The One I Stood Beside

Plain Daisy Ranch, Book 2

De: Piper Rayne

Narrado por: Tory Duran, Rose Dioro

It’s the classic story— best friends since childhood agree to a fake marriage, thinking they can pretend to love each other without their relationship changing.

Jude would do anything for me. He’s stood by my side since we were six, and I’ve done the same for him.

When my father dies, leaving our family farm drowning in debt and on the brink of being auctioned, I’m not surprised Jude steps in to help. I just never dreamed he’d fall to bended knee and devise a plan for us to fool everyone into thinking there’s more than a lifelong friendship between us.

Soon, I’m moving into his house, we’re planning a wedding on his family’s ranch, and we discover a new side to our relationship. I keep reminding myself it’s not real—it’s only to secure a loan to save the farm.

I’ve secretly loved Jude all my life, and now that I know how good we are together, I’m not sure we can return to being just friends.

©2024 Piper Rayne Inc. (P)2024 Piper Rayne Inc.

Love this on Audio

An adorable small town romance. Childhood best friends and neighbors Jude and Sadie have been there for each other through the good times and the bad times. This story starts off with so much emotion my eyes were tearing and it ended the same way. It was emotional and beautiful. When Sadie’s family goes through heartbreak she is the one now in charge of her families ranch. Trying to get a loan from the bank, she is denied and the only way to get anywhere is to fake marry her best friend. This story was absolutely adorable. The love these two share is so special but the friendship they have before true feelings come to light is everything. They care deeply for their friends and their family. I loved all the side characters just as much as Jude and Sadie. The One I Stood Beside is a heartwarming friends to lovers, marriage of convenience romance, with a bit of second chance and of course lovers angst. I have always enjoyed Piper Rayne’s stories and will add this as another favorite.

I had the ARC for this so of course I had to go and listen to this and wow. It’s amazing bow the narrators can bring a new life to these characters. I love it on audio too!!

Loved it!!!

I loved this one so much!!! I was hooked immediately and didn’t want to put it down! I’m so glad I had the audio so I didn’t have to!!! It was truly a one sit read/listen! The narrators on this one were amazing! They did a fabulous job bringing the story and characters to life!! This one really did play out like a movie in my mind!!

If you love small town, grumpy hero, friends to lovers, fake marriages you won’t want to miss this one! I loved Sadie and Jude so much!! She was the sunshine to his grumpy! I for sure wasn’t ready for this one to end! I definitely got attached to these two and could have read so much more of their story!!!

Overall a great read that I definitely recommend!!!

Two of my favorite narrators

I absolutely loved this book. I knew I would love Jude because I love a grumpy man. I don’t tend to gravitate toward friends to lovers, but this writing duo make me love them. I couldn’t wait to find out the backstory of Jude and Sadie, and it didn’t disappoint. I don’t think I’ve ever had book reel me in so tightly just from the prologue. Jude and Sadie have been best friends since they were six years old. Their need to marry helps them to finally acknowledge their feelings. The whole town already knew they were in love anyway. I so enjoyed Jude’s dad’s part in their story. I’m glad we got to see glimpses of Brooks and Lottie. I’m already looking forward to their book. The audio of this released early so I listened to it. Two of my favorite narrators performed it in duet style. Duet is my favorite style. I don’t toss this out in the universe lightly, but this is one of my top reads of the year so far.

All the Feels

Another great book by Piper Rayne. The humor, romance, and familial fun was like watching a rom-com. The cast had great chemistry. Excited about the next book in this series.

Sadie come on

I mean I get there had to be an issue but Sadie was in the wrong towards the end of the story Jude was honest and asked her a million times what was wrong and she put it on him because SHE was scared SMH.