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BostonPL_Been Here All Along: 16 Friends to Lovers Romances

It's a classic trope for a reason! Sometimes you look around and realize The One is the friend who's been there supporting you through thick and thin.

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  • Cheating and throwing out her cheese? Unforgivable! Tam finds the better man was waiting all along in this sweet romance full of cheesy puns.
    Book, 2022Seattle, [Washington] : Montlake, [2022]. — ROMANCE YARDLEY C
  • A free-spirited DJ with commitment issues falls for her muse and best friend, a popular strip club dancer, forcing the pair to navigate the blurring lines between friendship, attraction and conflicting desires.
    eBook, 2024Carina Press, 2024
  • After impulsively buying a giant yellow 48-passenger school bus, Lane enlists the help of her friend Matt to renovate it into a home. Their mutual attraction is undeniable but since they each want something different, could a relationship ever work?
    eBook, 2022Random House Publishing Group, 2022
  • Kenya finally has a chance to make it big when she joins the reality show competition Cosplay or No Way, but one of the challenges is for couples. Her best friend agrees to roleplay as her boyfriend, but what happens when the feelings get real?
    eAudiobook, 2021Books on Tape, 2021
  • In 1958, can the unlikely friendship between a scrappy reporter and a newspaper mogul’s son blossom into something more?
    eBook, 2023HarperCollins, 2023
  • When her college best friend, Garrett, admits he’s in love with her, Maggie must choose between the perfect guy and a friendship that’s the foundation for everything she’s ever wanted.
    Book, 2024Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Mira, [2024] — ROMANCE MCCOY T
  • After casting a spell to erase her ex from her past, 28-year-old Gemma Wilde wakes up in an alternate reality where her best friend Dax has no idea who she is. While she works to reverse the spell, she soon realizes he has been The One all along.
    eBook, 2023Random House Publishing Group, 2023
  • Three noblemen on an annual bachelor's bonding trip are sidelined by a quest to save a friend from a disastrous elopement.
    eBook, 2024Kensington Books, 2024
  • Not Here to Make Friends

    A sizzling frenemies-to-lovers rom-com

    McAlister, Jodi
    A group of women on a reality dating show should be vying for the love of their Romeo, but it turns out one of them only has eyes for the showrunner.
    eBook, 2024Simon & Schuster Australia, 2024
  • Cash Delgado’s comfortable life in Ridley Falls is upended by a charming ex, confusing dreams about her best friend Inez, and the potential loss of her beloved pub, Joyce’s Bar.
    eBook, 2024Random House Publishing Group, 2024
  • A privacy-loving homebody gets help from her internet-famous friend as the pair pretend to be dating to help boost her family’s local Providence shop for natural hair.
    eBook, 2024Penguin Publishing Group, 2024
  • Aspiring writer Edith Miller accepts an invitation to visit the gothic countryside estate of a renowned poet, but the hedonism and debauchery that ensues forces her to unpack her complicated feelings for her best friend, Rose.
    eBook, 2023St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023
  • Best friends Alex and Poppy try to repair their relationship two years after a disastrous vacation together by planning one more vacation together.
    eAudiobook, 2023Editions Theleme from W. F. Howes, 2023
  • When Twyla and her best friend Frank discover the body of a fellow Tanrian marshal, they are drawn into a dangerous investigation that makes Twyla realize her true soul mate has been in front of her the whole time.
    eBook, 2024Orbit, 2024
  • In an effort to save her Christmas tree farm, Stella lied on a contest application and said she owns Lovelight Farms with her boyfriend. Only... there is no boyfriend. Enter best friend Luka Peters.
    eBook, 2021Penguin Publishing Group, 2021
  • After suffering from a panic attack, overachieving Lizzy takes a break from her structured life plan and reconnects with her childhood best friend Jack as they try to save a struggling bookstore.
    eAudiobook, 2022Dreamscape Media, 2022