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Jordan
I met the love of my life when we were fourteen. One conversation was all it took to lock me in the friend zone—for eight long years.

I watched her fall in love with other people. Watched her build a future that didn’t include me. And I waited.

Now she’s back, broken and running, and I’m done pretending I only want her friendship. She’s always been mine—whether she knew it or not—and this time, I’m not letting her walk away.

I didn’t wait eight years just to lose her now.

Mackenzie
The life I spent eight years building collapsed overnight—leaving me heartbroken, unemployed, and without a place to land. So I ran. A new city. A fresh start. Distance from everything that hurts. What I didn’t expect was him.

My first love. My best friend. The boy who always knew me better than anyone else. He becomes my refuge, my steady ground while I piece myself back together—but he isn’t offering friendship anymore. He wants forever.

The problem? His forever might already include someone else—and I don’t know if my heart can survive losing him twice.

Lauren Andrew is a new-to-me author, but I’m always on the lookout for sweet/clean romance without all the spice. Andrew is one of those authors.

This book is well set as part of a series with a large cast that shows up to support each other. This book focuses on Jordan and Mackenzie–childhood sweethearts who didn’t know they were. Finally, after years of friendship, they have their shot, but life’s decisions create complications.

A sweet and swoony friends-to-more story with the professional athlete’s setting, this book is everything you want in a clean-read romance. For my tastes, I would have preferred less pre-college setup (I’m almost 50 … it’s weird to read about teenage romance), but the characters did grab my attention. I wanted to see how they handled life’s curveballs.

3.5 out of 5 stars
Rated PG

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