She just wants her best friend to teach her how to kiss. He just wants her… Dashiell Thane wasn’t a nice guy. He was an abrasive, demanding, conniving, intolerable brat. Yet somehow, we’d been best friends our whole lives. Until our senior year when I finally decided to dip my toes into the dating pool. All it took was one kiss for jealousy, lies, and betrayal to sweep in and propel us heart first into dizzying, hostile depths. You’re not supposed to kiss your best friend. You’re definitely not supposed to let your best friend teach you how to kiss while you’re dating someone else. And the absolute worst thing you could do is fall for your best friend. Unless, of course, you want to ruin everything. A standalone best friends to lovers romance.

Lars Bradby was supposed to be my forever. That was before we found out he would become a father at the tender age of eighteen. For years, he’d watched me. For months, he’d wanted me. For weeks, he’d chased me. Relentless and infuriating, he turned my stubborn heart into something pliable and weak. Sly and honest, he worked his way into my life as though he’d always planned to be the focal point of it. In love and naive, even when our future seemed bleak, I believed in us. Heartbroken and desperate, I tore my bleeding heart from my chest, wanting only the best for him. In doing so, our forever wasn’t just interrupted. It was chased away with one irreversible decision after another. And now, we could no longer see it beneath the heaping piles of debris we’d left in our wake.

“Because I don’t, and I never will, love anything the way I love you.” Jackson Thorn was my best friend and worst enemy, but that didn’t stop me from wanting him. From first words to high school halls, our childhood years braided a bond that wove in a direction neither of us could predict or outgrow. He was completely off-limits. But forbidden became a word we ignored. It wasn’t that we didn’t care. It was that we cared too much to let go. We had it all planned out. We just needed to keep our secret until college. We thought we could make it. We thought we’d been careful. But all we’d managed to do was prolong the inevitable. Our destruction. Years later, he’s back in town. He’s changed, grown colder, and he’s determined to rub salt in our wounds until I bleed anew… An angsty and emotional forbidden romance standalone with heat and a happily ever after.