Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    I Wish You Were Mine
    I Wish You Were Mine
    I Wish You Were Mine
    Audiobook8 hours

    I Wish You Were Mine

    Written by Lauren Layne

    Narrated by Lucy Malone

    4/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    A year ago, Jackson Burke was married to the love of his life and playing quarterback for the Texas Redhawks. Now he's retired and single. Just as he's starting to get used to his new life as a health and fitness columnist for Oxford magazine, his unpredictable ex shows up on his doorstep in Manhattan. Jackson should be thrilled, but he can't stop thinking about the one person who's always been there for him, the one girl he could never have: her younger sister.

    Mollie Carrington can't say no to Madison. After all, her older sister practically raised her. So when Madison begs for help in winning her ex-husband back, Mollie's just glad that she got over her own crush on Jackson ages ago-or so she thought. Because as Mollie reconnects with Jackson, she quickly forgets all her reasons to stay loyal to her sister. Tempted by Jackson's mellow drawl and cowboy good looks, Mollie is sick and tired of coming in second place-but she can't win if she doesn't play the game.Contains mature themes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 26, 2016
    ISBN9781494589967
    I Wish You Were Mine
    Author

    Lauren Layne

    Lauren Layne is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than two dozen novels, including Hot Asset, Hard Sell, and Huge Deal in her 21 Wall Street series, as well as her Central Park Pact series. Her books have sold more than a million copies in nine languages. Lauren’s work has been featured in Publishers Weekly, Glamour, the Wall Street Journal, and Inside Edition. She is based in New York City. For the latest updates, be sure to check out her website at www.laurenlayne.com.

    More audiobooks from Lauren Layne

    Related to I Wish You Were Mine

    Titles in the series (4)

    View More
    View More

    Related audiobooks

    General Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Cricket Ceague

      Apr 1, 2019

      Penelope Berkeley, age 9 Mars Hill, NC Night had fallen, and Luna awoke from where she had been sleeping in a cornfield. She moved steadily through the stalks with barely a sound, keeping her eyes on the glittering glass rooftop of the greenhouse in

      7 min read

    • Article

      Australia Reads At Home

      May 18, 2020

      Australia Reads At Home
      7 min read

    • Article

      Bad Dream

      Nov 1, 2019

      Bad Dream
      5 min read

    • Article

      Song Of The CUCKOO

      Jan 18, 2023

      We were on the telly last night.’ ‘Were we?’ Molly said. ‘What were we doing?’ Bev laughed. ‘Playing host to a mermaid. Keith Barrow claimed he saw one, when he was fishing off the Baggan rock. She tried to entice him into the sea with her, apparent

      6 min read

    • Article

      Threshold

      Dec 11, 2023

      Threshold
      18 min read

    • Article

      Billy Connolly: ‘It Might Be Lovely On The Other Side’

      Oct 17, 2021

      A fostered-off schoolboy going nowhere fast, turned apprentice welder on the Clyde. A welder turned regionally popular musician. A musician turned nationally popular comic. A comic turned Hollywood actor and an actor turned New York artist, then a re

      10 min read

    • Article

      Great Scot

      Oct 22, 2021

      Great Scot
      10 min read

    • Article

      Ice cream DREAMS

      Jul 28, 2021

      Ice cream DREAMS
      8 min read

    • Article

      “I Indulged In Forgiveness”

      Oct 9, 2019

      “I Indulged In Forgiveness”
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Heavy Load

      Dec 31, 2018

      The Heavy Load
      4 min read

    • Article

      Coming HOME

      Jun 3, 2021

      Coming HOME
      4 min read

    • Article

      The CLASS REUNION

      May 13, 2020

      The CLASS REUNION
      7 min read

    • Article

      Drowning

      May 9, 2019

      Drowning
      8 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      May 1, 2019

      We found ourselves to be quite fondof the ad campaignundermining late-stage capitalism: how the sprightly old womankept bursting into private conversationsat the candlelit restaurant and shouting, You can’t eat nickels!!and then doing that little hip

      3 min read

    • Article

      Seedlings

      May 6, 2021

      Seedlings
      9 min read

    • Article

      Knock Me Off My Pedestal!

      Dec 14, 2022

      Knock Me Off My Pedestal!
      3 min read

    • Article

      Vampira

      Jan 27, 2021

      Vampira
      9 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Aug 20, 2021

      ‘Brood’ is such a multi-layered word: thinking deeply about something, a group of young animals, something to do with longed-for motherhood… and this beautiful, spare book is about all of those, and more. The protagonist (she’s never named) and her h

      4 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Feb 17, 2021

      Melanie Blake’s new page-turner sees us on location at the world’s most popular soap opera, Falcon Bay. But ratings are falling and new network owner Madeline Kane will do anything to get the show back on track. Only there are three ambitious women w

      1 min read

    • Article

      Mammy Dearest

      Mar 20, 2022

      Noelle McCarthy, the broadcaster, podcaster and journalist, has two obsessions: her mother and Dracula. She has written a memoir, Grand: Becoming my mother’s daughter, in which both characters flounce across the pages, one with fangs wearing a cape,

      8 min read

    • Article

      Four Of A Kind

      May 3, 2023

      Four Of A Kind
      4 min read

    • Article

      Excerpts From The Works Of The 2024 Whiting Award Winners

      Apr 10, 2024

      The 2024 Whiting Award winners were announced Wednesday night. Below are excerpts from their work.

      19 min read

    • Article

      Showing Us Inside Her London Home, Best-selling Author Melanie Blake Tells Why Jackie Collins Is The ‘ Fairy Godmother’ Who Inspired Her Real-life Rags-to-riches Story

      Jun 1, 2020

      Showing Us Inside Her London Home, Best-selling Author Melanie Blake Tells Why Jackie Collins Is The ‘ Fairy Godmother’ Who Inspired Her Real-life Rags-to-riches Story
      5 min read

    • Article

      Love will WIN

      Oct 4, 2023

      Love will WIN
      9 min read

    • Article

      Plus ONE

      Sep 14, 2021

      Plus ONE
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for I Wish You Were Mine

    4/5

    71 ratings5 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Template...

      4 Stars for me!

      My rating range throughout the story... 3.5 - 4

      Main Character Ratings... 7/10 for both

      Scenes with heat.. Several

      Heat Rating... 7/10
      Clean - 1 or 2
      Descriptive Sex - 5 or above
      Beyond Descriptive Sex - 8 or above

      HEA or HFN? HFN

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      "I Wish You Were Mine" by Lauren Layne is book two in the Oxford series. This is the story of Jackson Burke and Mollie Carrington.Jackson was the quarterback for the Texas Redhawks, married to the love of his life, and life was great. Then he was in a car accident that ruined his football career and he is now single. Jackson is now working as a columnist for Oxford magazine, but very frustrated with his life. There is one person that has always been there for him and she is his ex-wife's younger sister.Mollie and Jackson have been friends for a long time. Their friendship lasted through his divorce to her sister Madison. Mollie has always loved Jackson but never acted on her feelings.Situations play into Mollie and Jackson spending a lot of time together. Will Jackson see Mollie as a woman and not his ex-wife's sister? Will Mollie act on her attraction to Jackson? There were times in the book that I got frustrated with Jackson and Mollie. Jackson still seems to be hung up on his ex-wife who is a nasty person. Nasty doesn't even describe how bad a person she is. Even though Madison treats Mollie horribly, she feels obligated to her since she practically raised her.I enjoyed Jackson and Madison's story. The intimate scenes were steamy too! The supporting characters were great. I want to go back and read the first book in this series. I received a copy of this book from NetGalley/Random House Publishing Group for an honest review. FYI, contains mature content.
    • 3/5
      True story, I had utterly and fantastically given up on Lauren Layne. She writes shit NA, at least IMO. She even seemed to write shit second chance heroes in those books. Which is, like, really really tough for me. Second chance & proximity are my drug. Then I saw some friends saying the Oxford series was worth a shot, and because their tastes line up with mine, I gave it a go.

      I'm not sorry. These have still been 3-4 star range (NA of Layne's tended to fall in 1-3 star range iirc) so they aren't anything I'm shouting from the mountaintops about or anything but they are really pretty cute and delightful. And yes, even a bit hot. Jackson Burke did it for me. Yes, their relationship veered into a bit of weird territory. I didn't adore the ex's prominent and, frankly, complicated position in this book, but I did like Jackson. And weirdest of all, I found him so so relatable. What is a QB without a football, after all? And without his team? And without his Texas? I'm dealing with oddly similar questions in the context of my own life, so I really understood his struggle with his identity. He didn't come off as too bitter, just kind of hurt, confused,and sorrowful, but in a very understandable and relatable way.

      The heroine was sweet and tough. She was a great one. In the end, even with the complications of their relationship and the weirdness, I really rooted for this couple. They just seemed to deserve one another.

      And that kitchen scene...yum....

      Which makes me think again of this scene in another book where a hero licked the heroine's spine and I about died...I wish I could remember what book that was.

      And thanks to the LL fans who convinced me to give her another chance. I think I even liked this one more than most of you! 3.5
    • 5/5
      Jackson is struggling to settle in his new job and to except the fact really that his career as a famous football quarterback is now over due to a horrible accident. It didn't help any when his wife served him with divorce papers while he was still recovering in a hospital bed and then she accuses him of being unfaithful...which he would never do...but he just wanted out of the marriage at that point. Then her sister turns up, Mollie, he has no problem with Mollie, In fact they've always been friends and she's become quite a looker.Mollie has had a crush on her ex brother in-law it seems for ever. She meets up with him again and Jackson is stunned how she has change. When his ex learns that Mollie is now spending time with Jackson, she thinks it might be a great opportunity for her to get back into his life. There's tension between the ex's, and the sister's, and lot's of guilt for Mollie and Jackson. This was a great story, a definite page turner. 5/5
    • 3/5
      I received a copy of this from the publisher via NetGalley.Eight years ago, Jackson Burke, an American football player, married Madison. Madison has a sister called Mollie, who is eight years younger than her and whom she raised after the death of their mother. In the present Jackson and Madison are divorced, Jackson is working at Oxford magazine in NYC after a traffic accident ended his football career and is looking to pick up his (always affectionate) friendship with Mollie now that the divorce is out of the way.I struggled a bit with this book because the things I thought were best about it – the realistic portrayal of the complications of falling for your sister’s ex-husband/ex-wife’s sister – just weren’t very romantic. There are reasons why it isn’t a good idea (and these were explored here) and it was all just the tiniest bit “icky”. Mollie had always had romantic feelings for Jackson and we are told early on that Mollie is the reason he has moved to NYC and part of me couldn’t stop finding this a bit inappropriate.Jackson wasn’t a terribly likeable person either: initially he was offensively rude to his work colleagues and I had real difficulty accepting that he was a health and fitness writer whose articles were really well-written – he showed no discernable interest in writing or in health and fitness, except I think for one reference to him going to the gym. Mollie’s work life was a bit insubstantial too, other than being the reason why they had to stay in NYC.Mollie seemed to forgive Jackson very readily for not having told her that all along he was striving to get a coaching job with his old team in Texas and leave her behind. He told Madison (but then, they had a shared history – see ickiness above) and also had that two-hour dinner with her (ditto). I did enjoy the scene where Jackson returns to Texas and never makes it out of the airport, though.The Oxford setting had no real impact on the plot and seemed just there to tie this story into the series, which is clearly gearing up to focus on Lincoln next.