Until You: A Brother's Best Friend Standalone: 1 (Off-Limits)

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Thankfully, she is offered a dream job by the best friend of her brother and she readily accepts it. His brother’s best friend is a man named Greyson who has had a tragic past and considers aria and her brother Noah his only family. However, the easiest way to get hold of her is to join the mailing list that she publishes every month. In her newsletter, readers can usually get news of opportunities for bonus content and new releases before they become public knowledge. I really loved the plot of this book. It should have been brilliant but it wasn’t. It nearly was. So frustrating! Given that he is a professional, he intends to do what is expected of him until he meets Amara Astor. He just cannot away from Amara, which just makes both their lives complicated.

I don’t know how anyone could let another person talk to them the way Kate talks to Emilia and not lose their shit! If anyone was a selfish bitch, it was Kate!Her boyfriend Brad is upset with her that she kept her friendship with Grayson a secret from him and begs her to use her friendship to get him an in at Grayson's software company. She hates taking advantage of their friendship, but doesn't know how to avoid it and keep Brad happy. She is now known for her penchant for penning some angsty stories that can be very intriguing. She currently lives in Hong Kong but given her wanderlust, she has at some point made her home in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. After living in Holland for several decades, she moved to Hong King and Singapore but ultimate settle in the former.

When he sees Aria in action, he decides to give her a job and offers her a place to live in his penthouse in Silicon Valley. But Aria has a secret that a lot of people even those close to her do not know about.I finally read something by Catharina Maura and I started with her Off-Limits Series and that was a great decision because this series is just phenomenal. And not only are the covers super pretty, but it matches the amazing stories. There was a plot but I couldn’t tell you the point of it. Nothing was happening at all up until 75% where 4 different things started happening and I didn’t know where to focus, I was considering dnf at around 50%. A bit to many spice scenes at inappropriate times and none was that detailed it was always the same thing so I would’ve been fine with only one tbh. However I did enjoy the whole ‘nyx nemesis’ platform! I got told this was grumpy x sunshine but it wasn’t which was also disappointing. Very thankful the chapters was so short.

I enjoyed it all about the book, but something that I loved about it, and what I've loved about every book by this author, is that she takes these well-known tropes but she always manages to create these original stories within them, she gives them a special turn and edge that I have never read in any other books. Her storylines always have so many elements of originality. All that idea about the vigilante platform is brilliant. I also found it very refreshing that Aria felt insecure about her body and she described her body as having flaws, flaws that make it relatable :) Grayson also showed us his vulnerabilities and that made him **Oh God..** freaking irresistible. I found the whole story and the subplots very interesting and different from the usual ordinary that abounds in the majority of romance books. BUT THEN cause the hero got sad and into his little feelings about things his mother said, the heroine took it upon herself to go confront the mother, the rape victim by the way, and tell her that she "deserves" it.)Grayson and Aria navigate their undeniable attraction and newfound proximity even though their relationship is off-limits. The beginning was absolutely my favorite part. Grayson was curt and stoic except for when it came to his connection to Aria and Noah. I loved the relationship the three of them shared, all of them protective, considerate, and caring of the others, their own little family.

She currently makes her home in Hong Kong, even though she has lived in Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Emilia moans and yanks on my hair to get me closer, and I lower my lips to hers. “So tight, Emilia. This pussy is mine, you hear me?” Following the brutal murder of her father and mother when she was a child, she set up a vigilante forum hoping to help others in such circumstances.She is thankful that she got to be born and live in Holand, where she has enjoyed very many opportunities that would not have been available to her in Suriname. Over the years, many of her relatives have become a blend of Javanese, Afro Surinamese, and Indo Surinamese, even though at best she is of Indian descent. The hero's father raped the hero's mother. The hero is the product of that rape. The hero's mother was understandably triggered by the hero, especially since the hero looks so much like her rapist. So she reacted in an understable way towards the hero when the hero found her years after she's given him up. I also liked that the secret identity stuff & brother's best friend thing didn't become that large of a conflict and turned into sweet moments. Following the brutal murder of her parents when she was a child, she had come up with a vigilante platform she uses to help others that may find themselves in such circumstances.