Play Me: Lana and Dre
Falling for her best friend was Lana’s best-kept secret, but when he returns home after a 2 month business trip, it’s not to claim her heart, but to announce his marriage to someone else by author Ashlee Cox.
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Best Friends to Lovers Romance: About Play Me
Lana and Dre have been inseparable ever since college — laughter shared, secrets kept, long nights turned into lifelong comfort. Best friends. Soulmates …And hidden desires simmering just beneath the surface.
But two months apart is all it takes to make every unspoken feeling impossible to ignore.
And when Dre walks back through the door with life-changing news… Lana’s world shatters.
He’s not coming home just to catch up.
He’s coming home because he’s
planning to marry someone else.
That’s the moment Lana finally learns that some truths are harder to ignore than love itself.
The Best Friend You’re Secretly In Love With Is About to Get Married... To Someone Else.
Fast forward two months.
Two long months of agonizing separation and Lana has finally cracked.
She has accepted that she can't live without him.
Her heart is pounding, her confession is ready, and she's sitting on his couch, preparing to lay a decade of secret love on the line.
She takes a triumphant, hopeful sip of beer...
right as Andre drops the nuclear bomb.
"Actually," he started, "Now that you mention it, there is something I want to talk to you about… I... I made a pretty important life decision while I was overseas and I wanted you to be the first person I told."
The first icy tendrils of fear and anxiety began unspooling within her lower gut.
She barely managed to ask, "Is this the 'exciting news' you said you wanted to tell me in person?"
Dre nodded, and with a look that seemed to stare straight into her soul, he delivered the final blow.
"I’ve decided to marry the woman I love."
Oh. My. God.
This is not a drill.
I repeat, this is not a drill!
The cold sip Lana had just taken—as if also shocked by his declaration—slipped down the wrong path, burning her throat and immediately choking her.
What the f*** did he just say?
Andre is engaged.
The woman he loves isn't Lana.
The humiliation and heartbreak are so visceral she can barely breathe.
Lana is now faced with the most brutal test of all: Can she stand beside the man she loves as his best friend... or will she choose to save her shattered heart by walking away forever?
And here’s the kicker, Script-Breakers: Andre has a secret of his own.
As he watches Lana's carefully hidden reactions, he's starting to wonder if his own elaborate suspicions about her true feelings are finally coming true.
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From Ashlee
With Play Me, I wanted to dive into the beautiful terror of realizing your best friend is your soulmate.
The core of this novelette is that thrilling moment of truth: two best friends, Lana and Andre, finally drop their defenses and claim the love that has been hiding in plain sight for years.
I wrote this for every reader who loves an emotional, satisfying story where the hero has been secretly in love all along.
Get ready for a quick, passionate read!
Why Readers Love Lana and Dre
This 93 page Kindle Edition novelette is a sizzling best friends-to-lovers romance about the one night that changes everything.
Play Me is for the readers who crave:
- Best friends to lovers
— that slow burn that erupts into something unforgettable.
- All-in emotional stakes
— from whispered hopes to painful truths
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A quick, passionate read
— perfect to finish in one night.
- A satisfying “it was always you” ending
— tears, laughter, and HEART
This story captures the agonizing beauty of realizing that the one person you’ve always depended on is the one you can’t live without.
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