The Greene Family are back, with the latest sibling’s story to finding love. My Sister’s Flirty Friend is Jed Greene’s story, the brooding bar tender who’s maintained he would never settle down, and his younger sister’s best friend Molly.
Jed has his life the way he wants it, his own business, a bachelor lifestyle with no commitment of any kind. He’s been fighting the attraction he has to Moly, a waitress at his brewery and his sister Nikki’s best friend for years, but recently it’s been harder to go against. Until he gets news that he may have a daughter, born from a one-night stand 3 years ago, and his whole world is turned on its head. Thrown into a type of responsibility he never wanted, he’s spiralling, and no one but Molly can help him stay grounded. He lets her in in ways he doesn’t with others, and Molly is all too eager to help, even though she knows it could end with her broken hearted, and on the outs with her best friend. Can they make it work, or is there too much working against them?
Molly and Jed have a history, one that dates back to high school. There’s been this attraction they’ve been dancing around for years but have always found a reason to keep each other at arm’s length, despite the constant flirting. But because there was that barrier between them, in actually meant they could be more frank with one another, more honest and open. Despite the no strings attached start to their relationship, they didn’t hold back on calling the other out, especially if the other was acting badly and needed a pep talk, which in turn made them closer
Molly didn’t believe in monogamy, having never seen a healthy relationship after her mother’s multiple affairs, and it left her with trauma that she needed to face before she could settle into a real relationship, something that Jed supported her with and offered advice for when she needed to have those confrontations. She needed to find her own footing in life, achieve her own goals and heal from her childhood before she was able to let Jed in properly. Having been treated badly by men in the past, and the fear of ruining her close friendship with Nikki, it meant she held back as long as she could from falling for Jed, but the more she was woven into his and his daughter Emilia’s life, the harder that was for her to do.
Jed was quite difficult to warm too initially, he was very selfish at times, and I just wanted to shake him and tell him to pull it together because a little girl was relying on him. He made it all about him, when it should’ve been about Emilia, but after some time, he settled into the role of fatherhood and was very content with his life. He didn’t believe he could be faithful after having his father as a role model as a boy, giving up almost before he even tried, but with Molly he couldn’t do that because she would always be in his life, even if that was just as a friend. He could be honest with Molly in a way he couldn’t be with his own family, and that made them closer, because she began to see the real him, and how scared he was of messing up Emilia’s life, which broke down the walls they had built between them.
This Alaskan small-town romance series keeps getting better. Anything small-town by Piper Rayne is a must read for me, the Bailey’s are going to have to make room for the Greene Family in my heart. The continuation of including Dori and Ethel, the meddling matchmaking Grandma’s makes me feel like I am going home to my own extended family, and I adored how Piper continues to give hints to each of the Greene’s siblings’ personalities. The hints at to what they are like and who they may end up with just keep you guessing but also invested in the whole family. I have even started making predictions about future couples from this series, and after the bombshell in the epilogue, I can’t wait for Fisher’s book next. Such an amazing fourth book in this new series from Piper Rayne, I already know the whole family are going to be another collection of characters I am going to fall in love with.