In Cartagena: Slow Burn, Best Friends to Lovers: 1

Best friends to lovers, one bed, slow burn, post-breakup romance, forced proximity, "I've been in love with you for years", holiday romance, emotional angst She spent ten years building the wrong life. She spent one week in Cartagena finding out why. When Maya Vega discovers her girlfriend of ten years has been cheating, her life does not explode. It quietly collapses. The flat, the routines, the future she thought was inevitable all lose their shape overnight. So she does the only thing she can. She leaves. Dragged to Cartagena by her best friend Liv, the one person who has always known how to steady her, Maya tells herself this is just a trip. Just sun. Just distance. Just recovery. It is not. Because there is only one bed. Because Liv looks at her differently here. Because ten years ago, something almost happened and neither of them ever let it go. And because the most dangerous thing about losing everything is realising you might finally be free to want the right person instead. In Cartagena is a slow-burn sapphic romance about grief, timing, and the love that waits quietly until you are brave enough to choose it. Spice level: (Steamy, slow build) The Almost Always Trilogy, Book One