Facing West (Forever Wilde #1)

In a connected universe with Lucy Lennox's Made Marian series, is the Forever Wilde series (also by Lucy). Starting off with Nico, a side-character in several Marian novels (but made his first appearance in #GroundingGriffin)--as well as mentioned in a passing comment I remember Aunt Tilly making about a long-lost brother (who I believe is one of the patriarchs in Forever Wilde).

Forever Wilde Book One: "Facing West"...

["Nico:

I left my family and tiny Texas hometown fifteen years ago to escape small-town gossips and to give my mom and sister the chance at a better life. But when a phone call from an attorney back home informs me that my sister passed away, leaving me custody of her newborn baby, I’m shocked out of the steady life I’ve built for myself running a tattoo shop in San Francisco.

The thing is: I don’t do babies. And I don’t do small towns. Or commitment. And I especially don’t do family. My plan is to go back to Hobie just long enough to sign adoption papers, giving my niece the kind of stable, loving family I could never provide.

But the moment I meet my niece in the arms of Weston Wilde, my sister’s best friend and the town’s handsome doctor, my plans begin to change. Because suddenly, I see a different future. One with the very thing I thought I never deserved: a family. If only I can convince West that I’m not the same good-for-nothing kid ready to bolt when things get tough.

Weston:

There’s one thing I know for sure about Nico Salerno: he was a good-for-nothing as a kid and judging by the purple-haired, tattoo’d punk who shows up at his sister’s funeral, he hasn’t changed. There’s no way I’m letting him take custody of my best friend’s baby.

But the more time I spend around him, the more I realize that his rough exterior is just a shell and that beneath all the tattoos is a scared, insecure man searching for a place to belong. And pretty soon I know exactly where he belongs: in my bed and by my side.

The problem is, he abandoned his family once before, how do I know that if we become a family he won’t do it again?"]

I started this book before I started the Made Marian series. I saw the "warning" in the beginning about how they're connected and ignored it (for a whole prologue and two additional paragraphs). Then I realized that I probably should heed the warning and read about the Marians first (as they made appearances in Facing West, at least Griff does).

THIS. BOOK. THOUGH.
I mean, talk about opposites attract. They fight like crazy the second the meet. Then they...do other things like crazy too. ;)

The connection between these two was steamy. And the thing that brought them together? A perfect little pink bundle of baby (and the death of a loved one, but like who's focusing on that right now?).

Besides, what's hotter than a sexy small-town doctors holding a baby? A tatted-up "punk" with purple hair and a huge heart...holding a baby. Or the two of them holding each other. that too. ;)

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