Christmas at Hart’s Ridge by Elizabeth Bright

She’s my little brother’s best friend. Completely off-limits. But I’m having trouble keeping my hands off her.

Bethany Albright is my little brother’s best friend. I have a reputation in our small town, and he’s warned me not to make her another notch on my bedpost. She’s eight years younger than me, and when she left to be a ballerina in New York, she was just a kid.
But now she’s home for the holidays—and she’s definitely not a kid anymore. She’s graceful and fearless and everything I didn’t know I needed. Gray eyes that see right into my soul. Long red hair. And legs that are made to be wrapped around me like a Christmas present.
When my brother asks me to hire her at my bar, I can’t say no. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for him. Our parents left him in my care, and I take that duty seriously. But this time, he doesn’t understand what he’s asking me to do.
Because she wants me to be her first. And I want that more than I want my next breath. She’s only here for the holidays, and it’s no one’s business but our own. We’re temporary. I’m the guy who likes
She promises that she won’t fall for me. She has a life waiting for her, and nothing is going to hold her back. Not even me.
But Bethany isn’t the one I’m worried about.