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    Audiobook6 hours

    Ache

    Written by Marley Valentine

    Narrated by Gomez Pugh, Teddy Hamilton and Emma Wilder

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From USA Today bestselling author Marley Valentine comes an all new emotional, friends-to lovers gay romance standalone.

    I couldn’t tell you when I fell in love with Gael Herrera, but I wish I knew how to make it stop. 

    Falling in love with a straight man is a rookie mistake. But falling in love with my soon-to-be-married-to-a-woman best friend is nothing but heartache.

    Through all the years, and all the men I’ve fooled around with, he’s always been at the back of my mind. An unrequited crush I wish I could shake. A dream that was never going to come true.

    When I whisk him off to a surprise bachelor party weekend in Vegas, I surrender to the idea that this is an opportunity for me to finally let go of my feelings for him and say goodbye.

    But after a heated exchange and an even hotter kiss, everything I thought I knew about our friendship changed.

    Maybe I had it wrong. Maybe, after all this time, we were more than best friends. Maybe, just maybe, he felt it too.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarley Valentine
    Release dateJul 28, 2021
    ISBN9798822652446
    Ache

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    • 4/5
      This was a cute simple best friends to lovers story.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this book! Usually don’t cry while reading! But I cried sad and happy tears! Marley I love how you write! I love all the characters in all your books! I haven’t read a book of yours I haven’t liked yet! I love them all!! Keep up the amazing writing!
    • 5/5
      This was freaking amazing!! The narrators really brought this story to life and I was hanging on every word. A complicated love story with twists and turns! Loved every minute of this.
    • 5/5
      This story is so well written and narrated that you just want to keep listening (spoiler*) even though it has cheating which bothered me as a reader.
    • 5/5
      2nd MV book. I just love the dynamic and relationships of her characters. Give me more
    • 5/5
      This is such a sweet story. And so aptly named too. I really enjoyed it.