This is a collection of two of the stories in the Brookfield Series: Not Just Friends and Growing Love NOT JUST FRIENDS Can the quiet bookstore owner land the playboy? Alyssa Duncan's life revolves around books. If not for the fact the town's playboy Connor Phillips has a secret reading addiction, she most likely wouldn't be on his radar...or his friend. The two personalities just don't mesh...or do they? She gets a chance to find out when a book-reading bet leads to dinner. Alyssa experiences a wide a range of emotions. She's elated her beyond-friendship feelings seem returned, but his reputation precedes him. Is she just another gullible female in a string of women? As a relationship begins to develop with Connor, going past the limits of friendship, things grow muddled and complicated when an ex-boyfriend shows up in town and things aren't what they seem. When the dust finally settles, will Alyssa find true love with someone or end up with just another friend? GROWING LOVE Resigned to raising her baby without the father, Diane has everything figured out-a substitute dad in place, a support system ready, and a new home to move into-at least until the day he knocks on her door. Matt tried to let Diane go, tried to forget that she was carrying his child, but an ultrasound picture brings his walls tumbling down. He can't stay away any longer. But he hasn't always been perfect. Diane and he share a past full of deceit and lies and now they have only nine months to undo it all and become responsible adults. It's not only about them anymore. With complications in her pregnancy, Diane is forced to move back to Brookfield to be under the care of her family. All she has to do is keep her feelings for Matt in check and she can stick to her original plan-raise the baby with Tom. But it seems Matt has a few choice words about that...