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Friends with Benefits: The rules kept them safe, but only the truth could set them free

Friends with Benefits: The rules kept them safe, but only the truth could set them free

Palmer, Terri R.

Paperback

Romance

ISBN13: 9798907817944
Publisher: Self Publisher
Published: Sep 24 2026
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
No strings. No messy emotions. No falling in love.

During their senior year at Atlanta University, study partners Marcus and Maya made what seemed like the perfect deal. Exhausted by the games and pretense of campus dating, they agreed to a strictly physical arrangement governed by ironclad rules. But boundaries blur late at night, and genuine intimacy proved impossible to quantify.

When real heartbreak struck, their growing bond terrified them. Rather than risk vulnerability, they chose safety-parting ways at graduation with an emotionless handshake and unspoken longing.

Six years later, Marcus is navigating high-stakes finance in New York while Maya establishes her design career in the South. Both have attempted to build lives with safe, predictable partners, only to find that settling cannot replace what they once shared.

When a chance encounter in midtown Atlanta brings them face-to-face, old sparks ignite buried truths. To finally claim the happiness they forfeited years ago, Marcus and Maya must throw out the rulebook and risk everything for a love that was real all along.

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