{"product_id":"trying-not-to-love-you-kaylee-ryan-9781961936775","title":"Trying Not to Love You","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series set in a small town, surrounding four sisters. Trying Not to Love You is a small-town, second-chance, first-love, ex-military romance.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEllison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCopeland James was my first love, my first heartbreak, my first everything. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen he left without explanation, and never came back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMy sisters and our closest friends helped me pick up the pieces, but my heart hasn't been whole since the day he walked out of Magnolia Ridge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI've learned to live with what could have been... until his mother's illness brings him back to our small town. He's older, harder, and more magnetic than I remember. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe's a man now. The man I learned to live without. And yet, he's back, stirring everything I thought I'd buried, making my world feel unsteady. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBecause loving him nearly destroyed me... and now, I'm still trying not to love him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCopeland\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI left Magnolia Ridge with nothing but a duffel bag and a decision. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI told myself joining the Marines was the right choice. That loving her meant protecting her, and this was the way to do it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI was wrong. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow I'm back, years later, and she's just as breathtaking as the day I left. All these years, I imagined she'd have moved on, married someone else, but she's still single, and in my heart, she's still mine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Ellison doesn't see me the way I see her, not anymore. All I find in her eyes is the wound I left behind. The one that never healed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI didn't fight for us back then, but I've learned. Now I'm ready for battle, fighting for what we could be while she tries not to love me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kaylee Ryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1961936771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781961936775\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kaylee Ryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Kaylee Ryan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997924602111,"sku":"9781961936775","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/trying-not-to-love-you-kaylee-ryan-9781961936775","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}