Title: People We Avoid
Series: Don’t Date Him #2
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Forced Proximity, Secret Identity
Grumpy/Sunshine
Release Date: February 10, 2026
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My 4.5 Star Book Review:
Whoa! Another fantastic Lani Lynn Vale book!
Lani likes to keep me on the edge of my seat and craving more. More books like this. More characters like these. More delicious slow burns and spicy spice moments!
When an author makes me feel a certain way for different characters and then they change my mind so easily in a different book…that’s incredible writing in my opinion. The fact that I feel so strongly one way and can turn around into another direction is a mastermind at work. Lani does this with her characters. She makes me feel so strong and deep for them and as soon as she gives me more backstories…I am all in. Even for a villain for example. Kudos Lani. Kudos.
This story had me feeling so many things. I couldn’t put it down. I was all in and HAD to know what would happen next.
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BLURB
All Birdee Calvert wanted was to be normal.
She wanted the parents who didn’t divorce when she was a kid and make her life a living nightmare. She wanted the sisters who actually liked her. She wanted to live in a town where everyone loved her and didn’t have a single bad thing to say about her.
That was not the life Birdee was given.
She had the exact opposite life. The kind of life where she slunk through the grocery store with a hoodie on so no one would recognize her. The kind of life where men like Creed Daugherty didn’t give her a second look.
After years of abuse and heartache, she built walls. Big, huge, thick ones that no one could ever breach. If she didn’t put forth the effort to get to know someone, she couldn’t be hurt.
At least, that was the theory.
She never counted on Creed Daugherty hitting her with his truck. Then, deciding that once he entered her life, he would never leave it.
Though Birdee should’ve known that Creed was too good to be true.
All it takes is one mistake on her part, and Creed freezes her out. Then forces the rest of the town to make it almost impossible for her to live in Sawtooth, Montana, anymore.
Birdee only thought it couldn’t get worse.
But Creed makes sure to show her that it can and will.
The thing about rock bottom?
Once you’re there, you have nothing else to lose.
And Creed Daugherty just made himself enemy number one.
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Lani Lynn Vale is an American author of humorous romantic suspense novels. Born in the Great State of Texas, she has lived the majority of her adult life in East Texas where most of her novels are based. She’s married to her high school sweetheart whom her readers refer to as “LLV’s Bearded Half.” She published her first novel, Boomtown. in the summer of 2013 after the birth of her third child. She’s gone on to publish over 100 novels, with most of them going on to become USA Today Bestsellers.
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