The Next Best Fling

＂Librarian Marcela Ortiz has been secretly in love with her best friend for years--and when he gets engaged, she knows it’s long past time to move on. But before she gets the chance, she has a bigger problem to contend with in the form of Theo Young, ex-NFL player and older brother of the man she’s in love with. When she discovers Theo’s plans to confess his feelings for his brother’s fiancâee at their engagement party, Marcela is quick to stop him--despite how tempting it is to let him run away with the bride-to-be. She manages to convince Theo to sleep off his drunken almost-mistake at her place and when they arrive at a family brunch the next day together, everyone wrongly assumes they hooked up. Since Theo needs a cover for his feelings for the bride and Marcela needs a distraction from her unrequited feelings for the groom, they decide to roll with the lie＂--

Gabriella Gamez is a Mexican American writer from South Texas. She has Bachelor’s in English, works as a Library Aide, and is studying Library Sciences to become a Youth Librarian.