Every Moment Before Now: A brother's best friend, age-gap, feel-good romance

by C.L. Sharples

Evelyn Taylor enters her thirtieth year exactly as she entered her twenties: single and living back home with her parents.

Every day feels the same...Until the day she runs into Eli Miller - a guy she hasn’t seen for half a decade.

Eli Miller has spent the past five years studying abroad. As Evelyn’s younger brother’s best friend, that’s how she’s always seen him: her younger brother’s best friend. But now that he’s back, she can’t help but notice changes in him.

But falling in love with her younger brother’s best friend has never been in Evelyn’s plans. Then again, neither was living back home with said younger brother.

As the two strike up an unexpected friendship that blurs along the lines of something more, Eli helps Evelyn dig up long-buried dreams. Will he also help inspire her to take risks? And if he does, what would she risk for this unexpected shot at love?

Genres: Romance, Small Town Romance, Contemporary

359 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 5, 2024

About the author

C.L. Sharples is a British romance writer who studied English Literature and Creative Writing in north-west England – her favourite place. She loves to travel and finds inspiration in the people she’s met and connections she’s made. She believes love doesn’t happen at first sight. It happens slowly, like little jigsaw pieces falling into place, sometimes fitting, sometimes needing extra work. Like real life, her characters fight both for and against their desires, but ultimately, the payoff is always worth it. Her books are warm, sexy, with happily-ever-afters that are earned.

Reviews

[Jessica Bradford · Rating 4 out of 5]

Evelyn Taylor finds herself working in a career and trudging through life making decisions that would gain her parent’s approval. At the ripe age of 30 she finds herself living with her parents and working at a job that she doesn’t have the passion for. She’s on auto pilot until she runs into someone familiar. So familiar that it happens to be her younger brother’s best friend. Having not seen him for quite some time she notices a change in him, a change that takes her by surprise because she is instantly drawn to him. A relationship with him would be absurd and neither her parents nor her brother would approve because of their age difference and the fact that in their eyes he cannot provide the life they want her to have. Will this stop her from finding true happiness, of course not! But they’ll have to keep it a secret until she is ready to face that challenge head on. He wants to come clean and finds it difficult to play this game of secrecy but will it be what breaks them apart? You’ll have to read this one to find out.

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing!

This book is wonderful. Great story line, likeable characters, moves quickly and keeps your attention. It was well edited and a joy to read!