
Just Friends : The must-read emotional and enthralling second chance romance from TikTok star Haley Pham - Haley Pham
Haley Pham
- Pages · 352 pages
- Publication Date · 12/03/2026
- Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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. * AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *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'
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