Secret Crush: Love in the City, #1

By Heather Scarlett

What happens when you finally get one night with your secret crush…except she doesn't remember you?

 

Bradley Williams has crushed on Jessica Landon since high school. He can't believe his luck when he runs into her at the neighborhood bar right before Christmas. He takes the risk to make his move and they share a memorable night. All is well until Bradley realizes Jessica has no idea who he is.

 

Jessica Landon is looking to rebound from a heartbreak. Meeting a sexy stranger in her neighborhood bar seems too good to be true. Until the next day, when he shows up at her family's annual cookie swap!

 

Turns out, the sexy stranger is none other than her childhood neighbor! What happens when you have a one night stand with your oldest friend? Will it tear apart a friendship or be the beginning of something new?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Heather Scarlett
• Release date: Oct 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215757864

Heather Scarlett

Heather Scarlett lives in Southern California, though her heart is in Montana where she lived for six wonderful years. She loves big sky, wide open spaces, and cowboys. Heather writes small town romance that feels like home and is equal parts sweet and emotionally satisfying. Her heroines are strong and sassy and her heroes are rugged and capable. Heather's stories are family focused and relationship driven.

Book preview

CHAPTER ONE

Jess Landon swirled the ice in her highball glass, sending a pensive glance around the trendy bar. Since when did her quiet New York suburb hometown follow trends? The bar was dark, cozy, sophisticated. Nothing like the rustic, country charm Bonner, NY was known for.

She may as well be in her New York City neighborhood bar, where at least she’d be drinking with friends. Not alone, like a sad single girl 4 days before Christmas. She was supposed to be here with her new boyfriend, who she was bringing home for the first holiday. A year into the relationship, it seemed right. Barry felt dumping her 5 days before Christmas to jet off to the Caribbean with his platonic female best friend was more right.

Which left Jess alone at Christmas, with her family, who were determined to fix everything that they thought was wrong with her life. Jess mentally ticked them off to herself: living in the city, being single, working in fashion, and not finance like her parents. She dropped her head onto the cold marble bar, wishing herself back in New York City. In her familiar surroundings, with friends.

Picking her head up, she glanced into the mirror over the bar. Movement in the bar’s entrance caught her attention. A tall man stood framed in the bright light from the street beyond. He was dressed in worn jeans, a heavy flannel shirt, and boots. He looked like the quintessential Bonner resident. Burly and capable as if he had just come from chopping wood or building something sturdy. Which meant that he stood out in this trendy bar. He looked around, confusion plain on his face. He did not expect this cosmopolitan ambiance any more than she had. She felt an immediate kinship with this stranger. He