We’re celebrating the release of Leah & Jake Ruin their Friendship Amanda Braun-Boe, available December 9th!
Leah & Jake Ruin their Friendship
Release Date: December 9, 2025
Genre: Small Town/ Friends-to-Lovers Romcom
-Friends to lovers
-Small town romance
-FMC and MMC over 30
-Mutual pining
-Secret crush
-FMC Afraid to commit
-Golden retriever MMC
-Divorced dad
-Single mom
-Meddling families
-Unleash the banter
-The spice is spicing!
Are best friends, mutual pining, and meddling families the ingredients for true love, or are Leah and Jake a recipe for certain disaster?
Millennial and bad movie junkie Leah Roth didn’t think her life would still be so directionless in her thirties. Not everything’s bad. She’s living in a small town straight out of Gilmore Girls with her eleven-year-old son and her friends and family. But her dating life is another story.
There was the guy who insisted that his pet snake sleep next to them, the cheating ex who was more interested in admiring his muscles than changing diapers, and the amateur magician who tried to see how big he could grow his handlebar mustache. The one person who is always able to listen to her relationship woes is her best friend, Jake Bradley. Between telling him about her love life and taking trips down memory lane, she hopes the one thing they don’t talk about is the crush she’s had on him for years.
Jake Bradley was ten when his family relocated from Ireland to Minnesota. His world was rocked on day one by his new next-door neighbor, Leah Roth. They became best friends immediately, bonding over Game Boy, terrible films, and his love of baking. But underneath his jokes and self-deprecating personality, Jake has a secret—he’s been in love with Leah for a long time. After letting the chance to be with her slip by years ago, Jake has convinced himself that there is no way that Leah has feelings for him…
When Jake suddenly finds himself single, both friends realize that the timing might be right to
admit their feelings. Will Leah and Jake be brave enough to take a chance on love and each other?
TWs: Cheating, divorce, parental death, an uninvolved parent, strong language, and explicit sexual content.
My thoughts: This was a really enjoyable rom com about two friends who realise (very slowly) that they’ve been in love with each other for years and that now they’re both single at the same time – it might be the right time. Or not. Because everyone loves an experiment that might ruin your friendship, distress your kids, your parents, the business your families run might suffer.
Leah and Jake are pretty adorable, and so stupid at times, everyone around them knows they’re meant to be, even Leah’s weird brother can see it, even their kids can see it. But they just keep making a mess, mistakes happen, you don’t need to run for the hills!
Anyway, I liked this, I think you might too, so read it and thank me later.
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*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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