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Clean Friends to Lovers Romance Books
Friends to lovers is my favorite, and probably because it's what happened to me. My husband and I were friends first, and there's no substitute for that kind of shared history. You already know each other's past, and the love story is really just changing the relationship a little.
These are all no spice, closed door if they ever get there. The friendships earn their shift, and the slow turn from "best friend" to something else is the whole pleasure. There's the college roommates who fell over four years and didn't fully notice, and the high school friend who never left town and was just waiting for her to come home.
Pick anything here when you want a love story that already feels lived in. The kind where the first kiss feels less like a beginning and more like something they both should have done years ago, and the history does all the heavy lifting.
Redeemed
#1 in The Healer's Touch Series
Christmas Marriage Clause in Everpine Valley
All that Glitters
#2 in RomCom University
No One But You, Oreva
#1 in Soul Sisters
8 Things NOT To Do This Spring
#4 in Seasons of Sugar Creek (The Fletcher Family)
Ellie Vs The New Year's Kiss
#5 in Seasons of Sugar Creek (The Fletcher Family)
Fight for Me
#1 in Cypress Valley Sweethearts
The Sugar Creek Blame Game
#6 in Seasons of Sugar Creek (The Fletcher Family)
The Twelve Holidates
In Love Clichés
Have a Holly Jolly Iced Latte
#5 in Holiday Rivals
Petals and Plot Twists
#3 in Only Magic in the Building
Love on the Ropes
We'll Always Have Summer
#3 in The Summer I Turned Pretty
It's Not Summer Without You
#2 in The Summer I Turned Pretty
Cole and Laila Are Just Friends
The Friend Face Off
#3 in Love on Thin Ice
Five Stolen Rings
Spur of the Moment
#1 in Willow Creek
Terms and Traditions
#1 in The Reluctant Romantics
Presley's Christmas Catch
#3 in LA Rays Sports Romance
Coffee Break with the Billionaire
#7 in Cinnamon Rolls and Pumpkin Spice
It's a Rendez-Vous
Plotting Summer
#3 in Falling for Summer
Only a Game
#1 in Starlight Springs
More than Friends
Easy As Pie
#3 in All's Fair
Come to the Cape
The One Who Knows Me
#1 in Sovereign Love
Olivia's Only Pretending
#3 in Sweet River Series
The Bridge
The Rescue Equation
#1 in Foundations
Izzy and Her Off-Limits Love
#4 in Oakley Island
Love Catch
#2 in The Love Playbook
The Merry Matchmaker
I Think He Knows
#2 in Donovan Family
The Shippers
Love at First Skate
#6 in Love on Thin Ice
The Saint and the Spy
Secretly Yours
#3 in Knitted in Love
Summer at Firefly Beach
#1 in Firefly Beach
The Pocket Pair
#3 in Love Stories in Sheet Cake
A Curse for Christmas
Finding Family at Griffin Ranch
#1 in Griffin Ranch
Vacations Like This
#4 in A Love Like This
I'll Always Find You
#1 in Orange Blossom
The Christmas Pact: A Sweet Small-Town Childhood Friends-to-Lovers Marriage Pact Romance
#2 in Fernwood Bloom Series
Cinnamon Roll Set Up
#6 in Cinnamon Rolls and Pumpkin Spice
Fake-Off with Fate
#1 in Love in Maple Falls
She Brought Me to You
#1 in No Love Lost
Highland Stars
#2 in Love on Vacation
Fake Skating
The Summer I Turned Pretty
#1 in The Summer I Turned Pretty
Cowboy, Take Me Away
#2 in Willow Creek
The Sands of Sea Blue Beach
Just Until the Wedding
Love, Scribbles, and Other Things
#1 in Love and Other Things
Much Ado About a Latte
#2 in A Maple Falls Romance
The Victory Party
#1 in Kingsmantle Crew
The Perfect Rom-Com
Betrothal Or Breakaway
#3 in D.C. Eagles Hockey
The Christmas Ring
Flurries & First Love
#3 in Laurel Falls
The Shift Between Us
#2 in The Covewood Series
Home Is Where You Are
#1 in Courtright Ranch
Pumpkin Everything
#1 in Autumnboro Sweet Romance
A Cross-Country Wedding
#2 in Road Trip Romance
How to Kiss Your Best Friend
#1 in How to Kiss a Hawthorne
Matched With My Christmas Crush
#11 in Letters to Mrs. Claus
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