{"product_id":"this-time-around-paperback-5","title":"This Time Around - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarper Rae James\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlake-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI thought I was done with love. One night with the wrong guy was all it took to unravel me-proof that I'm not as tough as I seem. So I swore off men, convinced I needed to work on myself. Heal myself. But life has a twisted sense of humor. Just when I settle on solitude, I crash-literally-into Luke.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy best friend's older brother. The one I've always wanted but never let myself peruse. He's everything I told myself was off-limits: older, accomplished, heartbreakingly unattainable. And worse-he sees right through me. Every time I try to keep my distance, he looks at me like I'm the one thing he's been waiting for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut crossing that line could cost me everything. Even if not crossing it is already tearing me apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuke-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI didn't spend years pining after Blake. That's not how it happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack then, she was just my sister's best friend. A little wild, always around, always laughing too loud. I had a wife, a life I thought made sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuietly, slowly, my marriage was crumbling around me; over long before I admitted it out loud. And somewhere in that silence, there she was-Blake. Not trying. Not even looking at me that way. Just... being her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd suddenly, I couldn't stop seeing her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wasn't some big romantic moment. It was a tangle of small ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow five years later, she's here. Still trying to pretend we're just friends. Still keeping me at arm's length. But I've already lived through loving the wrong person. I know what that feels like.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis-what's between us-it's the first thing that's felt real in a long time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd I'm not walking away from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 356\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48757303509241,"sku":"9798991814829","price":23.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/sCBfcmAh5f9798991814829.webp?v=1785946284","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/this-time-around-paperback-5","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}