💔 Tired of Waiting? The Best Friend You’re Secretly In Love With Is About to Get Married... To Someone Else.

Are you sick of those friends-to-lovers stories where the emotional stakes are paper-thin? 

Where the characters skirt around their feelings for 300 pages and the payoff is just…fine?

We know your pain. 

You want the agony, the yearning, the seismic shift when denial finally cracks.

Meet Lana Franklyn. 

She’s the queen of platonic denial, burying her deep feelings for her best friend, Dre, under layers of comfortable friendship.

 For years, he’s been her rock, the one person who makes her feel safe, comfortable, and empowered. 

He's the one she messages when a random guy at a club uses a terrible pickup line. 

In short? He’s the standard against which every other man fails.

The Pain Point: Unrequited Love Hits Panic Mode

When Dre takes a two-month business trip to New York , the distance does what denial couldn't: it forces Lana to confront her undeniable, irrepressible love for her best friend.

She decides. 

She's going to risk it all and finally tell him how she feels the moment he returns.

But here’s the twist that will make your heart plummet to your stomach: Dre is coming home with "exciting news" that he insists on telling her face-to-face.

Lana's friends voice the fear every reader of this trope knows too well: “What if he gets snatched up from right under your nose?”. 

Lana is left terrified, wondering if his big secret is that he's decided to marry the woman he loves.

The Desire: The Explosive Payoff of Years of Tension

The emotional tension of unrequited love needs an explosive release, and Play Me delivers.

When Lana finally meets Dre, prepared to confess her love and face the inevitable heartbreak, everything shatters.

 He drops a bombshell that leaves her breathless, heartbroken, and ready to bolt.

You’ll watch Lana’s composure crumble as she believes she has lost her best friend forever.

You’ll feel the shock when, in a moment of pure, agonizing honesty, she confesses, “I was going to tell you I’m in love with you too tonight…but you chose to play me instead!”.

But this is where Play Me stops playing games.

 Dre knows exactly the kind of passion that’s been years in the making, and he’s ready to claim it.

He declares there’s “a different kind of ‘play’ I’ve got in mind for us,” before hauling her up to his room with a possessive strength that will make you gasp.

This is the love you've been craving: where the "nice guy" best friend turns into a demanding, intensely focused lover who whispers, “Only you. Always you,” as he unleashes the torrent of desire they’ve both kept locked away.

If you're ready for a high-stakes friends-to-lovers story—where the emotional stakes are sky-high, the hero is a hidden dominant, and the chemistry is years in the making—then stop denying yourself.

The time for playing friends is over. It's time to read Play Me.