By:
Lauren Layne
Loveswept
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A man who’s living a lie—until his dream woman takes away the pain.
Lauren Layne’s bestselling Oxford Series
continues with the poignant, heartwarming story of New York’s most eligible
bachelor, Lincoln Mathis, a man who’s living a lie—until his dream woman takes
away the pain.
Lincoln Mathis doesn’t hide his reputation as
Manhattan’s ultimate playboy. In fact, he cultivates it. But behind every
flirtatious smile, each provocative quip, there’s a secret that Lincoln’s
hiding from even his closest friends—a tragedy from his past that holds his
heart quietly captive. Lincoln knows what he wants: someone like Daisy
Sinclair, the sassy, off-limits bridesmaid he can’t take his eyes off at his
best friend’s wedding. He also knows that she’s everything he can never have.
After a devastating divorce, Daisy doesn’t need
anyone to warn her off the charming best man at her sister’s wedding. One look
at the breathtakingly hot Lincoln Mathis and she knows that he’s exactly the
type of man she should avoid. But when Daisy stumbles upon Lincoln’s secret,
she realizes there’s more to the charming playboy than meets the eye. And
suddenly Daisy and Lincoln find their lives helplessly entwined in a journey
that will either heal their damaged souls . . . or destroy them forever.
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“Gosh, however will I keep
my hands to myself?” Lincoln muttered.
“Lincoln, I swear to God—”
“He’s messing with you,
Em,” Cassidy said, carefully tugging his fiancée away from Lincoln. “Don’t let
him press your buttons. And Lincoln, man, what is with that drink?”
Lincoln glanced down.
“It’s called a Jasmine. Gin, lemon, some Campari—”
“It’s pink,” Cassidy
observed.
“Right? You want one?”
Cassidy rolled his eyes.
“I’ll stick with wine, thanks. Ah shit, there’s my grandma waving us over.
Emma, you up for talk about the state of your uterus?”
Emma groaned. “Oh no. I
thought she’d agreed to wait until after the wedding to talk about my eggs.”
“I’ll go with you,” Riley
said. “As the only one in our little group of friends who’s ever pushed a human
skull out my—”
“Okay, I’m going to expand
my taboo list,” Emma said. “No talking about boners, flowers, or vaginas.”
“Fine,” Riley said, as she
entwined her arm in Emma’s and started leading her toward Cassidy’s grandma.
“But if Grams starts talking about fertility, just follow my lead . . . ”
Lincoln smiled as he
watched his friends walk away. He could follow, certainly, help run
interference, but new mom Riley was a far better choice for this particular
bridal-party duty.
Besides, as best man,
Lincoln had enough to worry about. The ring, reconfirming transportation to the
church tomorrow, the speech that he was going to slay
tomorrow, the—
Lincoln’s best man to-do
list scattered as his eyes landed on a woman standing in the doorway to the
private event room. He did a double take. When had Emma found time to change?
Generally speaking, he didn't consider himself particularly in tune with his
friends' clothes. Especially the women, because, well . . . he didn’t really give a crap. But he was pretty
damn sure Emma had been wearing a white dress just ten seconds ago.
Now she was wearing a
short yellow dress, with fussy, flowy sleeves, high-necked and a bit demure—
No, not demure,
Lincoln amended as she turned. Hot. The dress was backless, showing a
smooth expanse of lightly tanned skin from the small of her back all the way up
to long dark blond hair.
. . . Blond hair.
Meet ALL the Men of Oxford
Lauren Layne is the USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen romantic comedies. She lives in New York City with her husband (who was her high school sweetheart--cute, right?!) and plus-sized Pomeranian.
In 2011, she ditched her corporate career in Seattle to pursue a full-time writing career in Manhattan, and never looked back.
In her ideal world, every stiletto-wearing, Kate Spade wielding woman would carry a Kindle stocked with Lauren Layne books.
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