It Was Always You

He had twenty-eight years to fall in love with his best friend. Naturally, he figured it out right after she got engaged.

Ethan Parker has known Sophie Bennett for as long as he can remember.

First birthdays. School dances. Breakups. Graduations. Bad decisions. Late-night phone calls. Sunday mornings. They've spent twenty-eight years insisting they're nothing more than best friends-even while everyone around them has always suspected otherwise.

Then Sophie leaves on an extended business trip.

And for the first time in Ethan's life, she isn't there.

That's when he realizes the terrifying truth:

He's in love with her.

There's just one problem.

Sophie comes home engaged.

And Grant Callahan isn't the arrogant jerk Ethan desperately wants him to be. He's thoughtful. Successful. Funny. He adores Sophie.

Inconveniently, he's actually a really good guy.

So Ethan does the only reasonable thing.

He agrees to become Sophie's man of honor.

Now he's helping the woman he loves plan her wedding to somebody else while enduring cake tastings, bridal appointments, dance lessons, meddling mothers, one brutally observant grandmother, and an alarming number of strangers who keep assuming Ethan is the groom.

Then Sophie starts looking at him differently.

A dance lasts too long.

A glance becomes too intimate.

Twenty-eight years of friendship suddenly feels charged with everything they never said.

And the closer the wedding gets, the harder it becomes to ignore one impossible question:

What if the person Sophie was always meant to find was the one who had been beside her all along?

It Was Always You is a funny, emotional, high-heat best-friends-to-lovers romance about missed timing, wedding chaos, buried feelings, complicated choices, and realizing that sometimes your greatest love story doesn't begin with meeting someone new.

Sometimes it begins with finally seeing the person who was always there.

Perfect for readers who love: lifelong best friends to lovers, he realizes first, she comes home engaged, man-of-honor chaos, mutual pining, forbidden attraction, meddling families, "everyone knows but them," a genuinely good romantic rival, emotional declarations, open-door heat, and a hard-earned happily ever after.

Content Note

This adult contemporary romantic comedy contains strong language, explicit/open-door sexual content, alcohol use, jealousy, heartbreak, emotional and physical relationship-boundary crossings, and emotionally charged discussions involving love, marriage, commitment, and complicated romantic choices. All romantic and sexual characters are consenting adults.