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People We Avoid by Lani Lynn Vale Series: Don't Date Him #2
on February 10, 2026
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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.
Dramatic and scandalous but oh so good! The second book in Vale’s Don’t Date Him series is Birdee’s story, and if you read the first book in the series you never would have thought that you’d be able to like her, but I adored her and felt so bad for her and how everyone treated her … even her step-sister Mable who I loved in book one. I’m kinda pissed at her now in all honesty. Anyway … the plot is thick with tension as she meets Creed and falls hard once all is said and done between them. He’s great, even though he riles her up during a small stretch of time. I wasn’t expecting a few of the twists, and enjoyed the book wholeheartedly. I can’t wait to see what else these guys have in store for us in the series. Well developed, attention grabbing from start to finish and filled with heart and emotion! Highly recommend to anyone who loves their romance filled with tension, passion and twists of secrets and lies. Can’t wait for the next in the series!
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