Not at all like his twin Duane, who pushes Jessica into ponds, argues with her about the color of the sky and throws rocks at her cat. She adores Beau – he rescues her cat, he saves kids from rattlesnakes, he’s polite to his elders and he’s beyond hot. Her fondest memory of Green Valley is her infatuation with Beau Winston. Jessica has some serious wanderlust and plans to spend her life traveling the globe. She’s back from college, teaching calculus at the local high school to pay off her student loans, and then she’s out of there.

Jessica James grew up with the Winston brothers in Green Valley, Tennessee. Now, if you’re thinking ‘that doesn’t sound like my cup of tea’, think again! Truth or Beard is the first book in Penny Reid’s Winston Brothers series about six handsome, bearded brothers living in the middle of the Smoky Mountains, racing, fixing and sometimes stealing cars, playing banjo music over campfires, skinny-dipping in cold November lakes and steering clear of the local biker gang. My apologies to everyone who recommended this series to me and was rewarded with ‘that doesn’t sound like my cup of tea.’ You were right and I was wrong.

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