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Pretty Thing (Naughty Things Book 1) Kindle Edition

by JA Huss (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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My best friend made damn sure I knew the rules. His sister was strictly off limits.
UNTIL NOW.

KALI
Growing up it was always the three of us. Me, my twin brother, Kyle, and our best friend, Aiden. We were inseparable all the way through high school.

Did I picture myself with Aiden from the first moment I laid eyes on him back when we were eight? Hell. Yes. I fell in love with his soul that day. But he was always more Kyle’s friend than mine. And Kyle made damn sure we both know the rules.

I was strictly off limits. Forever.

But now Kyle is gone. Dead from a freak accident. And Aiden is still here. Looking hot as hell in his grown-up body. Looking sexy AF with those tattoos all over his muscular chest. Sad and in need of comfort. Just like me.

AIDEN
Every time Kyle caught me lusting after his twin sister, Kali, he reminded me of the rule. “You were my friend first.”

If you want to get technical about it, I was Kali’s friend first, not Kyle’s. But that’s not how he saw it. One rule. That’s all we had between us. Just one. Stay away from my sister.

All these years I’ve honored that. I never broke his trust. Until now. Because he’s dead. He left us. And being with Kali is the only thing that makes the pain go away.

I want Kali. I want to marry her, and have kids with her, and keep her in my bed forever.

But I want Kyle’s blessing too. And that’s something I’ll never get.

Pretty Thing is new sexy, brother’s-best-friend romance filled with tender moments, second chances, and steamy love scenes that will make you sigh with happiness when you turn the last page!

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JA Huss is the New York Times Bestselling author of 321 and has been on the USA Today Bestseller's list 21 times in the past four years. She writes characters with heart, plots with twists, and perfect endings. Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world and five of her books were recently optioned by MGM Television to be made into a TV series. The audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie Award in 2016 and 2017 respectively, her audiobook, Mr. Perfect, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017, and her audiobook, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award and a Voice Arts Award in 2018.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07QRRNY7Z
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Science Future Press (14 April 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 756 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 282 pages
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JA Huss is the New York Times Bestselling author of 321 and has been on the USA Today Bestseller's list 21 times in the past five years. She writes characters with heart, plots with twists, and perfect endings.

Her new sexy sci-fi romance and paranormal romance pen name is KC Cross and she writes novels and teleplays collaboratively with actor and screenwriter, Johnathan McClain.

Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world, the audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie Award in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Her audiobook, Mr. Perfect, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017. Her audiobook, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award in 2018. Five of her book were optioned for a TV series by MGM television in 2018. And her book, Total Exposure, was nominated for a RITA Award in 2019.

She lives on a ranch in Central Colorado with her family.

“What is the reading order of your books?”

Learn More➜ https://jahuss.com/all-books/

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NicShef❤️Reading
5.0 out of 5 stars Years in the making... just beautiful...
Reviewed in Australia on 20 April 2019
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‘Pretty Thing’ by the wonderful JA Huss is a friends-to-lovers slash poignant tale of 3 friends and the way life moves forward when the trio becomes a duo.

The cover doesn’t do it justice as it’s so much more than a romance... the characters are in their mid-30’s for one thing, and while this wasn't a particularly long read, it packs a punch as the reader feels so many emotions... Unsurprising really as only J.A. Huss can make the reader cry, laugh and fan yourself, all in a single read.

With ‘Pretty Thing’, she did all that and so much more in this tale of three best friends, two of whom are twins at that, and the aftermath when one dies tragically in an accident, leaving the other two to figure out how life will be going forward without the one person who's been such a constant for them all and simultaneously work through the feelings they have for each other.

This is an emotionally heartbreaking and heartwarming story. Kali and Aiden are meant to be but getting there will require them to heal from the grief that is engulfing them both and the added pressure of the promise they made to Kyle to never date.

This story encompasses every emotion from tears to laughter and the chemistry between them is enough to make you swoon. This is a friends to lovers story that was years in the making. Beautiful.
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Alison
4.0 out of 5 stars Emotional
Reviewed in Australia on 25 April 2019
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This one was emotional, about true love finally having there day & life after death.
I also have to say I loved the illustration of their names at every chapter
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Maria
5.0 out of 5 stars Dead Notes
Reviewed in Australia on 15 April 2019
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Honestly what can I say other than WOW
Great story with characters you can`t help but fall in love with, it was sweet and sad all rolled into one beautiful story.
And once again Julie throws us fans a little nostalgia of something special from a previous series.
I just loved this story and I can`t wait for the audiobook, I can just hear it while I was reading this heartbreaking love story.
But don`t fear, the ending is just beautiful
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Sherry French
5.0 out of 5 stars Another exceptionally crafted tale!
Reviewed in Australia on 18 April 2019
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Another fantastic sweet yet profound love story from Julie with just enough angst to not wanna put it down! I loooove everything Julie writes she's so super talented I can’t even...! Loved this latest kinda more simple version of than her other epic tale books, ya gotta read it then go back and read everything else she’s written x
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Erin O'Brien
5.0 out of 5 stars Oh the feels
Reviewed in Australia on 20 April 2019
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Wow oh wow, this story is just so loveable, the characters are loveable, the storyline is loveable it's the kind of story that gut punches you right in the feels and you're so happy that you picked it up to start with. Do yourself a favour and buy Pretty Thing you won't be sorry.
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Claypot_reads
5.0 out of 5 stars Never fails to surprise me
Reviewed in Australia on 26 April 2019
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This author never fails to surprise me. She can take the much written trope of brothers best friend and make it so much more. Kyle, Kali and Aiden. Best friends and one day lovers. It’s a complicated but gentle story - I know gentle is an odd word to describe a story but that’s how it felt. I seriously loved this one and definitely recommend.
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Lisa Hines
4.0 out of 5 stars Review: Pretty Thing
Reviewed in Australia on 23 April 2019
Pretty Thing by J.A. Huss is a new standalone romance. The trope is brother's best friend with a twist. I expected a hot and steamy read - I did not expect so much depth and emotion and angst. It was well-written and well-paced and may have brought a few tears to my eyes. The story is about three best friends. Boy and girl twins, Kyle and Kali, and Aidan, their neighbor who all meet around the age of eight. Fast forward to Kyle's funeral and this book was off to the races. I will definitely be reading the other books coming soon by this author, Sweet Thing and Wild Thing. Enjoy!
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TracyReads
5.0 out of 5 stars Another awesome JA Huss book
Reviewed in Australia on 20 April 2019
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Pretty Thing is a truly satisfying read. And while I thought I knew I what I was getting, I should have known better. Nothing Julie writes is ever predictable! A slightly shorter book but totally awesome.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of.my favourite books!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2023
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Highly recommend this book plus the other two in the trilogy (Wild Thing, Sweet Thing). This is my favourite though with a great twist and one of the few books that made me cry bittersweet tears. Just read it - you won't regret it. Or better still listen on audio - the narration by Christian Fox and Emma Wilder is superb.
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Karen Shrock-Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars Special and sentimental for me
Reviewed in the United States on 14 June 2019
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Several triggers in the story for me: playing in the woods all day in summer, grieving the early death of someone you thought would live long enough to make up for the times you had been distant from each other, a person contemplating death and leaving messages for the living.

Fourteen must be the age when you experience a fundamental life change that affects the rest of your existence. My brothers and I were out in the woods next to our suburban neighborhood surrounded by cornfields and livestock. We moved to a new school district and bigger house when I was 13 and life was good until our parents separated right before Christmas a week after the younger of my brothers broke his femur in a sledding accident. He was hospitalized for six weeks in traction, then home in a body cast for six more weeks. That summer Mom moved back in for a few months before they called it quits for good. Life became an empty existence stuck in a time warp where school and my best friend and books have some semblance of normality to my life until the next inevitable changes out of my control buffeted me wiping away all of my dreams and threatening the replacement dreams I held closer and more privately.

Another move to a different state. A surprise marriage to my father after a three week courtship to a woman we were introduced to as they were headed back to his bedroom. The introduction went "this is Herself. We were going to get married tonight, but we couldn't find someone to do it, so we're getting married tomorrow. Good night." And they got married and lived happily ever after until my father developed an aggressive form of lung cancer 19 years later.

Dad had taken early retirement two years previously from a stressful civilian job with the military. He started to loosen up and make plans for the future which included reconnecting with his children and getting to know his grandchildren who were moving quickly towards their teens. All was abandoned for rounds of chemo and radiation to prolong his life long enough for my stepmother to realize that there would not be a miracle cure. He got to say some good byes and take care of some loose ends, but he didn't want to die. In our last phone conversation, he told me that he was grateful to be had made it to age 60, because he hated the idea of dying in his 50's.

There was no will. He consciously left everything to his wife, but he had promised me one token in remembrance. I always thought how he might have gone through his things while his wife was at work with a pad of post it's and left little messages to her telling her he'd like to see this or that go to him or her or explain to her the provenance of the object (a la Dead Notes). To my knowledge, he didn't do that. I never got the bamboo fly rod I watched him make as a child that he had promised me. The last time I saw his wife was at his 15 minute memorial service. I called her a couple weeks later on what would have been their 22nd wedding anniversary to check on her and let her know we were thinking of her. She was hateful to me as always. I never spoke to her again.

So the Dead Notes (what a terrific vehicle for healing!) ... I'm so disappointed that it is a product of your creative imagination. I was going to search the internet to find it, but, alas, not necessary now. I loved the premise and the supernatural aspects of communications.

I saw my dad visit his memorial service. Nothing can shake me from that belief. He beamed himself down into a chair across the room. He was laughing and smiled at me across the room before beaming back up. He was having fun trying out his new skills.

My stepmother/his wife died a couple of years ago at age 66 after an increasingly lonely and sad life and left a particularly gruesome legacy. She was a hoarder but an obsessive compulsive hoarder. She had a huge house stacked and organized and labeled with all my dad's cum her belongs mingled with her grandmother's belongings, her parents ' belongings, and her own things. She had kept everything. She died on some unrecorded date and was found some time later (perhaps two weeks or a week later) by the police in response to a call from the neighbors about an odor emanating from the house. Most of her cache was unmanageable according to the older of my brothers who helped with the clean up/salvage operation. Her niece's husband's contracting company was in charge of the operation. Everything is fine to the landfill or somewhere else. Anything I would have wanted is no more and that is okay now.

I adored the way the author unfolded the love story between Kali and Aiden. The erotic scenes are exquisite. The angst surrounding their coming together. The friends who save them from despair. The determination to learn from Kyle's untimely death and to live and love whole heartedly in the future. The knowledge they gain that love we have and make lived on after us.

I have felt Dad quietly guiding me at times through the 20+ years since he died.
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Preeti Birdi
5.0 out of 5 stars Great series
Reviewed in Canada on 27 May 2019
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What a great Naughty series!!!
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Lindy Bateman
4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty things
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 January 2023
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New to this author, and I wasn't disappointed. Dealing with love, loss, and friendship. Love the idea of the dead letters, gave the story a whole new twist.
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S.L. Adams
4.0 out of 5 stars Steamy and sad
Reviewed in Canada on 17 August 2019
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I usually steer clear of depressing storylines. But I gave this book a chance and I’m glad I did. I quite enjoyed it.
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