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Be My Little Valentine
Shanny's Surprise
2024
First Published
4.17
Average Rating
214
Number of Pages

Shanny is messy and a bit of a hot mess all the way around, but he's got an amazing group of friends who have been more family to him than the one he was born into ever was, though he longs for someone special who won't mind letting him be the kid he never got to be. He thought that could be Tiny, but lately, his big friend has been nothing but frustrated with him and angry most of the time. Tiny has been pining for Shanny for years. They live together and have had their fair share of friends-with-benefits moments, but when it came to taking it further, one or both always pumped the breaks. Lately, Tiny has been finding it difficult to keep his mouth closed while Shanny makes bad decision after bad decision, especially when he winds up hurt in the process. He wants to step up and be more, but he isn't a Daddy and that's all Shanny has ever claimed to want. Riggs is a Daddy, a large, fiercely protective man with a soft spot for misfits. After being asked to watch over Shanny during a Little's movie night, he's found himself drawn to the little chaos gremlin and his close-knit group of friends. After being unable to prevent Shanny from injuring himself while showing off, he's made it his mission to ensure that he plays safely and knows that he doesn't need to be a daredevil to get someone to pay attention to him. As Happy Holidays gives way to Happy Valentine's Day, the stockings in the window displays are replaced with hearts, can the addition of Riggs, be just the bridge Tiny and Shanny never knew they needed? Can the fierce pup and the boy he adores find the perfect person to care for them both, or will Riggs' heart prove to only be big enough for one of them?

Avg Rating
4.17
Number of Ratings
54
5 STARS
44%
4 STARS
37%
3 STARS
13%
2 STARS
2%
1 STARS
4%
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Author

Layla Dorine
Layla Dorine
Author · 42 books

LAYLA DORINE lives among the sprawling prairies of Midwestern America, in a house with more cats than people. She loves hiking, fishing, swimming, martial arts, camping out, photography, cooking, and dabbling with several artistic mediums. In addition, she loves to travel and visit museums, historic, and haunted places. Layla got hooked on writing as a child, starting with poetry and then branching out, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. Hard times, troubled times, the lives of her characters are never easy, but then what life is? The story is in the struggle, the journey, the triumphs and the falls. She writes about artists, musicians, loners, drifters, dreamers, hippies, bikers, truckers, hunters and all the other folks that she’s met and fallen in love with over the years. Sometimes she writes urban romance and sometimes its aliens crash landing near a roadside bar. When she isn’t writing, or wandering somewhere outdoors, she can often be found curled up with a good book and a kitty on her lap.

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