Some lines shouldn’t be crossed.

Some rules shouldn’t be broken.

June is one of them, and I know it.

As a forest ranger, I believe in the simple life. I prefer cabins to apartments, trails to freeways, and trees to people. My life is orderly, predictable, and quiet.

Until it’s hit by a woman I never saw coming — Hurricane June.

She’s fierce. She’s feisty. She has a laugh like the first day of spring, and she’s so pretty that I can’t breathe when I look at her. June will only be in town for a few months—just while job-hunting. She won’t last until winter, but how can I resist?

Except I have to. She’s my best, oldest, and most loyal friend’s baby sister.

Betraying him would be the worst thing I’ve ever done. Not betraying him might be the hardest.

Especially once we start working together on a secret project. All this spending time together, sneaking around at night, and lying to her brother about what we’re doing sure feels like more than friendship.

June might break my heart. Her brother might break my nose.

But I guess some things were made to be broken.

BlueSeals’ Review of Break the Rules

Break the Rules is the third book in the Loveless Brothers series by Roxie Noir. All three of the books are standalones and I should note that the first two are also FREE in Kindle Unlimited. Please don’t let the “brother’s best friend” premise turn you away because you newest bearded boyfriend awaits inside. Grab your morning coffee and let’s chat about Roxie Noir’s Break the Rules.

June is a journalist…well she was a journalist until the newspaper she worked for laid her off. Now she is stuck living with her parents again and grabbing whatever freelance job she can get. Her most current article was about celebrity dogs for the OMG section of an online magazine. When Levi tells her that someone is cutting down some of the forests oldest trees, June’s investigative mind kicks in and she becomes determined to help Levi protect the forest that he so dearly loves.

Levi and Silas have been best friends for 20 years. Silas has been known to go a little crazy over June’s boyfriends so the last thing that Levi needs to do is fall for June. He’s not a relationship person. Hell, he’s not even a people person. Levi prefers solitude but Silas’ kid sister makes him want more.

Let me say that I LOVE June! She is a spunky, woman that you want to be friends with. From the first interaction between June and Levi, I knew they would be great together. June pulls the fun-loving man out of the quiet, book-loving, sensitive, bearded forest ranger who will absolutely be your next book boyfriend.

My rating for Roxie Noir’s Break the Rules is 5 out of 5 propellers!

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Excerpt

I like this side of Levi. It’s a side I’ve only ever seen glimpses of before in the past two weeks — sweet, slightly goofy, teasing and funny, different from the serious, quiet man I thought he was. It’s a strange revelation, but a good one, even if I wish I liked it less.

 “One minute,” I tell him, and pull back from the window.

 I shut it. I pull the curtains closed. I wonder what I’m doing and why on earth Levi has shown up beneath my bedroom window at twelve-thirty in the morning. I wish that the sight of him down there had made me feel differently, that I was indifferent and vaguely curious instead of suddenly buzzing and feeling like I’m being lifted aloft by several large birds.

 I tiptoe down the stairs and through the living room, still wondering. I haven’t heard from him at all since we ate pizza in the back of his truck two nights ago, and I wish that didn’t bother me. I wish I thought less about him sitting there, as night fell, laughing and showing me his cell phone or telling me that he’s an alien.

 I wish I thought less about him, period.

 When I get outside, Levi’s leaning against his truck, his shoulder-length hair out of its usual knot.

  I’m not sure I remember seeing him with his hair down before. He looks different. Relaxed. Like himself.

 “I named the dog,” he says as I walk up to him.

  I don’t know what I was expecting him to say, but that wasn’t it.

 “You do know that the last time a man came to my window, I called my brother to get rid of him,” I say. “I’m sure he told you about that.” 

“He certainly did,” Levi said. “And if I were in my right mind, it might have deterred me.” 

“You’re in your wrong mind, then?” I ask, tilting my head slightly, keeping my voice down.

“You didn’t ask what I named the dog,” he says.

“Did you come here at twelve-thirty in the morning to tell me you named your dog?” I ask.

Levi smiles, holds out one hand. I step forward and take it, his skin warm and he enfolds my fingers in his.

“No,” he says. “I came here to say that I think you should come back to my place for a nightcap.”

“A nightcap?”

“Yes,” he says. “I’d like to take you home, fix you a drink, and seduce you, and I’d like to do it without thinking even once of your brother.”

About Roxie

I love writing sexy, alpha men and the headstrong women they fall for.

My weaknesses include: beards, whiskey, nice abs with treasure trails, sarcasm, cats, prowess in the kitchen, prowess in the bedroom, forearm tattoos, and gummi bears.

I live in California with my very own sexy, bearded, whiskey-loving husband and two hell-raising cats.