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661 books · 753 voters · list created February 5th, 2012 by Dianne (votes) .
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message 2: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Oct 19, 2018 11:40PM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) In Checkmate (#7) Rory and Connor were certainly not friends before they became lovers. Quite the contrary actually.

Not friends either in Truce (#97). And no friends (although one can't say it's the opposite here) in Rocky Mountain Heat (#98).

No matter how much I like these books, they shouldn't be on this list in my opinion...


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