Play Me
After ten years of friendship, Lana's love for her best friend, Dre is undeniable.
But when he returns from a trip and announces his plans to propose to the ‘woman he loves’ she has a choice: confess her heart or risk losing him forever.
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Play Me Details
This 93 page Kindle Edition novelette is a sizzling best friends-to-lovers romance about the one night that changes everything.
About Play Me
Lana Franklyn and Andre Adkins (Dre) have been inseparable best friends since college.
Their connection is easy, their jokes are shared, and their routines are deeply intertwined, keeping a simmering, decade-long chemistry strictly platonic.
But when Dre embarks on a two-month business trip to New York, the longest separation they’ve ever faced, Lana is forced to confront an undeniable truth: she is irrepressibly in love with her best friend.
Now, Dre is coming home with an "exciting" secret he insists on sharing in person—to see her reaction.
Lana decides she’s done with denial and will finally confess her heart, risking everything they have.
Will Dre's mysterious news break Lana's heart before she can speak her truth, or will a single, passionate night prove that sometimes, the end of a friendship is the only way to finally begin?
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.
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 We Love It
This novelette is an absolute gift for anyone who believes the best foundation for romance is a lifelong friendship.
We love Play Me because it captures the agonizing, exhilarating moment when the line between "best friends" and "soulmates" finally blurs.
Andre’s sudden absence is used to ignite a fire under Lana, forcing her to confront her undeniable, irrepressible love for the only man who has ever truly seen her.
The story is packed with palpable tension as Lana races against the clock—and her own fear—to confess her feelings before she risks losing Dre to a life she can't be part of.
If you crave deeply emotional revelations, a hero who has been secretly in love for years, and the sweetest, most satisfying
"it was you all along" ending, this quick, passionate read is guaranteed to leave you completely swooning.
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The Reader's Roulette Collection
If you dare, imagine you are Lana.
Your whole world is stable, familiar, and comforting... until a single, terrifying realization hits you: You're, le gasp, in love with your best friend.
In this collection filled with all kinds of activities, we're putting you in the driver's seat of the most electrifying emotional journey: the best-friend-to-lovers trope.
Can you handle it?
