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The Unwilling Love

A Best Friend's Brother Romance (The Hamiltons: A Fake Marriage Romance Series)

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The Unwilling Love

By: L. Steele
Narrated by: Shane East, Evelyn Rose
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He's my best friend's brother. Off-limits. Emotionally unavailable. Out of bounds.

James Hamilton makes my heart stutter. He's six feet three inches of muscle. A decorated Royal Marine. with a jagged scar that hints at a troubled past, and glacial blue eyes that see right through my defenses.

I'm the aspiring chef who spends my days drowning in dishwater and hiding my curves under an oversized apron while I strive for my big break.

James is also the definition of off-limits. My best friend's overprotective older brother and a man who has seen too much of the world's darkness to ever notice someone like me.

Or so I thought...

Because lately, those 'protective' glances feel like so much more. The air crackles when we're alone, and the way he tensed when a stranger approaches me at the bar? That was more than brotherly instinct.

I've spent years watching him from afar, but I'm ready to show him I no longer a girl who needs saving.

James, thinks he's an antihero who can't be tamed. I'm about to prove that even a guarded billionaire marine has a breaking point...

The Unwilling Love is James & Harper's story. The emotionally charged prequel to The Unwilling Bride, featuring a forbidden love, a fiercely protective hero, a heroine finding her confidence, slow-burn tension, found family, and all the delicious tension of falling for the one man you shouldn't want.

Tropes

  • Best Friend's brother
  • Grumpy x Sunshine
  • Opposites attract
  • OTT possessive hero
  • Curvy FMC
  • Delicious angst of a secret crush
  • High-tension
  • Found family romance

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©2026 Laxmi Hariharan (P)2026 Laxmi Hariharan
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