There, he reunites with Lisa, who is still the girl next door. Joe is a successful filmmaker, but in classic Hallmark Movie fashion, is questioning life in the big city, so heads back to his hometown for an extended visit. Instead, they became best friends, and Lisa started dating Patrick, Joe’s twin brother, because of reasons that are not entirely clear – mainly because he showed overt interest, and she was a teenager? Then Lisa gets pregnant, and before she and Patrick can get married, Patrick dies in a drunk driving accident. However, they were twelve, so nothing came of it.

It was love at first sight for Lisa and Joe, when they met in the seventh grade. Club) It is warm and fuzzy and not salacious at all and also really more about processing grief than a love triangle. (The parallel most likely occurred to me because I recently read this piece on Hallmark Movies, which is part of Caroline Siede’s excellent series on Rom Coms for The A.V. In reality, however, this book is more like a Hallmark Movie. I mean, it’s about a woman who loves twin brothers (both of them) and then doesn’t know which of them fathered her son. That was definitely the case with this book, which I grabbed (despite it being a Harlequin SuperRomance, which is generally not my jam) because the back cover made it sound so salacious and like an episode of Maury.

On the plus side, this gives me the opportunity to share some forgotten gems (and duds) with people! This might help explain why I read such an idiosyncratic mix of books – especially when I pull out random books from obscure authors that are more than ten years old. I live in a neighborhood where there are literally a dozen Little Free Libraries within walking distance, which means that I get a lot of my smut from various free boxes. Overall: Soothing, but not that interesting

His Brother's Secret by Debra Salonen