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Just Friends Don't Look Like That: A Steamy Best Friends to Lovers Romance
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Phoebe Waters knows she shouldn't stare at her best friend.
She definitely shouldn't hide behind her kitchen blinds while Eli Averson mows the lawn shirtless. Or watch him work on his motorcycle. Or notice exactly how good he looks standing over a backyard grill.
But after five years of friendship, shared drinks, terrible reality television, and bonding over their spectacularly disastrous divorces, Eli is the safest man in Phoebe's life.
He is also becoming impossible to resist.
Then Eli starts dating Madison Ivery-beautiful, younger, polished, and determined to claim a permanent place in his future. When an almost kiss forces Eli and Phoebe to confront the tension between them, Eli chooses loyalty and walks away from the friendship before they cross a line they can't take back.
Phoebe is prepared to let him go.
Until she overhears Madison admitting she stopped taking birth control without telling Eli.
Eli refuses to believe his jealous best friend over his girlfriend. But when a suspicious pregnancy scare is followed by the disappearance of his great-grandfather's treasured watch, Eli finally begins to wonder whether Phoebe was right all along.
Their search for the truth forces them back together-and strips away every joke, excuse, and carefully guarded feeling they have hidden for years.
Because Phoebe and Eli were never really just friends.
They were only two broken people with adjoining backyards, terrible timing, and enough unresolved tension to set the whole neighborhood on fire.
Just Friends Don't Look Like That is a funny, emotional, and steamy best-friends-to-lovers romance featuring next-door neighbors, mutual pining, jealousy, a meddling neighborhood, ridiculous ex-spouses, heartfelt healing, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
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