When your wedding implodes and your hockey-star best friend whisks you away on an impromptu road trip, you're just grateful for the escape—except Jasper Gervais has stopped looking at you like a friend, and suddenly those years of secret longing don't feel so one-sided anymore. This charming, talented athlete has always kept you at arm's length, but now he's touching you like he can't help himself, and the line between comfort and something infinitely more complicated starts to blur. As you both lean on each other through your respective heartbreaks, the chemistry becomes impossible to ignore—but after years of staying firmly in the friend zone, Jasper's going to have to prove he's finally ready for what you've always wanted. A swoon-worthy friends-to-lovers romance about two people who've been circling each other all along, discovering that sometimes the person you've loved all along was just waiting for the right moment to love you back.

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Soft indie and acoustic pop with warm, nostalgic undertones—think early Taylor Swift, The Head and the Heart, and Bon Iver. Capture the ache of unspoken feelings finally surfacing, the comfort of familiar hands becoming electric, and stolen moments between best friends discovering something deeper. Sweet, tender, bittersweet.