Just My Type, released on September 14th from Samhain. It’s the third book in the three-book Bradfords series and I’m so happy it’s out! Every release is exciting, every story is special, but this one was particularly fun for me. The characters in Just My Type have been recurring, pretty major characters in all of the books in the series and just like the readers, I’ve gotten to know Mac and Sara over the last two books and figure out who they are, what they want and what their happily ever after should look like. So you’d think that this book would have been really easy to write, wouldn’t you? I knew the characters well, I knew what their lives looked like, who their friends and families were.
In fact, it was the hardest of the three. Not only did I not know that this would be a series when I wrote Just Right, I didn’t know that the perfect man for Sara was her brother’s best friend, Mac, until halfway through book two, Just Like That. Once it became obvious, I also thought “great, this will be easy”. But it wasn’t. Because they had a relationship prior and their relationship affected everyone around them. The “everyone else” that I’d known and learned about and come to care for over the previous two books. It was hard to think about disappointing them, to have them fight with one another, to have to choose sides.
But that’s real life isn’t it? True love, happily ever afters are rarely about just the couple. It affects everyone in their lives. For Sara and Mac it was, most importantly, Sara’s siblings and their friends.
In fact, it was the hardest of the three. Not only did I not know that this would be a series when I wrote Just Right, I didn’t know that the perfect man for Sara was her brother’s best friend, Mac, until halfway through book two, Just Like That. Once it became obvious, I also thought “great, this will be easy”. But it wasn’t. Because they had a relationship prior and their relationship affected everyone around them. The “everyone else” that I’d known and learned about and come to care for over the previous two books. It was hard to think about disappointing them, to have them fight with one another, to have to choose sides.
But that’s real life isn’t it? True love, happily ever afters are rarely about just the couple. It affects everyone in their lives. For Sara and Mac it was, most importantly, Sara’s siblings and their friends.
I know how this feels and I’m sure everyone reading can relate as well. When my best friend met her now-husband it affected me and vice versa. Suddenly there was this new important person in the picture who was giving her advice and taking her time and attention. In fact, we didn’t get along very well at first, and that was really hard on all of us. On the other hand, when my sister met her now-husband, he and I did get along. So when they went through a rough patch and it didn’t look like it would work out, that was awful. And sure, my friendship with him made it harder on her. (Thankfully they made it through and have been happily married for twelve years now).
The point is, relationships don’t happen in vacuums and if was always easy … well, that would be pretty boring (reading anyway!). So Mac and Sara’s story is a little messy and complicated, but in the end it's worth it. And "everyone else" agrees.
Erin
www.ErinNicholas.com
Blurb:
Secre
tly wanting her—no problem. Her not-so-secretly wanting him—big trouble.The Bradfords, Book 3
There’s only one problem with the woman Jason “Mac” Gordon wants: his best friend’s little sister is off limits. Way off limits, and too young and innocent for the likes of him. From past experience, he’s learned to hide his not-so-nice preferences from the nice girls he seems to attract. That definitely includes the woman he’s always thought of as a sister. At least until recently.
Sara Bradford always gets what she wants—which is partly Mac’s fault. After all, he helped spoil her. So she has no intention of taking his no for an answer on anything—least of all his refusal to sleep with her. He thinks she’s too innocent? Fine. She’ll simply get un-innocent and show Mac that she wants him—the good, the bad and the nipple clamps.
When Mac’s plan to drive her away works too well, he’s forced to follow her to a tropical paradise, determined to make sure she doesn’t find her wild side with anyone but him. Once she gets a real taste of what he likes, he’s sure everything will go back to normal.
That’s until he discovers a slight kink, er, flaw in his logic…
There’s only one problem with the woman Jason “Mac” Gordon wants: his best friend’s little sister is off limits. Way off limits, and too young and innocent for the likes of him. From past experience, he’s learned to hide his not-so-nice preferences from the nice girls he seems to attract. That definitely includes the woman he’s always thought of as a sister. At least until recently.
Sara Bradford always gets what she wants—which is partly Mac’s fault. After all, he helped spoil her. So she has no intention of taking his no for an answer on anything—least of all his refusal to sleep with her. He thinks she’s too innocent? Fine. She’ll simply get un-innocent and show Mac that she wants him—the good, the bad and the nipple clamps.
When Mac’s plan to drive her away works too well, he’s forced to follow her to a tropical paradise, determined to make sure she doesn’t find her wild side with anyone but him. Once she gets a real taste of what he likes, he’s sure everything will go back to normal.
That’s until he discovers a slight kink, er, flaw in his logic…
Warning: Contains hot sex at the beach, kinky online shopping—and yes, cotton-candy-flavored body powder does exist.
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