Lowcountry Liaisons: Holy City Heartbreak: Lowcountry Liaisons Book 4 (Paperback)

Lily Waters had loved Austin McDonnell since she was fourteen years old and he was nineteen. When she was seventeen she finally got up the courage to tell him how she felt. They shared a beautiful kiss before he broke her heart by telling her he was leaving for the Army and there could never be anything between them. Now more than eight years later Austin was back for good. No longer the carefree college boy she remembered, the broken ex-Army Special Forces soldier still took her breath away everytime his sad eyes looked in her direction. But no matter how hard she tried he continued to push her away and into the arms of his brother, Noah.Austin McDonnell joined the Army after college hoping to find the purpose and discipline he had been missing in his young life. Before he left, the girl he had alway yearned for, the one his brother loved, told him that he had always been the one. He made the mistake of sharing a kiss that he would dream about for eight years, before telling her they could never be. When returned at age thirty one broken and angry from his time in the middle east. Lily was waiting and hoping to be a part of his life again. He knew that no matter how much his heart might want her, she deserved so much more than he could ever give. So he pushed her away and into the arms of his brother and tried to repair his shattered heart as he watched them fall in love.Noah McDonnell and Sebastian Waters had been best friends since grade school. Sebastian's little sister, Lily, had been the third musketeer in their friendship almost as long. Noah realized that his feelings for Lily were much more than friendship in high school, when no other girl measured up to her. But Lily continued to put him in the friendzone and the way she looked at his older brother, Austin, made him realize that she may never see him as anything more than her brother's best friend.