“Does this woman have a name?” I ask as we finish climbing from the third to fourth floor.
“Stella.”
I turn back to face him. A two-by-four crashes down between us with flames across the length of it. I step back and my head hits something hard and unforgiving and I crash to the floor.
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We have a confession, neither one of are huge fans of the friends-to-lovers storyline. Which is probably why you don’t see a lot of them from us. But Juno and Colton were a little different for us. We’ve spent so much time with the Baileys that we were rooting for them to find their HEA and excited to write this book! We had to dig deep to know why they never found their way to one another and if they had (which now you know they had) what continued to keep them apart.
We’re going to share a secret with you. Juno was going to be pregnant and it was going to have happened the night of the baby shower. We planned that out back while writing Confessions but then when it came time to write the storyline, and we had made him engaged at the end of the book, we didn’t think Colton is the type of guy to cheat no matter how long he’s loved Juno or how fake his engagement was. And we didn’t think that spoke to Juno either. So, then we were going to make her pregnant later in the book, but it all just seemed wrong. We scraped the entire thing. BUT she was never the unknown female in Operation Bailey Babies. I guess now you know who was. ;)
We opted for the a less angsty storyline because we felt it was realistic for the characters we created and you’ve read about since the beginning of the series—real life best friends who turned into lovers after years of resisting fate. Either the timing was wrong, or they’re dating other people at different times, or they’re just petrified of losing that other person in their life if things go south. But in the end love made it impossible for them to be apart!
SUPER HUGE THANKS to our team who if not for them, we’d never be able to finish these books!
Danielle Sanchez and the entire Wildfire Marketing Solutions!
Cassie from Joy Editing for line edits.
Ellie from My Brother’s Editor for line edits.
Shawna from Behind the Writer for proofreading.
Sarah from Okay Creations for the cover and branding for the entire series.
Sara from Sara Eirew Photography for the super sexy picture of Juno and Colton.
Bloggers who consistently carve out time to read, review and/or promote us.
Our Piper Rayne Unicorns who champion this series to others with their whole hearts.
You the reader who took a chance on our book with so many choices out there.
You finally met Stella! What did you think? Is she what you expected? Just like Juno and Colton, there’s a lot you don’t know about Kingston and Stella’s story. We have some twists coming. Ones we thought of while writing Secrets of the World’s Worst Matchmaker and we can’t wait for you to read their story. Who doesn’t love a hero who knows what he wants? And Kingston wants Stella whether he admits it to her or not.
XO,
Piper & Rayne
About the Author
Piper Rayne, or Piper and Rayne, whichever you prefer because we’re not one author, we’re two. Yep, you get two USA Today Bestselling authors for the price of one. Our goal is to bring you romance stories that have "Heartwarming Humor With a Side of Sizzle" (okay...you caught us, that's our tagline). A little about us... We both have kindle’s full of one-clickable books. We're both married to husbands who drive us to drink. We're both chauffeurs to our kids. Most of all, we love hot heroes and quirky heroines that make us laugh, and we hope you do, too.
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Confessions of a Naughty Nanny
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