Best Friend Temptation (Montgomery Ink Legacy #4)

Carrie Ann Ryan

Blurb:

The Montgomery Ink Legacy series continues with a forbidden romance between two best friends and the woman they both crave. Ford, Noah, and Greer aren’t ready for what happens next.

I fell for my best friend long before I knew what that meant. Only I know he’ll never love me back.

He’s stuck in his head and his past demons and can’t see what is right in front of him.

But when Greer loses her home and needs a place to stay, both Noah and I know the only place she belongs is with us—in every way possible.

Now I’m falling for both of my roommates and trying to keep the people I protect safe.

Only someone is coming for them, and I can’t stop the inevitable fall.

I just have to hope that we made the right choices and that one day soon Noah and Greer will finally see who we can be.

Before we lose it all…or I finally walk away for good.

Themes: Ménage

Rating: 4.5 stars

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Review:

We have been looking forward to this story ever since Greer blew into the world of this younger generation of Montgomerys, blowing the minds of the two sexy roommates and best friends that never saw her coming to change their lives forever. The long line of Montgomerys has always been one that collects friends and lovers as they build their businesses and friendships, despite all the hardships they face as they find love, but this latest story is one that was filled with emotional angst and the pain that can sometimes come from ones own feelings of inadequacy and lack of self-confidence. I loved the way that Carrie Ann Ryan found a way to bring three so very different characters together in such a tumultuous but ultimately perfect match and one that I can’t wait to enjoy more and more as they build their lives together and we see them in later stories. I am really looking forward to the next in series and seeing what kind of trouble the Montgomerys get themselves into –and hopefully out of—as they lose their hearts and minds over their lovers.

Ford Cage and Noah Montgomery have been best friend most of their lives, roommates and business partners for years, and lovers sometimes when the pressure become undeniable, but they both refuse to accept it can ever be more than that. Too bad they are both lusting after their new friend Greer, because while Noah believes that Ford and she should try for a relationship, Ford has something much more inclusive and permanent in mind for the three of them. When tragedy strikes, leaving Greer in need of a place to live, the boys naturally offer their spare bedroom, neither of them really understanding the torture that resisting their sexy new roommate will be, and when they are caught in a bit of a private clinch, the three of them have to finally admit the truth of their feelings. Agreeing to give a relationship together a try is a difficult enough sell, but Ford is highly persuasive and determined to get his way, and once has his two sexy lovers in his arms there is no way he will let them go. But there are strange things happening in their lives, unexplainable accidents, small mishaps, and it just might be that someone is out to separate the lovers permanently. Ford and Noah have to get to the bottom of the mystery and protect the woman they love, or risk losing her forever to and unseen enemy, before they ever really have a chance to build a life together.

I cannot say enough how much I loved these three and am so thrilled I got the chance to get to know them. While Noah is the Montgomery of the story, I have to say that Ford is the character that was the one that seemed to me to be the bravest in terms of reaching for the relationship he wanted. Ford comes from a huge family (all hot men, oh my) and he definitely knows how to stand up for and go after what he wants, but he has resisted pushing too hard with Noah until he found just the right element he needed, which in this case of their perfect third, Greer. Though they were obviously hurt in the past, Ford is determined to have the poly love he needs with the man he loves, and finding Greer just makes him more determined to get it. He is sexy, smart, alpha, strong, sweet, and I loved getting to see more of him. He was hilarious with his brothers as well, and I enjoyed seeing them all together. Noah has a very sensitive heart, one that has been clobbered in the past, and he knows from watching his parents, the problems he would face in a poly relationship, but I was very angry that he kept trying to keep himself emotional apart from Greer and Ford. I know he was smarter and braver than that, he just needed a real kick in the ass, which is finally got when he almost lost both of the people he loved, and after that his true alpha personality can right to the forefront and he decided it was finally time to fight for what he wanted and needed all along. He’s obviously a genius, sweet, passionate, and funny, like most of the Montgomery brood, but I wish he’d been more confident in himself and able to show his lovers and openness and dedication mush sooner. Greer is a sweet girl, but one that has some ridiculous notions of her own worth thanks to the treatment of her parents all her life, and BOY OH BOY can I relate to that crap. (Why is it that women are so screwed up by our parents as kids, but so many men escape unscathed? Ahem, anyway…) She obviously badly wants the two sexy security guys that have been lusting for her from the beginning, but she won’t put herself in between them because she thinks they are together and perfect for one another, and she’s partially correct. Once she is given the chance to experience the greatness of the three of them together, there is no turning back for her, though she believes it will be temporary for her, and she knows she will lose her heart quickly. She is kind, loving, caring, smart, sassy, and ultimately the bravest of them all as she offers them her heart openly believing they are destined to turn her away anyway. Greer is one of my favorite Montgomery heroines for sure and I know she’ll make a great addition to the family.

This story truly is about the ultimate temptation of falling in love with not one but two of your best friends, but sometimes giving into that temptations can lead to the deepest and most profound love of our lives. Ford has loved and lusted after his best friend for years and recently added to that torture when Greer entered his life, but he hasn’t yet figured out hos to bring the two people he needs into his arms and bed. Noah wants so badly to have Ford and Greer in his life, but he doesn’t believe he is good for them, but when she needs a safe place to land he will be whatever she needs. Greer never imagined that Ford and Greer would be her knights in shining armor, but she can’t resist their help or their passion when faced with the truth. When they finally admit to one another their desires and decide to defy all the obstacles and have a relationship, the love that quickly blossoms is beautiful to watch grow, but with an enemy out to stop their love they have to watch one another’s backs even as they fall deeper in love. The passion between these three has been evident from the beginning of Greer’s appearance on the pages of Raven and Sebastian’s book, when Noah and Ford found it impossible to deny their feelings and she began daydreaming about both men, but the more time they spend together the hotter the fires of their needs. I loved every moment of these three deepening their friendship and finally admitting that they were meant to be together, even the trauma of an enemy trying to keep them apart. I am dying for more in the series and Carrie even sneakily brought in two new sexy families of hot alpha men (Greer’s and Ford’s brothers) who I understand will be getting their own sexy series. Ryan never fails to make me sweat in all the best ways as her lovers thrill and fascinate me, and Best Friend Temptation is a prime example of her magic touch with a story.

*eARC provided by author for the purpose of an honest and unbiased review. No compensation was provided.