Definitely Not Dating

Christi Barth

May 2021 · Love Lottery Book 2 · Tule Publishing

About this eBook

It's a chance to start over for both of them...

Everleigh Girard always dates the wrong men at the worst times. The last debacle cost her a job and an apartment. But thanks to a crazy lottery win, she and her friends have a fresh start restoring a historic inn. Determined to make it a success, Everleigh swears off the dangers of dating entirely. Except…the town’s police chief is distractingly hot. So how much trouble could friends with benefits really cause?

Police chief Matt Halliday always puts protecting his town first. He’s blindsided when his house mysteriously burns down, and grateful his friends rent him a room at their inn while they finish renovations. It’s a great deal. Mostly. It’s hard to resist the very beautiful Everleigh. Love is permanently off the table for him—but lust is definitely on. 

After their first red-hot kiss, keeping it casual is impossible. Can Everleigh teach Matt to trust again—especially when he’s keeping a secret that may put him and his new friends at risk?

Ratings and reviews

Everleigh and Matt’s story in Definitely Not Dating by Christi Barth, book two in her Love Lottery series, is a wonderful, heartwarming, and enjoyable tale. Everleigh Girard dates the wrong men, some of them even costing her jobs and apartments. Winning that crazy lottery gave her and her friends a fresh start restoring a historic inn. New location, new jobs, and they are all determined to make it a success. Everleigh has sworn off dating, no distractions, at least until the inn is opened and running smoothly. Police chief Matt Halliday has always put protecting his town before anything else. Matt is shocked when his house mysteriously burns down and grateful when his friends rent him a room at their inn, even while they are finishing renovations. It’s a great deal and convenient, except he is struggling to resist the beautiful Everleigh. Matt has decided to never love again, but he could do attraction and lust. Everleigh has tried so hard to resist Matt and keep to her promise of no men, but friends with benefits with Matt is quite tempting. When their first kiss is steamy, as is the second, and third, having a causal relationship is going to be impossible. After all Matt has been through, Everleigh wonders if Matt will ever trust another woman, and if she could be the one. When Everleigh discovers that Matt is keeping a secret that would not only put him at risk but also her, her friends and the inn, she wonders if she can trust him. Ms. Barth wrote a wonderful story filled with sizzling chemistry, magnetism, wonderful dialogue, and endearing characters giving Everleigh and Matt a chance for love. I recommend Definitely Not Dating to other readers. I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.

Definitely Not Dating by Christi Barth, book two in the Love Lottery series. It took me awhile to get book read but I ended up really enjoying the character development and the dialogue. Look forward to reading more in the series.

The is the second book in the Love Lottery series and while each book is a stand-alone you can and I say should read each one to enjoy this fun, romantic, and yes mysterious series. In this book, we get to know more about Everleigh and the sheriff... excuse me, Police Cheif Matt Halliday. Matt's house is set on fire and he moves into one of the not quite finished rooms at the Inn but Teague forgets to let Ever know that Matt has moved in. Let's just say the book started off with a chuckle and yes a sparkle of a good kind. And it kept ongoing. When Ever (that's what everyone calls Everleigh) and Matt are within spitting distance of each other they would set a house on fire. There is that much chemistry between them. But of course, they deny, deny, deny. Throw in the mystery surrounding the arson and yes drug dealing but for me, it is so much more than that. How will these two solve or will they solve the way they feel about each other? Throw away past issues and jump headlong into something new? I am looking forward to seeing where the third friend in this group leads us next.