation, however. He hadn’t seen her since she’d shown up
in his hospital room to deliver a bag of Gatlin’s BBQ and . . .
His divorce papers.
That had been eight months ago.
He’d avoided her ever since, and he couldn’t even say why except that he’d avoided pretty
much everyone. Jackson still spoke with his parents every Sunday, but everyone else—all the
old teammates, the old neighbors—had eventually stopped calling.
Mollie hadn’t, though. Mollie had never given up on him. Until today, he hadn’t responded to
a single text, a single email, and yet she hadn’t stopped sending them. That was Mollie for you.
Fiercely loyal to both him and Madison, even when things had started to go to hell.
Mollie had been accepted to Columbia just about the time that he and Madison started
coming apart at the seams. In hindsight, he was grateful that Mollie had been in New York when
things started to go to hell in his marriage. That she hadn’t seen him at his worst.
At the time, however, he’d been hit with an unfair sense of abandonment. He hadn’t realized
how much he’d come to rely on the much younger Mollie to mediate things between him and the
volatile Madison until she was in a different time zone.
Even now, more than a decade since first meeting Mollie, he struggled to reconcile the fact
that she and Madison had come from the same parents. Madison was perfectly coiffed,
charming only when she was in the mood, and manipulative as all hell. Mollie, on the other
hand, was adorably awkward—a brainy research assistant who cared a hell of a lot more about
her scientific journals than her manicure.
But somewhere along the line, Mollie Carrington had ceased to be that awkward kid who
talked about bugs at inopportune times. Somewhere along the line, she’d become his rock. The
one person in the world, save for perhaps his parents, who always knew the exact right thing to
say to make him feel like a human whenever he’d started to feel like a caricature of himself.
For years he’d tried to tell himself that it was just sibling affection—that he cared about her
the way he would a sister. But then things had gotten worse with Madison—way worse. And
Jackson had been hit upside the head with the truth: that maybe he’d married the wrong sister.
That he didn’t want to spend the rest of his days married to the beautiful, brittle Madison.
He wanted someone who made him laugh. Who listened. Someone who cared more about
people than she did about hair appointments.
Someone like Mollie.
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You’re welcome! I really enjoyed it. I can’t wait to read Lincoln’s story! 🙂