My Best Friend Fell For A Certified Menace

Loyal daughter. Devoted best friend. The steady hands keeping her family's restaurant-and half the people around her-from falling apart.Simone knows how to carry everybody else s problems.She just never learned what to do with her own heart.Especially when it starts wanting Isaiah Menace Crews.Feared on the streets. Respected without asking for it. Dangerous enough to make grown men straighten when he walks into a room. Isaiah has spent years trying to put distance between himself and the violent reputation that made his name legendary.But some names follow a man forever.And some women make him willing to risk everything attached to them.For months, Isaiah has been quietly sitting at the same table in Simone s restaurant, ordering the same meal, leaving too much money beneath his glass, and noticing things about her no man should notice unless he s looking too closely.Then Simone s best friend, Tierra, meets him.And falls for him.Now the one man Simone has been secretly trying not to want is suddenly standing beside the woman who has loved her like family for twenty years.Walking away should be easy.It isn t.Because Isaiah may be dating Tierra, but Simone is the woman who has been under his skin long before either of them was brave enough to admit it. Every conversation gets harder to hide. Every look lasts a little too long. And every truth Simone refuses to speak pushes her closer to betraying the friendship she would once have sacrificed anything to protect.Meanwhile, Isaiah has problems far more dangerous than a complicated heart.An old street partner is testing his reputation. Young men are circling his shop. His little sister has become leverage. And the violent world Isaiah thought he left behind is slowly reaching toward everything he cares about.Including Simone.While her family fights to save the restaurant carrying her late mother s legacy, buried secrets begin surfacing, loyalties fracture, and one forbidden love threatens to cost Simone her best friend, her family s trust, and the only life she has ever known.Because falling for a certified menace is dangerous.Falling for the same menace your best friend wants can destroy everything.And Isaiah Crews has spent years convincing the streets that nothing could touch him.He never expected Simone to become the one thing he couldn t walk away from.