We Were Never Just Friends

We Were Never Just Friends

They made a pact never to fall for each other. Neither one kept it.

Amara Cole has spent her whole life planning her escape from Millbrook, Ohio - and she's finally got the job offer, the plane ticket, and six weeks to say goodbye. The hardest goodbye of all is Noah Ellis, her childhood best friend, the quiet musician who has lived two houses down since before either of them could tie their shoes.

So they make a pact. No feelings. No almosts. Just friends - full stop.

Then they both start dating other people.

Amara tells herself she's happy for him. Noah tells himself the same thing about her. But every stolen glance across a crowded bar, every flicker of jealousy neither of them will name out loud, starts pulling the thread on eighteen years of almost. When one honest night on a broken porch step finally cracks the pact wide open, Amara has to decide whether the life she's spent years chasing is the one she actually wants - or whether home was standing beside her the entire time.

We Were Never Just Friends is a slow-burn, friends-to-lovers romance about the quiet ache of loving someone in secret, the courage it takes to say it out loud, and the kind of love that was never really a secret at all - just a promise too many people were too scared to break.

Perfect for readers who love small-town settings, childhood-best-friend chemistry, and a hero who says everything he can't say out loud through a song.