This heart warming and swoon worthy second chance romance about childhood friends reconnecting as adults is the highly anticipated debut novel from BookTok icon Haley Pham. Blair and Declan were inseparable growing up – best friends who knew each other better than anyone else. But when an impulsive kiss took them from friends to something more, everything changed. Just as quickly as their romance started, one moment shattered it all, leaving them with nothing but heartbreak and silence. Four years later, Blair is back in their coastal hometown of Seabrook to support her mom and care for her great-aunt Lottie. To make ends meet, Blair applies to work at a coffee shop – only to discover it’s managed by none other than Declan. The boy she loved. The boy she lost. The boy who still makes her heart race. As Blair’s path keeps crossing with Declan’s, old wounds resurface, secrets are revealed and sparks reignite. But could their future ever be free of their past? Told in dual timelines that unravel the magic and pain of first love, Just Friends is a moving, romantic story about second chances, the weight of dreams and finding your way back to the people who feel like home. Readers can't stop talking about Just Friends . . . ‘Honestly, I was so pleasantly surprised and completely blown away by this book’ ‘I cannot stress enough how much fun I had with this book!’ ‘The ending had an absolute chokehold on me’ ‘They didn’t feel like characters; they felt like real people who had lived a whole life before the pages even started’ ‘This is a couple I’ll be thinking about for a long time’ ‘This book felt like having my favourite playlist on repeat’ 'It felt light, bright and sparkled like only some books do'

BookTokのアイコン、ヘイリー・ファムが描く本作は、単なる幼馴染の再会劇に留まりません。過去と現在を織り交ぜる構成が、初恋の魔法と、それが壊れる瞬間の残酷な痛みを鮮烈に浮かび上がらせます。海辺の町を舞台に、沈黙の四年間が育んだ孤独と切望が、抒情的な筆致で綴られる様は圧巻です。 読者を虜にするのは、血の通った人間としての切実なキャラクター像です。夢の重圧や隠された傷跡に向き合い、再び手を伸ばす二人の姿は、読み手自身の喪失と再生の記憶を激しく揺さぶります。「帰るべき場所」を模索するこの物語は、一度開けば最後、忘れがたい余韻となって心に深く刻まれることでしょう。