📱 eBook en inglés MORE THAN FRIENDS

Nora Ellis has always known how to read a room.
She can walk into any space — however neglected, however beautiful, however broken — and see, within minutes, the exact gap between what it is and what it could become. Its the thing that made her a brilliant designer. The thing shes relied on for years.
What she cannot seem to do is read herself.
For twenty-two years, Nora and Caleb Monroe have been the kind of friends who survive distance, grief, and every version of adulthood in between. Theyve talked each other through moves and mistakes, late nights and long silences. Hes called and shes always answered, and she stopped examining why a long time ago. Some things in a life, you dont interrogate. You just accept them as load-bearing.
Then his wife dies. And quietly, without ceremony, Nora rearranges herself into a safer quadrant. Far enough that the ache stays manageable. Close enough that she can still be there when he needs her. Its an elegant solution.
She tells herself that often enough that she almost believes it.
When Caleb calls with an unexpected ask — move into his Lagos penthouse for six weeks, pose as his fiancée, help him hold his world together while he holds his — Nora says yes before she fully understands what shes agreeing to. Shes a professional. She can keep her feelings behind glass.
What she doesnt account for is Lucas.
Calebs five-year-old son, who greets her at midnight in dinosaur pajamas with a single, decisive question about toothbrushes. Who picks out a dinosaur pillowcase for her guest room. Who places his hand on his chest and tries to understand how a person smiles without their mouth.
And she doesnt account for Caleb himself — the version of him that exists in quiet kitchens and late-night hallways, the one who looks at her from across a dinner table and doesnt look away fast enough.
Six weeks in a space she didnt design, with a family she didnt choose, and an arrangement that has a very clear expiration date.
Six weeks to remember that she is here for a reason. That this is temporary. That she is not going to move the furniture of her own heart and call it renovation.
She has very good intentions.
More Than Friends is a slow-burn romance about the spaces we keep between ourselves and the people we love most — and what happens when the distance finally closes. Its about grief that doesnt go away, friendship that becomes its own kind of devotion, and the terrifying, necessary act of choosing something on purpose.
For readers who believe the best love stories are built on twenty years of almost, and that the most beautiful rooms are the ones that have finally been allowed to exhale.