Just Friends (Never Just Friends #1)
Saxon James
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
3.91
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 61 ratings · 259 pages · Published: 27 Aug 2020

Five years ago, I walked away from Sunbury, Oregon, and left my best friend behind.
The move was supposed to get my life on track. I even had a list.
Life changing epilepsy surgery. Check.
See the world. Check
Get over my straight best friend … Not exactly.
No matter where I go or who I meet, I can’t let Tanner go.
I’m back to tell him how I feel. To get the closure I need once and for all.
Only now I’m here and falling for him all over again, it’s getting harder to say the words.
Because once I have my closure, I’ll be gone.
And this time it will be for good.
Tanner
When my best friend, Roo, left for Australia, it was the worst day of my life.
I thought we’d have each other always.
But Roo needed the surgery so I let him go, thinking he’d come straight back.
Five years is a long time.
Now he’s here, all I want is to hold on tight.
I need to show him what he means to me.
The problem is, I’m not exactly sure what that is.
My draw to him has always been confusing and different—everyone in town says so. But I struggle to understand it.
All I know is I won’t survive him leaving again.
And I’ll do anything to make him stay.
Just Friends is a best friends-to-lovers romance with an oblivious MC, only one bed, and terrible kangaroo jokes.
Tagged as:
- contemporary 9
- gay romance 8
- friends to lovers 8
- new adult 7
- bisexuality 6
- second chances 6
- disabilities & scars 6
- small town 5
- dual pov 5
- first person pov 5
- queer romance 5
- caretaking 4
- praise kink 4
- grumpy/cold hero 4
- possessive hero 4
- sunny/happy hero 4
- men in uniform 4
- queer awakening 4
- friends with benefits 3
- sweet/gentle hero 3
- male pov 3
- anal sex 3
- forced proximity 2
- working class hero 2
- angst 1
- tortured hero 1
- Add topics
- geography
- north america 2
- usa 2
- oregon 2
- content warnings
- body betrayal 2
- mental trauma 1
romance tags
The 'Never Just Friends' series
147 ratings 3.92 ·
friends to lovers · m-m · male-pov · north-america · contemporary · first-person-pov · queer · explicit-open-door · dual-pov · friends-benefits · small town · new adult · anal sex · usa · oregon · sweet-hero · cold hero · length-medium · possessive hero · sunny hero
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