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They Were Shipmates

One last-minute cruise. Two best friends. Three romantic nights. What could go wrong?


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Xan

After getting dumped, Morgan talks me into going on a cruise with him. Morgan—my best friend. My roommate. The guy I’ve secretly been in love with for seventeen years. How hard could it be? It’s only a few days on a ship. In a very small cabin. With exactly one bed. It’ll be fine.

Or it would be, except a momentary lapse in judgment has us sharing a romantic, moonlit dance, and suddenly hiding my feelings is a lot harder. Agreeing to this cruise might have been a massive miscalculation.

Morgan

When the latest in a long line of girlfriends dumps me right before our trip, I’m pretty sure the cruise is a lost cause — along with all the money I spent on it. So I ask my roommate and best friend Xan if they want to come with me instead, and somehow they say yes. Now I can’t wait for this cruise! A few days at sea, just the two of us, soaking up the sun, hanging out, and having some real quality best-friend time.

Except once we’re on the ship, the guy in the next cabin keeps showing up everywhere we go… and he won’t stop flirting with Xan. Which shouldn’t bother me. At all.

Because I’m completely straight.

Right?

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They Were Shipmates is a low-angst contemporary MX romance about a golden-retriever sweetheart, his ride-or-die best friend, a bi-awakening, and a love story that turns out not to be so unrequited after all.

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